Among the most innovative and influential filmmakers of the
twentieth century, Alain Resnais (1922-2014) did not originally set
out to become a director. He trained as an actor and film editor
and, during the sixty-eight years of his working life, delved into
virtually every corner of filmmaking, working at one time or
another as screenwriter, assistant director, camera operator and
cinematographer, special effects coordinator, technical consultant,
and even author of source material. From such award-winning
documentaries as Van Gogh and Night and Fog to the groundbreaking
dramas Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, and Muriel,
Resnais's films experiment with such themes as consciousness,
memory, and the imagination. Distinguishing himself from
associations with the French New Wave movement, Resnais considered
his films to be ""anti-illusionist,"" never allowing his spectators
to forget they were watching a work of art. In Alain Resnais:
Interviews, editor Lynn A. Higgins collects twenty-one interviews
with the filmmaker, twelve of which are translated into English for
the first time. Spanning his entire career from his early short
subjects to his final feature film, the volume highlights Resnais's
creative strategies and principles, illuminates his place in world
cinema history, and situates his work relative to the New Wave,
American film, and experimental filmmaking more broadly. Like his
films, the interviews collected here reveal a creator who is at
once an intellectual, a philosopher, an entertainer, a craftsman,
and an artist.
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