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Top Ranked Films of Alain Resnais

By JoseSinclair on  From worldsbestfilms.blogspot.com
Alain Resnais 5 titles, 59th in points with 13,162 These are all the films of French director Alain Resnais’ that made the top 1000 in our 2011 update of the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net , all polls. 1. Last Year at Marienbad (1961) #213 2. Hiroshima mon amour (1959) #246 3. Night and Fog (1955) #413 4. Providence (1977) #720 5. Muriel ou Le Temps d'un Retour (1963) #816 Out of the top 1000 6. Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) #1144 Resnais is an acquired taste - artful but...Read Full Story

Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)

By buddwilkins on  From buddwilkins.wordpress.com
“The poster child of cinematic modernism, one of those early-’60s event films that seemed to break every rule classical Hollywood ever codified.” Read my review of Last Year at Marienbad , playing for a limited engagement at the Film Forum , at Slant Magazine .Read Full Story

Cheap ! Night and Fog – Criterion Collection

By BlurayDVD on  From bluray-dvd.foryouzone.com
Night and Fog – Criterion Collection Review Night and Fog – Criterion Collection Overview Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps’ quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With Night and Fog, Resnais investigates the cyclical...Read Full Story

Alain Resnais DVD review - Hiroshima Mon Amour / Night and Fog

By kinnemaniac on  From kinnemaniac.blogspot.com
Out on DVD next week to coincide with a season of the director's distinctive brand of cinema at the BFI, the two pioneering films that made Alain Resnais' name in the 1950s and paved the way for the modernist French New Wave.  Hiroshima Mon Amour + Night And Fog (Alain Resnais, 1959 + 1955) What are memories made of? Alain Resnais tackles the 20th Century’s most appalling atrocities and concludes that, sadly for those present, you had to be there A landmark in art-house cinema...Read Full Story

Blu-ray Review: Last Year at Marienbad (Criterion Collection)

By ropeofsilicon on  From ropeofsilicon.com
Storybooks with happy endings are for children. Adults know that stories keep on unfolding, repeating, turning back on themselves, on and on until that end that no story can evade. ~ Roger Ebert writing about Last Year at Marienbad in 1999 Just recently I heard Peter Cowie refer to Last Year at Marienbad in an interview I was watching related to Ingmar Bergman's The Silence due to Bergman's shooting of long corridors in that film. Another film I thought of while watching Criterion's...Read Full Story
Undeterred by one aborted attempt, next month I’ll try again to realize my dream of talking for 18 hours about Alain Resnais. Well, not all at once.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  
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It’s easy to come up with a roster of significant works that were controversial when they were new; think of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” James Joyce’s “Ulysses” or Picasso’s “Guernica,” for starters. But every now and again, the controversy persists for years to come. “Last Year at Marienbad” (1961), the ornate and eternally inconclusive collaboration between “new novelist” Alain ­Robbe-Grillet and filmmaker Alain Resnais, continues to...  
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