I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap heard ’round the world” wasn’t it—though that cast a pall over the proceedings, didn’t it?—but the … Continue reading Cinema 101
Above all, cinema is a style. Movies are a glorious and exciting exploration of the human condition, but without style, the images hang to the screen, failing to be anything more than a light flickering on a blank canvas. That’s … Continue reading PICKPOCKET
When the French writers for Cahiers du cinema coined the term “auteur” in the late ’50s, they envisioned an author of motion pictures—a director who exerted their will, their psychology, over every aspect of the films they made. These directors, almost all … Continue reading Robert Bresson
A while back my good friend Pablo Kjølseth — the master behind CU-Boulder’s International Film Series — asked me to guest write a post for TCM’s Movie Morlocks, now retitled Streamline in conjunction with FilmStruck. I chose to write about … Continue reading PICKPOCKET
Build your film on white, on silence and on stillness. The CINEMA did not start from zero. Everything to be called into question. The truth is inimitable, the false untransformable. Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 25, 1901
A film is not a spectacle, it is in the first place a style. —Robert Bresson Continue reading Born On This Day — September 25
I would like in my films to be able to render perceptible to an audience a feeling of a man’s soul and also the presence of something superior to man which can be called God. —Robert Bresson Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, August 11, 2013
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps would have never been seen. —Robert Bresson Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, July 20, 2013
The supernatural in film is only the real rendered more precise. Real things seen close up. —Robert Bresson Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, April 18, 2013
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