Alain Resnais Movies

Documentary about the movie theaters in Valencia that, since the seventies, had been closed or turned into department stores and bingo halls; dream...

A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts...

A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of...

Two actors play eighteen different roles in a story that asks the question: would my life have been different if I hadn't lit a cigarette?

An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's...

A very rare and unknown documentary directed by Alain Resnais when he was still a student, part of his series about painters of his time.

Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January...

A documentary on the filmmaker with a focus on music and voices in his work, featuring collaborators and critics including the filmmaker himself,...

This is the legendary meeting between a young filmmaker and one of the masters of surrealism: the spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, born...

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each...

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to...

A short subject about a Dutch artist who worked in : sculpture, painting, photography, and typography.

Directed by Alain Resnais

An art short subject about a French surrealist painter, designer, and illustrator.

Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968.

An art short subject about a visit to a French painter.

Luc Lagier puts Alain Resnais' film back in its historical context and in the filmmaker's biography. He tells the story, then the development of what...

Audio interview with Alain Resnais

A visit by the director to the studio of the artist is the basis for this documentary short subject.