Chantal Akerman has secured her place in the consciousness of international cinema after decades as a critics’ darling. The surprising proof is that Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ...

On its face, Criterion’s Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978 is an essential set for offering key early works, some more obscure than others, from the career of one of the great film artists. But ...

Chantal Akerman was one of the most influential directors in film history. She would hate such an accolade, but it’s warranted nonetheless. She often made movies — as well as art installations, ...

For certain film buffs, Chantal Akerman is famous as the director of one of the screen’s most legendary endurance tests. Akerman’s masterpiece, “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” ...

Note: This article contains spoilers for the film.■ Gazing at the World Through a WindowCan human beings find peace by ...

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, ...

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Jane Simon, Professor of Media Studies at Macquarie University, once wrote: “Chantal Akerman’s films provide meticulous observations of the everyday, depicting in obsessive detail the activities that ...

There’s a scene in Chantal Akerman’s latest and regrettably final film, No Home Movie, where her doting mother—a Holocaust survivor nearing the end of her life in Belgium—showers the filmmaker with ...

She was one of the first filmmakers to make the leap from cinema to museum spaces, which allowed her greater freedom and the pleasure of demanding more viewer participation. As a filmmaker, writer, ...

Chantal Akerman: Travelling: an exhibition of one of Belgium’s finest filmmakers. From March 14 to July 21, 2024, Bozar, in collaboration with CINEMATEK and the Fondation Chantal Akerman, presents an ...

Director Chantal Akerman died three years ago today, and I wrote the following remembrance in the Filmmaker newsletter just a few days later but never posted it online. I wrote it from the Venice ...