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...gave to his aide 20 months ago. A Requiem Mass was celebrated in his parish church of St.Louisen-l'Ile, near the Pompidous' elegant seven-room apartment on the He St. Louis in the middle of the Seine. Some 400 mourners, including his widow Claude, his son Alain, members of the government and old friends, crowded the baroque church for the 50-minute service. His casket was draped with the French tricolor and, as he had requested, a choir of monks chanted ancient Gregorian hymns. After the ceremony, a cortege of black Citroëns carried the immediate...
...most part Shenker is content to remain in the province of words--an area he knows like the back of his hand. He seems equally at home conversing with Nabokov and Asimov, I.F. Stone and I.B. Singer, Georges Simenon and Alain Robbe-Grillet. Perhaps he is most comfortable with writers like S.J. Perelman (the subject of three separate interviews) and Brigid Brophy, who share his penchant for groan-inducing puns and shameless plays on words. Parelman, Shenker tells us, has a myna bird, "scion of an ancient mynasty,...and wherever Perelman goes the bird is sure to go; it followed...
...Alain Resnais's Hiroshima Mon Amour, Friday, March 1, and Sunday, March...
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) is one of the films that was most responsible for acceptance of the French New Wave among intellectuals, back when it was a new wave. Alain Resnais, who made the film, does not seem such a major artist judging from the films he has made in the last 15 years, but Hiroshima itself is still potent--especially in the few scenes about the nuclear disaster. The film begins with a French actress falling in love with a Japanese architect in Hiroshima, and after that the associations of love and war provoke a dislocation of memory...
LOWELL HOUSE DINING HALL, Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl, Night and Fog by Alain Resnais, refreshments and discussion following...