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Robert Bresson

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Life in the Dark

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Life in the Dark

I opened the new film issue of Image today, which was edited by cinephile Gareth Higgins and Rectify writer/director Scott Teems, and I was immediately caught up in a complicated conflict regarding one of my favorite filmmakers: Robert Bresson. In the essay called "Necessary Images," Teems writes,

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

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Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

[An abridged version of this review was published as a summary for the Arts and Faith Top 100 Films List.] • “Ponderous”? Yes. “Slow”? Indeed. But Robert Bresson’s 1951 film Diary of a Country Priest is an undisputed classic. It was the third of thirteen films by Bresson who, according

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David Foster Wallace; The Curator; Robert Bresson

REMEMBERING WALLACE (OR, PERHAPS, DISCOVERING HIM) Lots and lots of David Foster Wallace links! Read, be amazed, and be even more distraught over the loss of an imaginative writer. And McSweeney's is paying tribute as well. * CURATOR TWO: CURATORER There's a new batch of articles at

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Comparing Robert Bresson and Flannery O'Connor

The new issue of Senses of Cinema sounds is a feast of thought-provoking essays. Not only does it have a feature on the long, slow emergence of Blade Runner as a classic, but it features four essays on Robert Bresson... including one that asks us to consider the correlation of

Looking Elsewhere

Specials: "Land of Plenty." Starbucks music, NEA in trouble? Bresson an athiest?

WIM WENDERS & SCOTT DERRICKSON'S LAND OF PLENTYReviewed by Andrew O'Hehir at Salon . It's nice to see this film getting some attention, but why can't it find a distributor? And why doesn't O'Hehir even mention one of the

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Get ready for the Criterion DVD of "Au Hasard Balthazar"

Robert Bresson's haunting, soulful masterpiece is coming... Have you advance-ordered your copy? I have. This was the best film I saw on the big screen last year, and I've thought about it more than any other film since. If you don't know about this

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Au Hasard Balthazar

My favorite moviegoing experience of last year was Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar. Now, Darren Hughes at Long Pauses has given me the best news I've heard all week... The Criterion Collection is doing it up right. And if this is somebody's idea of