strangewood:

Orson Welles presents Robert Bresson and Andrei Tarkovsky with Best Director honors at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.

strangewood:

Diary of a Country Priest // dir. Robert Bresson

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

I cannot believe I haven’t read this considering it’s regarded along with Tarkovsky’s Sculpting in time, the best book written by a film maker on film making.

hcorbett:

‘Oh Jeanne, what a strange path I had to take to find you…’

darknessiseaseful:

Les dames du Bois de Boulogne, Robert Bresson, 1945

strangewood:

“Bresson is perhaps the only man in the cinema to have achieved the perfect fusion of the finished work with a concept theoretically formulated beforehand. I know of no other artist as consistent as he is in this respect. His guiding principle was the elimination of what is known as expressiveness, in the sense that he wanted to do away with the frontier between the image and actual life; that is, to render life itself graphic and expressive. No special feeding in of material, nothing laboured, nothing that smacks of deliberate generalisation.”

- Andrei Tarkovsky

a-bittersweet-life:

Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson at Cannes 1983.

explosionspace:

I fall in love with Andrei

betterposters:

Pickpocket (1959)