
Jean-Marie Straub
Director
Born: January 8, 1933 (89 years old)
Died: November 20, 2022
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.
Filmography (35)
- Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (2003, ★ 7.2)
- The Enclosed Valley (1995, ★ 7.2)
- A Visit to the Louvre (2004, ★ 6.2)
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika (1983, ★ 6.1)
- Class Relations (1984, ★ 6.8)
- Jackals and Arabs (2011, ★ 5.1)
- Othon (1971, ★ 5.5)
- Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene (1973, ★ 5.5)
- Lothringen! (1994, ★ 6)
- Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet (1990, ★ 6.4)
- Too Early / Too Late (1982, ★ 6.5)
- Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968, ★ 6.2)
- Sicily! (1999, ★ 6.8)
- These Encounters of Theirs (2006, ★ 6.4)
- From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979, ★ 5.2)
- Not Reconciled (1965, ★ 5.9)
- The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp (1968, ★ 4.3)
- En rachâchant (1982, ★ 5.2)
- Antigone (1992, ★ 5.9)
- Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice (1977, ★ 6.1)
- Artemide’s Knee (2008, ★ 6)
- History Lessons (1972, ★ 5.6)
- Fortini/Cani (1977, ★ 5.3)
- Machorka-Muff (1963, ★ 5.9)
- Moses and Aaron (1975, ★ 5.5)
- Fool’s Mate (1956, ★ 6.4)
- Communists (2014, ★ 4.5)
- The Death of Empedocles (1987, ★ 5.4)
- Cinématon (1978, ★ 4.3)
- Workers, Peasants (2001, ★ 4.1)