Known For
Directing
Born
Jun 03, 1922
Died
Mar 01, 2014
Place of Birth
Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
Credits
63 titles
Alain Resnais
Biography
Alain Resnais (3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog (1955), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps. Resnais began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and Muriel (1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past. These films were contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave (la nouvelle vague), though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement. He had closer links to the "Left Bank" group of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and an interest in left-wing politics. He also established a regular practice of working on his films in collaboration with writers previously unconnected with the cinema such as Jean Cayrol, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jorge Semprún and Jacques Sternberg. In later films, Resnais moved away from the overtly political topics of some previous works and developed his interests in an interaction between cinema and other cultural forms, including theatre, music, and comic books. This led to imaginative adaptations of plays by Alan Ayckbourn, Henri Bernstein and Jean Anouilh, as well as films featuring various kinds of popular song. His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives. Throughout his career, he won many awards from international film festivals and academies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Resnais, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Self (archive footage)
Bacri, comme un air de famille
Self (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
In the Ears of Alain Resnais
Self (archive footage)
Life of Riley
Director
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Screenplay
Wild Grass
Director
Propos d'Alain Resnais
Self (voice)
Private Fears in Public Places
Director
Hiroshima: The Time of Return
(voice)
Their First Films
Director
Not on the Lips
Director
Same Old Song
Director
Smoking
Director
Smoking / No Smoking
Director
No Smoking
Director
Gershwin
Director
Lest We Forget
Director
I Want to Go Home
Director
Mélo
Director
Love Unto Death
Director
El misteri dels cines desapareguts
Thanks
Life Is a Bed of Roses
Director
My American Uncle
Director
Ciné regards
Self
May Days
Self
Providence
Director
Stavisky...
Director
The Year 01
Co-Director
Cinétracts
Director
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Director
Far from Vietnam
Director
The War Is Over
Director
Tokyo Olympiad
Thanks
Muriel, or the Time of Return
Director
The Lovely Month of May
Self (uncredited)
Sign of the Lion
Un Consommateur (uncredited)
Last Year at Marienbad
Director
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Director
The Song of Styrene
Director
Broadway by Light
Technical Advisor
The Mystery of Workshop 15
Director
All the World's Memory
Director
Night and Fog
Director
Cinépanorama
Self
La Pointe Courte
Editor
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Editor
Statues Also Die
Director
Aux frontières de l'Homme
Editor