conferences
Light, Méliès and Rosebud
Extract from the film course "Citizen Kane of Orson Welles" by Youssef Ishaghpour, professor emeritus at the University of Paris Descartes.
January 21, 2011
Forum des Images, Paris.
Duration: 2min
Traffic: 20 years, 20 films
Val Abraham by Manoel de Oliveira
Film chosen and presented by Youssef Ishaghpour.
Adapted from the novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís, Val Abraham transposes Madame Bovary to the present day, in the Douro region. Emma Bovary becomes Ema Païva there.
January 29, 2012
Center Pompidou, Paris.
Duration: 19min
Conference on the work of Youssef Ihhaghpour
To mark the publication of Youssef Ishaghpour's latest work, Cinema and Modernity, by Exils, the André Malraux media library in Maisons-Alfort organized a unique exhibition of his original photographs from November 21, 2025, to January 31, 2026.
After the publication of his monumental work on the cinema of Orson Welles, Ishaghpour spent several months in the Côtes d'Armor region tirelessly photographing the sea horizon, taking more than 10,000 pictures. This exhibition, entitled Le philosophe et la mer (The Philosopher and the Sea), brings together some thirty prints, including several cibachrome prints made by Roland Dufau in the 2000s.
As part of this event, a conference-meeting on Youssef Ishaghpour (1940-2021) was organized in the presence of Juliette Grange, philosopher, François Thomas, critic and film specialist, and Fabien Simode, director of the media library.
November 22, 2025
André Malraux Media Library, Maisons-Alfort
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes
interview
Around Courbet and Chohreh Feyzdjou
Alain Veinstein receives Youssef Ishaghpour, author of Courbet and Chohreh Feyzdjou.
Du jour au lendemain, France Culture
April 25, 2012
100 years of Orson Welles
Caroline Broué from La grande table receives Youssef Ishaghpour for the 100th anniversary of Orson Welles.
La Grande Table, France Culture
May 06, 2012
PODCASTS
Tribute to Youssef Ishaghpour #1
the podcast At the crossroads by Manouchka Toubiana offers a series of programs in tribute to Youssef Ishaghpour.
The first part of this tribute with the voice of Youssef Ishaghpour at the microphone of Alain Veinstein on France Culture in 2007, but also the moving testimonies of two of his long-time friends: the director and documentary filmmaker Pierre Samson, whom he met from his arrival in Paris, and the philosopher and teacher Juliette Grange who now leads the Association of Friends of Youssef Ishaghpour.
Duration: 52min
Tribute to Youssef Ishaghpour #2
The podcast At the crossroads by Manouchka Toubiana offers a series of programs in tribute to Youssef Ishaghpour.
As part of Aligre Fm's Identity Week, the second part of a tribute to a man with multiple identities. Both historian and theoretician of cinema, philosopher, essayist, photographer and musician, Iranian and French, Youssef Ishaghpour (1940-2021), came to Paris in the 1950s to study cinema and spend his life there. He has written major works on Western cinema and art, including a sum that has become an absolute reference on Orson Welles. His latest book is dedicated to the work of the artist Anselm Kiefer. The guests of this program are the philosophers Juliette Grange who was her friend and Michael de Saint-Chéron.
Duration: 54min