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Alain Resnais
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Alain Resnais is a prominent figure in the modernist narrative film tradition. His emergence as a feature director of international repute is affiliated with the eruption of the French New Wave in the late 1950s. This association was signaled by the fact that his first feature, Hiroshima mon amour, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival at the same time as François Truffaut's Les 400 coups. However, Resnais had less to do with the group of directors emerging from the context of the Cahiers du cinéma than he did with the so-called Left Bank group, including Jean Cayrol, Marguerite Duras, Chris Marker, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. This group provided an intellectual and creative context of shared interest. In the course of his film career Resnais frequently collaborated with members of this group.
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For more than five decades French director Alain Resnais has been one of world cinema's greatest innovators and stylists. His preoccupation with the themes of memory, history and time – and his ability to devise new cinematic story structures to explore them – tore apart narrative film conventions. On the eve of a historic retrospective at the American Cinematheque and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, American directors Errol Morris, Christopher Münch, Keith Gordon and Radley Metzger comment on Resnais's influence on their own filmmaking.
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Adapted from a 1929 play by Henry Bernstein, Melo marked the first time that director Alain Resnais had ever handled his own screenplay. The film tells the story of two lifelong friends and violinists, Marcel and Pierre. When Marcel goes on to stardom, Pierre settles into a contented family life unaware that his wife is sleeping with Marcel. Plagued by guilt, Pierre's wife eventually takes deadly measures to end the affair. "An incomparable masterpiece" (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). In French with English subtitles.
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American humorist Jules Feiffer and French director Alain Resnais are oddly paired for this satirical comedy about an American cartoonist in Paris. Adolph Green is a stunner as Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist traveling abroad for the first time. In tow is Lena Apthrop (Linda Lavin), and the two are ostensibly journeying to Paris to attend a comic-strip exhibition in which Wellman's work is included. But it turns out the exhibition is just an excuse for Wellman to track down his errant daughter Elsie (Laura Benson), who has left Cleveland to take up literature at the Sorbonne. Her professor, Christian Gauthier (Gerard Depardieu) happens to be a big fan of Wellman, and he corrals the cartoonist and Lena to go to the fashionable country estate of his mother Isabelle (Micheline Presle), who tries to put up with her son's American friends. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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French veteran director Alain Resnais gives no signs of retiring anytime soon. After his well-received choral work Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places), which premiered at Venice last year, the 85-year-old director is currently in pre-production on L'incident ("The Incident"), an adaptation of the eponymous novel from Christian Gailly. The shoot is planned for an early 2008 start, with the director and Laurent Herbiet currently working on the screenplay, according to Allocine. The director's partner Sabine Azéma will again headline the project, and she will be joined by Resnais regular André Dussolier. Both ... starred in Coeurs.
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Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad (1961), from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, will be revived for the first time in decades at Film Forum for two weeks from Jan. 18 through Jan. 31 in a new 35mm Scope print. It was Resnais’ second feature-length film after his electrifying debut at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival with Hiroshima mon amour, from a screenplay by Marguerite Duras, that placed him at the head of the Left Bank branch of the Nouvelle Vague along with Alexandre Astruc, Jean-Pierre Melville, Chris Marker and Agnes Varda. (The Right Bank contingent of the Nouvelle Vague consisted mostly of former critics of Cahiers du Cinema, a magazine situated in an office on the Champs Élysées. These included Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Doniol Valcroze, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette and Pierre Kast.)
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