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News from Home Directed by Chantal Akerman Produced by Alain Dahan Written by Chantal Akerman Starring Chantal Akerman Cinematography Babette Mangolte
Jim AsbellEditing by Francine Sandberg Release date(s) 8 June 1977 (France) Running time 85 minutes Country France
BelgiumLanguage French News from Home is a 1977 documentary film directed by Chantal Akerman. The film consists of long takes of locations in New York City, set to Akerman's voice-over as she reads letters her mother sent her between 1971 and 1973, when the director lived in the city.
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Production
In November 1971 at the age of 21, the Belgian film director Chantal Akerman moved to New York City. There she took petty jobs, made films and befriended filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and the cinematographer Babette Mangolte, who would become one of her recurring collaborators. According to herself, Akerman spent the period living "like a vagabond".[1] Principal photography for News from Home took place in the summer of 1976, after the director had moved back to Belgium since three years, during which she had achieved critical success with the 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Locations chosen for News from Home correspond to the areas where Akerman had used to take walks, which include the Times Square subway station and Hell's Kitchen. None of the sound was recorded synchronised with the images.[1]
Release
The film was released on DVD in France through Carlotta Films on 18 April 2007.[2] The Criterion Collection released it through their Eclipse series in 2010, as part of a set called Chantal Akerman in the Seventies. The set included four feature films Akerman directed in the 1970s as well as a number of short films.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b Anderson, Melissa (2010-01-19). "Her Brilliant Decade". Moving Image Source. Museum of the Moving Image. http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/her-brilliant-decade-20100119. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ "News from home - film de Chantal Akerman" (in French). Evene. Figaromedias. http://www.evene.fr/cinema/films/news-from-home-8388.php. Retrieved 2010-12-07.
- ^ Kehr, Dave (2010-01-31). "The Evolving Vision of a Belgian Auteur". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/movies/homevideo/31kehr.html. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
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Categories:- 1977 films
- French films
- Belgian films
- French-language films
- Documentary films about women
- Films directed by Chantal Akerman
- Films set in New York City
- Films shot in New York City
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