The Chinese fest will also highlight "film creations from the 'Global South,' screening rare classics," such as the Iranian film 'The Sealed Soil' and Angolan war of independence drama 'Sambizanga.' ...

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 ...

Canonized two years ago as the greatest film of all time, topping Sight and Sound’s once-every-decade poll, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles now celebrates its ...

from September 11 – October 16, 2025. MoMA’s complete retrospective of Chantal Akerman’s work for the cinema, comprising more than 40 features and rarely screened short films in new digital ...

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, ...

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 ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. For L.A. locals, it is worth noting that Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” ...