A Straub-Huillet Companion is a series of short essays on the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, subject of a Mubi retrospective. Straub-Huillet's Moses and Aaron (1975) is showing on Mubi from June 17 – July 18 2019.This brilliant, kinky adaptation of an unfinished three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg is easy to love or at least to appreciate, even for morbid skeptics of Straub-Huillet. For one, Schoenberg’s vigorous work, often unfairly labelled "difficult" or "easier to defend than to listen to," is treated with a materialist reverence that is quintessentially the Straubs’. Their phlegmatic, intellectual love of their subject fits the great Austrian composer to a T. For once, the Straubs, working with an unusually generous budget, allow themselves a modicum of spectacle: not simply in the physical scale of certain choral scenes and in one great sequence featuring dozens of animals being led to a sacrificial altar but also in their...
- 6/17/2019
- MUBI
A Straub-Huillet Companion is a series of short essays on the films of Jean-Marie traub and Danièle Huillet, subject of a Mubi retrospective. Straub-Huillet's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) is showing on Mubi from April 15 – May 14, 2019.When he met an eighteen-year-old Danièle Huillet in 1954, Jean-Marie Straub, also a mere twenty-one years of age, already had the project that would become Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) in mind, drawing inspiration from a fictional biography of Frau Bach by Esther Meynell; he immediately asked Huillet to collaborate with him on the script. Which is to say that the pair intended what ultimately became their third film—after the short Machorka-Muff (1963) and the mid-length Not Reconciled (1965)—to serve as a true introduction to their practice. All that is Straub-Huillet is there in Bach: The curious vitality of technically unaffected performers. The reverence for a text’s essence. The unpredictable, stop-start rhythm of the montage,...
- 4/24/2019
- MUBI
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’re highlighting the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Bastards (Claire Denis)
Modern-to-the-hilt noir submerged in the unforgiving blackness of digital photography, emotional currents sparked with a tactile cinema appealing directly to the senses. In retrospect, it (sometimes) seems these two edges could sufficiently define Claire Denis’s Bastards, but her films can never be boiled down to a few descriptors — which might be a tinge ironic, given the immense power of a narrative system that consists of absolutely no more than each crucial component, like a cinematic razor blade slicing its way through all that’s pure. The crescendo would prove unbearable if the pleasures weren’t so extreme, and Bastards’s final moments are...
Bastards (Claire Denis)
Modern-to-the-hilt noir submerged in the unforgiving blackness of digital photography, emotional currents sparked with a tactile cinema appealing directly to the senses. In retrospect, it (sometimes) seems these two edges could sufficiently define Claire Denis’s Bastards, but her films can never be boiled down to a few descriptors — which might be a tinge ironic, given the immense power of a narrative system that consists of absolutely no more than each crucial component, like a cinematic razor blade slicing its way through all that’s pure. The crescendo would prove unbearable if the pleasures weren’t so extreme, and Bastards’s final moments are...
- 4/19/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Metrograph
Andy Warhol’s rarely screened Chelsea Girls plays on Saturday, while Jerry Lewis’ masterpiece, The Nutty Professor, has pre-noon showings.
Le cinéma du Burt Reynolds is highlighted in a retrospective.
Quad Cinema
Hoo-ah! “Pacino’s Way” looks at one of our greatest actors in his best and not-best work.
Straub-Huillet’s immense Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach,...
Metrograph
Andy Warhol’s rarely screened Chelsea Girls plays on Saturday, while Jerry Lewis’ masterpiece, The Nutty Professor, has pre-noon showings.
Le cinéma du Burt Reynolds is highlighted in a retrospective.
Quad Cinema
Hoo-ah! “Pacino’s Way” looks at one of our greatest actors in his best and not-best work.
Straub-Huillet’s immense Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach,...
- 3/16/2018
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Metrograph
Films by Jacques Rivette, Arnaud Desplechin, David Lynch, and Pakula are playing, while a restored Jackie Chan classic are screening.
Quad Cinema
Straub-Huillet’s immense Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, restored in 2K, continues its run, as does King of Hearts.
A retrospective of director William Klein is underway.
Bam
A Clockwork Orange screens on Saturday.
Metrograph
Films by Jacques Rivette, Arnaud Desplechin, David Lynch, and Pakula are playing, while a restored Jackie Chan classic are screening.
Quad Cinema
Straub-Huillet’s immense Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, restored in 2K, continues its run, as does King of Hearts.
A retrospective of director William Klein is underway.
Bam
A Clockwork Orange screens on Saturday.
- 3/9/2018
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Quad Cinema
Straub-Huillet’s immense Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, restored in 2K, begins a week-long run.
A retrospective of director Philippe de Broca is underway.
Metrograph
The cult classic Mind Game returns, while Labyrinth, Scarlet Street, and Klute have showings.
Bam
“Women at Work” celebrates, it turns out, just that.
Nitehawk Cinema
Peas in a pod,...
Quad Cinema
Straub-Huillet’s immense Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, restored in 2K, begins a week-long run.
A retrospective of director Philippe de Broca is underway.
Metrograph
The cult classic Mind Game returns, while Labyrinth, Scarlet Street, and Klute have showings.
Bam
“Women at Work” celebrates, it turns out, just that.
Nitehawk Cinema
Peas in a pod,...
- 3/1/2018
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
As March brings a close to 2017 in cinema with the Academy Awards, there are also a great number of noteworthy 2018 films making their way to theaters, ranging from animated adventures to dark comedies to ambitious blockbusters. Looking further back, in terms of restorations that are touring the country, don’t miss Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Mind Game, Police Story, and Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day.
Matinees to See: They Remain (3/2), Red Sparrow (3/2), Souvenir (3/2), The Leisure Seeker (3/9), Gringo (3/9), Ramen Heads (3/16), 12 Days (3/16), Keep the Change (3/16), 7 Days in Entebbe (3/16), Roxanne Roxanne (3/23), I Kill Giants (3/23), Game Over, Man! (3/23), Final Portrait (3/23), Salomé & Wilde Salomé (3/30), Outside In (3/30)
15. Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg; March 29)
Synopsis: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the Oasis dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all Oasis users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds...
Matinees to See: They Remain (3/2), Red Sparrow (3/2), Souvenir (3/2), The Leisure Seeker (3/9), Gringo (3/9), Ramen Heads (3/16), 12 Days (3/16), Keep the Change (3/16), 7 Days in Entebbe (3/16), Roxanne Roxanne (3/23), I Kill Giants (3/23), Game Over, Man! (3/23), Final Portrait (3/23), Salomé & Wilde Salomé (3/30), Outside In (3/30)
15. Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg; March 29)
Synopsis: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the Oasis dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all Oasis users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds...
- 3/1/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe Local has shared a statement from an anonymous victim of Korean film director Kim Ki-duk regarding his contentious presence at this years Berlinale. Recommended VIEWINGThe incomparably talented Liv Ullmann discusses her craft, career & life with the BFI.Notebook contributors Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin's new video essay for Filmkrant finds the uncanny intersections between two truly singular works of the 21st century: David Lynch's Inland Empire & Gregg Araki's Smiley Face.We're ecstatic about Grasshopper Film's forthcoming re-release from cinema's finest filmmaking duo: Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach. Above: the new trailer.Recommended READINGDesign by Guy MaddinThe programmers of the Berlinale Forum have released their annual magazine, a portion of which can be read on the web, that "seeks to draw lines between the films in our programme,...
- 2/15/2018
- MUBI
"The experience is both transcendent and material." Grasshopper Film has debuted an official trailer for the 50th anniversary re-release of the music biopic classic Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, first released in 1968. Directed by Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, the film is a meticulously recreated look at composer Johann Sebastian Bach's life, as told from the perspective of his wife, Anna Magdalena Bach. It features spectacular sequences with multiple trained musicians recreating Bach's live performances, and is shot in black & white as well. Starring Gustav Leonhardt as Johann Sebastian Bach, and Christiane Lang as Anna Magdalena Bach. Grasshopper will be touring a brand new 4K restoration of the film to a few cinemas around the Us coming up. If you haven't seen it, this seems like the perfect opportunity to catch it. The 50th anniversary trailer for Huillet & Straub's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, on YouTube: Using letters that...
- 2/14/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Following a home-video release of Moses and Aaron, Grasshopper Film’s work with the Straub-Huillet catalog continues onto 1968’s Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, which, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, is being granted a limited theatrical engagement. Though the negative labels thrown at them (“difficult” and “inaccessible” prove most common) are often nonsense, it’s nevertheless worth noting that this film is obviously among their most enjoyable and accessible — a musical-of-sorts about one of history’s greatest composers, a feminist text about the title character’s life under his shadow, and a grand, loud display of artistic prowess on the part of both its characters and filmmakers.
All of which one should detect within this brief preview. If you don’t, alas — there’s still the music — but as a recent piece of ours argues, the full experience offered by Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach is an outstanding...
All of which one should detect within this brief preview. If you don’t, alas — there’s still the music — but as a recent piece of ours argues, the full experience offered by Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach is an outstanding...
- 2/13/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Jacques Rancière, Philippe Lafosse and the public in conversation about Straub-Huillet after a screening of From the Clouds to the Resistance and Workers, Peasants
Monday, February 16, 2004, Jean Vigo Cinema, Nice, France
Above: From the Clouds to the Resistance.
Philippe Lafosse: It seemed interesting to us, after having seen twelve films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet and talked about them together, to ask another viewer, a philosopher and cinephile, to talk to us about these filmmakers. Jacques Rancière is with us this evening to tackle a subject that we’ve entitled “Politics and Aesthetics in the Straubs’ Films,” knowing that we could then look into other points.
Jacques Ranciere: First, a word apropos the “and” of “Politics and Aesthetics”: this doesn’t mean that there’s art on the one hand and politics on the other, or that there would be a formal procedure on the one hand and political messages on the other.
Monday, February 16, 2004, Jean Vigo Cinema, Nice, France
Above: From the Clouds to the Resistance.
Philippe Lafosse: It seemed interesting to us, after having seen twelve films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet and talked about them together, to ask another viewer, a philosopher and cinephile, to talk to us about these filmmakers. Jacques Rancière is with us this evening to tackle a subject that we’ve entitled “Politics and Aesthetics in the Straubs’ Films,” knowing that we could then look into other points.
Jacques Ranciere: First, a word apropos the “and” of “Politics and Aesthetics”: this doesn’t mean that there’s art on the one hand and politics on the other, or that there would be a formal procedure on the one hand and political messages on the other.
- 11/7/2011
- MUBI
When 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 ought to be viewed (and audited) on a television or video-grounded home theater in the first place. A conversation on this very topic, which I suppose ought to have started here, began on my own blog a couple of days ago. I put up a post in which I passed along what I believed to be a funny bit of banter between myself and my wife, which banter occurred while I was watching the New Wave Films Region 2 UK double-dvd set of three films by the collaborators Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: their debut "feature," and probably best-known film, 1968's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach; 1998's Sicilia! a picture with some extra cinephilic interest, as its...
- 4/13/2010
- MUBI
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