Alain Resnais Articles

Eiji Okada, Emmanuelle Riva in DGA (but not Oscar) nominee Alain Resnais' Hiroshima, mon amour (top); Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin in Dassin's Oscar- (but not DGA-) nominated Never on Sunday (bottom) DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1953-1959: Odd Men Out Jack Clayton, David Lean, Stanley Donen 1960 DGA (14)Vincente Minnelli, Bells Are RingingWalter Lang, Can-CanDelbert Mann, The Dark at the Top of the StairsRichard Brooks, [...]

Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Review Part II Sacha Vierny's cinematography, combined with Jasmine Chasney's editing, produces indelible effects. For instance, there are a few passages that swiftly intercut the seeming past with the seeming present, usually with the woman at the center of both scenes. Although the images from both times last only a second or less, the fact [...]

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Review Part I Naturally, critics were divided. Some have praised it as a masterpiece, while Pauline Kael and others have loathed it. Even worse than the divided critical opinion of Last Year at Marienbad is all of the bloated, pretentious, and nonsensical critical and theoretical writing the film has engendered. Terms like "psychoanalytic theory," "phenomenology," "critical social theory," "Cartesian philosophy," "stream [...]

L'ANNÉE DERNIÈRE À MARIENBAD / LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (1961) Direction: Alain Resnais Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff Screenplay: Alain Robbe-Grillet Oscar Movies Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: Forget all prior claims you've read about Alain Resnais," 90-minute, black-and-white effort L'année dernière à Marienbad / Last Year at Marienbad (1961) — from the bad to the good, [...]