Dr Tony Shaw

I can't make up my mind about this film: although it's certainly not one of Resnais's best, can we really talk about this great ...

There are three principal characters in this film, which is by no means as odd as it sounds: Jean Le Gall (Roger Pierre), an ambitious norma...

This book is mainly the screenplay of the Alain Resnais's film Hiroshima mon amour , which is essentially the same as the film. However,...

Alain Resnais and scriptwriter Marguerite Duras both agreed that it was impossible to make a film about Hiroshima, and this is the result. E...

Resnais believes that meeting a loved one is very important in life, and mentions a peasant expression from the Ardèche: ' Quand on a du...

Je t'aime, je t'aime is a science fiction film, the screenplay written by both Alain Resnais and Jacques Sternberg over five years....

On the surface, Muriel – the film which followed two years after L'Année derniére à Marienbad – is far removed from the earlier film w...

Samuel Beckett's own English translation of his originally French-written play Fin de partie  (or Endgame ) (1957) – interestingly publ...

Nuit et brouillard comes from the German name given to the deportees to the concentration camps, NN ( Nacht und Nebel ), the oblivion of n...

This is a monster film for Alain Resnais, even if it's not his best: but then what could be this hugely important director's worst? ...

This comedy drama is light years away from the early films which gave Resnais his hallowed name in cinema history: in fact on occasion it ve...

'ALAIN RESNAIS 1922 – 2014 –––––––' Alain Resnais is noted for directing a number of films, particularly Nuit et brouill...