Movies: Barbara Ulrich

  • 1976
    The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

    The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)

    The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

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    A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him....

    The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
  • 1999
    Sicily!

    Sicily! (1999)

    Sicily!

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    A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener....

    Sicily!
  • 2019
    Forgotten Flowers

    Forgotten Flowers (2019)

    Forgotten Flowers

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    Brother Marie-Victorin, founder of Montreal’s Botanical Garden, is bored with heaven and decides to return earth to help former agronomist turned beekeeper Albert save Quebec’s flora from a multinational that is poisoning the Earth with chemicals....

    Forgotten Flowers
  • 2002
    Ascension

    Ascension (2002)

    Ascension

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    An unknown creature has murdered the Creator of Universe and unleashed the ability to produce miracles. This ability is now in the hands of human beings who have driven themselves into destructive envy and the horrible chaos of suddenly becoming Gods...

    Ascension
  • 2011
    O somma luce

    O somma luce (2011)

    O somma luce

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    In darkness, we hear a recording of the scandalous 1954 debut performance of Edgar Varèse’s revolutionary Déserts at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Then, in a different sort of Elysian Field, we hear a recitation of Canto XXXIII from The Inferno, a ...

    O somma luce
  • 1964
    The Cat in the Bag

    The Cat in the Bag (1964)

    The Cat in the Bag

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    A young journalist is unhappy with society and contemplates what he can do about it....

    The Cat in the Bag
  • 2001
    Danny in the Sky

    Danny in the Sky (2001)

    Danny in the Sky

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    Danny is a young man looking for love, and believes becoming a model is the peak of success. He eventually becomes a stripper and learns how that affects his quest for love....

    Danny in the Sky
  • 2019
    Mad Dog Labine

    Mad Dog Labine (2019)

    Mad Dog Labine

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    A fiery and inventive docufiction that portrays two marginal teenagers living in a remote and underserved Canadian village....

    Mad Dog Labine
  • 2011
    Jackals and Arabs

    Jackals and Arabs (2011)

    Jackals and Arabs

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    A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris....

    Jackals and Arabs
  • 2014
    Communists

    Communists (2014)

    Communists

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    Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) an...

    Communists
  • 2014
    Concerning Venice

    Concerning Venice (2014)

    Concerning Venice

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    The glory and collapse of the grand Republic of Venice: the reasons are numerous, complex, human and all too human. Are these the same ingredients, the mélange that might determine whether the current Europe will survive? And if so, under what condit...

    Concerning Venice
  • 2013
    Dialogue of Shadows

    Dialogue of Shadows (2013)

    Dialogue of Shadows

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    Jean-Marie Straub’s new film closes the circle. The years 1954–2013 are displayed as representing a film produced in collaboration with Danièle Huillet. The two had met in Paris in 1954, around the year they came across the text by Georges Bernanos, ...

    Dialogue of Shadows
  • 2020
    France Against the Robots

    France Against the Robots (2020)

    France Against the Robots

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    "The word 'revolution' to us Frenchmen is not a vague term. We know that Revolution is a rupture, that Revolution is an Absolute. There is no such thing as a moderate revolution, there is no such thing as a planned revolution—as one speaks of a plann...

    France Against the Robots
  • 2012
    Un héritier

    Un héritier (2012)

    Un héritier

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    In 1994, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet adapted the novel Colette Baudoche – Story of a Young Girl of Metz by Maurice Barrès as a film they titled Lothringren!. In 2010, Jean-Marie Straub returned to the eastern provinces of France, this time ...

    Un héritier
  • 2013
    Un conte de Michel de Montaigne

    Un conte de Michel de Montaigne (2013)

    Un conte de Michel de Montaigne

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    Master filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub continues his exploration of classic texts with this "collaboration" with the great 16th-century writer of the Essais....

    Un conte de Michel de Montaigne
  • 2009
    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment

    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment (2009)

    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment

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    Co-director Cornelia Geiser sits by a window on an easy chair reading aloud a few verses by Corneille, then a somewhat longer excerpt from Brecht - each writer referencing Rome but really condemning injustice in his own era....

    Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
  • 2015
    L’Aquarium et la Nation

    L’Aquarium et la Nation (2015)

    L’Aquarium et la Nation

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    A film in three parts: An aquarium, a man sitting at a table reading various text passages, and a sequence from Jean Renoir’s film LA MARSEILLAISE. This is all from a film by Jean-Marie Straub – about fate, the soul and the cosmos, about the evident ...

    L’Aquarium et la Nation