Under Chantal Akerman's watchful eye, a cheap Manhattan hotel glows with mystery and unexpected beauty, its corridors, elevators, rooms, windows, and occasional occupants framed like Edward Hopper tableaux. A ghostlike companion piece to Akerman's more straightforward (although still vaguely eerie) musical Golden Eighties, deconstructing the latter film's narrative and songs into a series of isolated vignettes that gradually build to full-scale numbers. 1996 : 6 (0) Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des annees 60 a Bruxelles Director, Screenwriter . From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Golden Eighties, also known as Window Shopping, is a 1986 Belgian musical film directed by Chantal Akerman. Melding live music with Chantal Akermanâs written words and her short film â Blow Up My City â (â Saute ma ville â), cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton creates a touching ⦠The exuberant enchantments of the singing, dancing musical meet the feminist, formalist sensibility of cinematic visionary Chantal Akerman in this uniquely captivating vision of love and survival in the age of late capitalism. Initially, Lee edited the video to music. Starring Sylvie Testud, Stanislas Merhar, Olivia Bonamy. Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1986 • Belgium, France Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1975 • Belgium Starring Delphine Seyrig, Fanny Cottençon, Pascale Salkin. Classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by the Criterion Collection. Working with frequent star Delphine Seyrig and a remarkable team of writers—who between them penned everything from JULES AND JIM to DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN—Akerman deftly balances the shiny pop pleasures of the genre with piercing variations on her signature themes, including a startlingly moving reflection on Jewish resilience and the legacy of the Holocaust. She was a director and writer, known for Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Je Tu Il Elle (1974) and The Meetings of Anna (1978). Chantal Akerman By Chantal Akerman Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Producer . Classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by the Criterion Collection. Chantal Akerman (*1950 in Brussels, â 2015 in Paris) was a filmmaker, writer, and artist. She was married to Sonia Wieder-Atherton. She has conceived of cross-genre performances such as From the East in Music, incorporating footage from Chantal Akermanâs film DâEst, and projects with Charlotte Rampling and Fanny Ardant. Chantal Akermanâs The Eighties proves that a musical set in a mall can be a significant feminist work. Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1976 • United States. Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1972 • Belgium. Her first feature, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), established her reputation as a radical, feminist filmmaker. Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1978 • France. Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1989 • Belgium, France Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1986 • Belgium, France In light of her apparent suicide, Bean recalls Akermanâs genius and her legacy. The Paris based Belgian director Chantal Ackerman tries something a trifle wide of her customary metier with what one might suppose is an attempt at a pastiche of Hollywood musicals. Beta SP, French with English subtitles, 3.40 min., West Coast premiere A VOICE IN THE DESERT Directed by Chantal Akerman One of the boldest cinematic visionaries of the past half century, Chantal Akermanâwho would have turned seventy this Juneâtook a profoundly personal, aesthetically radical approach to the form, using it to investigate geography and identity, space and ⦠Film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster [1] considers her âone of the most important filmmakers of the late-20th century, whose films have had a profound impact on feminist discourse within the cinema, and within avant-garde film and video art at an international level.â Directed by Chantal Akerman ⢠1986 ⢠Belgium, France Starring Delphine Seyrig, Fanny Cottençon, Pascale Salkin The exuberant enchantments of the singing, dancing musical meet the feminist, formalist sensibility of cinematic visionary Chantal Akerman in this uniquely captivating vision of love and survival in the age of late capitalism. A scene from Chantal Akermanâs In the Mirror. Letters from Chantal Akerman's mother are read over a series of elegantly composed shots of 1976 New York, where our (unseen) filmmaker and protagonist has relocated. Starring Delphine Seyrig, Fanny Cottençon, Pascale Salkin. Rhythm, rhyme, and chanting are protections ⦠Acted in News From Home, Je, tu, il, elle, and La chambre Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1975 • France. Chantal Akerman (screenplay, voice over), Sonia Wieder-Atherton (music) and Catherine Deneuve (actor) team up to mourn the murder of Salvadorean union activist Febe Elisabeth Velásquez in this short piece produced for Amnesty International. Chantal Anne Akerman was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York. The film was Chantal Akermanâs 1977 drama News from Home. Films include Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, News From Home, and Je, tu, il, elle. Her towering achievement, however, remains JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES, a domestic epic that has exerted an incalculable influence on the evolution of both feminist and avant-garde cinema. These questions arose last month when we published a video essay from Kevin B. Lee, chief video essayist at Fandor, about the spaces in Chantal Akermanâs final documentary, No Home Movie. Amid the consumerist wonderland of a shopping mall, a cadre of store employees bounce in and out of one another’s arms in a cycle of breakups, makeups, misunderstandings, and reunions, their romantic roundelay punctuated by imaginatively stylized production numbers. Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1972 • United States. Directed by and starring Chantal Akerman, this short film was made when she was just eighteen. Chantal Akerman was born on June 6, 1950 in Brussels, Belgium as Chantal Anne Akerman. Chantal Akerman explores Jewish American identity in this multilayered portrait of the immigrant experience. Chantal Akerman was one of the most important filmmakers of the late-20th century, whose films have had a profound impact on feminist discourse within the cinema, and within avant-garde film and video art at an international level. She died on October 5, ⦠Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1968 • Belgium. For a French television series about grandmothers, Chantal Akerman interviews elderly women who survived the Shoah, including her own mother, whose experience in the Holocaust reverberated throughout the artist’s life and work. In her provocative first feature, Chantal Akerman stars as an aimless young woman who leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that leads to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and a former girlfriend. Film profile for Chantal Akerman, Director and actor, born 6 June 1950. In 2014, she released Little Girl Blue, a recording conceived like a letter to Nina Simone. Belgian director Chantal Akerman (1950â2015) forged a new cinematic language by wedding an uncompromising formal rigor with a profound depth of feeling. Chantal Akerman invites viewers to visit this unusual place as well as the people who live there, from the reception up to the last story. In an extraordinary oeuvre that encompassed travelogues, documentaries, literary adaptations, musicals, and at least one landmark of film history, Akerman explored alienation, female subjectivity, landscapes both physical and ⦠â Chantal Akerman. Chantal Akerman at the 2015 Venice Film Festival AP Photo/Jonathan Short. In Chantal Akerman's early short film LA CHAMBRE, we see the furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life, with Akerman herself staring back at us. Chantal Akerman's 1968 short film Saute ma ville directly reflects our current state, serving as a meditative text on the art of staying home. Starring George Bartenieff, Judith Malina, Eszter Balint. The film explores themes such as consumerism, feminism, and Jewish identity through the lens of a shopping mall. In later works like the singular musical GOLDEN EIGHTIES and the spellbinding Proust adaptation LA CAPTIVE, Akerman continued to expand the boundaries of cinematic language, leaving behind monumental landmarks that have pointed the way for a generation of artists who have followed in her footsteps. Chantal Akerman, Director: Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. In one of Akerman's most penetrating character studies, Anna, an accomplished filmmaker (played by Aurore Clément), makes her way through a series of European cities to promote her latest movie. One of the boldest cinematic visionaries of the past half century, Chantal Akerman—who would have turned seventy this June—took a profoundly personal, aesthetically radical approach to the form, using it to investigate geography and identity, space and time, sexuality and alienation. For thirty years, filmmaker Henry Bean and his wife were friends with the filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Chantal Ackerman made a shopping mall musical in the mid 80s where everyone is pretty sad and nobody gets what they want. An homage to Chantal Akerman (1950 â 2015) The great filmmaker Chantal Akerman died in October 2015; she was 65. So, you know, what you'd expect from a Chantal Ackerman romantic musical set in a shopping mall. Influenced by the structuralist cinema she was exposed to when she came to New York from her native Belgium in 1970, Akerman made her mark in the decade that followed, exploring the possibilities of long takes and formal repetition in works like the architectural meditation HOTEL MONTEREY, the obsessive portrait of estrangement JE TU IL ELLE, the autobiographical New York elegy NEWS FROM HOME, and the austere antiromance LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA. She made her first short film, Saute ma ville (Blow Up My Town, 1968), when she was just 18. Born in 1950, Akerman was famously close to her mother, Natalia, who survived the Holocaust. Directed by Chantal Akerman • 2000 • Belgium, France The songs sung or hummed in Akermanâs films have been understood as musical clichés that align with Akermanâs structural interest in repetition, reiteration, and variations on recurring themes. Starring Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte. In the newest film (whose title echoes the uprooting and devastation caused by the Holocaust) Chantal Akerman tries to address the subject head-on, ⦠According to film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Akerman's influence on feminist and avant-garde cinema is substantial. She is best known for Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), which The New York Times called a "masterpiece". The description of it as a âdramaâ is imperfect; in fact, nothing happens at all, there is no narrative, no journey or catharsis. Although increasingly celebrated over the years, the film was still not easy to ⦠Much later, down a dark warren of echoing spaces, dead ends and blind corners, we find Akerman herself, ⦠Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1980 • France. 18 Humming and songs also issue directly from a background of musical traditions in Jewish culture and liturgy, where voice and vocalizing play prominent roles. Released Little Girl Blue, a recording conceived like a letter to Nina.. 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