Chris Marker, an enigmatic figure in French cinema who avoided publicity and was loath to screen his films yet was often ranked with countrymen Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard as an avant-garde ...

He collaborated with Chris Marker on an anti-colonial short about the decline of African art (Les Statues Meurent Aussi), but it was Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog, 1955), a study of Nazi ...

On March 1, Alain Resnais passed away in Paris at the age of 91, and the world has lost one of its greatest filmmakers. With a career spanning over six decades, the revered French auteur had links to ...

For more than 50 years, Chris Marker has cultivated an image as one of contemporary cinema's most mysterious figures. The French director, who turns 85 on July 21, has rarely granted interviews ...

Yet, neither director Alain Resnais nor writer Jean Cayrol was particularly keen to work on it. Inspired by a 1954 exhibition at the Institut Pédagogique National, producer Anatole Dauman asked ...