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The French as Seen by... (Les Français vus par... in French) was the title and subject of a series of five short films by notable directors. It was initiated and sponsored by the newspaper Le Figaro, as part of the 1988 celebration of the tenth anniversary of its magazine section. The directors and films produced were:

Werner Herzog - Les Gaulois
David Lynch - The Cowboy and the Frenchman
Andrzej Wajda - Proust contre la déchéance
Luigi Comencini - Pèlerinage à Agen
Jean-Luc Godard - Le dernier mot

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v t e Werner Herzog
Filmography Bibliography
Feature films	Signs of Life (1968) Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Fata Morgana (1971) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Heart of Glass (1976) Stroszek (1977) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Woyzeck (1979) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Cobra Verde (1987) Scream of Stone (1991) Lessons of Darkness (1992) Invincible (2001) The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Rescue Dawn (2006) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) Queen of the Desert (2015) Salt and Fire (2016) Family Romance, LLC (2019)
Documentaries	The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) Handicapped Future (1971) Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) La Soufrière (1977) Huie's Sermon (1981) God's Angry Man (1981) Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) Jag Mandir (1991) Bells from the Deep (1993) The Transformation of the World into Music (1994) Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) My Best Fiend (1999) Wings of Hope (2000) Pilgrimage (2001) Ten Thousand Years Older (2002) Wheel of Time (2003) The White Diamond (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Into the Abyss (2011) On Death Row (2012) Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) Into the Inferno (2016) Meeting Gorbachev (2018) Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019) Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022)
Shorts	Herakles (1962) Game in the Sand (1964) The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) Last Words (1968) Precautions Against Fanatics (1969) No One Will Play with Me (1976) Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) Les Gaulois (1988) La bohème (2009)
Other	Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
Books	Of Walking in Ice (1978) Conquest of the Useless (2004) The Twilight World (2021) Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2022)
Related	Lena Herzog (wife) Lucki Stipetić (brother) Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) Burden of Dreams (1982) Location Africa (1987) Plastic Bag (2009)
Category

David Lynch

Directorial
works

Feature films	Eraserhead (1977) The Elephant Man (1980) Dune (1984) Blue Velvet (1986) Wild at Heart (1990) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Lost Highway (1997) The Straight Story (1999) Mulholland Drive (2001) Inland Empire (2006)
Short films	Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) (1967) The Alphabet (1968) The Grandmother (1970) The Amputee (1974) The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) Premonition Following an Evil Deed (1995) Darkened Room (2002) Rabbits (2002) DumbLand (2002) Bug Crawls (2007) Boat (2007) Absurda (2007) Lady Blue Shanghai (2010) Idem Paris (2013) What Did Jack Do? (2017)
Music videos	"Wicked Game" (1990) "Longing" (1995) "Shot in the Back of the Head" (2009) "Came Back Haunted" (2013)
Concert films	Industrial Symphony No. 1 (1990) Duran Duran: Unstaged (2011)

Television

Twin Peaks (1990–1991)
On the Air (1992)
Hotel Room (1993)
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

Albums

Eraserhead (1982)
BlueBOB (2001)
The Air Is on Fire (2007)
Polish Night Music (2007)
Crazy Clown Time (2011)
The Big Dream (2013)
Thought Gang (2018)
Cellophane Memories (2024)

Books

Images (1994)
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Genealogies of Pain (2011)

Awards by film

The Elephant Man
Blue Velvet

v t e Andrzej Wajda
Filmography
Films directed	A Generation (1955) Towards the Sun (1955) Kanał (1957) Ashes and Diamonds (1958) Lotna (1959) Innocent Sorcerers (1960) Samson (1961) Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962) Love at Twenty (1962) The Ashes (1965) Gates to Paradise (1968) Przekładaniec (1968) Everything for Sale (1969) Hunting Flies (1969) The Birch Wood (1970) Landscape After the Battle (1970) Pilate and Others (1972) The Wedding (1972) The Promised Land (1975) The Shadow Line (1976) Man of Marble (1977) Without Anesthesia (1978) The Maids of Wilko (1979) The Orchestra Conductor (1980) Man of Iron (1981) Danton (1983) A Love in Germany (1983) A Chronicle of Amorous Accidents (1986) The Possessed (1988) Korczak (1990) The Crowned-Eagle Ring (1993) Nastasja (1994) Holy Week (1995) Miss Nobody (1996) Sir Thaddeus (1999) The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos (2000) The Revenge (2002) Katyń (2007) Sweet Rush (2009) Walesa: Man of Hope (2013) Afterimage (2016)
Companies	Zespół Filmowy "X" Film New Europe Association

Jean-Luc Godard

Filmography

Feature

Breathless (1960)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Vivre sa vie (1962)
Le petit soldat (1963)
The Carabineers (1963)
Contempt (1963)
Bande à part (1964)
A Married Woman (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Masculin Féminin (1966)
Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
La Chinoise (1967)
Weekend (1967)
One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) (1968)
Joy of Learning (1969)
British Sounds (1969)
Tout Va Bien (1972)
Number Two (1975)
Every Man for Himself (1980)
Passion (1982)
First Name: Carmen (1983)
Hail Mary (1985)
Détective (1985)
King Lear (1987)
Keep Your Right Up (1987)
Nouvelle Vague (1990)
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
Hélas pour moi (1993)
Les Enfants jouent à la Russie (1993)
JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1995)
For Ever Mozart (1996)
In Praise of Love (2001)
Notre musique (2004)
Film Socialisme (2010)
Goodbye to Language (2014)
The Image Book (2018)

Short and
segment

Operation Concrete (1955)
Une femme coquette (1955)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1957)
A Story of Water (1958)
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)
"Sloth" in The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)
"The New World" in Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1962)
"Le Grand escroc" in Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1963)
"Montparnasse-Levallois" in Paris vu par (1964)
"Anticipation, ou: l'amour en l'an 2000" in The Oldest Profession (1965)
"Caméra-oeil" in Far from Vietnam (1967)
"L'Amore" in Amore e rabbia (1969)
Letter to Jane (1972)
Here and Elsewhere (1976)
How's it going
A Letter to Freddy Buache (1982)
Soft and Hard (1985)
Meetin' WA (1986)
"Armide" in Aria (1987)
"Le Dernier mot" in The French as Seen by... (1988)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1998)
"Dans le noir du temps" in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
Tribute to Eric Rohmer (2010)
"Les Trois Désastres" in 3X3D (2013)
"The Bridge of Sighs" in Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux (2014)
Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: "Phony Wars" (2023)

Paparazzi (1963 documentary)
Le Parti des choses (1964 documentary)
Two in the Wave (2010 documentary)
One P.M. (1972 documentary)
Redoubtable (2017 biopic)
Groupe Dziga Vertov
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