Jean-Marie Straub Movies

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...

Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.

From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series.

Fragment of last reel from "History Lessons" presented in an installation as a special event for the Venice Biennale Arte.

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...

A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach.

Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday. Directed by Jean-Charles Fitoussi.

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

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...

Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are...

"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,...

This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...

Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the “bagatelles” in this collection features a...

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

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.

Documentary about Huillet/Straub's Empedocles.

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...

On a sunny afternoon, an old man sits in the shade of the trees in Montmartre Cemetery in Paris, at the edge of the grave of the great actress...

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

Filmmaker Manfred Blank (director of the excellent Pharos of Chaos) interviews Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub at some length about...