This enigmatic narrative, written by Alain Robbe-Grillet and directed by Alain Resnais, was one of the most impactful art-films of the ’60s, setting a tone of sexy, stylish inscrutability that still ...

Every film fan should see Last Year at Marienbad (L’ Année dernière à Marienbad). And probably more than once. Many years of reading about cinema have convinced me of that, and yet (shameful ...

Delphine Seyrig and Giorgio Albertazzi: Something dreadful between them might or might not have happened last year... It is resonantly famous, picking up plaudits from the off, with one Sight & Sound ...

It’s a film so inscrutable and mysterious that, in the original theatrical trailer back in 1961, the filmmakers invited the audience to be co-authors of their film. Indeed, “Last Year at Marienbad,” ...

The Ninth Annual Robert Classic French Film Festival — co-presented by Cinema St. Louis and the Webster University Film Series started last Friday and continues the next two weekends — The Classic ...

Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Last Year at Marienbad has an infamy that I have rarely come across in other films included in Kino Lorber’s Classics Collection. It has simultaneously been ...

Robbe-Grillet (the writers shared a Paris publisher) was a modish Structuralist novelist and, to quote, perhaps scandalously, from Wikipedia, "methodical, geometric and often repetitive descriptions ...