Who are these people? What’s going on? Half a century after audiences first asked these questions of Last Year in Marienbad, it is clear that Alain Resnais’s masterpiece is about time, memory and film ...

Alain Resnais's 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad is loved and derided in equal measure. It's believed to have influenced the likes of Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick, but it gives naysayers an easy ...

In yet another programming coup, Enzian Theater shows Last Year at Marienbad as this week’s Saturday Matinee Classic, but fair warning: You might need to drink an extra espresso that morning to get ...

A group of anxious and shivering film technicians are standing around in the grounds of the Schleissheim castle in Munich. It's September 1960: the days are short and the light is fading. They are ...

In the clip above, I discuss “Last Year at Marienbad,” Alain Resnais’s second feature film, from 1961. The frozen romanticism of the film—a story of a man and a woman who meet at a castle-like hotel ...