Alain Resnais > Everyone
Better-Than Lists
by Armond White
2007:
Private Fears in Public Places > Southland Tales
Alain Resnais confirms his Old Master status with dreamlike interplay of Parisians anomie. Richard Kelly’s futuristic satire feels shoddy and looks crappy.
2010:
Wild Grass > The Social Network
Alain Resnais concocted one of the year’s two best films with a constantly inventive fantasia on our common idiosyncrasynot polarized like the high-tech bullying that David Fincher burnishes and sentimentalizes.
2013:
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet > Computer Chess
Alain Resnais’ continually astonishing, estheticized exploration of memory and emotion hits a new theatrical-cinema-dream peak that embarrasses Andrew Bujalski’s intentional (yet unintentionally crude) denial of cinema as an esthetic pleasure.
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