Itinerary of Jean Bricard (2008)
The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema's greatest artists. ...
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Danièle Huillet was born on May 1, 1936 in Paris, France. She was a director and editor, known for Sicily! (1999), Class Relations (1984) and The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968). She was married to Jean-Marie Straub. She died on October 9, 2006 in Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, France.
The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema's greatest artists. ...
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Inspired by Rossellini's Europa '51 Straub-Huillet made a film consisting of two pans of a street corner in Paris. ...
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These Encounters Of Theirs divides 10 non-professional actors into couples, then has them take turns in declaiming the Dialogues With Leuco, Cesare Pavese's abstract, philosophical work. ...
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A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne. ...
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In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They intend to restore the city from the rubble and re-start life, in imitation of the women of Messina who rebuil ...
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Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966). ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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 life, ...
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A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener. ...
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Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man while he has cast an appraising eye toward one of her acquaint ...
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My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can't really say it except to repeat that Bresson note, 'that without a thing changing, everything is different.' The film exists. The fiction is set up, and we believe in it. The ...
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About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German. ...
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A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him. ...
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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 philos ...
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A companion piece to the earlier film 'The Death of Empedocles', 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin's play 'Der Tod des Empedokles'. ...
Watch NowForgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles". ...
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Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece. ...
Watch Now"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 (capitalist gre ...
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A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control. ...
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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. ...
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Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt's history of peasant struggle a ...
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Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese's «Dialoghi con Leucò», taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese's novel «La luna e i falò»: after World War II the emigrant «The Bastard» comes back ...
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A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitatio ...
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The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his alienation from Judaism and from the social relations around him, the rise of Fascism in Italy, the anti-Arab at ...
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A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God's true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers towards chaos and s ...
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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. ...
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Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with "ancient" Romans, how the economic and political manipulation by ancient Roman society led to Caesar's dictatorship. ...
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Straub-Huillet's first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus's Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast pe ...
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Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub an ...
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John cheats on Jane with Ann. He claims Jane doesn't care about love, and is wrong: in the end Jane shoots John. ...
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The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna. ...
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A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a brave cinematic game, Heinrich Böll's story Billiards at Half-Past Nine is split up into cracks, blocks, b ...
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A satirical attack on West Germany's re-armament and revival of militaristic tradition in the Adenauer era. ...
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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 Huillet ...
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Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub's 85th birthday. ...
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"Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet" is the overlay of two Cinematons by Gérard Courant with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: "Jean-Marie Straub, Cinématon number 342" and "Danièle Huillet, Cinematon number 343," filmed on May 27, 1984. ...
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Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blo ...
Watch NowIn the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot of Mount Etna shooting Der Tod des Empedokles. Assistant cameraman Jean-Paul Toraille toyed around, so to speak, ...
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In his meetings with various different people, Jean-Luc Godard develops his thinking about history, politics, the cinema, images and time, and this will lead to his exhibition as an artist at the Pompidou Centre. Jean-Luc Godard's conversations with Domini ...
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A hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro incontri (2005), and to their access to cinema itself. In various encounters and conversations Nestler offers an insight into their life and work, including passages from Italian poet C ...
Watch NowA film by Laura Vitali about the last work of the couple Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in Buti (Italy) in May 2005, namely the staging of the last five "Dialogues with Leucò" by Cesare Pavese. In this sense, it is a moving testimony. Vitali alter ...
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Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Costa records with great sensitivity and insight the exacting process by which the two re-edit their film Sic ...
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Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the "bagatelles" in this collection features a lounging Jean-Marie Straub who gives a non-stop disquisition on liberty and filmmaking while Danièle Huillet busies hersel ...
Watch NowThe original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? ...
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Former Straub/Huillet assistant Jean-Charles Fitoussi films them at work during the shooting of 1999's Sicilia!. ...
Watch NowDocumentary about Huillet/Straub's Empedocles. ...
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Filmmaker Manfred Blank (director of the excellent Pharos of Chaos) interviews Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub at some length about their then-current production, Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations), in which he, himself, performed as an actor. ...
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This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy. ...
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A behind the scenes film of Class Relations. ...
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Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 ...
Watch NowThis is a recording of a movie discussion. This discussion, shown live in German television on November 16th 1978, is framed by two screenings of Huillet/Straub's movie »Toute révolution est un coup de dés«. It's first shown shortly after the discussio ...
Watch NowA tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitatio ...
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A group of men, women and Kristl with his camera debate how to resist authority in all its forms. All cinematic professionalism is avoided as Kristl explores how to live and make films politically. ...
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A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's 'Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach' ...
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