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-	=== Film ===	+	{{Template}}'''Jean Epstein''' ([[25 March]] [[1897]], [[Warsaw]] – [[3 April]] [[1953]], [[Paris]]) was a film director and early [[Film theory|film theoretician]]. He started directing his own films in 1922 with ''Pasteur'', followed in 1923 by ''[[L'Auberge rouge]]'' and ''[[Coeur fidèle]]''. Famous film director [[Luis Buñuel]] worked as an assistant director to Epstein on ''Mauprat'' (1926) and ''[[La Chute de la maison Usher]]'' (1928). Epstein's criticism appeared in the early modernist journal ''[[L'Esprit Nouveau]]''. In August 2005, his films ''La Glace à trois faces'' (1927) and
-	In 1927, [[Jean Epstein]]'s ''[[La glace à trois faces]]'' (The Three Sided Mirror) features a sequence where the events happen in reverse, beginning with the protagonist's exit from a room until the viewer sees the entrance. The Czech comedy ''[[Happy End (1966 film)|Happy End]]'' (1966) is a farce which starts with a guillotined man finding his head popped back on his shoulders and ends with him as a new-born being pushed back into his mother's womb. The technique was later employed in ''[[Peppermint Candy]]'' (2000), by [[South Korean]] director [[Lee Chang-dong]]; in ''[[Memento (film)|Memento]]'' (2000), a mystery directed by [[Christopher Nolan]] about short term memory loss; and in [[Jean-Luc Godard|Jean-Luc Godard's]] short film ''De l'origine du XXIe siècle pour moi'' (2000). In ''[[Irréversible]]'' (2002), the technique is used so thoroughly that the [[Closing credits|end credits]] are not only shown at the beginning of the movie, but they roll ''down'' the screen, rather than upwards as is familiar. The 2004 film ''[[5x2]]'', directed by [[François Ozon]], tells the story of a relationship between two people in five episodes using reverse chronology.	+	''Le Tempestaire'' (''The Tempest'') (1947) were restored and re-released on the DVD collection ''Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s''.
-	[[Atom Egoyan]], influenced by Pinter's plays, tells the story of ''[[The Sweet Hereafter (film)|The Sweet Hereafter]]'' (1997) in reverse chronology, with the first scene of the film set in 1977 and the last in 1968. In ''[[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]]'' (2004), a main substory is told in reverse.	+	==See also==
-		+	*''[[Avant-garde (dvd collection)|Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s]]''
-	''Coup de Sang'', a French film, by Jean Marboeuf—2006—uses limited reverse chronology. The film begins with the revelation that the main character will commit a murder one week from the next scene, although it is not revealed who will be killed or why.	+	{{GFDL}}

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Jean Epstein (25 March 1897, Warsaw – 3 April 1953, Paris) was a film director and early film theoretician. He started directing his own films in 1922 with Pasteur, followed in 1923 by L'Auberge rouge and Coeur fidèle. Famous film director Luis Buñuel worked as an assistant director to Epstein on Mauprat (1926) and La Chute de la maison Usher (1928). Epstein's criticism appeared in the early modernist journal L'Esprit Nouveau. In August 2005, his films La Glace à trois faces (1927) and

Le Tempestaire (The Tempest) (1947) were restored and re-released on the DVD collection Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s.

See also

• Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s