HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR

Alain Resnais' first feature was this spellbinding mosaic of memory, conscience, time and space. A French actress working on a film in Japan meets a Japanese architect and carries on a brief affair during which they examine past horrors; his family's suffering after the atomic bombings and her agonies in Nevers, occupied France.

“Resnais in his remarkable first feature, after 11 years of making short films, managed by a complex use of the flashback device to change the cinema's concept of subjective time. The past and present, personal and public anguish, Hiroshima and Nevers, intermingle in a masterly manner.”—Holt’s foreign Film Guide

"A complex tour de force"- NY Times

Directed by Alain Resnais. Script by Marguerite Duras. Photo; Sacha Vierny, Takahashi Michio. Music; Giovanni Fusco, Georges Delerue. Cast; Emmanuele Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud

France 1959 92 min. French Dialog with English subtitles.
ISBN: 1-55881-285-7
$19.95

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
L'annee Derniere A Marienbad

In a palatial baroque home, a man and a woman meet, ostensibly, for the first time. The man, however, claims that they had already met once before. In fact, according to him, they had met and had begun a passionate and intense affair; "...last year at Marienbad...don't you remember?" he insists. This sets the stage for Resnais to build a film with multiple layers of flashbacks that examine memory, imagination, desire and fulfillment.

“One of the cinema's most haunting and erotic poems. The cryptic screenplay, the stylized playing, the organ music, the tracking shots down endless corridors, the dazzling decor by Jacques Saulnier, and the mysteriously beautiful Seyrig (in her first feature) in extravagant gowns and feathers are all unforgettable”—Holt’s foreign Film Guide.

"Be prepared for an experience such as you've never had from watching a film when you sit down to look at Last Year At Marienbad. It may Grip you with a strange excitement, it may twist your wits into a snarl, it may leave your mind and senses toddling in the region in between."— Bosley Crowthers NYT.

Venice International Film Festival Golden Lion. 1961

Directed by Alain Resnais. Script; Alain Robbe-Grillet. Photo; Sacha Vierny. Music; Francis Seyrig. With Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitöeft, Françoise Bertin.

France: 1962. 94 minutes. Original French dialog with English subtitles.
ISBN 1-55881-286-5
$19.95

MURIEL
Muriel, Ou Le Temps D'Un Retour

A middle-aged woman invites an old lover to visit with her and her stepson who has just returned from the war in Algiers. The young soldier is haunted by the memory of a girl , Muriel, who was tortured to death in his presence. The man and the woman are also haunted by their pasts. As with his previous works, Resnais once again explores and manipulates time to examine past experiences and their effect on present existence. This was Resnais' last great film until Providence (1977).

Best Actress (Delphine Seyrig) Venice 1963.

Directed by Alain Resnais. Script; Jean Cayrol. Photo; Sacha Vierny. Music; Hans Werner Henze. Cast; Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein, Jean-Baptiste Thierrée, Laurence Badie, Martine Vatel.

France 1963 116mins color. Subtitled
ISBN: 1-55881-463-9
$29.95

NIGHT AND FOG
Nuit et Brouillard

Grainy black and white archive footage of the Auschwitz concentration camps in operation is juxtaposed with serene, color footage of the same camps a decade after they were closed. This surreal journey is accented with readings by Michel Bouquet from former inmate Jean Cayrol’s texts. Cayrol would later author the script for Muriel. Generally considered the greatest of all his short films, Night and Fog allowed Resnais to examine cinematic & realistic time, memory and conscience -- the themes he would return to in his feature works.

“The carefully controlled commentary...as well as the gentle music, contrast starkly with the newsreels of the concentration camp victims-the past intrudes upon the present, memory precludes forgetting. The theme and the long exploratory tracking shots were to become characteristics of Resnais feature films.”—-Holt’s Foreign Film Guide.

Directed by Alain Resnais. Script; Jean Cayrol. Photo; Ghislain Cloquet, Sacha Vierny. Music; Hanns Eisler.

France 35min. Color/B&W. Narration in French with English subtitles.
ISBN 1-55881-141-9
$19.95

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