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R.I.P. Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais died, aged ninety-one, leaving the world a sadder place for the knowing we will never see another one of his films. He has made two of my personal favorite movies that fall in my “top ten” (if such a thing can possibly exist) and they are Last Year At Marienbad and Hiroshima Mon Amour. The film he made last year in 2013, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet was one of my favorites in the year, and I am very pleased there will be another Alain Resnais film for me to see in the forthcoming year (Life of Riley). I haven’t seen all Resnais films, I’ll make sure I get to them all of course.
In the meantime, I have a few reviews that I will list below, if you feel like taking a trip down memory lane with one of the greatest directors that ever lived.
(Sigh) It’s really sad.
One of my favorite stills from one of my favorite films. See, no shadows on the trees.
Last Year at Marienbad results of a disastrous event – notes from a lecture by Alex Ling
Private Fears in Public Places
Why was Alain Resnais not mentioned in the Oscars last night? A scandal. They should rectify that and put him in the “In Memoriam” section in 2015. Last Year in Marienbad is a masterpiece.
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I don’t know why he was missing Chris, but its so tiresomely typical of Hollywood’s insular thinking and self reverential attitude. Every person in that room owed an enormous debt to Resnais film making skills. There is all this talk of how wonderfully down to earth it all was with the selfies and pizza and blah – and then they go and forget Alain Resnais died just a couple of days earlier.
Talk about having your head stuck up your ass.
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I just noticed Nelson Mandela was missing also who may not have been a central figure in film, was the subject of U2’s song nomination film, and several other films in the past, and a man portrayed by many prominent black actors throughout history.
These awards piss me off a little more each year.
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I think it was because he wasn’t American. It is too bad. He was one of the all-time greats.
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You’re probably right. 😦
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His greatest film is Muriel.
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