alain resnais

FIAF presents a month-long series devoted to four giants of French film: Maurice Pialat, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Alain Resnais.

Each week, FIAF presents an early short by one of the featured directors, followed by a documentary portrait of that director.

Veteran new-wave director Alain Resnais returns with a playful paean to the power of cinema to both illuminate and obfuscate.

Critic Mark Jenkins applauds Wild Grass for its beautiful cinematography and anarchic sense of fun. (Recommended)

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In March, the French Cultures Festival / Mois de la Francophonie celebrates the French-speaking community which brings together people who speak French, a language of education, culture and communication, and who love French cultures.

This festival takes place in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma and is open to everyone.

Though Duras's fame rests predominantly on her work as a novelist and playwright, her engagement with filmmaking was passionate and sustained.

Aside from having had her work repeatedly adapted for the screen by others, she wrote original scripts for various filmmakers (most notably Alain Resnais and Georges Franju), before embarking on her own directorial career in 1967.

The works of Marguerite Duras, France's well-known author, playwright and film director, will be celebrated during a month-long multidisciplinary festival in New York City from February 18 to March 18.

Opening Night : Wild Grass | Les Herbes Folles

Directed by Alain Resnais, 104 minutes, France/Italy, Sony Pictures Classics, 2009.

With Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, André Dussolier, Anne Consigny.

New prints and a nationwide retrospective tour will celebrate famed French New Wave Director Alain Resnais from September 2009 to March 2010.

In this program of film shorts, experimental filmmaker (and SFMOMA's own head projectionist) Clipson screens high-art takes on low subjects.

Luis Buñuel's Las Hurdes (aka The Land Without Bread, 1933, 30 min., 16mm, b/w)

Chers amis,

The annual French Film Festival of New Orleans "Festival du cinéma français", presented by The New Orleans Film Society with the support of The Consulate, will take place from Friday, July 10 to Sunday, July 12, 2009.

When it came out in 1961, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad perplexed and excited audiences with its surrealistic storytelling.

John Powers has a review of the film's Criterion Collection re-release.

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