Robert Bresson: The Over-Plenty of Life
Ignatiy VishnevetskyIntroducing a new series of essays on the “tightly-packed excess” of Robert Bresson.
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Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of Robert Bresson
Adrian CurryA look at the best posters for the films of Robert Bresson, to coincide with the Film Forum retrospective.
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Daily Briefing. Cahiers du Cinema in English 11
David HudsonThe issue features a dossier on Orson Welles. Also: Remembering Doe Avedon.
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Complete Bresson Retrospective to Tour North America
David HudsonThe Poetry of Precision: The Films of Robert Bresson is the first complete retrospective in North America in 14 years.
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On Robert Bresson's 110th, Cahiers in English #8
David HudsonAnother generous post from Letters to Jane gives us Godard and Delahaye’s lengthy interview with Bresson.
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"St Nick," WC Fields, Cine las Americas, More
David Hudson"The indie Texan filmmaker David Lowery receives a double bill at the reRun Gastropub Theater in Dumbo, Brooklyn, and while Pioneer, a 16-minute short, and St Nick, an 86-minute feature, don't provide
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Bresson, Dolan, Beauvois, les frères Farrelly
David Hudson"French critic Pierre Bergé said that you have to bring a belief to Diary of a Country Priest, in either heaven or in the cinema." Rob Humanick in Slant: "Like the atheistic Pier Paolo Pasolini's The
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Viennale Dispatch 3: God Protects the King
Neil YoungAs previously mentioned in these dispatches (see #1 and #2), my chief sources of delight among the feature-length films shown at the 2009 Viennale were a pair of minor masterpieces from Filipino legend
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Le feu follet"
Adrian CurryThis suitably autumnal poster for Louis Malle’s Le feu follet (The Fire Within) was the creation of the brilliant German designer Hans Hillmann. Now 83 years old, Hillmann was a major film poster designer
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At the cinematheque: Dead Man's Stroll Through "The Late Films"
David PhelpsAbove: Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. “Late Films,” BAM’s new series is titled, as a series of neglected films made late in major directors’ careers, but as if the films themselves were
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At the cinematheque: "Léon Morin, Priest" (Melville, 1961)
Daniel KasmanAbove: Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean-Pierre Melville's Léon Morin, Priest. Image courtesy Rialto Pictures. Father the French New Wave and how do you proceed? By casting the star of
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Bressonian Artificial Eye
matthew swiezynskiA Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)Artificial Eye DVD Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974)Artificial Eye DVD Subtleties in 2 films by Robert Bresson, with moments of darkness