Alain Resnais Articles

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, [...]

Adel Bencherif, Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); Vincent Lindon, Farit Ayverdi in Welcome (middle); Yvan Atall in Rapt (bottom) With 13 nods, Jacques Audiard’s prison drama A Prophet — one of the semi-finalists for this year’s best foreign language film Oscar, leads the 2010 Cesar Award nominations. In addition to best film and best director mentions, A Prophet is also up for best actor [...]

Last Year in Marienbad by Alain Resnais In the L.A. Weekly, Scott Foundas on Alain Resnais, the subject of a month-long retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "’They say that a director always makes the same film,’ says Resnais when I meet him on a damp Paris morning earlier this month, his beige overcoat ­ the same one he seems to be [...]