Jean-Marie Straub Movies

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

"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...

More than a land, it is from the lake that this son comes. Raised by a father fisherman, he learned his noises and currents, maybe also its...

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 darkness, we hear a recording of the scandalous 1954 debut performance of Edgar Varèse’s revolutionary Déserts at the...

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

Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...

"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,...

"Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet" is the overlay of two Cinematons by Gérard Courant with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...

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...

Documentary about the shooting of Straub's Antigone.

Another adaptation from Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò (following "From the Clouds to the Resistance", "These Encounters of...

First part of Hölderlin-trilogy with Udo Samel, Otto Sander and Jean-Marie Straub.

An initiative from Pompidou Center, filmed by Jean Marie Straub.

A film in three parts: An aquarium, a man sitting at a table reading various text passages, and a sequence from Jean Renoir’s film LA...

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political...

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

In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint.

In parallel with Now Tell Me Something, his second book about the cinema of Straub-Huillet, Philippe Lafosse follows the meetings in 2007 and 2008...