#alexandre astruc

[gatutor]

Anouk Aimée-Jean-Claude Pascal "Le rideau cramoisi" 1953, de Alexandre Astruc.

[salvadorbonaparte]

"But with the development of 16mm and television, the day is not far off when everyone will possess a projector, will go to the local bookstore and hire films written on any subject, of any form, from literary criticism and novels to mathematics, history, and general science"

RIP Alexandre Astruc you would have loved the age of streaming

[edwordsmyth]

Luchino Visconti

[sawasawako-archived]

We have come to realise that the meaning which the silent cinema tried to give birth to through symbolic association exists within the image itself, in the development of the narrative, in every gesture of the characters, in every line of dialogue, in those camera movements which relate objects to objects and characters to objects. All thought, like all feeling, is a relationship between one human being and another human being or certain objects which form part of his universe. It is by clarifying these relationships, by making a tangible allusion, that the cinema can really make itself the vehicle of thought.

[...] The cinema of today is capable of expressing any kind of reality. What interests us is the creation of this new language. We have no desire to rehash those poetic documentaries and surrealist films of twenty-five years ago every time we manage to escape the demands of a commercial industry. Let’s face it: between the pure cinema of the 1920s and filmed theatre, there is plenty of room for a different and individual kind of film-making.

– Alexandre Astruc, The Birth of a New Avant Garde: La Caméro-Stylo (1948)

[schizografia]

L’espressione del pensiero è il problema fondamentale del cinema.

Alexandre Astruc

[laurent-bigot]

LES ARTISANS DE LA NOUVELLE VAGUE

LES ARTISANS DE LA NOUVELLE VAGUE

Après des années d’effort, demeurés à peu près vains depuis 1945, de jeunes réalisateurs français réussirent enfin à se faire remarquer en faisant irruption dans le monde cinématographique avec une énergie sans précédent. L’apparition soudaine en 1959 de la nouvelle vague mit le monde cinématographique en émoi. Ce fut une extraordinaire explosion d’activité créatrice : en dix-huit mois, une…

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[davidhudson]

Henri-Georges Clouzot, November 20, 1907 - January 12, 1977.

Receiving the Louis-Delluc Award for Diabolique on December 18, 1954.

From left to right, sitting: Jean Renoir, Clouzot, and André Malraux. And standing: Jacques Tati, Jacques Becker, Robert Bresson, Jeff Musso, Alexandre Astruc, and Noël-Noël.

[cinema0]

Une vie 1958, dir. Alexandre Astruc