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Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson was master of understatement
The Way Of Bresson: Two Books Illuminate The Philosophy And Working Method of a Unique Filmmaker
Bresson’s work celebrated at Film Center
Venice Film Festival 2016: Venice Classics Program Includes Restorations of “Stalker,” “Manhattan”
The art of picking pockets
Elected: 100 Must-See Foreign Films
The Double-Best of the Year
Eric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois: A knight on a soundstage
Dr. Bordwell Goes to Hong Kong
Bergman: Sawdust and Tinsel?
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Ebert Strikes Back
A miracle of a movie
The 100 Greatest Directors of… what?
The fillet of fests
Repeatable pleasures
Book Excerpt: Foreword to The Wes Anderson Collection: Asteroid City by David Bordwell
The Best Films of 2024 So Far
CIFF 2023: The Taste of Things, Fallen Leaves, La Chimera
Empathy Machine: Diary of a Country Priest
Ten Years of Presence: In Honor of Roger Ebert and the Empathy Machine
NYFF 2022: Return to Seoul, She Said, Exterior Night
KVIFF 2022: EO, Like a Fish on the Moon, The Eight Mountains, Father’s Day
Cannes 2022: Triangle of Sadness wins Palme d’Or
Cannes 2022: Armageddon Time, Eo, Rodeo
Cannes Film Festival Preview 2022
Cannes Official Selection Line-Up Overview with Digressions You Won’t Find Anywhere Else
Cannes 2021: Prayers for the Stolen, The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Cannes 2021: A Hero, Deception, Petrov’s Flu
19 Dazzling Favorite Movies and Reviews from 2020
Venice Film Festival 2020: In Between Dying, The Best is Yet to Come, Topside
Hal Hartley on His Film Career, Modernist Influences, and Re-Watching His Work
Sheila O’Malley’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Simon Abrams’ Top Ten Films of 2018
Matt Fagerholm’s Top Ten Films of 2018
My List of Movies to See Before the End of 2018
Believing in Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: June 7, 2018
Thumbnails Special Edition: Critics in the Spotlight
On Life and Architecture: Revisiting Kogonada’s Columbus
We Have Been Them: Roger Ebert’s Reviews About Empathy
NYFF 2017: “Wonder Wheel”
Much More than “Star Wars”: The Cinema of ’77 Strikes Back at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 13, 2017
The Passenger: Bertrand Tavernier on “My Journey Through French Cinema”
Winners Announced for Great Movies IV Giveaway
NYFF 2016: Preview of the 54th New York Film Festival
The Unloved, Part 30: Torn Curtain & Topaz
Solidarity of Cinema: Kent Jones on “Hitchcock/Truffaut”
Under Attack by Bad Art Constantly: Gregg Turkington on “Entertainment”
Landscape is a Reality: Manoel de Oliveira 1908-2015
Cinematic Jazz: The Myth of John Cassavetes
NYFF 2014: Opening Weekend Films “La Sapienza” and “Gone Girl” Display Artistic Depth of Fest
Thumbnails 7/23/2014
Don’t Look Away: On the Artistry and Urgency of “12 Years a Slave”
Meet the Writers: Dan Callahan
Cannes reviews: Politics and troubled family lives in “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” “Blue Ruin,” and “Tip Top”
“The Art of the Video Essay,” a page by Kevin Lee, grandmaster of the form
A portside gallery of thwarted Destiny
Is Oscar’s best pic a masterpiece?
“There’s a fungus between my toes that speaks to me.”
The “Best” Non-English-Language Films (Round 1)
The Cinephiliac Moment
Films on fire: Tony Scott and Christopher Nolan
Pulp Fiction: Nothing serious?
Top secret leakage from my 2010 Muriels ballot!
A slice of perfection
Movies that allow you some breathing room
The great movies (almost) nobody voted for
The best greatest movies ever list
How Not to Write About Film
Name That Director!
Products of mass distraction (or, Hooray for elitism!)
You better you better you best: The better of the best lists
On Clint Eastwood directing “Million Dollar Baby”
Six from Sundance
Cannes all winners
Defending Ingmar Bergman
