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...Godard, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Chris Marker, and Jacques Demy. In the space of seven years, an unprecedented number of masterpieces were produced, among them Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player and The Soft Skin, Godard's Contempt and The Married Woman, and Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad, all of which will, incidentally, be shown at the Brattle this month...
Alain Resnais is, of course, notorious for exploiting this state of affairs to the limit. Hence the hypnotic effect of his films. His counterpart in literature, Alain Robbe-Grillet, who wrote the screenplay of Resnais' second film, Last Year at Marienbad (1961), speaks for Resnais when he calls his own work "an attempt to construct a space and a time purely mental--that of dreams, for example, or of memory...
Even for critical film-goers, however, Hiroshima remains valuable. It announces a theme which is to occupy Resnais' later work as well. In Marienbad and Muriel (1963), Resnais has continued to illustrate the thesis that you cannot remember what you ought to--for example, obligations to a former loved one. But for my money, I prefer to all of Resnais' work a film like Antonioni's L'Avventura, which makes exactly the same point without all the metaphysical mesmerism...
...more ardent comic fan was on hand than French Film Director Alain Resnais, who acknowledges that some of the techniques he used in Last Year at Marienbad were based on Mandrake. Resnais hopes to make a movie with Falk, but why, he wanted to know, did Mandrake warm up to Narda back in 1950? Did Falk change the relationship deliberately? Replied a rather stunned Falk: "I can't even remember what I was writing in those days, but I'm sure it wasn't deliberate...
...lyricists, she convinced even a contemporary London music critic, George Bernard Shaw, that she was "technically, highly accomplished." Among other aficionados: Spain's King Alphonso XIII, though he laughed at all the wrong parts, and Britain's roistering King Edward VII, who saw her each summer at Marienbad at the luncheons that he reserved for the untouchables...