The Probably Very Brief Return of … “News From Home”

I first wrote about it here in 2012, then it was pulled off YouTube. It then re-appeared on YouTube in 2015, and I posted about it again, but then was pulled down. It made another appearance in 2021, which I wrote about, before being yanked a third time.

I’m talking, of course, about the film “News From Home” by Belgian director Chantal Akerman. If you’ve not seen it and are too lazy to go back and click on those links above, here’s a very brief synopsis:

Letters from Chantal Akerman’s mother are read over a series of elegantly composed shots of 1976 New York, where our (unseen) filmmaker and protagonist has relocated. Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection.

It’s slow …. very slow … but it’s worth your time.

I doubt it’ll be up again for long, so watch it sooner than later.