The French film director Robert Bresson was one of the great artists of the twentieth century and among the most radical, original, and radiant stylists of any time. He worked with nonprofessional actors—models, as he called them—and deployed a starkly limited but hypnotic array of sounds and images to produce such classic works as A Man Escaped, Pickpocket, Diary of a Country Priest, and Lancelot of the Lake. From the beginning to the end of his career,...

A philosophical engagement with Bresson's many films, attentive to more than their religiosity.Over a forty-year career, Robert Bresson developed one of the most distinctive cinematic styles in the history of filmmaking. Criticizing conventional movies as "filmed theater," Bresson proposed instead a way of writing with images, which he called "cinematographs." Robert B. Pippin argues here for a way of understanding how these stylistic innovations express a range of...

Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career, he held to an uncompromising moral vision and aesthetic rigor that remain unmatched. Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film is the first comprehensive study to give equal attention to the films, their literary sources, and psycho-biographical ...

Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career, he held to an uncompromising moral vision and aesthetic rigor that remain unmatched. Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film is the first comprehensive study to give equal attention to the films, their literary sources, and psycho-biographical ...

Robert Bresson, the director of such cinematic master-pieces as Pickpocket, A Man Escaped Mouchette, and L’Argent, was one of the most influential directors in the history of French film, as well as one of the most stubbornly individual: He insisted on the use of nonprofessional actors; he shunned the “advances” of Cinerama and Cinema-Scope (and the work of most of his predecessors and peers); and he minced no words about the damaging influence of capita...

« Le film est le type même de l’œuvre qui réclame un style. » R. B. Pendant quarante ans, Robert Bresson a accordé nombre d’entretiens à la presse française et étrangère, à la radio et à la télévision. Ses réponses aux multiples questions, de toutes sortes, apportent d’importantes précisions sur ses films, son art et l’évolution de sa pensée. Et elles accompagnent, devancent, prolongent ses Notes sur le cinématographe. Interrogé par Yvonne Baby, François-Régis Bastide, Michel Ciment, Serge...

Challenging the prevailing notion among cinephiles that the auteur is an isolated genius interested primarily in individualism, Colin Burnett positions Robert Bresson as one whose life's work confronts the cultural forces that helped shape it. Regarded as one of film history's most elusive figures, Bresson (1901–1999) carried himself as an auteur long before cultural magazines, like the famed Cahiers du cinéma, advanced the term to describe such directors as Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock,...

Challenging the prevailing notion among cinephiles that the auteur is an isolated genius interested primarily in individualism, Colin Burnett positions Robert Bresson as one whose life's work confronts the cultural forces that helped shape it. Regarded as one of film history's most elusive figures, Bresson (1901–1999) carried himself as an auteur long before cultural magazines, like the famed Cahiers du cinéma, advanced the term to describe such directors as Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock,...

Une fiche de référence sur Pickpocket, un chef-d'oeuvre de Robert Bresson.Pickpocket marque assurément une date dans l'histoire du cinéma français. Il y a un « avant » et un « après » ce sixième long-métrage de Robert Bresson (1907-1999), tant son style est unique et radical dans ses partis pris d'austérité.Les grands films méritent le même traitement que les grands livres. Sur le modèle des fiches de lecture, les fiches cinéma d'Encyclopaedia Univ...

Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French movie director. Over 25 years, he compiled some reflections about movies as an art form and applied these in his work. Bresson may be best known for two tragedies, "Au Hasard Balthazar" and "Mouchette," and for a black comedy commenting on modern society, "The Devil Probably." In 1975, he published his reflections as "Notes on Cinematography." This remains essential reading today because many of the movie-making issues explored there are fundamental ...

Avocat, professeur d’université, ministre de la Justice, président du Conseil constitutionnel, sénateur, essayiste, Robert Badinter s’est toujours refusé à écrire ses mémoires, lui qui aimait tant cultiver le secret. Qui sait que son destin s’est joué un jour de février 1943 quand, à Lyon, la Gestapo a arrêté son père ? Qui connaît la véritable nature de sa longue amitié avec François Mitterrand ? D’où vient cette volonté tenace de combattre l’injustice ?Robert Badinter a raconté, à...

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