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 ...

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 ...

In Hiroshima, where a cupful of the sun burned out fifty thousand lives, a young French woman recoils from the horrors preserved in the city museum. But while her Japanese lover repeats to her, "You ...

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 ...

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 ...

Made in 1959 by Alain Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour -- along with The 400 Blows and Breathless -- is one of the most significant films of what become known as the French New Wave. On the surface the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...