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Salute Your Shorts: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.Last year, Criterion released the long-awaited—by certain cinephiles, anyway—Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles on DVD. Chantal Akerman’s works have long been inaccessible outside of the occasional retrospective or museum exhibition, and Jeanne Dielman was in some ways the crowning jewel of her works. But as a follow-up to that, Criterion has released a set of the rest of her films from the '70s on its Eclipse line, which document the growing artist’s...  read more

Salute Your Shorts: Chantal Akerman's "Saute ma ville"

Like Neill Blomkamp and Jacques Tati’s shorts the last two weeks, Chantal Akerman’s first film, “Saute ma ville,” is best understood in relation to one of the director’s feature films...  read more