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...Harvard's International Forum he created "a minor scandal" when he illustrated a lecture on the "New Wave" by showing Alain Resnais' Night and Fog, the movie about Nazi concentration camps that Ivy Films also presented to the public a few weeks...
...witness for the prosecution, De Gaulle's son-in-law, Colonel Alain de Boissieu, who was riding beside the chauffeur, testified that he saw a man pouring a stream of bullets at the car, and recalled, "He did not seem to be aiming his submachine gun at the tires, but quite obviously at the passengers.'' To the chauffeur, Boissieu snapped, "Down the middle. Straight ahead!" Then he turned around, begged De Gaulle, who was still sitting upright, to bend down. De Gaulle obliged by leaning forward slightly. Defendant Bastien-Thiry airily dismissed as "technical incidents" the additional...
...Night and Fog", by Alain Resnais: It featured color shots of buoelic, postwar concentration camp ruins to pictures of the camps in operation...
...stock exchange, in the temple of commercial civilization, she meets a handsome young broker (Alain Delon) with a mind like a ledger and a ticker for a heart, a man to whom all values are convertible in gold. He changes women the way he changes ties, and one day she happens to match his socks. "When I'm with you," she muses after the fact, "I feel as if I'm in a foreign country. But perhaps there's no need to know each other in order to love. Perhaps there's no need to love...
Last Year at Marienbad. The French New Wave, which has saltily subsided, nevertheless flung up the intellectual sensation of the year, a tour de force of cubistic cinema in which Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) dismantles reality and reassembles it in a monstrous maze whose exit is its entrance...