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Tag: Robert Bresson

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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In Their Words — Tuesday, March 26, 2013

March 26, 2013December 18, 2021 Michael J. Casey

You can’t show everything. If you do, it’s no longer art. Art lies in suggestion. The great difficulty for filmmakers is precisely not to show things. Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible. —Robert Bresson Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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In Their Words — Friday, March 8, 2013

March 8, 2013December 19, 2021 Michael J. Casey

I’d rather people feel a film before understanding it. I’d rather feelings arise before intellect. —Robert Bresson Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, March 8, 2013

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In Their Words — Monday, January 7, 2013

January 7, 2013December 21, 2021 Michael J. Casey

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. —Robert Bresson Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, January 7, 2013

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In Their Words — December 13, 2012

December 13, 2012December 23, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I’d say that film is the sculpting of time. —Andrei Tarkovsky Continue reading In Their Words — December 13, 2012

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In Their Words — December 10, 2012

December 10, 2012December 23, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Just like a painter who does not use colours, but their correlation; blue is blue in itself, but next to green, red or yellow, it is not the same blue anymore: it changes. The aim is for the film to … Continue reading In Their Words — December 10, 2012

In Their Words

In Their Words — Monday, November 19, 2012

November 19, 2012December 25, 2021 Michael J. Casey

I don’t think much of technique, or making technique a part of things. If you find a new way to catch life, nature, this could change details, but not the whole. I don’t think so much of what I do … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, November 19, 2012

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In Their Words — Thursday, October 25, 2012

October 25, 2012December 27, 2021 Michael J. Casey

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. —Robert Bresson Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, October 25, 2012

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