Alain Resnais, L’Année dernière à Marienbad (poster)
I don’t know if you know: everything comes apart if you find the strand, and even the shadows lie.
wow.
Most of the movie consists of the former champ sitting in a house near the Pacific Ocean, speaking into the camera as if no one else were around. This produces an effect of almost unnerving intimacy — it is a bit scary to be so close to him — but also an upwelling, perhaps unexpected, of compassion. It is hard to imagine anyone more radically alone.
via the awl
Wes Anderson and his pantheon of heroes (Schulz, Welles, Truffaut)
(make sure to watch the accompanying video)
