William Lubtchansky Movies

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la...

During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their information,...

An eccentric film director (Gabriel Cattand) conducts a search for a modern day Joan of Arc. His harridan wife (Ursula Kubler) hounds him constantly...

Jean-Marie Straub reacts to an audience during a Straub-Huillet retrospective.

Mise-en-scène of the classic tragedy of Sofocles, carried out by Antoine Vitez in the National Theatre of Chaillot

Emmanuel, 37, lives in Paris with his wife, Irene, and his daughter Anne, 14 years old. He accidentally discovers that Irene is receiving mail in the...

An alternate look at a part of Sicilia, perhaps left out for its more straightforward didactic quality. Interesting to again see the long gaps. Also...

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political...

Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a...

In a port city, a youth plays a computer game that determines the fate of a woman (whose interracial romance is threatened by white punks) and other...

Forgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles".

In this comedy drama, two lovers go on vacation to the fellow's summer home in southern France. Once there, the woman becomes quite jealous because...

The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema’s greatest...

Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972....

An interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp.

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.

This series, assembled in a film, presents the singular view of contemporary artists on major works of art history. The words of these free spirits...