Re: [bresson-no-spam] Re: Diary of a Country Priest
Re: his colour films, I do understand how you find them different from his
earlier works; to me they are colder and less inviting, however no less brilliant.
You should really try “L’Argent” again; it is the film in which he perfected
his cinematic techniques.
Re: "Four Nights of a Dreamer" on DVD/VHS. Both "Four
Nights" and "A Gentle Woman" have yet to be released on DVD due
to the request of Bresson's widower, however both were released on VHS in USA
by New Yorker and you can probably find them on eBay.
----- Original Message ---- From: David Ehrenstein <cellar47@...> To: bresson-no-spam@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, 9 December, 2007 1:02:53 AM Subject: Re: [bresson-no-spam] Re: Diary of a Country Priest
If you're looking for "expression' in Bresson via the
faces of his models then you have the wrong filmmaker.
With Boresson it's the ENTIRE BODY not the face that's
used as an expresive resource. And I couldn't disagree
more about Breson's poetics. The sequence in which the
title is evoked in "Le Diable Probablement" is created
from the purest audio-visual poetry imaginable.
> Yes, I do understand what you mean, absolutely, and
> it's a point well
> taken, although a director (any artist) can go to an
> extreme, which
> is what I feel Bresson started to do more and more
> and his films also
> began to show less of a "poetic" feel in his imagery
> and his editing
> became more deliberately and consciously abrupt. I
> could at least
> discern some sadness in Mouchette's expression at
> times, and both
> sadness and anguish in Claude Laydu's face in
> "Diary", even though
> neither of them was "acting" in a very emotional
> manner. ..That
> interview you mentioned is - I THINK -- the one that
> I've seen before
> (indicates 1960) where the first shot is that of
> three empty chairs.
> It's a rather strange interview --- whether it was
> produced purposely
> with mock, 'tongue-in-cheek' seriousness or not, I
> don't know -- but
> I'm wondering if it might have been a sort of gentle
> parody (just for
> fun, and yet still with great admiration) of
> Bresson's own unique,
> seemingly cold, unemotional( !) directorial style,
> while still at the
> same time being a series of serious questions for
> him. Or maybe I'm
> just imagining things.
>
> Paul
>
>
> --- In bresson-no-spam@ yahoogroups. com, David
> Ehrenstein
> <cellar47@.. .> wrote:
> >
> > There's a difference between "not acting
> emotional" and "acting
> emotionless. " Bresson's models are the former.
> >
> > There's also an interview with Bresson at the time
> of "Pickpocket"
> on YouTube. He's very funny, flirty and sly in it.
> He responds to the
> question of whether he ever knew any pickpockets as
> if the questioner
> asked him if he were gay.
>
>
As it happens, i think L'Argn tis Mr. Bresson's masterpiece. As i recal in an interivew he gave, he thoug tit his best work. Shmuel Ben-Gad, Gelman Library, ...
Re: his colour films, I do understand how you find them different from his earlier works; to me they are colder and less inviting, however no less brilliant. ...
Yes, Matt -- it's the coldness. David's correct when he mentioned that Bresson's models don't "act emotional", and that their faces lack expression because...
Cinefile usually has Une femme douce on VHS available, too, Paul. See if it's there when you check out Les dames. And make sure you tell us what you thought of...
Warning: this message gives the ending of L'Argent away. If you have not seen it yet, I strongly sggest not reading any further! Like some other. I think i...
... Some Bressonians respond to the ... The thing is I don't find the later films cold at all. "Une Femme Douce Is incredibly passionate. How can any film...
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Have you read it? What is it like.? I never heard of it before, i must confess. Shmuel Ben-Gad, Gelman Library, George Washington University. "The world is...
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... "Saddened" hell! He STALKED Dominque Sanda for amny years afterwards, calling her up at all hours and breathing into the phone without speaking. ...
Thank you, Mr. Lee. I doubted whether she was opposed in principle to the films being released on DVD and am glad to see you confirm that. Would you please...
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