The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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Alain Resnais Retrospective
September 5, 2009-March 31, 2010 at
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
, Houston
A nationwide retrospective tour of new prints will celebrate famed French New Wave director Alain Resnais from September 2009 to March 2010. Featuring thirteen of his best-known movies, including such timeless classics as L'Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad) and Mon Oncle d'Amérique (My American Uncle), the retrospective will delight film buffs eager to rediscover one of cinema's most iconic filmmakers. This will be a unique opportunity to do so: many of these films are not distributed in the U.S., and the prints have been fully restored-courtesy of CulturesFrance, the French agency in charge of international cultural exchanges.
The retrospective, which was produced by CulturesFrance under the guidance of Michel Ciment, editor-in-chief of the prestigious film magazine Positif, is supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and will tour the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago; the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA; the University of Wisconsin Madison; the Wexner Arts Center in Columbus, OH; the Harvard Film Archive and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Cultural institutions interested in screening the retrospective should contact the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. On the occasion of the retrospective, Moving Image Source, the Museum of the Moving Image's magazine, has commissioned several articles about Resnais's work from leading film critics and experts.
Featured Works:
Guernica (with Robert Hessens, 1950); Statues Also Die (Les Statues meurent aussi, with Chris Marker, 1953); Night and Fog (Nuit et Bouillard, 1955); All of the World's Memory (Toute la mémoire du monde, 1956); The Song of the Styrene (Le Chant du Styrène, 1958); Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année Dernière à Marienbad, 1961); Muriel, or The Time of Return (Muriel, ou le temps d'un retour, 1963); Je t'aime Je t'aime (1968); Stavisky... (1974); My American Uncle (Mon Oncle d'Amérique, 1980); Mélo (1986); Same Old Song (On connaît la chanson, 1997); Private Fears in Public Places (Cœurs, 2006, pictured)
Program information:
September 5-20, 2009
October 2-17, 2009
November 7-December 2, 2009
November 6- December 15, 2009
December 5-19, 2009
January 1-February 28, 2010
January 15-25, 2010
March 1-31, 2010
Related Articles:
The Unknown Statue by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted Nov. 06, 2009
