10 Great Films That Helped Cinema Grow As An Art Form: Since the inception of the medium, films have garnered new meanings for their ever-expansive exploration over the decades. From the Soviet…
Tag: Robert Bresson
Minimalist, Ascetic, Austere and Formalist are some of the adjectives attributed to French filmmaker Robert Bresson and his unique brand of cinema. His avant-garde filmmaking style and restrained sensibility continue to be debated…
Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) introduced one of the most iconic characters of Cinema in the form of Travis Bickle, played brilliantly by the great Robert De Niro. An alienated anti-hero for…
Dive bars, cheap restaurants, battered vintage cars, cigarettes, booze, accordions, portable radios, adorable dogs, bouquet of flowers, vinyl records, mixed music tracks (jazz, tango, rockabilly, etc), acerbic irony, deadpan wit, Bressonian minimalism,…
Robert Bresson has always been fascinated by cages. Be it a human cage or one’s own mind; there’s always a sense of isolation that his characters suffer from. So when Bresson decided…
Minimalist French-filmmaker Robert Bresson’s 1959 feature Pickpocket is a prime example of exhibiting small things with exhilarating effect. The protagonist Michel is never imposed as a lonely person. In fact, we see…
