When Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”—proclaimed the best film of all time in Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll—premièred at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1975, Akerman ...

For 12 days, the Criterion Collection has made its entire catalogue of Akerman’s work available for viewing on Hulu for free. Filmmaker Chantal Akerman being interviewed in 2011 (gif Hrag ...

from September 11 – October 16, 2025. MoMA’s complete retrospective of Chantal Akerman’s work for the cinema, comprising more than 40 features and rarely screened short films in new digital ...

I fear that the following review may give away too much of Chantal Akerman’s No Home Movie; but, I question how much there lies in its plot to spoil. Visually, the film captures a day in the life of ...

Is Chantal Akerman the maker of the greatest film ever made? No reasonable artist would want the burden of such a designation, and Akerman never had to bear it in life. The Belgian director and ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. For L.A. locals, it is worth noting that Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” ...

"I wanted The Industry to be much more than my little playground. I wanted it to be as broad and open-minded as what opera can be." ...

Alfred Hitchcock, the late “Master of Suspense,” and Jiří Menzel, the late Czech director who won the foreign-language film Oscar for 1966’s Closely Watched Trains, will get some screen love during ...

This visual essay, produced in 2023, builds upon rare radio interviews that Chantal Akerman gave in 1975 and 1977, in which she reflects on her films and her ascendance to critical success.