Jeanne Dielman and Nikkatsu Noir – DVDs for the Week
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles “A singular work in film history,” begins the description on back of the case of Criterion’s long-awaited DVD release of Chantal Akerman’s astounding 1975 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. That is no hyperbole. Jeanne Dielman is a painstaking, excruciatingly exacting portrait of the life [...]
