Jean-Marie Straub
Birthday: 1933-01-08
Place of Birth: Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
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.
Movies
Jackals and Arabs
A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris....
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Un héritier
In 1994, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet adapted the novel Colette Baudoche – Story of a Young...
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Joachim Gatti, variation de lumière
Joachim Gatti, is the grand-son of the director and filmmaker Armand Gatti. During a demonstration i...
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A Visit to the Louvre
A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne....
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6 Bagatelas
Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the “bagatelle...
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Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
A behind the scenes film of Class Relations....
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Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and fo...
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Sicilia! Si gira
Former Straub/Huillet assistant Jean-Charles Fitoussi films them at work during the shooting of 1999...
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Kino 78 Live – Gesprächsrunde über »Toute révolution est un coup de dés«
This is a recording of a movie discussion. This discussion, shown live in German television on Novem...
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Nos yeux se sont ouverts
Jean-Marie Straub reacts to an audience during a Straub-Huillet retrospective....
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How Merrily I Shall Laugh: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub on Their Film Class Relations
Filmmaker Manfred Blank (director of the excellent Pharos of Chaos) interviews Danièle Huillet and J...
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S et H
Discuss, discuss, but we must not forget the laundry! Snatches of dialogue, of thoughts that mingle...
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Othon
Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn ...
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Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene
This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger,...
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Tell Me Something
In parallel with Now Tell Me Something, his second book about the cinema of Straub-Huillet, Philippe...
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Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle
In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sici...
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Straub-Huillet e Pavese: Quei Loro Incontri
A film by Laura Vitali about the last work of the couple Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in Bu...
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Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking t...
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Communists
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (4...
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The Film of the Authority
A group of men, women and Kristl with his camera debate how to resist authority in all its forms. Al...
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Signalement van Jean Marie Straub
A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's 'Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach'...
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Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
"Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet" is the overlay of two Cinematons by Gérard Courant with Jean...
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Verteidigung der Zeit
A hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro incontri (2005), and to their ...
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Cinématon
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest...
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Hommage à Jean-Marie Straub
Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub's 85th birthday....
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Une Vie Risquée
Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday....
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Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'...
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Lothringen!
About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German....
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I Did Not Die
Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love....
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Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary ...
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Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub ?
An initiative from Pompidou Center, filmed by Jean Marie Straub....
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Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
First part of Hölderlin-trilogy with Udo Samel, Otto Sander and Jean-Marie Straub....
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Hommage à Jean-Marie Straub - 08.01.2018 - réalisation: Jean-Charles Fitoussi
Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday. D...
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L'après-Midi Près Du Tombeau De Falconetti
On a sunny afternoon, an old man sits in the shade of the trees in Montmartre Cemetery in Paris, at ...
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Fragments of Conversations with Jean-Luc Godard
In his meetings with various different people, Jean-Luc Godard develops his thinking about history, ...
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