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Jun 12, 2024 · Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman (documentary) Self-portrait co-written with Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe and commissioned for the programme Cinéma, de notre temps. It was, according to Claire Atherton, “a reconciliation with her cinema”.
Jun 18, 2024 · At the age of 18, Chantal Akerman made Saute ma ville in her hometown of Brussels, just for herself, for the fun of it. The previous year, she had entered INSAS film school and dropped out within three months.
4 days ago · Belgian director Chantal Akerman’s 1975 film, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, may be barely known, but it is now seen by cinema cognoscenti as the greatest movie of all time.
Jun 15, 2024 · When Chantal Akerman was just 18, she had something profound to say. With a tiny crew, a love for the cinema and a clear idea of her political views, the blossoming filmmaker made Saute ma ville or Blow Up My Town. It was 1968, and France’s political landscape was radically changing.
Jun 18, 2024 · We talk Chantal Akerman, her films Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), News From Home (1977) and The Meetings of Anna (1978)Plus, Wi...
5 days ago · Chantal Akerman is one of the most diverse and cutting-edge directors working in France today. Highly influential in the domain of independent cinema, she has authored some forty films to date, the single most important and coherent body of work by a woman director.
5 days ago · Chantal Akerman. Like most of Chantal Akerman’s films, her lesser-known American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy is a deeply personal one. Having yearned to fill the blanks of a past that her mother – an Auschwitz survivor – left largely unspoken, Akerman was inspired by the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer to bring the “invented ...
