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Tag: Robert Bresson

Boulder Weekly, Cinema 101

Cinema 101

September 21, 2022September 20, 2022 Michael J. Casey

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

Reviews, Sunday Streams

PICKPOCKET

September 26, 2021September 22, 2021 Michael J. Casey

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

Boulder Weekly, Essays

Robert Bresson

September 22, 2021September 20, 2021 Michael J. Casey

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

Reviews

PICKPOCKET

January 31, 2017December 15, 2021 Michael J. Casey

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

In Their Words

Born On This Day — September 25, 1901

September 25, 2014November 9, 2021 Michael J. Casey

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

In Their Words

Born On This Day — September 25

September 25, 2013December 8, 2021 Michael J. Casey

A film is not a spectacle, it is in the first place a style. —Robert Bresson Continue reading Born On This Day — September 25

In Their Words

In Their Words — Sunday, August 11, 2013

August 11, 2013December 9, 2021 Michael J. Casey

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

In Their Words

In Their Words — Saturday, July 20, 2013

July 20, 2013December 9, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps would have never been seen.  —Robert Bresson Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, July 20, 2013

In Their Words

In Their Words — Thursday, April 18, 2013

April 18, 2013December 14, 2021 Michael J. Casey

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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