Name: From the East
Director: Chantal Akerman
Released: 1993

Claire Atherton (Version courte)

Claire Atherton (Version longue)

Lettre de cinéaste Chantal Akerman

Cinéma cinémas

Cinéma cinémas 05/05/1985 : Lettre de cinéaste Chantal Akerman

A look at life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

From the East

D'Est

Français

VF - HD

VF - SD

Chantal Akerman

Impersonal but beautiful images of Akerman&#x27;s life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.

News from home

Aurore Clément

Michèle Blondeel

Angelo Abazoglou

Frank Aendenboom

Natalia Akerman

Véronique Alain

Paul Allio

Jacques Baudoin

François Beukelaers

Gabrielle Claes

Philippe Bombled

Ignacio Carranza

Christiane Cohendy

Nicole Colchat

Jan Decleir

Dirk De Batist

Edith De Barcy

Laurent De Buyl

Jan Decorte

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acception and rejection in the realm of romance.

A Whole night

english

dutch

FR - HD - CINEMATEK

Niels Arestrup

Claire Wauthion

&#x27;Je&#x27; is a girl voluntarily lock up in a room. &#x27;Tu&#x27; is the script. &#x27;Il&#x27; is a lorry driver. &#x27;Elle&#x27; is the girlfriend.

Je, tu, il, elle

English

Nederlands

Delphine Seyrig

Henri Storck

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Yves Bical

Jan Decorte à propos de Jeanne Dielman, 45 ans après.

Rétrospective Chantal Akerman

Alexandre Moussa

Bruce LaBruce

C'était quoi Delphine Seyrig ?

Blow up - ARTE

Chantal Akerman par Laetitia Masson

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Deutsch

OV - HD

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Lea Massari

Hanns Zischler

Helmut Griem

Magali Noël

Chantal Akerman à propos des Rendez-vous d'Anna

Ciné regards

Ciné regards 29/10/1978 : Chantal Akerman à propos des Rendez-vous d'Anna

Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a stranger tells his story. Last, it&#x27;s home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect. Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present.

Les Rendez-vous d'Anna

Fabien Hagege

Sonia Wieder-Atherton

A young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in her apartment.

Saute ma ville

Freebox - VF - SD

Freebox - VF - HD

Jeffrey Kime

Jérôme Lévy

Jean-Claude Brisson

Chantal Akerman à propos de son cinéma, sa cinéphilie... et de News From Home

Le cinéma des cinéastes

Le cinéma des cinéastes 17/07/1977 : Chantal Akerman à propos de son cinéma, sa cinéphilie... et de News From Home

A girl comes back to her apartment after two months, finding an old friend. He lives there as if it was his own home and he does not seem available to go away.

Pour la collection « Télévision de chambre », l’Ina a invité des auteurs, connus ou inconnus du public, à réaliser des fictions en respectant une double contrainte : une durée maximale d’une heure ainsi qu’une unité de lieu. Ce dispositif à contraintes insuffle à ces films un rythme et une dramaturgie tout particuliers dans les fictions de cette époque.

Télévision de chambre

L'INA

Hidden Treasures

Home

L'Homme à la valise

Myriam Boyer

Charles Denner

Fanny Cottençon

Pascale Salkin

Chantal Akerman à propos de Golden Eighties

Microfilms

Cinéma cinémas 

Microfilms 29/06/1986 - Chantal Akerman à propos de Golden Eighties

Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he&#x27;s appealing to Lili, the salon&#x27;s manager, who&#x27;s trendy and also the salon-owner&#x27;s moll; to Mado, who&#x27;s innocent and sweet; and to Pascale, who&#x27;s intelligent but passive and downcast. Robby&#x27;s dad tells him to grow up and see beyond the mercurial Lili, so he proposes suddenly to Mado. She&#x27;s delighted, but the day before the wedding, Lili returns to give Robby another look. In the background, a Yank who was a soldier in France in World War II returns to Paris and tries to recapture the love of his wartime sweetheart, Robby&#x27;s mom.

Golden Eighties

Stanislas Merhar

Sylvie Testud

Vanessa Larre

Bérénice Béjo

Entretien avec Chantal Akerman à propos de La Captive

Des Mots de minuit

Des Mots de minuit - 04/10/2000 : Entretien avec Chantal Akerman à propos de La Captive

An adaptation of Proust&#x27;s &quot;La Prisoniere&quot; (book five of &quot;Remembrance of Things Past&quot;). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.

The Captive

The film is a fragmentary description of a well-fare hotel, from the lobby to the urban panorama of the top storey, an elevator investigation given metaphor in the elevator.

Hotel Monterey

FR - HD

Eszter Balint

Mark Amitin

Kirk Baltz

George Bartenieff

Billy Bastiani

The stories of Jewish immigrants in New York City are told with characteristic humor.

American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy

french

VOST - HD - CINEMATEK

FR - HD - BELUX

Yves Hanchar

Pierre Charles Rochette

François Vanderveken

Isabelle Willems

Several young men and women arrive one after the other at H&ocirc;tel des Acacias, full of hope, desire and vitality. In the bustle of this hotel, everyone is looking for love.

Cinémathèque royale de Belgique

Hôtel des Acacias

A documentary examining the effect of a man dragged to death on the residents in Jasper, Texas.

VOST - SD

Coralie Seyrig

Keeping the original theatrical mise-en-scene, the film features Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig reciting Sylvia Plath&#x27;s letters to her mother directly to the audience as though we were the recipients of these private missives.

Letters Home a été restauré par le Musée national d’art moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou.

Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir

Letters Home

FR - HD 

VOST - HD

Freebox - VOST - HD

Freebox - VOST - SD

Holly Hunter

Harvey Keitel

Sam Neill

Anna Paquin

Kerry Walker

Geneviève Lemon

Ian mune

Tungia Baker

Pete Smith

Te Whatanui Skipwith

Bruce Allpress

Naomi Kawase

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.

The Piano

french-SME

Virginie Ledoyen

Cyprien Fouquet

Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Dominique Faysse

Jackie Berroyer

László Szabó

1972, Christine et Gilles sont &eacute;l&egrave;ves dans un lyc&eacute;e de banlieue et sont tous deux enfants de divorc&eacute;s. Ec&oelig;ur&eacute;s par l&rsquo;attitude d&eacute;faitiste et apathique de leurs parents vis-&agrave;-vis de l&rsquo;existence, les deux jeunes amants sont d&eacute;cid&eacute;s &agrave; consumer leur vie par les deux bouts. Suite &agrave; un vol, Christine est envoy&eacute;e par son p&egrave;re dans une institution pour adolescents, dont elle ne tarde pas &agrave; s&rsquo;enfuir. Un soir elle entraine Gilles dans une f&ecirc;te organis&eacute;e par une communaut&eacute; d&rsquo;artistes dans une ferme abandonn&eacute;e en Loz&egrave;re, qui va mettre &agrave; rude &eacute;preuve leur complicit&eacute; &hellip; Notes : Le film a d&rsquo;abord &eacute;t&eacute; r&eacute;alis&eacute; pour la chaine de t&eacute;l&eacute;vision Arte avant d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre diffus&eacute; au cin&eacute;ma.

Cold Water

french - SME

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Lou Castel

Johanna Ter Steege

Dominique Reymond

Margi Clarke

Georges Lavaudant

Marie-Paule Laval

Anne Macina

Max McCarthy

Aurélia Alcais

C'est quoi Jean-Pierre Léaud ?

Philippe Garrel par Thierry Jousse

Blow Up - ARTE : C'est quoi Jean-Pierre Léaud ?

Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul is an actor leading a drab directionless existence. He has an affair with Ulrika, a woman half his age. His wife, with whom he constantly argues, is pregnant with their second child. He does not interact much with his teenage son. Much of the film centers around the emptiness of his life.

The Birth of Love

Gabriel Cosmin Urdes

Otto Grünmandl

Lukas Miko

Anne Bennent

Udo Samel

Claudia Martini

Georg Friedrich

Patricia Hirschbichler

Barbara Nothegger

Lucia Steindl

Klaus Händl

Dorothee Hartinger

Corina Eder

Pierre-Henri Deleau

71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.

71 Fragments of a chronology of chance

71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls

German

Nikita Mikhalkov

Oleg Menshikov

Ingeborga Dapkunaite

Nadia Mikhalkova

André Oumansky

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

In the Soviet Union in 1936, shadow of Stalin&#x27;s repressions lie on a famous revolution hero. The accusations of being him a foreign spy are nonsense, and all known that, but a slow process of his life&#x27;s downfall is already running.

Burnt by the Sun

Utomlyonnye solntsem

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