BAMcinématek presents The Immortal Alain Robbe-Grillet
BAMcinématek celebrates this final career move with a five-film series featuring a quartet of exceptionally rare films presented in new prints courtesy of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Schedule
All films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet except where noted. All films in French with English subtitles.
Thursday, July 10 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
L’Immortelle (1963), 100min
With Françoise Brion, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
A man shares an abrupt, passionate affair with a woman who soon disappears. Fearing she’s been kidnapped and forced into prostitution, he searches the labyrinthine streets of Istanbul for her. Robbe-Grillet’s directorial debut disturbingly evokes the uncertainty and mystery of a strange, foreign land. Time Out London calls L’Immortelle a “fragmented mystery-romance.” “An infinite enigma set simultaneously in Istanbul and in the labyrinths of the mind,” says James Quandt, Cinematheque Ontario.
Friday, July 11 at 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
Trans-Europ Express (1966), 105min
With Marie-France Pisier, Jean-Louis Trintignant
An author (played by Robbe-Grillet himself) considers ideas for a film while riding the Trans-Europ Express and dreams up a sordid melodrama of gangsters, drugs, and bondage. When a gangster (Trintingnant) does show up aboard the same train, this fantasy comes to life. “Trans-Europ Express is as challenging and influential again today as it was in the 1960s—a key text of the postwar European avant-garde,” notes Senses of Cinema.
Saturday, July 12 and Sunday, July 13 at 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
Last Year at Marienbad (L’Année dernière à Marienbad) (1961), 94min
Directed by Alain Resnais. With Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi
“Haven’t I seen you here before?” This film took the world’s oldest pick-up line and turned it into one of the most famous art films ever. An unnamed man (Albertazzi) is certain he met an unnamed woman (Seyrig) last year, but did he? This dream-like cinematic puzzle, populated by beautiful, vapid pawns, is the very definition of “must-see.” “Hopelessly retro, eternally avant-garde, and one of the most influential movies ever made,” writes The Village Voice. The New York Times comments that the “nightmarishly looping, repetitive semi-narrative, drenched in incantory voice-over and toxically discordant organ music, is as disturbing as ever and retains its power to frustrate anybody who hopes to shake loose some answers after 93 minutes.”
Mon, July 14 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
The Man Who Lies (L’Homme qui ment) (1968), 95min
With Sylvie Bréal, Jean-Louis Trintingnant
Robbe-Grillet’s innovative work is set in an old Czech castle in the forests. A man (Trintingnant) invents his own character, past, and emotions as he goes along. However, the words which create his reality are eventually turned against him and he is driven back to limbo in the forest.
Tue, July 15 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm
Eden and Afterwards (L’Eden et après) (1971), 93min
With Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer
An erotic tale of murder and vampirism, this film is set somewhere between the fictitious landscapes of the Marquis de Sade and Lewis Carroll. In café Eden, a group of bored students engaged in a series of baroque parlor games are visited by a mysterious stranger whose presence evokes new menacing fantasies.
Tickets
Tickets: $11 per screening for adults; $7.50 for seniors 65 and over, children under twelve, and $7.50 for students 25 and under with valid I.D.
Monday–Thursday, except holidays; $7 BAM Cinema Club members
Tickets available by phone at 718.777.FILM
Call 718.636.4100 or visit www.bam.org.
Directions
Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5, Q, B to Atlantic Avenue; D, M, N, R to Pacific Street; G to Fulton Street; C to Lafayette Avenue Train: Long Island Railroad to Flatbush Avenue
Bus: B25, B26, B41, B45, B52, B63, B67 all stop within three blocks of BAM
Car: Commercial parking lots are located adjacent to BAM For ticket and BAMbus information, call BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100, or visit www.bam.org.
After opening at BAMcinématek, the series will tour the U.S. and Canada with venues including Cinematheque Ontario (Toronto), Cleveland Cinematheque, Pacific Cinematheque (Vancouver), Facets (Chicago), Northwest Film Forum (Seattle), International House (Philadelphia), Cinema Arts Centre (Huntington, NY), UCLA Film and Television Archive (Los Angeles), and Doris Duke Theater (Honolulu).
Link: www.bam.org
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Written on Jul. 08, 08
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