All posts tagged "Robert Bresson"
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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 Film. Four years later, he...
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Settling the Score: Director Matthew Porterfield on Selecting and Syncing Perfect Songs for Sollers Point
I’ve been committed to the idea of using mostly diegetic sound in my films. It’s not that I’m against score, I just find the puzzle...
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Blow by Blow: How Francois Truffaut and His New Wave Contemporaries Deconstructed Filmmaking
As one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave, Francois Truffaut used cinema to capture “truth 24 times per second,” and his desire...
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The Working Class Moviemaker: Joe Swanberg’s 10 Tips on Earning a Living Making Microbudget Films
Stanley Kubrick and Robert Bresson each helmed 13 feature films over the span of their careers. John Cassavetes shot 12. Béla Tarr made 10. Andrei...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...