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Title: Notes on the Cinematographer (Sun & Moon Classics Series , No 124) by Robert Bresson, Jonathan Griffin, J. M. G. Le Clezio ISBN: 1-55713-365-4 Publisher: Sun & Moon Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Must have for any non-Hollywood Style Filmmakers
Comment: If you want a step by step, how to make film book, you're better off browsing the bookstore at your local film school.
If you are a novice filmmaker, and you want to make art with film or video, and you want a guidebook on how to THINK and FEEL about your chosen art form, this is a must.
Bresson inspired the French New Wave filmmakers, and in my opinion was one of the few directors this world has seen who actually considered the particular reality of the moving image and created a set of principles to guide his choices as a director based on the medium itself, and not on any inherited traditional technique. One of the primary divisions in film theory is whether you believe film to be an extension of theatre or something entirely different.
For Bresson theatre is a more intellectual, mind based experience, whereas film is an EXPERIENTIAL art form. Bresson was highly interest in TRUTH over the APPEARANCE of truth. For Bresson the camera and audio recorder capture the essence of a thing, and therefore he cautions against using actors, and sets, and instead suggests people being themselves and shooting on actual locations.
This book is actually a collection of notes that Bresson wrote to himself over the course of his career. It is a wonderful look into the mind of an artist. In this book I have found a kindred spirit, whose insights into the nature of film and film production are distilled down to their essential forms. What kind of Truth does the camera capture, what elements go in the mise-en-scene which add or distort that truth, how do you illicit the inner truth of the actor (model) while still maintaining the requirements of the plot and script?
There are two books which have, for me, opened up the truest possibilities of film as an artform. These books are: "Notes on the Cinematographer" by Bresson, and "Sculpting in Time" by Tarkovsky. These books are a must read for anyone interested in exploring the true potential of film as an art form.
Also, this book goes in and out of print fairly regularly, so you should buy it whenever you see it being sold. Its relatively inexpensive, but contains a wealth of knowledge. It makes a great gift for someone interested in film or video as an art form.
Rating: 5
Summary: Writing With Images
Comment: "Notes on the Cinematographer" is a tidy, Zen-like summation of the special aesthetic Bresson brought to film. 'Cinema' to him was simply filmed theater. He wanted movies to do something more, to create a new language of images that could express a character's inner states and moods (I think this goal, more than anything, explains why he's so often labeled a 'spiritual' director). Bresson wanted faces, not actors; events, not scenes; "BEING instead of SEEMING." To this end he insisted on amateurs over trained actors, noises over music, slowness and close-ups over speed and pans. Cinematography as Bresson explains it here is a unique form of writing. His efforts to make an essentially mechanical & visual medium parallel the inwardness of the written word has to be one of the strangest and most fascinating projects in the history of film. Not surprisingly, he writes beautifully, and these aphoristic koans, surrounded by all that empty white space, are as haunting as anything he captured on film. A tiny masterpiece.
Rating: 3
Summary: Notes on the Cinematographer
Comment: Not what I expected. This book is more philosophical, than literal. I like it, but it's like reading a lot of proverbs, you cannot absorb it all, only the few that strike you at that moment.
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Title: Sculpting in Time : Reflections on the Cinema by Andrey Tarkovsky, Kitty Hunter-Blair ISBN: 0292776241 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1989 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Cassavetes on Cassavetes by Ray Carney, John Cassavetes ISBN: 0571201571 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer by Paul Schrader ISBN: 0306803356 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: My Life and My Films by Jean Renoir, Norman Denny ISBN: 0306804573 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: In the Blink of an Eye Revised 2nd Edition by Walter Murch, Francis Ford Coppola ISBN: 1879505622 Publisher: Silman-James Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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