André Bazin
The great works had been produced in response to particular circumstances and "The public wanted the screen to be its window and not its mirror" during this time.
What is the Occupation?
Although Bazin often gave them qualified praise, the young writers at Cahiers grouped them with Richard Pottier and Christian-Jacque as styleless hacks.
Who are René Clément and Claude Autant-Lara?
The reason why Renoir left Hollywood and returned to film making in France.
What is his American project having failed to give him the broad responsibilities he felt he needed to be effective? "I am much more an author of films than a director. The successes that I have managed are due above all to my work on their scenarios... My work as a director will certainly be better if I participate in the script-writing."
Bresson described commercial filmmaking as
What is hopeless morass of self-delusion and bad faith?
One of the most important currents in postwar filmmaking
What is neorealism?
Like the partisans of quality cinema, Bazin worried about the flood of these works on French screens.
What is American/Hollywood Cinema?
François Truffaut wrote this, the magazine's most celebrated attack on quality filmmaking, in 1954.
What is "A Certain Tendency of French Cinema"
A "tradition" all to himself, Jean Renoir, the great representative of prewar French Cinema; he was changed because of this.
What is becoming an exile? "For me, exile was not a little promenade as it is for many. It was a very serious thing which profoundly changed me."
The distress of this filmmakers fictional characters, much of the evil they do seems to come from their tormented self-awareness
Who is Robert Bresson?
Malraux's film "Espoir" failed commercially due to this aspect
What is his refusal to allow its Spanish dialogue track to be dubbed into French?
Coined by Alexandre Astruc, this formulation resonated profoundly in an alternative film culture largely thanks to André Bazin.
What is caméra-stylo "camera-pen"?
Exemplary figures, artisans, and French film-makers approved by Cahiers because "they are auteurs who often write their dialogue..." and were "INCAPABLE of conceiving [these abject lines]..." of "psychological realism". (8 people)
Who are Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Jacques Becker, Abel Gance, Max Ophuls, Jacques Tati, and Roger Leenhardt?
Renoir had a fascination of speech in films, in the 1930s he emphasized its function as a social marker however, in his postwar French films he emphasizes
What is he seems to express more directly the emotional lives of his characters; vocal variety has become affective rather than (socially) objective
This filmmaker thematically influenced Tati in carrying the populist tradition
What is prewar Rene Clair?
This French filmmaker was often honored at Cannes and is praised as an innovator during the years of the Fourth Republic.
Who is René Clément?
Drawn to the newer, radical Catholic counter-currents, Bazin organized a study group for this magazine and eventually created his own in 1951 called this. (Names of both Magazines)
What is Esprit and Les Cahiers du Cinéma?
Four of the young writers led by Bazin, for Les Cahiers du Cinéma.
Who are François Truffaut, Jean-Lu Godard, Jacques Rivette, and Claude Chabrol.
Renoir's interview in Cahiers du Cinéma's first issue that probably inspired François Truffaut's later attack on "psychological realism".
What is "Today, the new being who I am realizes that the time for sarcasm is passed, and that the only thing which I can bring to this illogical, irresponsible, and cruel world is my 'love.'"
During his career Becker pursued two guiding principles
What is an interest in the group rather than the individual and a focus on the influence of the group's social milieu?
This French filmmaker films presented a universe only he could see, a zone between the recognizable, everyday world and whatever might lie beyond it.
Who is Jean Cocteau?
Bazin became an important figure for the evolution of French Cinema due to what? (4 things)
What is Bazin's broader idea of what film criticism should do, his philosophical and religious quest for totality, the ideal of realist cinema theory after his death, and being the cinema commentator who could best elucidate coherent theoretical support for his ongoing engagement with the history of the medium?
The reason for the quarrel between Cahiers and the industry mainstream.
What is traditions? The recently elaborated Tradition of Quality versus the legacy of the 1930s and before.
Critical opinion on the merit of Renoir's post Hollywood films is divided into
What is those who see the value in the 1930's as mainly that of social commentator dismiss his later work as a moral and political cop-out. Those who value his late films, reinterpret his political subjects of the 1930s as pretexts for a deeper, more personal set of medications which find their fullest expression in his works of 1950s?
Becker and Tati's films gives the audience
What is their own views of a world which spectators could recognize as overlapping with their own?
Why was there no French Neorealism movement during the same time as the Italian movement
What is production in France was oriented to big budget films to fit the needs of large audiences to create an escapists fare. Italian production and exhibition by contrast was economically weaker. The French has regulatory systems in place whereas the Italians did not?