#André Bazin

[davidhudson]

André Bazin, April 18, 1918 – November 11, 1958.

#andré bazin #cinema #film #movies #film criticism

[schizografia]

In una psicanalisi delle arti plastiche la pratica dell’imbalsamazione potrebbe essere ritenuta come un fatto fondamentale della loro genesi. All’origine della pittura e della scultura, ci sarebbe così “il complesso” della mummia.

André Bazin

#andré bazin #mummia #barthélemy amengual

[arturhours]

Le Mépris (1963), Les Carabiniers (1963), Masculin Féminin (1966) Weekend (1967)

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard

#jean luc godard #french new wave #nouvelle vague #60s #contempt #le mépris #le mepris #jean pierre leaud #french cinema #cinema #masculin feminin #weekend #les carabiniers #andré bazin

[laurent-bigot]

LES ARTISANS DE LA NOUVELLE VAGUE

LES ARTISANS DE LA NOUVELLE VAGUE

Après des années d’effort, demeurés à peu près vains depuis 1945, de jeunes réalisateurs français réussirent enfin à se faire remarquer en faisant irruption dans le monde cinématographique avec une énergie sans précédent. L’apparition soudaine en 1959 de la nouvelle vague mit le monde cinématographique en émoi. Ce fut une extraordinaire explosion d’activité créatrice : en dix-huit mois, une…

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#agnes varda #alexandre astruc #andré bazin #éric rohmer #chris marker #claude chabrol #eric rohmer #françois reichenbach #françois truffaut #jacques doniol valcroze #jacques rivette #jacques rozier #jean luc godard #jean rouch #louis malle #marcel camus #pierre kast

[rwpohl]

#andré bazin #what is cinema? #books

[diivdeep]

#sight and sound #bfi #article #long read #andré bazin #film

[semnebune]

„Ce este cinematograful?” de André Bazin (vol.2)

„Ce este cinematograful?” de André Bazin (vol.2)

UNTAC PRESS, editura Universității Naționale de Artă Teatrală și Cinematografică „I.L. Caragiale” din București, și Editura Polirom lansează la ediția din acest an a Târgului de Carte Gaudeamus un text fundamental pentru estetica filmului: volumul al doilea al proiectului Ce este cinematograful? de André Bazin. Evenimentul va avea loc la standul Editurii Polirom: duminică, 11 decembrie, de la ora…

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#André Bazin #Andrei Gorzo #Andrei Rus #Editura Polirom #Editura UNATC PRESS #Gabriela Filippi

[already-14]

Cinema, of our time: 🎬 Filmmakers of our time 🎥: The dinosaur and the baby: An eight-part dialogue between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard (TV) 1967 in French, 4K 2160p 25 fps

(via CINÉASTES de NOTRE TEMPS📽: Le dinosaure et le bébé: Dialogue entre Fritz LANG et Jean-Luc GODARD 4K📽 - YouTube)

#youtube #jean-luc godard #fritz lang #andré labarthe #janine bazin #1967

[catsofyore]

Renowned film critic André Bazin with cat friend. Source.

#cat #cats #catsofyore #Andre bazin #cinema #tabby

[come2coffin]

iwtv 2.02 ‘do you know what it means to be loved by death’ / andré bazin ‘ontology of the photographic image’

#it’s a reduction 🕺🕺 #so when is louis gonna meet bazin #iwtv #iwtv spoilers #does this count as revision #😔😔😔

[thinkingimages]

'I’ll be looking at the moon, but I’ll be seeing you.’ Alkazi Foundation

Hari Katragadda, in collaboration with writer and artist Shweta Upadhyay, won the prestigious Alkazi Grant for their ingeniously intense photobook titled 'I’ll be looking at the moon, but I’ll be seeing you.’ Hari said the project was inspired by the opening scene in Jean Luc- Godard’s Le Mépris (1963) and the Billie Holiday song, I’ll Be Seeing You (1944).

"The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires."

André Bazin, French film critic

This famous quote shines brightly on-screen in the opening sequence of Le Mépris. The idea of desire is the thematic crux of Hari and Shweta’s photo book. Hari conceived the idea and translated it into this photo series through the expressions of the protagonist, his partner Shweta. The series is a tribute to the ephemeral moments filled with memories of loves lost and a yearning for the reawakening of love. It attempts to capture ways of seeing and perceiving one’s lover, desire, the lack thereof, and the heartache that follows a search for the elusive other...

#Hari Katragadda #Shweta Upadhyay #'I’ll be looking at the moon #but I’ll be seeing you. #photobook #photobooks #books

[davidhudson]

André Bazin, April 18, 1918 – November 11, 1958.

#andré bazin #cinema #film #movies #film criticism

[world-cinema-research]

The 400 Blows/Les Cuatre Cents Coups (1959)

By Cris Nyne

The directorial debut of pioneering French filmmaker, François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, left a lasting imprint on the timeline of international cinema. To know Truffaut’s history before becoming director makes the film even more of a remarkable achievement. His life began as a troubled youth, engaging in petty crimes and was well on his way to a path of self-destruction. It was in his late teenage years when recognized film critic André Bazin would take Truffaut under his wing and give him a job as critic for the film magazine Cahiers du cinéma. During this time, Truffaut would become recognized as a brutal critic of French films. His infamy stretched to Festival de Cannes, where he would be denied accreditation in 1958. The following year in 1959, Truffaut would get his revenge by being crowned Best Director for The 400 Blows at Cannes. This all by the age of 27. Truffaut would continue to turn the film industry on its head and help pave the way for what today is known as French New Wave.

“If the New Wave marks the dividing point between classic and modern cinema (and many think it does), then Truffaut is likely the most beloved of modern directors -- the one whose films resonated with the deepest, richest love of moviemaking.” -Roger Ebert August 8, 1999

The 400 Blows is a semi-autobiographical tale that follows the young star Jean-Pierre Léaud as the mischievous Antoine Doinel. Antoine is humiliated by his teacher, skips school, steals, and smokes cigarettes while contemplating a better life A life away from his father’s failures and his mother’s affairs. Both parents find themselves exhausted of all options for their son (or the lack of attention they care to provide) and send him off to a school for troubled children. From the beginning of the film, his parents seem to have other priorities in filling the hole in their marriage, and Antoine is essentially a victim of having too much unsupervised time on his hands. By the end of the film, Antoine is contemplating his life outside of the observation center for delinquent youth. He makes a dash for it.

Source: Blu-ray.com

“The movie is full of actual incidents from Truffaut’s childhood, including his fabricating his mother’s death as an excuse for truancy. Few movies have been so personal.” -J.Hoberman, The New York Times September 21, 2022

The movie was well received by audiences and critics alike. He won Best Director at Cannes in 1959, as well as a nominee for the Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded at Cannes. The French regional newspaper Nice-Matin claimed The 400 Blows to be “A Masterpiece”. The chemistry between Léaud and Truffaut was strong. They would go on to make three more feature films with Léaud revising his role as Antoine Doinel, Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), and Love on the Run (1979). Currently, Rotten Tomatoes lists The 400 Blows with a rating of 94%.

Original Movie Release Poster

The film is in black and white and is shot in a very personal manner. There are lots of close-space encounters that make you feel as if you are squeezing into the room with them. The house that Antoine lives with his mother and father is very small. During one scene as Antoine is sleeping, his mother, Gilberte Doinel (played by Claire Maurier), comes home after a long night and cannot open the door all the way as it is stopped by the mattress that Antoine sleeps on. There are many fun street scenes shot from different angles- subterranean, street-level, and roof tops, that portray Antoine and his friends plotting and scheming around the streets of Paris. There are a few scenes that follow the main character along a stretch of blocks, and I found myself thinking about how smooth the camerawork was.

During its filming and release date, The 400 Blows took the idea of conventional filmmaking and shredded the blueprint. The director was only known as a stubborn critic and the main star of the film was completely unknown. The script was a unique story, one that, for the most part, Truffaut had lived and had made it through to tell the tale of a rebellious and delinquent child on a bad path. A child that by today’s standards would probably be diagnosed with an attention deficit disorder and prescribed medication. What was once an extremely unconventional approach to filmmaking has now become a standard in delivering a storyline. Truffaut’s confidence in leaping from critic to auteur has left a rippling effect that you can still see over 7 decades later.   

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[busterkeatonsociety]

#TalkieTuesday Jacques Tati in a 1958 interview with André Bazin and Truffaut on inspiration, Buster Keaton.  He slightly misremembers the scene - thanks to @DannyDrinksWine on Twitter!

#talkie tuesday #buster keaton #jacques tati #quote #kathryn mcguire #donald crisp #the navigator #1920s #silent era #silent movies #vintage hollywood #ibks #the international buster keaton society #buster keaton society #the damfinos #damfino #damfamily

[thecryptkeeper]

The History of Video Art 

readings listed below:

A History of Video Art (2nd Edition) - Chris Meigh-Andrews

Television: Technology and Cultural Form - Raymond Williams

Video: The Distinctive Features Of The Medium - David Antin

Video: From Technology to Medium - Yvonne Spielmann

Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism - Rosalind Krauss

The Autobiography of Video: Outline for a Revisionist Account of Early Video Art - Ina Blom

Performance, Video, and the Rhetoric of Presence - Anne M. Wagner

The Evolution of Film Language - André Bazin

Image after Image: The Video Art of Bill Viola - Chris Keith

Video Haptics and Erotics - Laura U. Marks

The Temporalities of Video: Extendedness Revisited - Christine Ross

Video/Media Culture of the Late Twentieth Century - John G. Hanhardt and Maria Christina Villaseñor

Analog Circuit Palettes, Cathode Ray Canvases: Digital’s Analog, Experimental Past - Gregory Zinman

The Unifications of the Senses: Intermediality in Video Art-Music - Holly Rogers

The Modernist Event - Hayden White

Ken Jacobs: Digital Revelationist - Malcolm Turvey

Reverse Shot (Dialogues with Sky Hopinka, Tiffany Sia and Emma Wolukau-Waanambwa) - Emily Watlington

From Nostalgia to Anachrnoy: Omer Fast, Michael Robinson, and Home Video Appropriation - James Hansen

Gillian Wearing, Private I - Nancy Princenthal

Like Life (Review of Cao Fei) - Eleanor Heartney

John Smith: Everyday Disruptions - Mark Prince

Ulysses Jenkins: A Griot for the Electronic Age - Paul Von Blum

From Narcissism to the Dialogic: Identity in Art after the Internet - Melissa Gronlund

The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses - Laura U. Marks  

#reading list #to read #art history

[snek-snacc]

I talk about Will Wood the way André Bazin talks about Vittorio De Seca

#posts for a very niche audience