Paris, 1959. The staff of Cahiers du Cinema, the now-legendary French film magazine, convened only its second all-hands-on-deck critics' round table. The occasion, headlined as "an event which seems ...

Alain Resnais' film Hiroshima Mon Amour tackles the unspeakable trauma of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, something Western cinema has largely ignored. Resnais fuses fiction and documentary ...

Another was Toute la mémoire du monde (1956), a beautiful work about the Bibliothèque Nationale, France’s national library – a film about memory, compressed into thousands of book stacks through which ...

The logical reason that Christopher Nolan’s new movie Oppenheimer does not depict the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that were the fruit of title character J. Robert Oppenheimer’s secret ...

Alain Resnais’s 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour concerns an affair between a French actress, in Hiroshima to play a nurse in “an international film about peace,” and a Japanese man who survived World ...

Resnais is a cubist. I mean that he is the first modern filmmaker of the sound film. — Eric Rohmer You can describe Hiroshima as Faulkner plus Stravinsky. — Jean-Luc Godard We’ve already seen a lot of ...

After a stunning early career as a documentary filmmaker (Night and Fog, his achingly evocative film about Auschwitz, is an acclaimed masterpiece), Frenchman Alain Resnais turned to features. His ...

The seminal-ovulary date-night ordeal of the fresh-baked French New Wave, this moody, swoony benchmark was one of those movies -- and in 1959-60 you had scores to choose from -- that could remake your ...

Hiroshima Mon Amour is the greatest film ever made. That was my conviction halfway through the press screening, and I still agreed with myself at the end, doubled up crying. The tears were deep and ...

Chiori Miyagawa’s impressionistic three-person play has as its baseline a cultural critique of the 1959 Alain Resnais film “Hiroshima Mon Amour,” which viewed Japan’s tragedy through distinctly French ...