Research Catalog

Title

Bresson on Bresson : interviews, 1943-1983 / Robert Bresson ; edited by Mylène Bresson ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis ; preface by Pascal Mérigeau.

Author

Bresson, Robert

Publication

New York : New York Review Books, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bresson, Mylène
• Moschovakis, Anna
• Mérigeau, Pascal

Description

xv, 285 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Bresson par Bresson. English

Alternative Title

Bresson par Bresson.

Subject

• Bresson, Robert > Interviews
• Bresson, Robert
• Motion picture producers and directors > France > Interviews
• Motion picture producers and directors
• France

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Contents

Preface -- Public affairs, 1934 : Prelude -- Angels of sin, 1943 : It takes an auteur ; Jean Giraudoux -- Les dames du Bois de Boulogne, 1945 : Scandals and shocks ; Interiority leads the way ; Jean Cocteau ; The Festival du Film Maudit -- Diary of a country priest, 1951 : Between these two worlds ; It's the impossibility that attracts me ; To see and to hear ; As I would write a poem -- A man escaped, 1956 : The wind blows where it wants to ; A new means of expression -- Pickpocket, 1959 : A film made of hands, objects, and glances ; A film's rhythm should be like the beating of a heart ; To capture only what is real ; To get to the mystery ; Poetry and truth are sisters -- The trial of Joan of Arc, 1962 : This familiarity with the palpably supernatural ; I know of nothing more atrocious or more poignant ; It's what the film wanted ; Emotion should be our only guide ; Joan of Arc was beautiful, elegant, approachable, modern ; To make her real, to bring her close ; If you want the current to flow, you have to strip the wires -- Adaptation : Aspects of dramatic creation -- Au hasard Balthazar, 1966 : A donkey in all its purity, its tranquility, its serenity, its sanctity ; The freest film I've made, the one to which I've given the most of myself ; To create life without copying it ; The beaten path -- Mouchette, 1967 : More in the manner of portraitists ; Something else I like in Bernanos: his supernatural is constructed from the real ; Looks that kill -- The sound track : The ear is far more creative than the eye -- A gentle woman, 1969 : The confrontation between death and life ; I am here, the other is elsewhere, and the silence is terrible -- Four nights of a dreamer, 1972 : Art is not a luxury, but a vital need ; Between blue and brown ; I look for surprises -- Lancelot of the Lake, 1974 : To bring the past into the present ; It was Lancelot's very particular inner adventure that I found striking ; Torn between fidelity and felony ; The sound of iron ; The Grail -- Notes on the cinematograph, 1975 : You strip your art naked -- The devil, probably, 1977 : The adversary ; The gaps are where the poetry slips in -- L'argent, 1983 : O money, visible god! ; The cinema is immense. We haven't done a thing.

Call Number

MWES (Bresson, R.) 17-1263

ISBN

• 9781681370446
• 1681370441

LCCN

2016017891

OCLC

939994854

Author

Bresson, Robert, author.

Title

Bresson on Bresson : interviews, 1943-1983 / Robert Bresson ; edited by Mylène Bresson ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis ; preface by Pascal Mérigeau.

Publisher

New York : New York Review Books, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Bresson, Mylène, editor.

Moschovakis, Anna, translator.

Mérigeau, Pascal, writer of added commentary.

Other Form:

Online version: Bresson, Robert author. Bresson on Bresson. New York : New York Review Books, 2016 9781681370453 (DLC) 2016030526

Research Call Number

MWES (Bresson, R.) 17-1263