Under Chantal Akerman’s watchful eye, a cheap Manhattan hotel glows with mystery and unexpected beauty, its corridors, elevators, rooms, windows, and occasional occupants framed like Edward Hopper tableaux.
Cast
Credits
| Director | Chantal Akerman |
| Camera | Babette Mangolte |
| Editing | Geneviève Luciano |
Feb 23, 2010
Babette Mangolte, the French-born, New York–residing artist best known to Criterion viewers for her work as cinematographer on so many of Chantal Akerman’s films (including most of the director’s influential seventies work, such as Hotel Monterey, Je tu il elle, and . . .
Jan 27, 2010
Fans of our release of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles last year can get a healthy second dose of Chantal Akerman with our newhttp://www.criterion.com/boxsets . . .
Jan 21, 2010
To coincide with the release of the new Eclipse set Chantal Akerman in the Seventies, which features five extraordinary works made by the groundbreaking Belgian filmmaker in the first full decade of her career, critic Melissa . . .
by Michael Koresky
Jan 20, 2010
A BELGIAN IN NEW YORK
It was in the 1970s, the first decade of her career, that Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman created the works that would define her. Informed as much by her brushes . . .