Movies: Jean-Marie Straub

  • 2013
    Dialogue of Shadows

    Dialogue of Shadows (2013)

    Dialogue of Shadows

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    Jean-Marie Straub’s new film closes the circle. The years 1954–2013 are displayed as representing a film produced in collaboration with Danièle Huillet. The two had met in Paris in 1954, around the year they came across the text by Georges Bernanos, ...

    Dialogue of Shadows
  • 1994
    Lothringen!

    Lothringen! (1994)

    Lothringen!

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    About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German....

    Lothringen!
  • 1970
    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) (1970)

    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

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    Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way....

    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
  • 2001
    Il viandante

    Il viandante (2001)

    Il viandante

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    An alternate look at a part of Sicilia, perhaps left out for its more straightforward didactic quality. Interesting to again see the long gaps. Also note the extra use of close-up (for them) on the old woman....

    Il viandante
  • 1973
    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene (1973)

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

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    This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals with emerging fascism and the persecution of Jews, as well as with their historical continuities....

    Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
  • 1985
    A Proposition in Four Parts

    A Proposition in Four Parts (1985)

    A Proposition in Four Parts

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    "D. W. Griffith’s 1909 short film A Corner in Wheat, a Biblical tale of avarice, divine retribution, and the prolonged suffering of the masses, is the prelude to this political film essay. Straub-Huillet offer a dialectical montage of cause (capitali...

    A Proposition in Four Parts
  • 2012
    Un héritier

    Un héritier (2012)

    Un héritier

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    In 1994, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet adapted the novel Colette Baudoche – Story of a Young Girl of Metz by Maurice Barrès as a film they titled Lothringren!. In 2010, Jean-Marie Straub returned to the eastern provinces of France, this time ...

    Un héritier
  • 2001
    Workers, Peasants

    Workers, Peasants (2001)

    Workers, Peasants

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    A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of...

    Workers, Peasants
  • 1993
    The Persistence of Vision

    The Persistence of Vision (1993)

    The Persistence of Vision

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    Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet....

    The Persistence of Vision
  • 2013
    Un conte de Michel de Montaigne

    Un conte de Michel de Montaigne (2013)

    Un conte de Michel de Montaigne

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    Master filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub continues his exploration of classic texts with this "collaboration" with the great 16th-century writer of the Essais....

    Un conte de Michel de Montaigne
  • 2011
    O somma luce

    O somma luce (2011)

    O somma luce

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    In darkness, we hear a recording of the scandalous 1954 debut performance of Edgar Varèse’s revolutionary Déserts at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Then, in a different sort of Elysian Field, we hear a recitation of Canto XXXIII from The Inferno, a ...

    O somma luce
  • 1982
    En rachâchant

    En rachâchant (1982)

    En rachâchant

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    The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know....

    En rachâchant
  • 2003
    Incantati

    Incantati (2003)

    Incantati

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    Recently discovered and shown only twice before, Incantati is an alternate ending to Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 2003 film Umiliati — fragment as mini-manifesto....

    Incantati
  • 2007
    Verteidigung der Zeit

    Verteidigung der Zeit (2007)

    Verteidigung der Zeit

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    Peter Nestler's poetic documentary Verteidigung der Zeit is not only an hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro incontri (2005), but also to their access to cinema itself. In various encounters and conversations Nestler of...

    Verteidigung der Zeit
  • 1984
    Cinématon XXXV

    Cinématon XXXV (1984)

    Cinématon XXXV

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    Reel 35 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series....

    Cinématon XXXV
  • 2015
    For Renato

    For Renato (2015)

    For Renato

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    Montage of one scene from Othon and set photos, made for a celebration of Renato Berta’s birthday at Stadtkino Basel on April 1, 2015....

    For Renato
  • 2009
    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment

    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment (2009)

    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment

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    Co-director Cornelia Geiser sits by a window on an easy chair reading aloud a few verses by Corneille, then a somewhat longer excerpt from Brecht - each writer referencing Rome but really condemning injustice in his own era....

    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
  • 2020
    S et H

    S et H (2020)

    S et H

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    Discuss, discuss, but we must not forget the laundry! Snatches of dialogue, of thoughts that mingle happily with the faces that also mingle with each other. From films number 342 and 343 by Gérard Courant: “Jean Marie Straub”, 1984 and “Danièle Hui...

    S et H
  • 2002
    Dolando

    Dolando (2002)

    Dolando

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    "At the end of filming Umiliati, Straub and Huillet gave thanks to the cast and crew in a graceful way: by inviting Dolando Bernardini to sing several stanzas from Torquato Tasso’s 16th-century epic poem Jerusalem Delivered." - MoMA...

    Dolando
  • 1990
    Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet

    Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet (1990)

    Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet

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    A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a critique by Joachim Gasquet. An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the p...

    Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet