Left Bank Cinema
Essay
Landscape
By Agnès Godard
Cinematographer Agnès Godard remembers the making of Agnès Varda’s 1991 film Jacquot de Nantes.
Past Screening
EDEN AND AFTER
Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet
A work of noose-tight construction, foreboding, surreal, and brimming with blighted sensuality.
Last available Apr 21 2022
Past Screening
TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS
Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet
A pulp pastiche laid out with cool, mathematical symmetry, featuring Jean-Louis Trintignant at his most theatrical.
Last available Apr 21 2022
Essay
Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows
By Annabel Brady-Brown
On the subversive pleasures of Agnès Varda‘s Le Bonheur.
Past Screening
Series: The Left Bank
Directed by Various
Often designated as the “Left Bank” directors, Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Jacques Demy, and Alain Resnais finally receive their largest US group retrospective in many moons at Metrograph.
Last available Apr 21 2022
Past Screening
MÉLO
Directed by Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais blurs the line between cinematic technique and theatrical artifice in this adaptation of a classic play about a doomed love triangle in 1920s Paris.
Last available Mar 30 2022
Past Screening
LEVEL FIVE
Directed by Chris Marker
Working at the precipice of the digital revolution, Chris Marker simultaneously projects both 20 years into the future and 40 years into the past.
Last available Mar 30 2022
Past Screening
A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT
Directed by Chris Marker
Chris Marker's epic 1977 essay film.