The Belgian avant-garde filmmaker Chantal Akerman, whose patient, personal reflections on the lives of women made her a leading figure of arthouse cinema, has died. She was 65. Artemis Productions in ...

Chantal Akerman, the revered Belgian-born director who died last Monday at age 65, was a pioneer of modern feminist cinema, a hyperrealist filmmaker, and a radical artist all at once. She was inspired ...

It’s challenging to make a movie about a filmmaker who was such a master at telling her own story. In “I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman,” Marianne Lambert makes a sensitive ...

The Belgian avant-garde filmmaker Chantal Akerman, whose patient, personal reflections on the lives of women made her a leading figure of arthouse cinema, has died. She was 65. Artemis Productions in ...

Chantal Akerman’s first short film was called Saute Ma Ville, which means, roughly, “blow up my town.” She made it when she was 18. She began that year of her life in a Belgian film school, but ...

This article was produced as part of the NYFF Critics Academy. Read more on this year’s class here. What does it mean to watch your loved ones slowly succumb to the rigors of time? How on earth does ...

Chantal Akerman’s 1975 masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles was declared the greatest film of all time in the prestigious British Film Institute’s “Sight and Sound” poll, to ...

Chantal Akerman may be gone, but she’s certainly not forgotten. One of the most formative filmmakers of the 20th century (and beyond), her static images revealed things that had previously eluded the ...

Near the beginning of “I Don’t Belong Anywhere,” Marianne Lambert’s astute and poetic portrait of filmmaker Chantal Akerman, its subject speaks of being afraid. That’s a startling confession from an ...

Director Chantal Akerman died three years ago today, and I wrote the following remembrance in the Filmmaker newsletter just a few days later but never posted it online. I wrote it from the Venice ...