FILM DIRECTOR

Alain Resnais

1922 - 2014

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Alain Resnais (French: [alɛ̃ ʁɛnɛ]; 3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct short films including Night and Fog (1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps. Resnais began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and Muriel (1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past. These films were contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave (la nouvelle vague), though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alain Resnais is the 80th most popular film director (down from 75th in 2019), the 665th most popular biography from France (down from 598th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Film Director.

Alain Resnais is most famous for his film "Hiroshima Mon Amour."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alain Resnais ranks 80 out of 2,041. Before him are Elia Kazan, John Waters, F. W. Murnau, Tony Scott, Agnès Varda, and Dziga Vertov. After him are Franco Zeffirelli, Alan Parker, Robert Bresson, Peter Brook, Ernst Lubitsch, and Fred Zinnemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Alain Resnais ranks 26. Before him are Erving Goffman, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Philip Larkin, Charles M. Schulz, Christiaan Barnard, and Imre Lakatos. After him are Doris Day, Agostinho Neto, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert W. Holley, Joan Fuster, and Iannis Xenakis. Among people deceased in 2014, Alain Resnais ranks 25. Before him are Paco de Lucía, Jacques Le Goff, Robert A. Dahl, Martin Lewis Perl, Virna Lisi, and Queen Fabiola of Belgium. After him are Christopher Hogwood, Maya Angelou, Richard Attenborough, Gary Becker, Jack Brabham, and Bob Hoskins.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Resnais ranks 665 out of 6,770. Before him are Syagrius (430), Rudolph of France (890), Fulk, King of Jerusalem (1092), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Johnny Hallyday (1943), and Paul Dukas (1865). After him are Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712), François-André Danican Philidor (1726), Anne of Foix-Candale (1484), André the Giant (1946), Maurice Utrillo (1883), and Auguste de Marmont (1774).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Alain Resnais ranks 11. Before him are Roger Vadim (1928), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Éric Rohmer (1920), William Wyler (1902), Claude Chabrol (1930), and Luc Besson (1959). After him are Robert Bresson (1901), René Clair (1898), Jacques Audiard (1952), Jacques Tati (1907), Claude Lelouch (1937), and René Clément (1913).

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