Alain Resnais' last completed film, Life of Riley (2014), presents a group of aging friends who plan, hope, wish, dream and scheme after they learn that one of their own is dying. The doomed man, George Riley, never shown onscreen, is enlisted to join an amateur theater production in the......
"When Beeswax came out in 2009, I felt like there was a sense in the world of, 'Well, that's another one of the same from him,' " writer-director Andrew Bujalski says by phone. "That frustrated me. I wanted to shake everybody by the collar and say, 'No, can't you see that......