André Bazin, “On the politiques des auteurs,” in Cahiers du Cinéma: The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave, ed. Jim Hillier. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985: 248-259. Bazin’s essay carefully takes…
Dudley Andrew, “The Godfather: Critic and Cahiers du Cinéma Founder André Bazin, Still With Us After Fifty Years,” Film Comment Nov-Dec 2009, 38-41. This is a short tribute kind of an essay,…
Unfinished before Bazin died, this is his incomplete last word on his favorite director. Truffaut offers notes throughout and gives an introduction, and Renoir himself offers a humble note of…
Approaching Andrew’s updated riff on Bazin just after reviewing Bazin’s What Is Cinema? ideally allows one to see where Andrew is coming from and, just as importantly, where he is going.…
Almost immediately after opening Hugh Gray’s translation to re-read, I discovered that Timothy Barnard has what Dudley Andrew has identified as the definitive translation of Bazin’s great work. By publishing…
Read about the critical and popular reception of Citizen Kane and you’ll see that it was not only a box-office bomb, but even the likes of Andre Bazin thought that…
Unfortunately, to call something “textbook” rings of negative criticism. So perhaps it’s better to say, in the case of M, that Fritz Lang wrote the (text)book on cinematic sound and…
Is there a more wonderful irony in all of cinema than that of Charlie Chaplin making a silent film about a blind woman? It can be no accident that this…
