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Born June 3, 1922 · Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
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.

The Song of Styrene
2022

Life of Riley
2014

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
2012

Wild Grass
2009

Private Fears in Public Places
2006

Their First Films
2004

Not on the Lips
2003

Same Old Song
1997

Smoking / No Smoking
1993

Smoking
1993

No Smoking
1993

Gershwin
1993

Against Oblivion
1991

I Want to Go Home
1989

Mélo
1986

Love Unto Death
1984

Life Is a Bed of Roses
1983

My American Uncle
1980

Providence
1977

Stavisky...
1974

Cinétracts
1968

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
1968

Far from Vietnam
1967

The War Is Over
1966

Muriel, or the Time of Return
1963

Last Year at Marienbad
1961

Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959

The Mystery of Workshop 15
1957

All the World's Memory
1956

Night and Fog
1956

Statues Also Die
1953

Guernica
1951

Pictura
1951

Gauguin
1950

Van Gogh
1948

Visite à Hans Hartung
1947
Visite à Christine Boumeester
1947
Portrait d’Henri Goetz
1947
Visite à César Domela
1947
Visit to Felix Labisse
1947
Visite à Lucien Coutaud
1947

Visite à Oscar Dominguez
1947