Husband and wife team of team Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet produced some of the most influential films of their time and worked with, amongst others, Abel Gance, Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson. Now three of their films – Chronicle of Anna Magdelena Bach (1968, and the only one the three that's been seen in the UK in any format before), Sicilia! (1999) and Une visite au Louvre (2004) – are to be released on DVD by New Wave in February.

Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena Bach
This film, which covers the years of Bach's life from his marriage to Anna Magdalena to his death in 1748, is at once a love story, a documentary, a socio-political statement, and a film of the music of Bach.

Sicilia!
Based on Elio Vittorini's seminal 1938-1939 anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, banned by the Fascists in 1942, Sicilia! is a four part film which follows Silvestro, an emigrant who is returning home after fifteen years spent in America. His conversations, with his mother, on the train, or on the price of oranges, as well as the recurrent shot of arid landscape outside the train window, supply some of the most intense and memorable moments in contemporary cinema.

Un Visite Au Louvre
As the camera shows us some of the masterpieces held in the Louvre, Julie Kotaï speaks the comments made about the paintings by Cézanne which were put into writing by the poet Joachim Gasquet.

Three Films by Jean-Marie Straub And Daniele Huillet will be released as a 2-disc DVD set by New Wave Films on 22nd December 2010 at the RRP of £19.99.