Any list of the oldest living directors would feature some of the medium’s finest artists. Manoel de Oliveira, at the ripe old age of 104, is still making films despite the fact that his career ...

When it comes to Alain Resnais’ eclectic, innovative and at times uneven filmography, it is the critic’s task to decipher common themes. Resnais simply saw it as his mission to direct. It makes more ...

Alain Resnais stopped making short films after his 1955 Holocaust documentary "Night and Fog," soon afterward creating his first full-length feature and making film history with "Hiroshima Mon Amour" ...

The so-called "New Wave" of directors currently attempting to revitalize French cinema can be defined first of all by its complete and notorious lack of artistic innovation, quite simply at the stage ...

Alain Resnais’ latest feature, Not on the Lips (2003), apparently won’t be shown in commercial theaters in this country. I can’t think of another French movie that’s given me as much pleasure in years ...

Six characters battle with solitude despite their efforts to meet others, the piece Petites peurs partagées is constructed on a successions of cross-paths, misunderstandings and links that weave ...

film profile] (which comes out in French cinemas on 26 March) won the Alfred Bauer Prize at Berlin, an award given to a film that opens up new perspectives. Right up until the twilight of his career, ...

Alain Resnais’s 1961 film “Last Year at Marienbad” is perhaps the ultimate evocation of the line, “Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?” The film became an art-house brain-teaser back when glittering ...

In 2000, Filmmaker, timed to a traveling retrospective, asked four directors to reflect on the work of legendary French film director Alain Resnais. We are reposting this piece now as another ...