Alain RESNAIS (1922-2014, France) was an editor and filmmaker. He is seen as one of the founders of the Nouvelle Vague. From the age of thirteen, he made 8mm short films. He attended L’Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) for one year to be trained as an editor and worked as a professional editor until the late 1950s. He began his career by making short documentaries, including Van Gogh (1948), Guernica (1950,) and Statues Also Die (1953). He gained worldwide recognition with his first and second feature films, Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and Last Year in Marienbad (1961). He is also known for My American Uncle (1980) and On connaît la chanson (1997). Recurring motifs in his films are memory and unconventional concepts of time. Three of his films were awarded the Prix Louis Delluc, a prestigious annual critics’ award, which is more than any other French filmmaker has achieved. He has won various awards, including an Oscar in 1950, the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival in 1960, the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival in 1980, and the Silver Bear at Berlin Film Festival in 1994.
(selection) Van Gogh (1948, short), Guernica (1953, short), Les statues meurent aussi/Statues also Die (1953, co-dir), Nuit et brouillard/Night and Fog (1955, short), Toute la mémoire du monde (1956, short), Chant du Styrène (1957, short), Hiroshima mon amour (1959), L’année dernière à Marienbad/Last Year in Marienbad (1961), Muriel ou le temps d’un retour (1963), La guerre est finie (1966), Loin du Vietnam (1967, doc), Je t’aime, je t’aime (1969), L’An 01 (1973, co-dir), Stavinsky (1974), Providence (1977, co-dir), Mon oncle d’Amérique (1980), La vie est un roman (1983), L’amour à mort (1984), Mélo (1986), I Want to Go Home (1989), Smoking/No Smoking (1993), On connaît la chanson (1997), Pas sur la bouche (2003), Cœurs (2006), Les herbes folles (2009), Vous n'avez encore rien vu/You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet (2012), Life of Riley (2014)
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