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Notes on the Cinematographer (French: Notes sur le cinématographe) is a 1975 book by the French filmmaker Robert Bresson. It collects Bresson's reflections on cinema written as short aphorisms. [1] J. M. G. Le Clézio wrote a preface for a new edition in 1988. [2] The book was published in English in 1977, translated by Jonathan Griffin. [3]
- Robert Bresson
- 1975
Apr 4, 2004 · Robert Bresson wrote a slim volume of his thoughts on cinema called Notes on Cinematographer which defies categorisation. What is striking and unique about Bresson is how his writing is so much like his filmmaking: the elliptical style, the epigrammatic prose, the obtuse meanings, the material rigidity, the conciseness, the frugality of means.
Jan 15, 2020 · Robert Bresson’s book on filmmaking Notes on the Cinematograph, known in other publications as Notes on Cinematography as well as Notes on the Cinematographer, is both a must-read and must-have for filmmakers and film lovers alike.
Notes on the Cinematographer (French: Notes sur le cinématographe) is a 1975 book by the French filmmaker Robert Bresson. It collects Bresson's reflections on cinema written as short aphorisms. [1] J. M. G. Le Clézio wrote a preface for a new edition in 1988. [2] The book was published in English in 1977, translated by Jonathan Griffin. [3]
Jun 21, 2014 · Plus, the director's own notes on cinematography and cinema. Though he only made 13 films in a fifty year career, Bresson's influence is outsized. The relative paucity of his output is a testament both to his exacting working methods and difficulty in finding funding.
- Justin Morrow
Sep 23, 2017 · Notes on the Cinematograph contains a series of brief notes and fragments that Bresson wrote to himself while making films over a period of several decades between 1950 and 1974.
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The cinema (photographed theater) shows to what extent. No absolute value to an image. Sound and image owe their value and their power only to the use you put them to. In the mixture of true and false, the true makes the false stand out, the false prevents belief in the true.
