Sight and Sound Presents - Chantal Akerman (Pre-Order)
Official on-sale date 30th January 2025
In the eighth of the series celebrating the work of the greatest auteur directors in history, tells the full career story – of Chantal Akerman, the director of the winning film in Sight and Sound’s 2022 Greatest Films poll is one of the most ground breaking artists of the 20th century whose influenced filmmakers ranging from Greta Gerwig (Barbie) to Sean Baker (Anora).
A selection of features, interviews and reviews from the archives of Sight and Sound gathers together criticism and analysis by many of Akerman’s most eloquent and insightful advocates, and also includes an unpublished interview with Akerman as well as filmmakers discussing her influence.
The news of Jeanne Dielman (1975) coming top of the poll prompted a world-wide revaluation of Akerman’s cinema. Her films were ahead of their time in their autobiographical nature and their subjects such as women’s inner lives, anxiety, immigration and displacement. She was a restless experimenter, making melodramas, musicals and comedies as well as documentaries. Her radical second feature Jeanne Dielman is only one slice of this provocative director’s story, as this publication will show.
It coincides with a rerelease of Jeanne Dielman and a touring package of her key films in UK cinemas, a (near) complete major two-month retrospective season at BFI Southbank in London.
Official on-sale date 30th January 2025
In the eighth of the series celebrating the work of the greatest auteur directors in history, tells the full career story – of Chantal Akerman, the director of the winning film in Sight and Sound’s 2022 Greatest Films poll is one of the most ground breaking artists of the 20th century whose influenced filmmakers ranging from Greta Gerwig (Barbie) to Sean Baker (Anora).
A selection of features, interviews and reviews from the archives of Sight and Sound gathers together criticism and analysis by many of Akerman’s most eloquent and insightful advocates, and also includes an unpublished interview with Akerman as well as filmmakers discussing her influence.
The news of Jeanne Dielman (1975) coming top of the poll prompted a world-wide revaluation of Akerman’s cinema. Her films were ahead of their time in their autobiographical nature and their subjects such as women’s inner lives, anxiety, immigration and displacement. She was a restless experimenter, making melodramas, musicals and comedies as well as documentaries. Her radical second feature Jeanne Dielman is only one slice of this provocative director’s story, as this publication will show.
It coincides with a rerelease of Jeanne Dielman and a touring package of her key films in UK cinemas, a (near) complete major two-month retrospective season at BFI Southbank in London.
Official on-sale date 30th January 2025
In the eighth of the series celebrating the work of the greatest auteur directors in history, tells the full career story – of Chantal Akerman, the director of the winning film in Sight and Sound’s 2022 Greatest Films poll is one of the most ground breaking artists of the 20th century whose influenced filmmakers ranging from Greta Gerwig (Barbie) to Sean Baker (Anora).
A selection of features, interviews and reviews from the archives of Sight and Sound gathers together criticism and analysis by many of Akerman’s most eloquent and insightful advocates, and also includes an unpublished interview with Akerman as well as filmmakers discussing her influence.
The news of Jeanne Dielman (1975) coming top of the poll prompted a world-wide revaluation of Akerman’s cinema. Her films were ahead of their time in their autobiographical nature and their subjects such as women’s inner lives, anxiety, immigration and displacement. She was a restless experimenter, making melodramas, musicals and comedies as well as documentaries. Her radical second feature Jeanne Dielman is only one slice of this provocative director’s story, as this publication will show.
It coincides with a rerelease of Jeanne Dielman and a touring package of her key films in UK cinemas, a (near) complete major two-month retrospective season at BFI Southbank in London.
