Awards

• Winner of A PopMatters Best Non-Fiction Book of 2012.

Overview

Drawing together more than 30 articles by leading critics and scholars, interviews and commentaries by important contemporary filmmakers, and a recent symposium on the director, Robert Bresson (Revised) is an invaluable resource for better understanding the beauty of Bresson's singular body of work. James Quandt reproduces essential contributions from the original edition, such as essays by Susan Sontag, Andre Bazin, P. Adams Sitney, and Kristin Thompson. He also includes new material by David Bordwell, Mark Rappaport, Shigehiko Hasumi, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Serge Daney, Jean-Michel Frodon, Colin Burnett, and Richard Suchenski, and by filmmakers Jean-Pierre Gorin and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

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A fine, fat volume of appreciations and interviews. Richard Corliss, Time Important... a very welcome work of reference for professors, librarians and all those interested in the oeuvre of Bresson. Le Figaro Impressive anthology. Molly Haskell, Film Comment

A fine, fat volume of appreciations and interviews. -Richard Corliss, Time Important... a very welcome work of reference for professors, librarians and all those interested in the oeuvre of Bresson. -Le Figaro Impressive anthology. -Molly Haskell, Film Comment There is simply no more essential book of material on Bresson to be found in the English language. -mubi.com Robert Bresson (Revised)... is an updated edition of an already hugely impressive volume of essays, interviews and appreciations by some of cinema's finest scholars and critics...This... really is inarguably the critical study of Robert Bresson. -PopMatters

Author Information

James Quandt is Senior Programmer at Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, where he has organized retrospectives dedicated to the work of Bresson, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, Mikio Naruse, Nagisa Oshima, and Shohei Imamura.

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