On Aug. 17, in Indonesia, the government of President Prabowo Subianto postponed the release of a 10-volume “official history.” A good number of historians and activists pushed back against this ...

1 of 10 The 1959 French film “Hiroshima mon amour” is an obvious choice here, a love story between a French actress and a Japanese architect, whose conversations involve the bombings and the ...

Its interplay between conscience, emotion and the real world makes it a direct antecedent of Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour (1959). In fact Resnais edited Varda’s film, and a year later she ...

After 45 years and a newly restored print, Hiroshima Mon Amour still mesmerizes. To watch it is to watch poetry in cinematic motion. Hiroshima Mon Amouris currently playing at the Landmark Ken Cinema.

It publishes articles in English and French on all periods and genres in both disciplines and welcomes a multiplicity of approaches. Founded by Virginia and Raymond La Charité, French Forum is ...

Hiroshima Mon Amour A first [feature of] its director, film can be classed as a noble try to make a statement on human love and the Atom Bomb (hardly a lovable thing), but it's too literary in ...

Beyond that, Hiroshima mon amour (“ Hiroshima, My Love”) is an art film that not only signaled the beginning of the French New Wave (although many film historians do not count it as an example of that ...

Recorded in 2002, this audio commentary features film historian Peter Cowie.

Hiroshima Mon Amour's a slow but absorbing film, and there's something about it that remains haunting, with images and moments sticking in one's mind long after the film itself finishes.

The cinematic embargo was largely broken with Alain Resnais’ French-made, Hiroshima-set Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959, U.S. release May 1960).