Alain Resnais

Known for DirectingBorn 1922-06-03Died 2014-03-01Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France

Alain Resnais (3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog (1955), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps. Resnais began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and Muriel (1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past. These films were contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave (la nouvelle vague), though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement. He had closer links to the "Left Bank" group of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and an interest in left-wing politics. He also established a regular practice of working on his films in collaboration with writers previously unconnected with the cinema such as Jean Cayrol, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jorge Semprún and Jacques Sternberg. In later films, Resnais moved away from the overtly political topics of some previous works and developed his interests in an interaction between cinema and other cultural forms, including theatre, music, and comic books. This led to imaginative adaptations of plays by Alan Ayckbourn, Henri Bernstein and Jean Anouilh, as well as films featuring various kinds of popular song. His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives. Throughout his career, he won many awards from international film festivals and academies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Resnais, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Pictura

Visite à César Domela

Alain Resnais, the Audacious

Gershwin

Visit to Felix Labisse

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

Cinépanorama

The Song of Styrene

Night and Fog

Bacri, comme un air de famille

The Lovely Month of May

Smoking

No Smoking

Cinétracts

Portrait d’Henri Goetz

Tokyo Olympiad

Hiroshima Mon Amour

May Days

Last Year at Marienbad

Same Old Song

Lest We Forget

My American Uncle

Far from Vietnam

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

Mélo

Sign of the Lion

All the World's Memory

Love Unto Death

The Mystery of Workshop 15

Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances

Aux frontières de l'Homme

Muriel, or the Time of Return

Private Fears in Public Places

Visite à Lucien Coutaud

Providence

La Pointe Courte

Smoking / No Smoking

Statues Also Die

Broadway by Light

The Year 01

The Devil's Envoys

Van Gogh

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

The War Is Over

Gauguin

Wild Grass

Not on the Lips

Stavisky...