Movies: Jean-Marie Straub

Jean-Marie Straub reacts to an audience during a Straub-Huillet retrospective....

In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint....

From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series....

Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday. Directed by Jean-Charles Fitoussi....

An initiative from Pompidou Center, filmed by Jean Marie Straub....

Discuss, discuss, but we must not forget the laundry! Snatches of dialogue, of thoughts that mingle happily with the faces that also mingle with each other. From films number 342 and 343 by Gérard Courant: “Jean Marie Straub”, 1984 and “Danièle Hui...

Forgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles"....

Peter Nestler's poetic documentary Verteidigung der Zeit is not only an hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro incontri (2005), but also to their access to cinema itself. In various encounters and conversations Nestler of...

In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot of Mount Etna shooting Der Tod des Empedokles. Assistant cameraman Jean-Paul Toraille toyed around, so to s...

Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub's 85th birthday....

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet....

More than a land, it is from the lake that this son comes. Raised by a father fisherman, he learned his noises and currents, maybe also its hardness at the same time as that of adults. Lake is also a border, but in the water his drawing is lost: in t...

Filmmaker Manfred Blank (director of the excellent Pharos of Chaos) interviews Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub at some length about their then-current production, Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations), in which he, himself, performed as an acto...

Co-director Cornelia Geiser sits by a window on an easy chair reading aloud a few verses by Corneille, then a somewhat longer excerpt from Brecht - each writer referencing Rome but really condemning injustice in his own era....

Joachim Gatti, is the grand-son of the director and filmmaker Armand Gatti. During a demonstration in Montreuil, he lost an eye, hit by a “flashball” fired from a policegun....

Documentary about the shooting of Straub's Antigone....

A satirical attack on West Germany's re-armament and revival of militaristic tradition in the Adenauer era....

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Str...

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Inspired by Rossellini's Europa '51 Straub-Huillet made a film consisting of two pans of a street corner in Paris....