Alain Resnais

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Review: Wild Grass

Exasperating
From his first films, Alain Resnais confounded viewers with a conjurer's bag of modernist trickery, sliding about in time and memory.
By GERALD PEARY | July 14, 2010

Play by play, February 26, 2010

Theater listings, week of February 26, 2010
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | February 24, 2010

Play by play: February 19, 2010

Theatre listings, week of February 19, 2010
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | February 17, 2010

Play by play: February 12, 2010

Theater listings, February 12, 2010
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By JEFFREY GANTZ | February 09, 2010

Play by play: February 5, 2010

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater listings
By JEFFREY GANTZ | February 03, 2010

Benacerraf's classic documentary gets an anniversary showing
Margot Benacerraf's extraordinary Venezuelan documentary, among the finest ever made, shared the 1959 International Critics Prize at Cannes with Alain Resnais's Hiroshima, mon amour and then disappeared.
By GERALD PEARY | December 16, 2009

Review: Gigantic

Paul Dano gains stature
Of the recent spate of young-man-finding-himself movies, Adventureland may be the most fun, but Gigantic sticks to the ribs.
By BETSY SHERMAN | April 21, 2009

Dire Strait

Strained relations in the Boston Turkish Film Festival
If the selections in this year's Boston Turkish Film Festival are any indication, nobody in that country lives happily ever after these days.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 25, 2009

Mother courage

Agnès Varda in Toronto
The 2008 Toronto International Film Festival last September proved hospitable to Agnès Varda.
By GERALD PEARY | March 10, 2009

In the realm of Oshima

The HFA looks back at the bad boy of Japanese cinema
The HFA looks back at the bad boy of Japanese cinema
By BRETT MICHEL | December 05, 2008

His last year at Marienbad

Alain Robbe-Grillet: 1922–2008
Alain Resnais, perhaps as a dig at his screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet, sometimes tells a joke about their notorious 1961 movie.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 26, 2008

Lost in space

Alain Resnais’s dazzling Private Fears In Public Places
Alain Resnais’s ineffable film has the hallmarks of his marvelous late style.
By CHRIS FUJIWARA | May 18, 2007

Waved off

‘New Films from Europe’ at the HFA
Ah, Eurocinema, the blood and backbone of film culture as it grew from out of the Hollywood shadow in the post-war decades — the Godards, the Bergmans, the Antonionis, the bristling Hungarians, the mordant Poles, the café-dawdling French!
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | January 28, 2010

Made in the Ocean State

A Rhode Island movie timeline
From 1898 to 2005, movies made in Rhode Island.
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX STAFF | August 03, 2006

Banana republic

East (Germany) meets least in ‘Rebels with a Cause’
East Germany graced international screens most recently in the Euro-blockbuster Good Bye, Lenin! (2003).
By MATTIAS FREY | February 09, 2006