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The New York films : La chambre, Hotel Monterey, News from home /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: ECL086 | The Criterion Collection | (disc 1)ECL085 | The Criterion Collection | (set)Language: French, English Original language: French Subtitle language: English Series: Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Series 19, Chantal Akerman in the seventies. | New York filmsPublisher: [Irvington, New York] : Criterion Collection, [2009]Description: 1 videodisc (162 min.) : DVD video, silent and sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([4] pages ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781604652413
  • 1604652411
  • 9781604652437
  • 1604652438
Other title:
  • Chambre, Hotel Monterey, News from home
  • Collective title on set sleeve: Chantal Akerman in the seventies
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/75 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.E96 N48 2010
  • PN1997 .N49 2009
  • PN1997 .A3218 2009 pt.3
NLM classification:
  • FF DR 1972 C436
Contents:
La chambre / (credits from container; no credits) [producer, director, screenplay, Chantal Akerman] (1972) (11 min.) (si., col.) -- Hotel Monterey / (credits from container; no credits) [producer, director, screenplay, Chantal Akerman] (1972) (62 min.) (si., col.) -- News from home / L'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel présente ; un film de Chantal Akerman ; une coproduction Unité 3, I.N.A., Paradise Films (1976) (89 min.) (sd., col.).
Production credits:
  • La chambre: Camera, Babette Mangolte ; editor, Geneviève Luciano.
  • Hotel Monterey: Camera, Babette Mangolte ; editor, Geneviève Luciano.
  • News from home: Cinematography, Babette Mangolte ; editor, Francine Sandberg.
La Chambre: Chantal Akerman.News from home: Narrator, Chantal Akerman.Summary: La chambre: Akerman 'La chambre' exists in two versions: 'La chambre 1' is silent whereas 'La chambre 2' has a soundtrack. In this early experimental silent short film, the filmmaker focuses on intimate architectural spaces, seen through the slow moving lens, protracted shots, and minimalist aesthetics of New York structuralist film of the late 1960s and early 1970s, a 360° circular panoramic shot that slowly pans around the furniture and clutter of one small apartment room, a moving still life -- with Akerman herself occasionally staring back at us.Summary: Hotel Monterey: One of Akerman's very first films, a formally minimal, faintly surreal, completely soundless documentary about a cheap New York City residence hotel Upper West Side populated mostly by older people and outcasts of American society, shot over a period of 15 hours in a series of long takes and tracking shots that move upward through the building, from the lobby, to the elevators, hallways, rooms, finally ending with a panorama from the hotel's rooftop just as dawn is breaking.Summary: News from home: This personal documentary, a meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection, presents a series of abstract and fragmentary images of everyday urban life, streetscapes, and subways in 1970s Manhattan, a time capsule of New York City paired with a soundtrack composed of Akerman's recitations of the text of letters that her mother wrote from their native Belgium.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-01968 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 1605018142X

Title from container.

Partial credits from container.

Originally produced as motion pictures in 1972 and 1976.

Filmed on location in New York.

First printing 2009. Release date: Jan. 19, 2010.

Issued as part of a 3-disc set with: Je tu il elle and Les rendez-vous d'Anna.

La chambre / (credits from container; no credits) [producer, director, screenplay, Chantal Akerman] (1972) (11 min.) (si., col.) -- Hotel Monterey / (credits from container; no credits) [producer, director, screenplay, Chantal Akerman] (1972) (62 min.) (si., col.) -- News from home / L'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel présente ; un film de Chantal Akerman ; une coproduction Unité 3, I.N.A., Paradise Films (1976) (89 min.) (sd., col.).

DVD; region 1, NTSC; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital mono.

News from home: In French with English subtitles or optional original French or English soundtracks with no subtitles.

La chambre and Hotel Monterey are silent.

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