Chantal Akerman
How I Stole Chantal Akerman’s Ideas For the Obama White House
Chantal was the perfect blend of fan and pioneer.
Movie News: Gilda Radner, SXSW, ‘Star Wars’ And Chantal Akerman
A Gilda Radner documentary will open the Tribeca Film Festival, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’s latest project and more movie news.
In Two Films, Opposite Sides Of The Holocaust’s Intergenerational Trauma
“And after I blame the Germans OR WISH THAT MY MOTHER HAD DONE SOMETHING ANYTHING I ask myself what I would have.”
Our Lives With (and Without) Chantal Akerman
For thirty years, filmmaker Henry Bean and his wife were friends with the filmmaker Chantal Akerman. In light of her apparent suicide, Bean recalls Akerman’s genius and her legacy.
Remembering Chantal Akerman
We stopped by the New York Film Festival premiere of Chantal Akerman’s final film ‘No Home Movie’ to speak with audience members about her work, her influence and her death.
How I Stole Chantal Akerman's Ideas For the Obama White House
When he was at Cornell, future White House videographer Arun Chaudhary told Chantal Akerman he’d steal her ideas. Now, in fond remembrance of the Belgian-Jewish filmmaker, he explains how he did just that.
Chantal Akerman, Pioneering Feminist Filmmaker, Dies at 65
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, a daughter of Holocaust survivors known for her experimental films that closely examined women’s lives, has died in Paris. She was 65.
Screening Chantal Akerman
For certain film buffs, Chantal Akerman is famous as the director of one of the screen’s most legendary endurance tests. Akerman’s masterpiece, “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (1975), as the precise title might indicate, is a remarkably focused three-and-a-half-hour study of the mundane routine of a Brussels housewife — the ultimate realist film.
