Delphine Seyrig Articles

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, [...]

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009 Friday, April 3, highlights Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website   Johanna D'Arc of Mongolia Directed by: Ulrike Ottinger Cast: Delphine Seyrig Xu Re Huar, Inès Sastre Country: West Germany Year: 1989 Running time: 165min   All aboard the Trans-Siberian railway where you'll find titled ladies, Broadway stars, camp cabaret acts and a Mongolian princess who has [...]