“The American cinema is a classical act, so why not then admire in it what is most admirable–i.e. not only the talent of this and that filmmaker, but the genius of the system.”
“The function of the cinema is to reveal, to bring to light certain details that the stage would have left untreated.”
Cinema is, congenitally, impure–Andre Bazin
Bazin’s taste for impure cinema, for hybrids and eccentricties
Unlike Cahiers’ auteurism, Bazin pointed out the excesses of existential auteurism.
He mentioned auteurs vis a vis genre/national cinema
Film Theory: Bazin, Andre (French Film Theorist and Critic)–“Genius of the System”
Andre Bazin:
“The American cinema is a classical act, so why not then admire in it what is most admirable–i.e. not only the talent of this and that filmmaker, but the genius of the system.”
“The function of the cinema is to reveal, to bring to light certain details that the stage would have left untreated.”
Cinema is, congenitally, impure–Andre Bazin
Bazin’s taste for impure cinema, for hybrids and eccentricties
Unlike Cahiers’ auteurism, Bazin pointed out the excesses of existential auteurism.
He mentioned auteurs vis a vis genre/national cinema