Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Last Year at Marienbad originally ran as part of our top 100 movies list. Last Year at Marienbad is about two people whose relationship is incredibly complicated....
“I’m not militant, I simply make films that are not colonized, that have not been filtered through the language of men, and that’s a matter of confidence… I’m 27 now, and I have everything to gain… I think I’m making...
Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, when described, sounds more like an experiment than a film. Or, worse, it sounds like a parody of European arthouse pretensions. In reality, though, it’s more like ambient drone music or...