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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...
Eight shells fell within the grounds of President Lon Nol's Chamcar Mon Palace, damaging shacks of the palace guard and killing eight. Other rounds came dangerously close to the U.S. embassy. Most of the shells impacted in a densely populated refugee area. Fanned by gusting winds, flames raced through flimsy wood-and-straw huts in a fire storm so intense that a huge pall of smoke almost blotted out Phnom-Penh's bright afternoon sun. The attack took a heavy toll: at least 140 dead, 200 wounded, more than 1,000 homes destroyed and 10,000 people...
...mon, you two Bob's. I mean really, the true question is not what can we do to protect the visitors from the fans, but rather how in the world can we secure the protection of the fans from "gentlemen" like Mr. Sunderland who happen to wander in from the bush...
...people do, Reb suggests. Actors of the latest lifestyle, they call it being contemporary. Count Jack out: he has been somebody once, and he must be somebody again. He meets his first Scotsman, "a moody sort" who wears tweed pants and smokes a pipe. The new hoot-mon studies his archetype and buries himself in Scottish history until his eyes throb. At the end of this surreal little journal of tribal transfer, not only Jack's heart but Jack's body-packing a volume of Robbie Burns-is en route to the Highlands, preparing for rebirth...