For 12 days, the Criterion Collection has made its entire catalogue of Akerman’s work available for viewing on Hulu for free. Filmmaker Chantal Akerman being interviewed in 2011 (gif Hrag ...

Much of direction is production: the material conditions under which a movie is made plays a major role in the creative process. Movie lovers tend to think of producers as dictators of formulas, ...

Is Chantal Akerman the maker of the greatest film ever made? No reasonable artist would want the burden of such a designation, and Akerman never had to bear it in life. The Belgian director and ...

"A mesmerizing piece of rhythmical film-making." BFI in the UK has unveiled a brand new trailer for the 50th anniversary re-release of a Belgian cinema classic - Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman. The ...

Canonized two years ago as the greatest film of all time, topping Sight and Sound’s once-every-decade poll, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles now celebrates its ...

“What I want is to make people feel the passing of time,” Chantal Akerman was fond of saying about her rigorously observed films. Whether in narratives or documentaries, she redefined spectatorship ...

Chantal Akerman’s deliberate and rigorous movies require not just concentration, but also a willingness to meet this Belgian filmmaker on her own terms. They are not for everyone, which is why her ...

A fierce work of quasi-neorealist melodrama that melds pop cinema instincts and political indignation, Lino Brocka’s 1980 feature endures as a lively, searing parable on the plight of Filipino women ...

The Chinese fest will also highlight "film creations from the 'Global South,' screening rare classics," such as the Iranian film 'The Sealed Soil' and Angolan war of independence drama 'Sambizanga.' ...

The Belgian auteur, who died in 2015, directed 'Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles,' which was voted the greatest film of all time by the latest Sight and Sound poll. By Scott ...

Guillaume Cerutti Out as President of Paris’s Pinault Collection After 13 Months In tribute to Chantal Akerman, who recently passed away, the New York Film Festival has added free showings of two of ...