Alain Resnais Essays

Dark Days is unique in its approach to the social issue documentary style. Its differences are immediately apparent with its introduction. The film does not explain why the group in the film are living in the subway tunnels of New York City. Instead, director Marc Singer decides to show the audience what life is like in the tunnels through observing and interviewing a select group of homeless individuals. This decision opts out of the often-used expository mode and favors a more observational and

describes his journey to the Auschwitz concentration camp, referred to as the Lager, and how he and others survived the deathly conditions of the camp. Throughout his narrative, Levi offers reflections on humanity that he derived from his experiences. Alain Resnais’s documentary Night and Fog explores the Holocaust from a different perspective. Colorful film shot at the Auschwitz camp from what is the current day in the film and black and white stock footage of the Holocaust alternate between each other

Makeup is now considered to be a necessity for the people of this world. We basically use makeup every single day to help us enhance the beauty that we are all born with. Everyone wants to look their best every single day so almost everyone now wears makeup. But there are some makeups who are just ridiculously expensive, not just because they are high quality, but because they are carried by the most famous brands in the industry. Can you guess which is the most expensive makeup brand in the world

The Great Gatsby, a surrealist novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has been praised as an American classic. One of the main intrigues of this novel is the character of Jay Gatsby, an enigmatic and wealthy man who becomes the subject of the book. There are dissenting opinions on the mysterious character of Jay Gatsby and what he represents. While Jay Gatsby has been characterized as a sinister gangster and a classic romantic, it is more probable that he is a pathological narcissist with slightly

The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway tells a story of a group of seven Native women that live on Wasaychigan Reserve. The play highlights the struggles and hardships faced by those who live in these settlements. The sisters also further shed light on the internal conflict and individual struggles that each of the characters face. THE WORLD’S BIGGEST BINGO seems to hold the solution to all The Rez Sisters problems and seems to be an escape from their personal demons. Each individual regards the winning

In his article, “Equality, Expectation, and Envy,” Alain de Botton rests on the idea that due to status envy, people cannot be truly happy with their current standings because they are always putting themselves into comparisons with those who surround them. Throughout time, people seem to feel as though “neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough” (25), and due to these situations, people are always in search of becoming better, or succeeding above those whom they consider themselves

In "On Habit", Alain de Botton observes that a "traveling mindset," to which receptivity, the notion of being open to new objects, is the key to the release of latent layers of value in our accustomed surroundings. In Gregory Orr's "Return to Hayneville," "receptivity" seems to be the key as Orr returns to Hayneville, 40 years after what had been the most tumultuous time of his life. Orr, traveling with his 2 other companions, tends to give them a recount of what he actually had to go through in

How does someone know if they are truly happy? Much of society have come to associate happiness with the pursuits of personal pleasures or that which makes us “feels good”. When we feel good we display positive expression of emotions such as joy, laughter, kindness and fewer negative emotions such as anger, hate, and sadness. To some people our happiness is already determined through our genes. Some people seek happiness through money and material possessions. However, many would argue that true

Vanessa Zamora I found great pleasure reading these texts over the past few weeks. The authors have opened my mind to recognize different ways of living through their perspectives. Whether I was influenced by their words positively or negatively, I was pleased to have read and been guided through new directions of different types of living. Below are my thoughts and feeling towards each of the readings and how each one has affected me. “An infant is a pucker of the earth’s thin skin; so are we

1954 there was an exhibition on the camps in Paris, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Liberation. The extent of the horror was still relatively unknown - Film coincides with the tenth anniversary of the Liberation and the exhibition - Alain Resnais, at the time a young film director, was approached by the official Committee for the History of World War Two which itself was a representation of Resistance members. He turned down the offer initially because he felt that only someone who had

At the time of World War 2, individuals of Jewish religion were no longer viewed as people. The Nazi Party stripped these people of various aspects of humanity, such as their name, identity, homes, pets, and even separated them from their families, leaving them with nothing. One of the most important aspects of a dignified life that was both challenged and reborn in these camps was kindness. Prisoners in the camps were met with varying levels of unkindness, from beatings to verbal threats. Even in

economic and scientific paradigms that underpinned evolving global tension. Throughout Kazuo Ishiguro’s complex and compelling 1986 novel, An Artist of the Floating World and the poetic 1959 French film Hiroshima Mon Amour by acclaimed director Alain Resnais, the liminal constraint

Trauma Recovery Theory and the Evolution of Holocaust Testimony In her 1992 book Trauma and Recovery, American psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman MD proposed a three-stage model for trauma recovery. The first stage is characterized by trauma survivors working to establish safety first in their own bodies, then outside of themselves in their environment. Once a survivor has procured a sense of safety and security, they enter the second stage, which involves remembering, identifying, retelling, and

French, Soviet, and Polish newsreels, footage shot by detainees of the Westerbork internment camp in the Netherlands, or by the Allies' "clean-up" operations, plus new color and black-and-white footage filmed at concentration camps in 1955. Resnais filmed his color sequences in Eastmancolor rather than Agfacolor, using the footage to contrast the desolate tranquility of several concentration camps—Auschwitz, Birkenau, Majdanek, Struthof, and Mathausen—with the horrific events that occurred

Remembering and forgetting are one of Alain Resnais themes along with troubled past and present, time, and personal and historical memory. Akira Kurosawa experiences disaster early at a young age. That catastrophe (the Great Kanto Earthquake) is horrible but, at the same time, important in his life, since recalling the emotions, experiences and memories of the calamity make Kurosawa’s works authentic. In Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour remembering can be seen on two levels: (1) the represented memories

The French New Wave was a film movement in the 1950’ and 60’s that consisted of an explosion of new film techniques, values, and styles that became a defining moment of cinematic innovation that’s impact is still present in the modern film industry. An influx of new, young directors sought to narratively, ideologically and stylistically veer off from the dominant, traditional mainstream cinema production standards and redefine the French film industry. The movement didn’t happen overnight and its

scourge of the camps. We pretend it all happened only once, at a given time and place. We turn a blind eye to what surrounds us And a deaf ear to humanity's never-ending cry. - Night and fog is a 1956 french documentary short film, directed by alian resnais it was made 10 years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. -Night and fogs features the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and majdanek while describing the lives of the prisoners of