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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is only 25 when her acclaimed film 'Jeanne Dielman' is released in 1975. It is a bold film, with which she immediately makes a name for herself and will influence many generations of ...

When Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”—proclaimed the best film of all time in Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll—premièred at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1975, Akerman ...