William Lubtchansky Movies

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

A powerful new film about Jan Karski, the Polish resistance figure who attempted to expose the Warsaw Ghetto and Belzec, and met with President...

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

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

In this comedy drama, two lovers go on vacation to the fellow's summer home in southern France. Once there, the woman becomes quite jealous because...

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,...

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

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

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.

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

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la...

An eccentric film director (Gabriel Cattand) conducts a search for a modern day Joan of Arc. His harridan wife (Ursula Kubler) hounds him constantly...

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...

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

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

An alternate look at a part of Sicilia, perhaps left out for its more straightforward didactic quality. Interesting to again see the long gaps. Also...

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...