The New York Film Festival Opens Quietly at Alice Tully with Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass “It’s like prom night didn’t happen this year,” said documentarian Aviva Kempner (Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg) on Friday, September 25, standing By Matt Frassica
The Underappreciated Giant of the French New Wave Jean-Pierre Melville’s (1933-1973) Léon Morin, Prêtre (Léon Morin, priest) (1961), from his own screenplay, based on Béatrix’ Beck’s (1914-2008) autobiographical By Andrew Sarris
Resnais Returns Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad (1961), from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, will be revived for the first time By Andrew Sarris