Alain Resnais

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

“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

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

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

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

The capital city of Tamilnadu, Singara Chennai is getting ready for the 6th CIIF ( Chennai International Film Festival ). The festival starts on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 and ends on Friday, December 26, 2008 . From now onwards, the huge crowd of people is waiting for the festival. The major highlights of this festival are as follows: Presentations on Alain Resnais – France Aki Kaurismaki – Finland Fatih Akin – Germany Kim-Ki-Duk – Korea The following multi-talented personalities would be...Read Full Story

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Exploration of destabilization of seeing in literature and film through the work of Alain Resnais, Marguerite, Duras, and John Ashbery Contributor: Brittany Walters-Bearden Published: Oct 20, 2010Read Full Story

6th Chennai International Film Festival will be commencing from 17 Dec till 26 Dec, 2008. The main highlights of the Festival are as it goes…. Retrospectives on Alain Resnais – France, Aki Kaurismaki – Finland, Fatih Akin – Germany, Kim-Ki-Duk – Korea would be held. Great Tribute would be paid to versatile personalities in the [...]Read Full Story

Alain Resnais’s romantic comedy “Wild Grass” has a heightened visual intensity and a tantalizing sense of mystery. NytRead Full Story