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 and not just about the state of the art during his time.
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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 h...
Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was a Japanese movie director whose movies were enjoyed all over the world. Although he made over 30 movies with a wide range of themes and settings to considerable acclaim, he humbly claimed always to be a student of movies. Late in life, Kurosawa considered ""Ran"" as his best movie. However, several of his movies have been influential in many different ways. The subjectivity of recollections about an event witnessed by different observers is now sometimes named The Rashomon Effect after Kurosawa's ""Rashomon."" ""The Hidden Fortress"" provided inspiration for the...
Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was a Japanese movie director whose movies were enjoyed all over the world. Although he made over 30 movies with a wide ran...
