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 ...

The unnamed actress, a melancholy wren of a woman played by Emmanuelle Riva, has come to the notorious Japanese island, 12 years after the war, to make “a film about peace.” This is what she says to ...

NEW YORK -- The U.S. debut of a 4K restoration of Alain Resnais's debut feature Hiroshima Mon Amour will screen at the 2014 New York Film Festival. Considered an early important work of the French New ...

What did people see in Hiroshima Mon Amour in 1959? When the picture opened, it was acclaimed as a renewal of love and surrealism on screen, and a portent of where the world was going. The Soviet ...

Figures covered in dust and ash, writhing: arms, legs, backs, torsos exposed, transfixed and transposed in time and space. A back-and-forth banter between a man and a woman begins on the audio track ...

She is a French actress, making a movie in Japan. He is an architect. They are both married; they meet for one of the most emotionally painful one-night stands in cinema history. But Alain Resnais’ ...

Emmanuelle Riva, one of the great French actresses with a screen career that spanned over five decades, from Alain Resnais’ “Hiroshima Mon Amour” to Michael Haneke’s “Amour,” has died. She was 89.

Two adaptations of works by the writer Marguerite Duras are playing as one-woman shows in Paris. By Laura Cappelle PARIS — When the film “Hiroshima Mon Amour” was released 60 years ago, the French ...

A first [feature of] its director, film can be classed as a noble try to make a statement on human love and the Atom Bomb (hardly a lovable thing), but it's too literary in conception and too cerebral ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Adapted from my 2006 review: To appreciate the fuss and fury that greeted Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amour on its first ...

If you go to the movies mainly to be hypnotized, Hiroshima Mon Amour will seem even better the second time you see it. Movies somehow discourage both reflection and recollection. You can usually ...

This week, I heard about a Chicagoan who had a very special childhood. At an early age, he would sneak out of the house of his suburban parents and take the train to the city to see movies. At the age ...