Robert Bresson

Who's Listal's Role Model? (184 person items)

"Mr. Saturn (8)"

Favorite Directors' Quotes (27 person items)

""My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water." "The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine." "Cinematography: a new way of writing, therefore of feeling.""

Matthew Takes on the Pantheon of Important Directo (40 person items)

"Minimalism at it's finest"

Favorite Filmmakers (53 person items)

" Interviewer:... do you, as Renoir said, let the unforeseen come into a shot? Bresson: Renoir said a lot of things that weren't true, but some of it is what I said. But he used actors. He tried to give the impression that he was using them, not as actors who were acting, but as actors who weren't acting. I'm really not sure what that is all about because an actor can't go back, can't be natural. He just can't. (interview) Bresson is perhaps the only man in the cinema to have achieved the perfec"

Andrei Tarkovsky's Favorite Directors (12 person items)

" Bresson is perhaps the only man in the cinema to have achieved the perfect fusion of the finished work with a concept theoretically formulated beforehand. I know of no other artist as consistent as he is in this respect. His guiding principle was the elimination of what is known as expressiveness, in the sense that he wanted to do away with the frontier between the image and actual life; that is, to render life itself graphic and expressive. No special feeding in of material, nothing labour"

Directors:The Filmography of... (207 person items)

"Robert Bresson: The Complete Filmography by Mr.Saturn"

Ingmar Bergman: opinions (25 person items)

""I felt a strong affinity with Bernanos' and Bresson's Mouchette. It's a film I would have liked to have made myself, but which I didn't understand. In Mouchette the motif is expressed clearly and explicitly, free from all impurities. The girl in Mouchette and the girl in The Devil's Wanton are sisters, sisters in two similar worlds. But while The Devil's Wanton is full of quirks and divagation and coquetry and jumps about all over the place, Mouchette is clear as daylight. It’s a pure work "

The top-60 directors (60 person items)

"Masterpiece: Pickpocket"