William Lubtchansky Movies

1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in love with her. He has the spirit of a young...

Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried...

Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding for the film. The action unfolds on two monitors, as a...

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich...

Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972....

Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a...

In a port city, a youth plays a computer game that determines the fate of a woman (whose interracial romance is threatened by white punks) and other...

An interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp.

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political...

Forgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles".

Mise-en-scène of the classic tragedy of Sofocles, carried out by Antoine Vitez in the National Theatre of Chaillot

The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema’s greatest...

A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.

During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their information,...

Emerging from a lengthy dinner where his mother was exhibited without restraint for the favor of a man, Daniel returns alone, sickened. Without...

This series, assembled in a film, presents the singular view of contemporary artists on major works of art history. The words of these free spirits...

Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime,...

Jean-Marie Straub reacts to an audience during a Straub-Huillet retrospective.