Edgar Morin RIP (co-director of CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/world/europe/edgar-morin-dead.html [paywall, if someone else feels like doing a gift link, please go ahead....sorry I cannot]
This is the film, CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER, a key piece of cinema verité, with its Edition extras:
https://www.criterionchannel.com/chronicle-of-a-summer
(Including Damien Chazelle talking about the film, which I think is not included on the Criterion disc, it's a Channel original...taken from the longer 'Masterclass' interview video with Chazelle? Not sure.)
It's also included in a verité collection with a bunch of interesting things otherwise by Americans/Canadian:
https://www.criterionchannel.com/cinema-verite
Another person I've been meaning to read forever, though a stumbling block is my lack of French and a paucity of English translations of his key works. It sounds like he was tremendously prolific (as a writer and public intellectual, not so much as a filmmaker).
Edit: And of course I should say that the other director of CHRONICLE was Jean Rouch...terrible to omit his name, I was just thinking of Morin since he passed.