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The Labyrinthine Alain Robbe-Grillet Series Pass

Revered for many years as the figurehead of the Nouveau Roman (The New Novel) with a resume that includes works such as Les Gommes, Le Voyeur and La Jalousie, Alain RobbeGrillet, who passed away earlier this year, is perhaps one of the most undeservedly neglected of great filmmakers. He is known by most only for his screenplay of New Wave cornerstone Last Year at Marienbad, directed by Alain Resnais and an international success of the time. However, RobbeGrillet, like Marguerite Duras, afterwards devoted his time equally to novel writing and filmmaking. Since 1962 he directed nine fulllength features as well as writing the screenplays for two others. He published twelve novels over the same period, the most recent of which comprise his semiautobiographical trilogy, which was concluded in 1994 with Les Derniers Jours de Corinth. Even though Robbe-Grillet's films have long been a source of inspiration and discussion for directors and film theorists, as well as inciting much controversy due to the uncompromising nature both of the narrative technique and the graphic imagery, they have not been presented to a large public since they were first made.M

Northwest Film Forum is pleased to take a long overdue corrective action, bringing recognition to this extraordinary artist with screenings of Robbe-Grillet's first four films, all presented here in new 35mm prints.