Very nice post, R6dw6C. It must've been a pleasure to attend such a comprehensive retro. I'd certainly like to get to those documentaries some day. 

I haven't come across a better film critic than Mr. Mller. I try to get to every film he recommends, and so Kutner's Monpti is certainly high on my list of films to see. Now I'm glad to hear that you liked it too. I hope it becomes available with English subtitles. 

Good points re: Whirlpool of Fate and The Little Match Girl. I guess I'm in the minority when it comes to Nana even though I had the nearly opposite reaction to Hessling's performance. In any case, life imitated art to some degree a few years later because Mrs. Renoir wasn't casted in La Chienne, which is said to be one of the reasons why their marriage dissolved.