The Beginning of History: "Class Relations"
Ted FendtA new translation of writer-critic Louis Seguin’s 1984 article on Straub-Huillet’s Class Relations.
Danièle Huillet
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The Noteworthy: Wrapping Rotterdam, Tony and Theo, A Michael Snow Compendium
Adam CookThe Carney-Rappaport feud continues, new trailers from Denis Côté & the Coen brothers, a Rotterdam report, Daney on Straub & Hulliet & more.
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The Noteworthy: New Lola, "2013" by Apichatpong, On the Set of "The Assassin"
Adam CookLOLA releases new content, Apichatpong’s mini-short “2013”, images from the new Hong Sang-soo, a visit to Hou Hsaio-hsien on set.
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Traces: A Conversation with Peter Nestler
Stefan RamstedtAn interview with the German documentary filmmaker for his first big retrospective in the Anglophone world, at the Tate in London.
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The Noteworthy: Marcel Hanoun (1929-2012), "Heaven's Gate" Reopened, History Lessons
Adam CookLa Furia Umana is moving to print, Cimino presents a restored Heaven’s Gate and Phil Coldiron writes on 16mm in the digital age.
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Manifestations
Daniel KasmanA report from the retrospective on the Oberhausen Manifesto’s 50th anniversary, at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
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Politics and Aesthetics in the Straubs’ Films
Ted FendtJacques Rancière, Philippe Lafosse and the public in conversation about Straub-Huillet after a screening of their films.
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Locarno 2011. Old and New Straub
Robert KoehlerA report from the film festival’s Jean-Marie Straub retrospective playing alongside new short films by the master.
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Image of the Day. Records of Material Objects in the Cinema #2
Dave McDougallA winter melon, from Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Sicilia! (1999); cinematography by William Lubtchansky, one of the great artists of cinema, who passed away this week at age 73.
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: Three Films by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
Glenn KennyWhen considering the paucity of works by the filmmaking team of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub available in the DVD format, it behooves one to also consider the question of whether their works
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A glance at Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s "Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach"
Ryland Walker KnightArtifice is a kind of death, and also a new form of life, as, of course, art is about life (as much as certain objects are about life’s abstraction into—pace Gilles—concepts, precepts and affects
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Some Notes on "Made in U.S.A.": It's All True
David PhelpsMade in USA is, like about all Godard’s works, just a documentary of a time, of some places, of some people. A home movie bearing witness to 1967, politically, personally—and the two, here, are