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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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. A key influence on the French New Wave and the director of such iconic works as Pickpocket and A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson is one of the central figures of French cinema. This is not only his definitive treatise on film - its inherent peculiarity and potential - but an ascetic meditation on how art transcends, and is transformed by, the senses. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781681370248
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Product DescriptionThe 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 Bressons 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 Rilkes Letters to a Young Poet, for anyone who responds to the claims of the imagination at its most searching and rigorous.Review"The collection Bresson on Bresson: Interviews 1943-1983 and Bresson's own Notes on the Cinematograph are primers for the gradual understanding of Robert Bresson, to paraphrase Gertrude Stein.Notes on the Cinematograph is the ultimate refinement of Bresson's thought, a loosely grouped succession of aphorisms and Zen koans." -J. Hoberman, The New York TimesIf there were any director you might expect to write what is, in effect, a philosophical notebook on the art and science of film-making, it would be Bresson.This isa collection that reaches beyond its subject matter. It actually is philosophy. -Nicholas Lezard, The GuardianHalf-philosophy, half-poetry, Notes on the Cinematograph reads in places like The Art of War for filmmakers. -John Semley, The A.V. ClubThe power of Bressons films lies in the fact that his purity and fastidiousness are at the same time an idea about life, about what Cocteau called inner style, about the most serious way of being human. -Susan Sontag"Short, aphoristic fragments that guide Bresson's film making. Scribbed down as 'notes to self,' reading them in whole is astonishing & inspiring, a totality of a brilliant filmmaker." --Mike Kitchell, HTMLGiantNotes on the Cinematograph.feels like the rare beast: a manifesto of filmmaking one doesnt see much of nowadays. In it, Bressons artistic philosophy is laid bare.-Zak Salih, The Los Angeles Review of BooksAn original and singular figure, Breton sought a truer form of narrative film.a welcome creative tool, both for people interested in making art and for those who just enjoy talking or thinking about it.-Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, A.V. ClubBressons films are many things. They are among the most maddeningly beautiful in all of cinema; each is like a wedge violently driven into the world. Bressons cinema is a monument to an idea of art that knows no compromise.-Michael Blum, The Brooklyn RailAbout the AuthorRobert Bresson (1901-1999) was born in Bromont-Lamothe, France. He attended the Lyce Lakanal in Sceaux, and moved to Paris after graduation, hoping to become a painter. He directed a short comedy, Affaires publiques, in 1934, but his work was curtailed by the outbreak of World War II. He enlisted in the French army in 1939 and was captured in 1940, spending a year in a labor camp as a prisoner of war. After his release he returned to Paris and directed Angels of Sin (1943), his first full-length film, under the German occupation. Les dames du Bois de Boulogne followed in 1945, and in 1951 Diary of a Country Priest was met with widespread acclaim. His next film, A Man Escaped (1956), which follows the memoirs of Andr Devigny, a French Resistance leader incarcerated during World War II, became a hit. He made eleven more films over the next three decades, including Mouchette (ad. Seller Inventory # DADAX1681370247