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Golden Year: TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1966)

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Budd Wilkins

Trans-Europ-Express owes its origins to two phenomenon: the recently inaugurated international rail line from which it takes its title—with its modernist design (described by Robbe-Grillet in the supplementary interview as travelling in “glass cages”)—and the sight of prostitutes advertising their … Continue reading →

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Video Watchdog #180

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Budd Wilkins

Coming soon to a newsstand near you – and via subscription or newfangled digital platforms – it’s Video Watchdog 180, featuring lots of content from yours truly: an in-depth, 10-page exploration of the films of writer/director Alain Robbe-Grillet, as well … Continue reading →

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Women in Chains: Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Trans-Europ-Express and Successive Slidings of Pleasure

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Budd Wilkins

“Alain Robbe-Grillet’s films are as intricate and enigmatic as you might expect from the man who scripted the seminal French New Wave puzzle-picture Last Year at Marienbad. They’re also slyly humorous, intellectually playful, and intensely and perversely erotic.” Read my … Continue reading →

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Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Budd Wilkins

“The poster child of cinematic modernism, one of those early-’60s event films that seemed to break every rule classical Hollywood ever codified.” Read my review of Last Year at Marienbad, playing for a limited engagement at the Film Forum, at … Continue reading →

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