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Last year at Marienbad [videorecording] = L'Année dernière a Marienbad / Rialto Pictures ; StudioCanal ; Argos Films ; Cineriz ; Cocinor présente ; Pierre Courau et Raymond Froment présentent ; Terra-Film ; Société Nouvelle des Films Cormoran ; Precitel ; Como-Films; Les Films Tamara; Cinetel; Silver-Films; scénario et dialogues, Alain Robbe-Grillet ; réalisation, Alain Resnais.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1815D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Original language: French Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 478.Publication details: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, ©2009Edition: Director-approved special ed., widescreenDescription: 2 videodiscs (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (44 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)ISBN:
  • 9781604651577
  • 1604651571
Other title:
  • L'Année dernière a Marienbad
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .L37 2009
Contents:
Special features: Disc 1: New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the film, supervised and approved by director Alain Resnais ; Original theatrical trailer and Rialto's rerelease trailer -- Disc 2: New audio interview with Resnais, recorded exclusively for this release ; New documentary on the making of Last year at Marienbad, featuring interviews with many of Resnais' collaborators ; New video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries ; "Toute la memoire du monde" documentary (1956); "Le chant du styrene" documentary (1958). A booklet featuring an essay by critic Mark Polizzotti and a section on Alain Robbe Grillet's evolving attitude toward the film, including the author's introduction to the published screenplay and comments by film scholar Francois Thomas.
Production credits:
  • Images, Sacha Vierny ; montage, Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney ; musique, Francis Seyrig.
Awards:
  • Winner, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival, 1961.
Cast: Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoëff.Summary: Feature : "[T]his surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled château they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais' investigation into the nature of memory is disturbing, romantic, and maybe even a ghost story." -- Container.Summary: Toute la mémoire du monde: "A poetic piece about the French national library in Paris and the archiving of memory that looks forward to his later films." -- Disc menu.Summary: Styrene [aka: Le chant du styrene] : This short film was "shot in the Pechiney polystyrene factories and features boldly abstract color images and voice-over text [written] by Raymond Queneau." -- Disc menu.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Popular DVD Popular DVD Albright College Library CCM--Ask at Reference Desk DVD F-DVD LYM 1332 pt.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31856002390753
Popular DVD Popular DVD Albright College Library CCM--Ask at Reference Desk DVD F-DVD LYM 1331 pt.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31856002390746
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Booklet includes: "Which year at where?" essay by critic Mark Polizzotti; "So close, so far away and Last year at Marienbad" essay by Alain Robbe-Grillett; "The myth of perfect harmony" by film scholar François Thomas.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.

Special features: Disc 1: New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the film, supervised and approved by director Alain Resnais ; Original theatrical trailer and Rialto's rerelease trailer -- Disc 2: New audio interview with Resnais, recorded exclusively for this release ; New documentary on the making of Last year at Marienbad, featuring interviews with many of Resnais' collaborators ; New video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries ; "Toute la memoire du monde" documentary (1956); "Le chant du styrene" documentary (1958). A booklet featuring an essay by critic Mark Polizzotti and a section on Alain Robbe Grillet's evolving attitude toward the film, including the author's introduction to the published screenplay and comments by film scholar Francois Thomas.

Images, Sacha Vierny ; montage, Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney ; musique, Francis Seyrig.

Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoëff.

Feature : "[T]his surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled château they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais' investigation into the nature of memory is disturbing, romantic, and maybe even a ghost story." -- Container.

Toute la mémoire du monde: "A poetic piece about the French national library in Paris and the archiving of memory that looks forward to his later films." -- Disc menu.

Styrene [aka: Le chant du styrene] : This short film was "shot in the Pechiney polystyrene factories and features boldly abstract color images and voice-over text [written] by Raymond Queneau." -- Disc menu.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

French dialogue with optional English subtitles.

Winner, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival, 1961.

F-DVD 1331, F-DVD 1332

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