Fort, I'm surprised you haven't posted this one yet!
One of the best films I have ever seen is finally getting the Criterion treatment:
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais’ epochal Last Year at Marienbad (L’année dernière à Marienbad) has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. Written by radical master of the New Novel Alain Robbe-Grillet, this surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman (Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig) who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled château they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais’ investigation into the nature of memory is disturbing, romantic, and maybe even a ghost story. (-From Criterion)
-New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Alain Resnais (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
-New audio interview with Resnais, recorded exclusively for this release
-New documentary on the making of Last Year at Marienbad, featuring interviews with many of Resnais’ collaborators
-New video interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau on the history of the film and its many mysteries
-Two short documentaries by Resnais: Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) and Le chant du styrène (1958)
-Original theatrical trailer and Rialto’s rerelease trailer
-New and improved English subtitle translation
-PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Mark Polizzotti and a section on Alain Robbe-Grillet’s evolving attitude toward the film, including the author’s introduction to the published screenplay and comments by film scholar François Thomas
June 23rd