Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what I like, and I like naked women," insisted Impresario Alain Bernardin, who was host at a 25th anniversary celebration for his Paris nightspot, the Crazy Horse Saloon. On hand was Choreographer George Balanchine, who came to France to watch his Ravel ballets at the Paris Opera. Said the appreciative Balanchine after surveying the legwork of Bernardin's 18 dancing show girls: "You ought to lend some of your ideas to the opera...
Francophiles, unite, for this is your week. Alain Robbe-Grillet, a writer and director from the Land of the Eiffel Tower, turns up tonight at the Carpenter Center to give a lecture entitled "Order and Disorder in Cinematic Narrative." He'll also show his 1967 film The Man Who Lies. All this takes place starting...
...drivers, because Passer is not "equipped" by his experience to do this kind of film. This problem is not confined to Czech directors. Antonioni's Zabriskie Point is a failure in the sense that it sees America through European eyes, picking out and reproducing certain superficial stereotypes. Alain Resnais spent two years in New York, with all material means at his disposal desperately trying to make a European film about America. Finally he decided to go back to Paris, and shot a successful movie. Stavisky Only perhaps the genius of Milos Forman transcended this difficulty; his Taking Off is certainly...
Unfortunately, the movement of Alain Tanner's direction mirrors the course of his protagonist's development. As Paul begins to miss appointments, muff speeches, and generally lose interest in his own campaign, as he becomes involved with the waitress, Adriana (Olimpia Carlisi). The Middle of the World loses its promised dialectical interweaving of the social with the personal, collapsing into a solipsistic world of passion and despair. The turning point, both in Paul's fortunes as well as the potential of the film, occurs one evening when Paul and Adriana dine in a local restaurant named appropriately enough, the Middle...
Unfortunately, the Lamentations were interspersed with organ works by the little-known modern French composer Jehan Alain. Despite the confident playing of Daniel Hathaway, the mainstay of the first tenors. Alain's eclectic and grating style created an unpleasant contrast to Renaissance ethercality. They emphasized that the unique Renaissance mixture of an exalted religious devotion and a classical sense of propriety has been irrevocably banished from modern music and the modern world...