“We are still coming to terms with Robert Bresson, and the peculiar power and beauty of his films,” Martin Scorsese said in the 2010 book “A Passion For Film,” describing the often overlooked French filmmaker as “one of the cinema’s greatest artists.”
But while he may be revered by some as the finest French filmmaker bar Jean Renoir, outside hardcore cinephile circles he and his films are virtually unknown (perhaps regarded as too opaque or nebulous). Just consider the fact that almost every definitive book on the elusive director was published during the aughts to feel the full truth of Scorsese's statement about how we're still in the process of appreciating and understanding his life and work. Even Bresson’s actual birthdate is contested, adding further the ambiguities surrounding the director.
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen,” the meticulous Bresson once famously said, hinting at...
But while he may be revered by some as the finest French filmmaker bar Jean Renoir, outside hardcore cinephile circles he and his films are virtually unknown (perhaps regarded as too opaque or nebulous). Just consider the fact that almost every definitive book on the elusive director was published during the aughts to feel the full truth of Scorsese's statement about how we're still in the process of appreciating and understanding his life and work. Even Bresson’s actual birthdate is contested, adding further the ambiguities surrounding the director.
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen,” the meticulous Bresson once famously said, hinting at...
- 4/18/2012
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
One of the most daring and courageous escapes through a tunnel, which would have scored highly in Stephen Moss's rating of great escapes (Lucky breaks, G2, 26 April), was that of about 250 Jews escaping almost certain death in the Novogrudok ghetto, Belarus, in September 1943.
The tunnel was 250 metres long and 1 metre deep and took three months to dig. An electrician among the resistance group managed to divert electrical power from a cable serving the Nazi searchlights to provide lighting in the tunnel. Joiners built a railway line and trolley to carry out the earth, which was hidden in a loft.
Each escaper was given the name of the person they should follow in the tunnel. Once underground, in a confined space just large enough for a person to crawl through, there could be no turning back. The escape took 45 minutes. About 80 people were caught and killed. The rest joined the...
The tunnel was 250 metres long and 1 metre deep and took three months to dig. An electrician among the resistance group managed to divert electrical power from a cable serving the Nazi searchlights to provide lighting in the tunnel. Joiners built a railway line and trolley to carry out the earth, which was hidden in a loft.
Each escaper was given the name of the person they should follow in the tunnel. Once underground, in a confined space just large enough for a person to crawl through, there could be no turning back. The escape took 45 minutes. About 80 people were caught and killed. The rest joined the...
- 4/29/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
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