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André Bazin's Writings

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2008-06-29 22:25:00 by girish in girish
...Bazin and Sartre in the new Film Quarterly opens with a shocking fact Stacked nearly a meter high in my attic are photocopies of all--or nearly all--Bazin's published writings. This amounts to over 2600 items, of which, scandalously, less than seven per cent are available in French or English To which Andrew appends this uncertain note: "...
 
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THE RECEIVED WISDOM OF ANDRÉ BAZINJ. Hoberman Quotes

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2008-07-07 15:20:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Bazin , aware thatin the case of Bazin specificallyI have received Bazin's wisdom precisely through numerous quotes that authors have craftily sifted from his voluminous writings. I tend to empty these quotes into an electronic file I've created on Bazin andimagine my surprise!when last I checked that file is already 40 pages long! And this...
 
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THE RECEIVED WISDOM OF ANDRÉ BAZINOnline Resources

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2008-07-08 13:09:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Bazin. To supplement Girish Shambu's query as to which of Bazin's publications available in English he might be missing, I offer upagainsome samplings accessible online Books By Bazin As Girish detailed, the two volumes of [ Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? ] What is Cinema? (1967, 1971), translated by Hugh Gray contain many of his best-known...
 
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Gilles Deleuze and Contemplative Cinema

2007-01-27 12:08:00 by adrian chan in Reviews and analysis of significant films and movies, on dvd and in theaters
 
...Bazin put forward the fundamental requirement of formal aesthetic criteria. According to him, it was a matter of a new form of reality, said to be dispersive, elliptical, errant or wavering, working in blocs, with deliberately weak connections and floating events. The real was no longer represented or reproduced but 'aimed at.' Instead of...
 
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Film Magazines

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2008-01-28 00:30:00 by girish in girish
...Bazin. The articles look interesting but are available in the print edition only (e.g. William Rothman's "Bazin as Cavellian Realist"; Diane Stevenson's "Godard and Bazin"; TIFF report by Barry Keith Grant). I'm considering subscribing to it I like to visit the Film Reference Library in downtown Toronto from time to time. They carry a large...
 
Tags: film, film magazines, library, film reference library, archives, film comment archives, international film mags, film international, film comment
 
 
 
 
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Borde & Chaumeton

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2007-06-18 12:05:00 by girish in girish
...Bazin said, that since the war cinematic eroticism had shifted from the thigh to the breast. Marilyn Monroe makes it descend somewhere between the two. [ I wonder when and where Bazin said this?g Howard Hawkss The Big Sleep The sordid settings and their bizarre details, the brief but merciless fistfights, the furtive murders, the sudden...
 
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Creative Geography in Cinema

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2008-08-10 17:15:00 by girish in girish
...Bazin claimed, that is the reason for cinema's special vocation: that of realism. Bazin felt that in relation to all the other arts, this bestowed upon cinema a special responsibility--to capture reality But even if the camera is particularly suited--more so than the paintbrush--to perfectly capturing physical reality in all its detail, not...
 
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ANTICIPATING AKERMAN

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2009-01-01 17:49:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Bazin famously referred to as the 'microaction' beloved by the Neorealists. The mundane is treated with just as much significance as the dramatic, thereby 'ruling out the slightest hierarchy,' as Bazin put it, between the two. Akerman pushes dedramatization even further than her cinematic forebears, fully reversing traditional narrative...
 
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James Naremore

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2007-06-25 07:40:00 by girish in girish
...Bazin, J for Johnny Guitar , O for Max Ophuls, R for Red Line 7000 , V for Josef von Sternberg, etc 3) Six Artistic Cultures (written with Patrick Brantlinger, an introduction to the anthology they edited, Modernity and Mass Culture , 1991). A cultural typology, drawing from extensive historical study, detailing six kinds of cultures: high...
 
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Watching, Reading, Talking, Writing, Anticipating

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2007-06-09 17:56:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...Bazin's influential analysis, to Alistair Cooke's personal reminiscences, to reviews by the likes of Graham Greene, Otis Ferguson, Penelope Gilliat and Andrew Sarris. Schickel even includes a piece by at least one Chaplin naysayer: George Jean Nathan, who, while evaluating City Lights , calls him "a limited actor", "a shabby musician", an...
 
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