Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Andre Bazinwas a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist. He started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinema in 1951, with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.
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About the Andre Bazin
Andre Bazinwas a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist. He started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinema in 1951, with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.
He is notable for arguing that realism is the most important function of cinema. His call for objective reality, deep focus, and lack of montage are linked to his belief that the interpretation of a film or scene should be left to the spectator. This placed him in opposition to film theory of the 1920s and 1930s, which emphasized how the cinema could manipulate reality.
2 Quotes by Andre Bazin
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Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
Andre BazinFrench film critic and theorist
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The “Western” is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
Andre BazinFrench film critic and theorist