LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD

(1961, Alain Resnais) As ominous organ music resounds, the Scope camera tracks through the seemingly endless halls of a baroque grand hotel — as Giorgio Albertazzi tries to persuade an initially disbelieving Delphine Seyrig that they’d met the year before... With dizzying time shifts and flashbacks, real or imagined, Marienbad is considered the ultimate puzzle film. Winner, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival. Approx. 94 min. 35mm.

This is our third event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the New York Review of Books; the NYRB Classics edition of The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, inspiration for Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Oscar-nominated screenplay, will be on sale at our concession tonight. Introduced by critic and NYRB contributor J. Hoberman.