The British Film Institute has officially announced and detailed its upcoming
three-disc box set set of Alain Robbe-Grillet films. The Blu-ray box set will be available for purchase on June 30th.
Perhaps best known as the writer of Alain Resnais' classic cine-conundrum Last Year in Marienbad (1961), and as a leading novelist in the nouveau roman movement of the 1950s, Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008) was also the director a number of stylish, controversial and erotic films which starred such icons of French cinema as Jean-Louis Trintignant (Haneke's Amour, Bertolucci's The Conformist) and Isabelle Huppert (Claire Denis' White Material, Haneke's Amour).
The six films included here are from his most productive period of filmmaking and include Trans-Europ-Express and Successive Slidings of Pleasure:
The Immortal One (L'Immortelle) (1963)
Trans-Europ-Express (1967)
The Man Who Lies (L'Homme qui ment) (1968)
Eden and After (L'Eden et après) (1970)
N. Took the Dice (N. a pris les dés…) (1971)
Successive Slidings of Pleasure (Glissements progressifs du plaisir) (1974)
Special Features:
- All six films presented in High Definition on Blu-ray
- Newly filmed introductions by Catherine Robbe-Grillet (2013)
- Filmed interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet by critic Frederic Taddei (2007)
- New and exclusive full-length audio commentaries for each film by Tim Lucas
- Original theatrical trailers
- Illustrated booklet with a new essay by David Taylor, full film credits and on-set photographs