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Showing 1-30 of 50. “The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.” ― André Bazin. tags: cinema. 45 likes. Like. “it was montage that gave birth to film as an art, setting it apart from mere animated photography, in short, creating a language.” ― André Bazin, What is Cinema?: Volume 1. 7 likes. Like.
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1. Andre Bazin, a renowned film critic and theorist, never actually made a film himself. Despite his immense contributions to the field of cinema, Bazin never pursued a career as a filmmaker. 2. Bazin was a self-taught critic, as he left formal education at the age of 16.
Bazin was a major force in post-World War II film studies and criticism. He edited Cahiers until his death, and a four-volume collection of his writings was published posthumously, covering the years 1958 to 1962 and titled Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (What is cinema?).
Apr 18, 2018 · “A modest fellow, sickly, slowly and prematurely dying, he it was who gave the patent of royalty to the cinema just as the poets of the past had crowned their kings.” So wrote Jean Renoir of the great French critic and theorist André Bazin, nine years after he succumbed to leukaemia a few months past his fortieth birthday.
No matter how fuzzy, distorted, or discolored, no matter how lacking in documentary value the image may be, it shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model. ANDRÉ BAZIN. Source.
I extend this into the dynamic notion of eternal return, an implicit dimension of Bazin's thinking, clarified here in reference to Giorgio Agamben and the “immemorial image” which, like Bazin's “Death Every Afternoon,” presents an eminently repeatable deathly image, an animated corpse-world that can be likened to hell.
