Bruno Dumont

  • Movie News

France Writer-Director Bruno Dumont Writes a Straight Story and Then Twists It On Set

France writer-director Bruno Dumont writes straightforward — albeit literary — screenplays, and then he pushes the satirical elements once on…

2 years ago
  • The Rundown

Alec Baldwin Prop Gun Tragedy; The French Dispatch Design; Michael Bay is Back

A tragic incident on a Sante Fe film set involving a prop gun and star Alec Baldwin; A look inside…

3 years ago
  • Book Reviews

Book Review: Transcendental Style in Film

In 1972, film student and aspiring critic Paul Schrader published his landmark study on spirituality in cinema, Transcendental Style in…

6 years ago
  • Moviemaking

Comic Timing: Slack Bay Continues French Director Bruno Dumont’s Pivot Into Slapstick and Farce

If you had told anyone in 2013—after his heartbreaking seventh feature, Camille Claudel 1915—that famously austere French filmmaker Bruno Dumont would…

7 years ago