(L’ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, Alain Resnais, France 1961, 94 min., French/subtitles)

Resnais’ follow-up to Hiroshima, Mon Amour teamed him with the late novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet for one of the most influential art films ever made. At a baroque European hotel, a nameless hero (Giorgio Albertazzi) tries to persuade the nameless heroine (Delphine Seyrig) that they met the previous year. Moving ambiguously between past and present and filled with homages to Hollywood cinema, this dreamlike work of screen poetry “recalls not just a style of filmmaking— glacial, intense, contemptuous of easy explanations—but a whole epoch of filmgoing”—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker.