The Akerman Year
A monthly podcast miniseries on the work of filmmaker Chantal Akerman, hosted by Kate Rennebohm and Simon Howell.
Displaying items 1-10 of 11 in total of The Akerman Year with the tag "chantal akerman".
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Part 11: L'adaptatrice (ft. Rebecca Sheehan)
July 26th, 2023 | Season 1 | 2 hrs 5 mins
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We tackle two later Akerman features that take on literary giants in typically idiosyncratic style: 2000's La Captive (Proust) and 2011's Almayer's Folly (Conrad).
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Part 10: Self-portrait (ft. Patricia White)
April 17th, 2023 | Season 1 | 1 hr 43 mins
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Feminist film scholar Patricia White joins us for a lively run through several of Akerman's more overt attempts at self-portraiture, along with a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the making of Jeanne Dielman.
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Part 9: Akerman vs. America
November 7th, 2022 | Season 1 | 1 hr 39 mins
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Kate and Simon journey solo through two of Akerman's thorniest documentaries, Sud and De L'autre Coté, necessarily wrangling with questions of racism, authorial intent, and documentary style along the way.
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Part 8: See and don't see (ft. Alisa Lebow)
August 6th, 2022 | Season 1 | 2 hrs 29 mins
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We tackle some of Akerman's most tangled texts with a deep dive into some of her works that touch on themes of Jewish identity, the diaspora, Israel, and a whole lot more. Special guest Alisa Lebow joins us as we talk HISTOIRES D'AMERIQUE, DIS-MOI and 2006's LA-BAS.
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Part 7: Song and dance (ft. Girish Shambu)
July 7th, 2022 | Season 1 | 2 hrs 12 mins
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The great Girish Shambu joins us to tackle a tight grouping of Akerman's most overt forays into the performing arts and the film musical: Les Annees 80, the doc One Day Pina Asked, and of course Golden Eighties.
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Part 6: Have you considered analysis? (ft. Miriam Bale)
May 5th, 2022 | Season 1 | 1 hr 45 mins
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Another returning Lodgers veteran joins us to tackle Akerman's most overt foray into mainstream filmmaking, 1994's A Couch In New York, starring William Hurt and Juliette Binoche. While pondering its merits, we also take a look at a short made in its aftermath and a significantly earlier foray into comedy, The Man With a Suitcase (L'Homme a la Valise).
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Part 5: Hot summer nights (ft. Caden Mark Gardner)
April 1st, 2022 | Season 1 | 1 hr 46 mins
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Two very different Akerman features linked by heat, humidity, and the uncertain whims of love are on the docket this week, as guest Caden Mark Gardner joins us to talk 1982's Toute Une Nuit and 1993's Nuit Et Jour.
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Part 4: Placement and displacement (ft. Jessica Bardsley)
March 1st, 2022 | Season 1 | 2 hrs 11 mins
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Another Lodgers alumnus joins us to tackle two of Akerman's best-loved features, Les rendez-vous d'Anna and D'Est, along with the hilarious, underseen short Family Business.
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Part 3: in correspondence (ft. Lakshmi Padmanabhan)
February 1st, 2022 | Season 1 | 1 hr 45 mins
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Two Akerman features a decade apart offer very different takes on distance, maternal love, and the act of letter writing: 1976's News From Home and 1986's Letters Home.
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Part 2: Unsimulated eating, unsimulated sex (ft. Erin Nunoda)
December 28th, 2021 | Season 1 | 1 hr 57 mins
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This month we abandon chronology and careen through various phases of Akerman's career, linking together a few of her variously autobiographical self-portraits and concept exercises, including her first feature Je Tu Il Elle and 60-minute wonder Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles.