On this day in movie history - Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975 movie & book):

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

directed and written by Chantal Akerman,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 14, 1975.

Cast:

Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Yves Bical, Chantal Akerman.

Recommended reading:

Nothing Happens:

Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday

By Ivone Margulies.

Published by Duke University Press Books.

Published 1996.

ISBN-10: 0822317230

ISBN-13: 9780822317234

Description:

Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is widely regarded as the most important feminist film of that decade. In Nothing Happens, Ivone Margulies presents the first comprehensive study of this influential avant-garde Belgian filmmaker.

Margulies grounds her critical analysis in detailed discussions of Akerman’s work – from Saute ma ville, a 13-minute black-and-white film made in 1968, through Jeanne Dielman and Je tu il elle to the present. Focusing on the real-time representation of a woman’s everyday experience in Jeanne Dielman, Margulies brings the history of social and progressive realism and the filmmaker’s work into perspective. Pursuing two different but related lines of inquiry, she investigates an interest in the everyday that stretches from postwar neorealist cinema to the feminist rewriting of women’s history in the seventies. She then shows how Akerman’s “corporeal cinema” is informed by both American experiments with performance and duration and the layering present in works by European modernists Bresson, Rohmer, and Dreyer. This analysis revises the tired opposition between realism and modernism in the cinema, defines Akerman’s minimal-hyperrealist aesthetics in contrast to Godard’s anti-illusionism, and reveals the inadequacies of popular characterizations of Akerman’s films as either simply modernist or feminist.

An essential book for students of Chantal Akerman’s work, Nothing Happens will also interest international film critics and scholars, filmmakers, art historians, and all readers concerned with feminist film theory.

On this day in movie history - Hotel Monterey (1972):

Hotel Monterey

silent documentary directed and written by Chantal Akerman,

released at the Venice Biennale in Italy on September 4, 1975.
Filmed in 1972.

Born on this day – Chantal Akerman:

Chantal Akerman

Director

Writer

Actress

June 6, 1950 – October 5, 2015

Credits:

40 x 15 (2008); 5% de risque (1980); A Couch in New York (1996); À l’Est avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton (2009); A Whole Night (1982); Addictions (2016); Almayer’s Folly (2011); American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989); Antenne 2 Midi (1986); Autour de Jeanne Dielman (1975); Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage) (2004); Beau geste (2024); Birth of a Nation (1983); Chantal Akerman (2013); Chantal Akerman, From Here (2010); Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera (2023); Ciné regards (1978); CinéKino (2017); Cinéma cinémas (1985); Cinéma, de notre temps (1996); Ciném’Arte (2002); Clap (1976); Compression (2024); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1980-1989 (2013); Delphine and Carole (2019); Des mots de minuit (2000); Días de cine (2015); Down There (2006); Entretien avec ma mère (2007); Family Business: Chantal Akerman Speaks About Film (1984); Farpões, baldios (2017); Fifty Fifty (1998); From the East (1993); From the Other Side (2002); Golden Eighties (1986); Guest (2010); Hanging Out Yonkers (1973); Histoire bruyante de la jeunesse (2020); Hôtel des Acacias (1982); Hotel Monterey (1973); I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (2015); I, You, He, She (1974); J’ai faim, j’ai froid (1984); Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975); Jeune cinéma (2023); L.A. Tea Time (2019); La chambre (1972); La paresse (1986); Le 15/8 (1975); Le cercle de minuit (1997); Le jour où... (1997); Le Marteau (1986); Le masque et la plume (1976); Leg, Arm, Head (2016); L’enfant aimé ou je joue à être une femme mariée (1971); Les effrontées: Le cinéma au féminin (2022); Les ministères de l’art (1989); Les Nuits de France Culture (2019); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1976–1978); Les trois dernières sonates de Franz Schubert (1989); Lest We Forget (1991); Letters Home (1986); L’Exposition Philippe Garrel au MMCA de Séoul (Carnet Filmé: 19 décembre 2015 - 22 décembre 2015) (2016); Limonada, limonada (2020); Mallet-Stevens (1986); Mieux partagés que nous ne sommes (2006); Milou and the Venusians (2008); Monologues (1993); Morceaux de Cannes (2021); Movie Night Extravaganza (2023); New York, New York bis (1984); News from Chantal Akerman (2020); News from Home (1976); Night and Day (1991); No Home Movie (2015); On Tour with Pina Bausch (1983); Only Solomon Lee (2013); Paris Seen By... 20 Years After (1984); Parlons Cinema (1977); Picture of Europe (1990); Porto (2016); Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles / Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... (1994); ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974) (1974); Saute ma ville (1971); Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986); She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985); Shredder (2011); Sodankylä Forever (2010); South (1999); State of the World (2007); TCM Remembers 2015 / Music Video (2015); Télévision de chambre (1984); Tell Me (1980); The Camera: Je or La Camera: I (1977); The Captive (2000); The Eighties (1983); The Lost Days (1999); The Meetings of Anna (1978); The New Cinema (1984); The New Garden (2012); The Oscars / In Memoriam (2016); To Live Forever (2015); Tom in America (2014); Tomorrow We Move (2004); Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher (1989); Venezia: Biennale cinema - Cerimonia per l’assegnazione dei Leoni d’oro 1986 (1986); Voyages (1999); What Is Cinema? (2013); With Sonia Wieder-Atherton (2003); Women from Antwerp in November (2008).