In one of the many parlors along the vast hall of a seemingly endless European resort, a man approaches a woman. A year before, at this very hotel—or was it in Frederiksbad, or perhaps Karlstadt?—the ...
Every film fan should see Last Year at Marienbad (L’ Année dernière à Marienbad). And probably more than once. Many years of reading about cinema have convinced me of that, and yet (shameful ...
A group of anxious and shivering film technicians are standing around in the grounds of the Schleissheim castle in Munich. It's September 1960: the days are short and the light is fading. They are ...
The Ninth Annual Robert Classic French Film Festival — co-presented by Cinema St. Louis and the Webster University Film Series started last Friday and continues the next two weekends — The Classic ...
Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Last Year at Marienbad has an infamy that I have rarely come across in other films included in Kino Lorber’s Classics Collection. It has simultaneously been ...
Cornell Cinema recently showed the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad, a French film about an old hotel populated by wealthy guests. It focuses on an unnamed man, the narrator, who aggressively insists ...
Who are these people? What’s going on? Half a century after audiences first asked these questions of Last Year in Marienbad, it is clear that Alain Resnais’s masterpiece is about time, memory and film ...