William Lubtchansky Movies

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...

An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home...

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

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

Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration...

This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely...

Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime,...

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

1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in love with her. He has the spirit of a young...

An analysis of the social upheaval of May 1968, made in the immediate wake of the workers’ and students’ protests. The picture consists...

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...

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...

Emerging from a lengthy dinner where his mother was exhibited without restraint for the favor of a man, Daniel returns alone, sickened. Without...

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

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,...

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

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...