The Complete Films of Agnès Varda

The Complete Films of Agnès Varda. Agnès Varda 1955-2020.

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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray box set, released 2020. Mostly French with English subtitles. Runtime of feature films approximately 26 hours.

Summary: Varda is a compassionate filmmaker. See notes for a few titles that contain documents or realistic inclusions of animal death.

The Criterion retrospective includes fifteen Blu-ray discs that present Varda’s catalogue and associated supplements in a recommended viewing order. The first disc establishes the mood and introduces the artist in a commemorative way. Each of the ensuing discs focuses on a major film or an aspect of Varda’s life, arranged more-or-less chronologically.

The following list includes all major and short works by Varda herself and most of the supplementary material. Omitted are some short interviews, trailers, and appreciations.

Disc 1: Agnès Forever

• Varda by Agnès (2019, Varda and Didier Rouget) 1:59
• Les 3 boutons (2015, Varda) 0:11
• The Art of Family Life (2020, family interviews) 0:17
• Telluride Film Festival panel with Mathieu Demy, Martin Scorsese, and others.  0:39
• Agnès Varda’s Credit Sequences (2020, Alex Vuillaume-Tylski) 0:08
• Sensing Bodies (2019, video essay) 0:02
• A Chat with Nini (2019, Varda) 0:01

Disc 2: Early Varda

• La Pointe-Courte (1955, Varda) 1:21
• Ô saisons ô chateaux (1958, Varda) 0:21
• Du côté de la côte (1958, Varda) 0:27
• Mathieu Amalric and Agnès Varda discussion. 0:09
• Agnès Varda on “La Pointe-Courte” (2007) 0:16

Disc 3: Around Paris

• Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, Varda) 1:29
• Les fiancés du pont MacDonald ou (1962, Varda) 0:05
• L’opéra-mouffe (1958, Varda) 0:17
• Les dites cariatides (1984, Varda) 0:12
• Les dites cariatides bis (2005, Varda) 0:02
• T'as de beaux escaliers, tu sais... (1986, Varda) 0:03
• Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances (2005, Varda) 0:36
• Cléo's Real Path Through Paris (2005, Pierre-William Glenn) 0:09
• The Music of Michel Legrand (2006, Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos) 0:10

Disc 4: Rue Daguerre

• Daguerréotypes (1975, Varda) 1:18
• Le lion volatil (2003, Varda) 0:11
• Rue Daguerre in 2005 (2005, Varda) 0:21
• Bread, Painting, and Accordion (2005, Varda) 0:08
• Daguerreotypes: Photographic Objects (2005, Varda) 0:06
• The Music Festival (2005, Varda) 0:03

Disc 5: Married Life

• Le bonheur (1965, Varda) 1:20
• Les créatures (1966, Varda) 1:34
• Elsa la Rose (1966, Varda) 0:20

• Démons et merveilles du cinéma: excerpt: “Agnès et Bonheur” (1964, Jean-Claude Bergeret), 0:05

• Jean-Claude Drouot Returns to Fontenay-aux-Roses (2005, Varda) 0:08
• The Two Women of ‘Le bonheur’ (2005, Varda) 0:06
• Happiness? The People of Fontenay Respond (2006, Varda) 0:06
• Thoughts on ‘Le bonheur’ (2006, Varda) 0:15
• Agnès talks about ‘Le bonheur’ (1998, Varda) 0:03
• Bonheur: Proper Name or Concept? (2006, Varda) 0:02

Disc 6: In California

• Uncle Yanco (1967, Varda) 0:19
• Black Panthers (1968, Varda) 0:20
• Mur murs (1980, Varda) 1:22
• Lions Love (...and lies) (1969, Varda) 1:52
• Documenteur (1981, Varda) 1:06
• Viva Varda! (1970, Varda) 0:09
• Two Street Artists: Jérôme Mesnager & Miss.Tic (2012, Varda) 0:06

Disc 7: Her Body, Herself

• One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977, Varda) 2:01
• The Pleasure of Love in Iran (1977, Varda) 0:06
• Réponse de femmes (1975, Varda) 0:08
• Nausicaa (1970, Varda) 1:38
• Women Are Naturally Creative (1977, Katja Raganelli) 0:47

Disc 8: No Shelter

• Vagabond (1985, Varda) 1:45
• 7rm., kitch., bath., ... for sale (1985, Varda) 0:28
• Vagabond: Remembrances (2003, Varda) 0:41
• Music and Dolly Shots (2003, Varda) 0:12
• The Story of an Old Lady (1985, Varda) 0:04
• Plotting in ‘Vagabond’   David Bordwell examines the way Vagabond utilizes three different narrative strategies. 0:15

Disc 9: Jane B.

• Jane B. for Agnès V. (1988, Varda) 1:38
• Kung-Fu Master! (1988, Varda) 1:20
• Agnès V. by Jane B. (2020) 0:16

Disc 10: Jacques Demy

• Jacquot de Nantes (1991, Varda) 1:58
• The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993, Varda) 1:06
• The World of Jacques Demy (1995, Varda) 1:31
• Agnès Tells the Sad and Happy Adventure Behind the Film ‘Jacquot de Nantes’ (2008, Varda) 0:17
• Souvenirs and Evocations (2008, Varda) 0:07

Disc 11: Simon Cinéma

• One Hundred and One Nights (1995, Varda) 1:44
• A Fun Moment with Michel Piccoli (2004, Varda) 0:09
• Set Visits: One Hundred and One Nights (2004, Varda) 0:11
• Hands and Objects: On Agnès Varda’s Shorts (2007, Varda) 0:20
• Unfinished Varda. Footage from two unfinished projects, La Melangite (1960) and Christmas Carole (1966), plus two 1971 commercials  0:11 total).

Disc 12: La Glaneuse

• The Gleaners and I (2000, Varda) 1:22
• The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002, Varda) 1:03
• Tribute to Zgougou (2002, Varda) 0:02
• The Gleaners Museum (2002, Varda) 0:24

Disc 13: Visual Artist

• Faces Places (2017, Varda and JR) 1:33
• Salut les Cubains (1964, Varda) 0:29
• Ulysse (1982, Varda) 0:22
• Ydessa, the Bears and etc (2004, Varda) 0:44
• Chance Is the Best Assistant: Agnès Varda and JR on ‘Faces Places’ (2018, Edwin Samuelson) 0:47
• The Beach Cabin (2017, Varda) 0:04
• A Visit with Matthieu Chedid (2017, Varda) 0:04
• One Minute for One Image (1983, Varda) 0:27

Disc 14: Here and There

• Agnès de ci de là Varda (2011, Varda) 3:55  - The 5-part TV series tracking Agnès for a year to meet friends, artists and filmmakers.

Disc 15: Beaches

• The Beaches of Agnès (2008, Varda) 1:52
• Some Widows of Noirmoutier (2006, Varda) 1:12
• Installations (2020, Varda) 1:07
• On Trapeze Artists and Acrobatics (2008, Varda) 0:10
• Daguerre-Beach (2008, Varda) 0:10
• In Her Own Image: Kelley Conway on Agnès (2020, Varda) 0:15