R.I.P., Chantal Akerman (1950–2015)

Chantal Akerman, the brilliant Belgian director best known for the feminist film classic Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, has died suddenly at age 65. She made that masterpiece when she was only 25, and that wasn’t even her first great work. She’d already made a mark in nonfiction cinema, for example, with 1972’s Hotel Monterey, and…