Jean-Marie Straub
Biography: Jean-Marie Straub (8 January 1933, Metz – 20 November 2022) and Danièle Huillet (1 May 1936, Paris – 9 October 2006, Cholet) were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical, communist politics. Though both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy. From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) and Sicilia! (1999) are among the duo's best regarded works. Description above from the Wikipedia article Straub–Huillet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 08, 1933
Deathday: November 20, 2022
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Cinematon n°342: Jean-Marie Straub
Cinematon n°342: Jean-Marie Straub
Overview: From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series.
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Jackals and Arabs
2011-08-05
Jackals and Arabs
Overview: A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-05
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Un héritier
2012-02-08
Un héritier
Overview: In 1994, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet adapted the novel Colette Baudoche – Story of a Young Girl of Metz by Maurice Barrès as a film they titled Lothringren!. In 2010, Jean-Marie Straub returned to the eastern provinces of France, this time to Alsace, to film the second half of a diptych based on Barrès’s work. The text is derived from In the Service of Germany, a book about the mountain of Saint-Odile, which Barrès wrote in 1903. With Joseph Rottner in the principal role, Straub traces the path of a young country doctor as he tours Mont Saint-Odile, following the routes that Barrès himself took to the chateau of Ratsamhausen and around the ruins of the ancient fortification known as the "Pagan Wall,” which are unique in the area. Straub, himself born in Metz, plays the role of a resident of Lorraine whom the young Alsatian engages in conversation.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-02-08
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A Visit to the Louvre
2004-04-17
A Visit to the Louvre
Overview: A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-04-17
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Joachim Gatti, variation de lumière
2009-11-25
Joachim Gatti, variation de lumière
Overview: Joachim Gatti, is the grand-son of the director and filmmaker Armand Gatti. During a demonstration in Montreuil, he lost an eye, hit by a “flashball” fired from a policegun.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-25
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6 Bagatelas
2001-09-05
6 Bagatelas
Overview: Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the “bagatelles” in this collection features a lounging Jean-Marie Straub who gives a non-stop disquisition on liberty and filmmaking while Danièle Huillet busies herself with laundry, and their dog Melchior frisks in and out of frame. —Cinematheque Ontario
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-05
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Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
1983-01-01
Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
Overview: A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
1983-11-13
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
Overview: This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-11-13
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Sicilia! Si gira
2001-06-01
Sicilia! Si gira
Overview: Former Straub/Huillet assistant Jean-Charles Fitoussi films them at work during the shooting of 1999's Sicilia!.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-01
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Kino 78 Live – Gesprächsrunde über »Toute révolution est un coup de dés«
1978-11-16
Kino 78 Live – Gesprächsrunde über »Toute révolution est un coup de dés«
Overview: This is a recording of a movie discussion. This discussion, shown live in German television on November 16th 1978, is framed by two screenings of Huillet/Straub's movie »Toute révolution est un coup de dés«. It's first shown shortly after the discussion's participants have been introduced, a second time after the end of the discussion. After the movie ends the program cuts back to the studio for a short time, showing the guests as well as some technicians talking whilst the credits of the TV-program enroll.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-16
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The Last Days of Humanity
2023-05-08
The Last Days of Humanity
Overview: The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a humanity that is at once the viewer and the thing viewed. But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-05-08
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The Persistence of Vision
1993-01-01
The Persistence of Vision
Overview: Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Nos yeux se sont ouverts
2010-01-01
Nos yeux se sont ouverts
Overview: Jean-Marie Straub reacts to an audience during a Straub-Huillet retrospective.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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How Merrily I Shall Laugh: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub on Their Film Class Relations
1984-01-01
How Merrily I Shall Laugh: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub on Their Film Class Relations
Overview: Filmmaker Manfred Blank (director of the excellent Pharos of Chaos) interviews Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub at some length about their then-current production, Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations), in which he, himself, performed as an actor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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S et H
2020-01-01
S et H
Overview: Discuss, discuss, but we must not forget the laundry! Snatches of dialogue, of thoughts that mingle happily with the faces that also mingle with each other. From films number 342 and 343 by Gérard Courant: “Jean Marie Straub”, 1984 and “Danièle Huillet”, 1984.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Othon
1971-01-13
Othon
Overview: 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 intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-13
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Play Antigone
1992-02-02
Play Antigone
Overview: Documentary about the shooting of Straub's Antigone.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-02
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Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
1973-04-09
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
Overview: This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals with emerging fascism and the persecution of Jews, as well as with their historical continuities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-04-09
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Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle
2010-08-11
Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle
Overview: In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot of Mount Etna shooting Der Tod des Empedokles. Assistant cameraman Jean-Paul Toraille toyed around, so to speak, with his first video camera, filming the daily work on the set. Now, 24 years later, he was joined by Jean-Marie Straub in editing the material into a film. Anyone who expected the shooting of Les Avatars de la mort d’Empédocle to be an austere affair, an exercise entirely devoid of humour or a Straubian tour de force is proven wrong: so much lightness, joy, concentration, spells of waiting for the sun to come out – and even proper slapstick in between – is hard to find.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-08-11
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Straub-Huillet e Pavese: Quei Loro Incontri
2005-01-01
Straub-Huillet e Pavese: Quei Loro Incontri
Overview: A film by Laura Vitali about the last work of the couple Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in Buti (Italy) in May 2005, namely the staging of the last five "Dialogues with Leucò" by Cesare Pavese. In this sense, it is a moving testimony. Vitali alternates rehearsal sessions and interviews - by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet and actors such as Giovanna Daddi, Angela Nugara and Andrea Bacci - who illuminate from the inside the methods of the two filmmakers and their relation to the work of Cesare Pavese, while situating the very special place that makes this work possible - the small town of Buti which warmly welcomed Straub and Huillet for a decade - and by bringing out the political dimension of their thought.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Tell Me Something
2010-01-01
Tell Me Something
Overview: In parallel with Now Tell Me Something, his second book about the cinema of Straub-Huillet, Philippe Lafosse follows the meetings in 2007 and 2008 between Jean-Marie Straub, from this point onwards without Danièle Huillet, and the public. This film thus allows us to hear with pleasure words that break with cultural gossip, that question and throw light – a verb, a man that resist here and now. We learn a great deal from it, whether or not we are familiar with Straub-Huillet’s work. Tell Me Something tells us a story, or stories. Stories about cinema, stories about faithfulness and honesty. The story, also, of the setting up of a people rising against ruling state of things. The story, moreover, of an irreparable absence – that of Danièle Huillet. In short, the story of a filmmaker in winter, and of an international community that is enlightened in the darkness.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
2003-01-15
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Overview: Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Costa records with great sensitivity and insight the exacting process by which the two re-edit their film Sicilia!, discussing and arguing over each cut and its effect. Incorporating comments about the influence of figures as diverse as Chaplin and Eisenstein, about the ethical and aesthetic implications of film technique and such matters as rhythm, sound mixing, and acting. The film becomes a tour de force, immersing us in the mysteries of cinema as practiced by some of its greatest creators. Costa calls the film both his first comedy and his first love story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-15
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Communists
2014-08-15
Communists
Overview: Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature. (Arnaud Dommerc)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-08-15
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The Film of the Authority
1971-06-04
The Film of the Authority
Overview: A group of men, women and Kristl with his camera debate how to resist authority in all its forms. All cinematic professionalism is avoided as Kristl explores how to live and make films politically.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-04
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Signalement van Jean Marie Straub
1967-01-01
Signalement van Jean Marie Straub
Overview: A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's 'Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
2015-10-01
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
Overview: "Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet" is the overlay of two Cinematons by Gérard Courant with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: "Jean-Marie Straub, Cinématon number 342" and "Danièle Huillet, Cinematon number 343," filmed on May 27, 1984.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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Verteidigung der Zeit
2007-05-22
Verteidigung der Zeit
Overview: Peter Nestler's poetic documentary Verteidigung der Zeit is not only an hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro incontri (2005), but also to their access to cinema itself. In various encounters and conversations Nestler offers an insight into their life and work, including passages from Italian poet Cesare Pavese.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-05-22
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Cinématon
1978-12-20
Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Hommage à Jean-Marie Straub
2018-01-08
Hommage à Jean-Marie Straub
Overview: Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub's 85th birthday.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-08
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Une Vie Risquée
2018-01-08
Une Vie Risquée
Overview: Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-08
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Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
2001-07-11
Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
Overview: The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-07-11
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Schaut euch diesen Berg an – einstmals war er Feuer
1991-03-01
Schaut euch diesen Berg an – einstmals war er Feuer
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Release Date: 1991-03-01
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Lothringen!
1994-08-10
Lothringen!
Overview: About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-08-10
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I Did Not Die
2008-08-15
I Did Not Die
Overview: Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-15
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Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
1990-04-04
Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
Overview: A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a critique by Joachim Gasquet. An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the philosophy of Empedocles to excerpts from the film Madame Bovary, to extant paintings by Cézanne, to the buildings of the artists’ village at Mont Sainte-Victoire. —ntticc.or.jp
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-04-04
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Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub ?
2016-05-27
Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub ?
Overview: An initiative from Pompidou Center, filmed by Jean Marie Straub.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-27
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Cinématon XXXV
1984-07-17
Cinématon XXXV
Overview: Reel 35 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-07-17
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Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
1992-07-13
Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
Overview: First part of Hölderlin-trilogy with Udo Samel, Otto Sander and Jean-Marie Straub.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-07-13
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Hommage à Jean-Marie Straub - 08.01.2018 - réalisation: Jean-Charles Fitoussi
2018-01-08
Hommage à Jean-Marie Straub - 08.01.2018 - réalisation: Jean-Charles Fitoussi
Overview: Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday. Directed by Jean-Charles Fitoussi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-08
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L'après-Midi Près Du Tombeau De Falconetti
2012-01-01
L'après-Midi Près Du Tombeau De Falconetti
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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