Babette Mangolte Movies

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick...

Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into...

Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This...

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday...

During the summer of 1968, a young French woman staying in an isolated country house reflects upon her involvement in the events of that May.

Hotel Monterey is a cheap hotel in New York reserved for the outcasts of American society. Chantal Akerman invites viewers to visit this unusual...

Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story...

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she...

While working on a documentary about the city of Bruges, an artistically frustrated filmmaker must deal with the increasing difficulties in his...

Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreographer. Kristina, now a middle-class NYC artist...

A naive look at Southern California by an outsider, and/or an essay on displacement through the disjunction of Californian images and off screen...

Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/writer Manny Farber.

Jean-Pierre Gorin examines the lives and cultural background of Samoan street gangs in Long Beach, California.

A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket."

Two women meet at a crossroads... A chance encounter between two women struggling to stay afloat, in an era of the downsizing of dreams. Ross...

A personal meditation on the landscape of the American West that tracks the ruling conception in nature in the 19th and 20th centuries from the...

Autobiographical film about Loulou (Jackie Raynal) who seeks a job as an editor on Broadway, shares a loft in Soho and marries an entrepreneur.