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French film director Alain Resnais (born 1922) was one of the most noted innovators in the history of twentieth- century film. His many film credits include Night and Fog, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, and Ma...
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Critical Essay by Noel Burch
Though less ambitious, on the face of it, than Toute la Mémoire du Monde, Resnais's most recent short, Le Chant du Styrène … is perhaps even mo...
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Critical Essay by Roy Armes
In all his film work Resnais constantly searches for new forms: "I want to make films that are experiments. All experiments are interesting." This implies a r...
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Critical Essay by Gordon Gow
With Resnais and his varied followers, the need for rationalised explanation has been modified, and audiences have come to accept the loose ends which are found in modern ...
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Critical Essay by Norman N. Holland
A brilliant, trying picture, at once sensitive and blunt, tender and savage, fleshy and spiritual, pacifist and politically realistic, [Hiroshima, Mon Amour] has so...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Houston
[L'Année Dernière à Marienbad] is a study in persuasion, and one which involves the audience as much as the people on the screen; and it ...
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Critical Essay by Susan Sontag
Muriel is the most difficult, by far, of Resnais' three feature films, but it is clearly drawn from the same repertoire of themes as the first two. (p. 23)
The re...
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Critical Essay by John Russell Taylor
[It was] in the field of short films that Resnais embarked on the experiment which has continued throughout his subsequent career and which makes him of particula...
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Alain Resnais
Critical Essay by Noel Burch
