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 ...

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.' ...

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 film that critics recently voted as the best of all time is set to return to cinemas next month. In 2022, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), directed by the late Belgian ...

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 ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. For L.A. locals, it is worth noting that Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” ...

TIFF unveiled its experimental Wavelengths program with the latest work by Radu Jude, Denis Côté, Isiah Medina, Eduardo Williams, Angela Schanelec and Rosine Mbakam. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau ...