I have collected here all the 300-word entries and the informal entries about films by Alain Resnais on this blog. However, please also see, under “film reviews” on this site, my full piece on Resnais’s Last Year at Marienbad, which everybody numbers among my very best pieces. 1950 GUERNICA (Alain Resnais, Robert Hessens, France). “Women […]
Daily Archives: August 11, 2007
One of Alain Resnais’s loveliest films, Cœurs, based on Alan Ayckbourn’s play Private Fears in Public Places, is an upclose meditation on six crisscrossing lives in Paris. Its leitmotif is sparse falling snow that appears outdoors and in, conflating the emotional distance between venues, and evoking the fragile nature of feeling and the transience of […]
This is the sort of thing that embarrasses and induces bad spells. I noticed that my essay on Roberto Rossellini’s “Voyage in Italy” has been drawing eyes lately, so I decided to reread it. What a mistake I made! And one where I have always known the truth! Anyhow, I’ve corrected the mistake. It is […]
