When the white-haired 87-year-old filmmaker took to the stage to introduce his recent film The Wild Grass this Fall when it opened the 2009 New York Film Festival, many in the audience were in awe. And for good reason. Many filmmakers have made good, even great, films. But few have changed film history. The Gene Siskel Film Center “Mindscape: the Films of Alain Resnais” looks back on the man that Jonathan Rosenbaum named "Probably the greatest living French filmmaker.” Starting with four of his short documentary works, including his remarkable film on Nazi concentration camps, “Night and Fog,” the series showcases his seminal 1961 work Last Year at  Marienbad, the cinematic maze that elegantly rethinks our assumptions about cinematic time and space. The 11-film series includes work from across his long career, including his 1963 Muriel, a deeply emotional work that many consider to be Resnais masterpiece, his 1974 portrait of a con man Stavisky (with a score by Stephen Sondheim), his snappy 1980 commercial hit Mon Oncle D’Amérique, and his recent Private Fears in Public Places.