Much has been written about the films that seemed to anticipate the events of May 1968 (Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise is often mentioned), but rather less on those that undertook to sort out the ...

The 63rd Locarno Film Festival will honor Swiss auteur Alain Tanner, a key figure of the New Swiss Cinema movement, with its Golden Leopard for lifetime achievement. Tanner, known for depicting the ...

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Of the numerous films referenced in Sébastien Betbeder’s 2 Autumns, 3 Winters (which I discussed a few days ago), La Salamandre (1971) might be the least familiar to contemporary U.S. audiences. Yet ...

Many see multihyphenate Alain Tanner as the dean of Swiss cinema, but in fact Tanner rejects the label. In fact, he doesn’t even care to be called “Swiss.” “I am just a human being, with feet, a head ...

With his brainy works of neorealism, he made films that helped establish Switzerland as a film center in the 1970s. By Alex Williams Alain Tanner, a pioneering director in the Swiss New Wave movement ...

Champion of dreamers and dropouts, political radicals and disaffected youth, the Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner is “among the last lions of the heroic age of the European art film” (Metrograph).

Alain Tanner (6 December 1929 – 11 September 2022) was a Swiss film director. Influenced by his involvement with the British "Free Cinema" movement in London and with the French New Wave during his ...

The world premiere of "The Human Resources Manager," an unlikely story about an Israeli manager who makes a trek to rural Romania to return the body of a worker killed in a car bombing, was Tuesday's ...

John Berger's attraction to the primacy of storytelling led him to the Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner, who together collaborated on a series of three films, now showing at Metrograph. Berger wasn’t ...