CHANTAL AKERMAN IN THE SEVENTIES: ECLIPSE SERIES 19 (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
• Plot: Over the past four decades, Belgian director Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles) has created one of cinema’s most distinctive bodies of work—formally daring, often autobiographical films about people and places, time and space. In this collection, we present the early films that put her on the map: intensely personal, modernist investigations of cities, history, family, and sexuality, made in the 1970s in the United States and Europe and strongly influenced by the New York experimental film scene. Bold and iconoclastic, these five films pushed boundaries in their day and continue to have a profound influence on filmmakers all over the world.; ; THE NEW YORK FILMS; LA CHAMBRE; HOTEL MONTEREY; NEWS FROM HOME; Impressed by such American underground directors as Michael Snow and Yvonne Rainer, Chantal Akerman made these brilliant, searching works while living in New York. Through precise cinematography and editing, these films make vibrant, strange places out of the apartments, hotels, and streets of Manhattan, spaces for both artistic and personal contemplation. ; ; JE TU IL ELLE; Akerman's feature film debut is a frank, fragmentary portrait of a young woman, Julie (played by the director), drifting through life and sexual relationships.; ; LES RENDEZ-VOUS D'ANNA; Aurore Clément plays a successful but rootless filmmaker traveling through Germany, Belgium, and France to promote her latest movie, and meeting many people along the way, all of whom–from a one-night stand to ex-lovers to family–serve to underscore her dissociation.
• Runtime: 6:11
• Media Format: Movie