Movies

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s «Dialoghi con Leucò», taken from classical mythology....

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

A satirical attack on West Germany's re-armament and revival of militaristic tradition in the Adenauer era.

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.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

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.

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...

In his meetings with various different people, Jean-Luc Godard develops his thinking about history, politics, the cinema, images and time, and this...

Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub's 85th birthday.

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...

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...

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...

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’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court...

Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...

A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.

Documentary about the shooting of Straub's Antigone.

Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).

A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a...

"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...