Robert Bresson

  • 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
  • Movie News

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,…

6 years ago
  • Directing

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…

6 years ago
  • MM Guide 2013

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.…

11 years ago