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Notes on the Cinematograph
Notes on the Cinematograph | Robert Bresson
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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, Bresson dedicated himself to making movies in which nothing is superfluous and everything is always at stake. Notes on the Cinematograph distills the essence of Bresson's theory and practice as a filmmaker and artist. He discusses the fundamental differences between theater and film; parses the deep grammar of silence, music, and noise; and affirms the mysterious power of the image to unlock the human soul. This book, indispensable for admirers of this great director and for ?students of the cinema, will also prove an inspiration, much like Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, for anyone who responds to the claims of the imagination at its most searching and rigorous.
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aconeyisland
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How hide from oneself the fact that it all ends up on a rectangle of white fabric hung on a wall?

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aconeyisland
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My movie is born first in my head, dies in paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed in film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again, like flowers in water.

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PixieDust
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This is more philosophical than it is technical. Highly recommend if you‘re a fan of Bresson.

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CaseyMoore
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Mehso-so

First book of 2018. A bit pretentious, but one of those required texts for understanding film history and Bresson. Still, a nice way to start my reading for 2018.