The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 42 – Chantal Akerman in the Seventies

David and Trevor are joined by Lady P from the FlixWise podcast to discuss five early films by the innovative and influential Belgian auteur.

This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor are joined by Lady P from the FlixWise podcast to discuss Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies.

About the films:

Over the past four decades, Belgian director Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles) has created one of cinema’s most distinctive bodies of work—formally daring, often autobiographical films about people and places, time and space. In this collection, we present the early films that put her on the map: intensely personal, modernist investigations of cities, history, family, and sexuality, made in the 1970s in the United States and Europe and strongly influenced by the New York experimental film scene. Bold and iconoclastic, these five films pushed boundaries in their day and continue to have a profound influence on filmmakers all over the world.

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Criterion Explore page
Akerman articles on CriterionCast.com
Icarus Films (distributor of six Akerman features)
Chantal Akerman: A Primer (BFI) by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin
Strictly Film School
Chantal Akerman: The Integrity of Exile and the Everyday by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Postscript: Chantal Akerman by Richard Brody
La Chambre Akerman: The Captive as Creator by Ivone Marguiles
New York Times obituary (2015)
Our Lives With (and Without) Chantal Akerman by Henry Bean
John Powers on BAMcinématek’s Akerman retrospective (March 2016)
Mark Olsen on Los Angeles area tribute screenings of Akerman films (April 2016)

Box Set Reviews

AV Club
Criterion Confessions
DVDBlu Review
DVD Verdict
MTV News
New York Times
Paste
Pop Matters

La chambre / Hotel Monterey / News from home

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review of “The New York Films”
Curtsies and Hand Grenades (La Chambre)
Only the Cinema (Hotel Monterey)
Bomb Magazine (News from Home)

 je tu il elle

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review
New York Times (1985) by Janet Maslin
Bitch Media
The Evening Class

Les rendez-vous d’Anna

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review
New York Times (1979) by Janet Maslin
Take One (1979) by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Agnes Films
Pinnland Empire
Pop Matters

Saute ma ville (1968) – Akerman’s first film:

Next time on the podcast: Eclipse Series 16: Alexander Korda’s Private Lives 

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