Jean-Marie Straub Movies
- 2006
These Encounters of Theirs
These Encounters of Theirs6.42006HD
These Encounters Of Theirs divides 10 non-professional actors into couples, then has them take turns in declaiming the Dialogues With Leuco, Cesare...
- 1956
Fool's Mate
Fool's Mate6.61956HD
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at...
- 1977
Fortini/Cani
Fortini/Cani5.31977HD
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...
- 2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Venice 70: Future Reloaded5.22013HD
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...
- 2009
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment02009HD
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 -...
- 1972
History Lessons
History Lessons5.61972HD
Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...
- 2020
France Against the Robots
France Against the Robots5.32020HD
"The word 'revolution' to us Frenchmen is not a vague term. We know that Revolution is a rupture, that Revolution is an Absolute. There is no such...
- 1992
Play Antigone
Play Antigone01992HD
Documentary about the shooting of Straub's Antigone.
- 2002
Dolando
Dolando02002HD
"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...
- 2011
O somma luce
O somma luce5.82011HD
In darkness, we hear a recording of the scandalous 1954 debut performance of Edgar Varèse’s revolutionary Déserts at the...
- 1968
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp4.61968HD
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...
- 2001
6 Bagatelas
6 Bagatelas6.22001HD
Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the “bagatelles” in this collection features a...
- 2014
The Algerian War!
The Algerian War!4.72014HD
In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint.
- 2008
Artemide's Knee
Artemide's Knee6.32008HD
Jean-Marie Straub's first film after the death of Danièlle Huillet is a love poem to her. Le Genou d'Artémide is based on Cesare...
- 1987
The Death of Empedocles
The Death of Empedocles5.11987HD
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
- 2001
Workers, Peasants
Workers, Peasants42001HD
A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a...
- 2004
A Visit to the Louvre
A Visit to the Louvre6.62004HD
A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.
- 1992
Antigone
Antigone5.91992HD
A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian...
- 2013
Un conte de Michel de Montaigne
Un conte de Michel de Montaigne6.12013HD
Master filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub continues his exploration of classic texts with this "collaboration" with the great 16th-century writer of the...
- 2001
Sicilia! Si gira
Sicilia! Si gira02001HD
Former Straub/Huillet assistant Jean-Charles Fitoussi films them at work during the shooting of 1999's Sicilia!.