Danièle Huillet Movies

The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his...

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court...

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

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s «Dialoghi con Leucò», taken from classical mythology....

Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).

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

Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a...

An alternate look at a part of Sicilia, perhaps left out for its more straightforward didactic quality. Interesting to again see the long gaps. Also...

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.

A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized...

"At the end of filming Umiliati, Straub and Huillet gave thanks to the cast and crew in a graceful way: by inviting Dolando Bernardini to sing...

About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.

Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Documentary about the shooting of Straub's Antigone.

My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note,...

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.