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André Bazin (French:; 18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was 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 cinéma in 1951, with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca .
Jul 7, 2003 · André Bazin, film critic, theorist, philosopher, and humanist wrote a series of essays between the years 1944 and 1958, before he died at the young age of 40. The majority of them were anthologized in their original language in the four volume set Qu’est- ce que le cinéma?
André Bazin (b. 1918–d. 1958) may well be the most influential critic ever to have written about cinema.
Apr 18, 2018 · André Bazin, the high priest of realism, practically invented film studies. It’s time he was rehabilitated from postmodern sneers, argues Peter Matthews. This piece from our August 1999 issue is republished in honour of Bazin’s centenary.
The French film critic André Bazin (1918-1958) is considred by many to be the father of film criticism as it is practiced today. Immensely influential in his native France and beyond, Bazin transformed film criticism from simple description and evaluation of the film under discussion into an evaluation of film as a serious art form, including ...
André Bazin was born on 8 April 1918 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. He was an actor and writer, known for The Kreutzer Sonata (1956), Portrait d'Henri Goetz (1947) and Le film de Bazin (2017). He was married to Janine Bazin.
In one of his most important articles, André Bazin brings a much-needed sense of perspective to the critical theory dominating the viewpoint of many of the other critics writing for Cahiers du Cinema.
