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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prolific Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner, considered a pioneer of Switzerland's new wave film movement, died Sunday at the age of 92, his foundation said.

The debut feature film of Geneva-born director Alain Tanner, Charles, Dead or Alive (1969) sees a third-generation watch-factory owner calmly spill his ineffectual guts on a talk show, hole up in a ...