alain resnais

Illusion Is Power: The Indiscernible Nature of Influence in ‘Stavisky…’

By Chadwick Jenkins / 2 October 2018

Resnais's approach to direction is similar to Montaigne's approach to the essay: sticking to concrete fact and recognizable example, the viewer/reader is transported with unexpected celerity to the far reaches of abstraction.

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Resnais Explores Fear and Memory in Je t’aime je t’aime

By Imran Khan / 1 February 2016

In slow, hypnotic ellipses, director Alain Resnais draws out the moribund inner world of a suicidal man haunted by a series of disturbing memories.

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Do Look Back: A Baker’s Dozen for Your Swinging ’60s Film Fest

By Michael Barrett / 4 January 2016

Are you in the mood to be retro-hip? Do you get the urge to be mod and pop, '60s style? Sure you do.

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Esoteric Musings in ‘Love Unto Death’ and ‘Life is a Bed of Roses’

By Imran Khan / 12 August 2015

These two films by Alain Resnais are moody, mysterious and stylish exercises in self-indulgence.

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Blast Shadows

By William Gibson / 6 August 2014

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima forever altered popular culture, and the earliest traces of that tectonic shift can be found in an obscure government report and newsreel about the event.

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