This is sure to be the definitive transfer of Wyler’s classic for years to come.
The most famous of Straub-Huillet’s works, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach remains a singular approach to the musician biopic.
A new kind of cinema envisioned as the anti-Amadeus. Rock on.
Straub-Huillet’s professed aim was to use the 18th-century composer’s music “not as accompaniment but as esthetic material.”