‘Early Shorts of the French New Wave’ Breaks Through Stolid Filmmaking
These 18 short films in Early Shorts of the French New Wave showcase a consistency of personal expression, handheld style, and filming in the street.
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Alain Resnais’ Short Films on Art, Plastic, and Institutional Hypnotism
Icarus Films’ recent Blu-ray of Alain Resnais ‘short films ranges from footage of artworks with poetic narration to sensual color conveyed with a wink.
Illusion Is Power: The Indiscernible Nature of Influence in ‘Stavisky…’
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.
Resnais Explores Fear and Memory in Je t’aime je t’aime
In slow, hypnotic ellipses, director Alain Resnais draws out the moribund inner world of a suicidal man haunted by a series of disturbing memories.
Do Look Back: A Baker’s Dozen for Your Swinging ’60s Film Fest
Are you in the mood to be retro-hip? Do you get the urge to be mod and pop, '60s style? Sure you do.
Esoteric Musings in ‘Love Unto Death’ and ‘Life is a Bed of Roses’
These two films by Alain Resnais are moody, mysterious and stylish exercises in self-indulgence.
The Atom Bomb’s Blast Shadows
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.