The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet is a film almost unlike any other. Starring classical harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt as Bach, the film tracks the composer through his everyday life as a church organist and composer for hire, and is composed of only about 80 shots for the entire [.]. Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena Bach was a passion project that Straub and Huillet spent nearly a decade researching and trying to get made. (It was Jean-Luc Godard who. The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach - Northwest Film Forum, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach - Movies - Special, A galvanizing classic of arthouse cinema, this full-length feature debut from Straub-Huillet made their reputation as rigorous observers of transcendent aesthetic experience, in a musical film as rewarding as it is precise. “Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach,” by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, is a recording of magnificent music and a film of equally impressive contradictions. An impossible documentary, at once austere and rhapsodic, it evokes the 18th century while feeling as present as a live concert. The, A Starkly Beautiful Film About Bach, Through the Lens of..