MICHAEL FEENEY CALLAN | Interview with the author of Robert Redford’s biography

On September 7, Michael Feeney Callan obtained at the Deauville Festival the Lucien Barrière Literary Prize which crowns his fascinating biography of Robert Redford, published in 2011, but translated into French only this year and published on May 17 by Editions The trace. Robert Redford: biography, this 750-page book is the reference work on one … Read more

Robert Bresson and pure cinema

Maybe Robert Bresson, Jansenist that he was, be the most unorthodox of all the filmmakers brought to these articles. Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo —one of the great scholars of Catholic orthodoxy, the history of ideas, literature in Spanish, the interpretation of aesthetics and other substantive knowledge— includes the Jansenists in his History of the heterodox Spaniards … Read more

Robert Comte: “God invites us to fulfill ourselves personally”

Robert Comte, theologian and brother of the Christian Schools, is the author of several books, including the Courage to build. “The identity between gift and promise” (Salvator). Doesn’t a certain Christianity perceive the search for personal fulfillment as contrary to the Gospel? A pessimistic vision of the human has long prevailed in the Church, and … Read more

Pickpocket. Diary of a thief. Robert Bresson’s film review

Freely inspired by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, it leads to a purification of the soul of its protagonist with an enviable dryness of expression. A huge movie. MUBI ————————————————– ——— CINEMA SCHOOL OF WILD TRAILS: REGISTRATION OPEN YEAR 2022-23 ————————————————– ——— I would like to be able to see something else on the screen than … Read more

A Death Row Convict Escaped by Robert Bresson

ARTE broadcasts A death row inmate escaped Monday, July 25 at 8:50 p.m. This film, made in 1956, was a huge hit with both audiences and critics on its release, establishing Robert Bresson as one of the greatest French authors. five years later Diary of a country priest, A death row inmate escaped completes the … Read more

Montreal International Jazz Festival | Robert Glasper’s sense of responsibility

A gateway to jazz for hip-hop fans, and vice versa, Robert Glasper’s work ignores borders. Conversation with one of the most brilliant masterminds in American music. Posted at 7:00 a.m. Dominic Late The Press The tone, serious, is given from the first measures ofIn-Tune. On an elegiac piano score, the poet Amir Sulaiman invokes the … Read more

Best movies if you love Robert Eggers (these aren’t his movies)

After making highly acclaimed A24 films The witch and LighthouseRobert Eggers was back on stage in April with his Viking action saga The man from the north. With only three feature films in his filmography so far, Eggers has established himself as one of the most original voices in Hollywood today. Even though all of … Read more

The spiritual testament of Robert Hossein: “Spring up sources of love at the heart of our human relationships”

“I see death as a beautiful encounter, a celebration where the night will no longer exist, where the night will be white because in addition to Vadim, Barclay, Gérard Philipe, and all the rare beings who I miss terribly, I will see God face to face, he of whom I spoke so badly but whom … Read more

The “Interviews”: a look back at 40 years of cinema by Robert Bresson

How to speak of Robert Bresson whose Interviews just reappeared? Forty years of cinema, 40 years of responding to journalists and critics to understand what was for him the essence of the seventh art that he preferred to call “cinematograph” not cinema. Forty years and 14 films torn from producers. And an Genesis never shot … Read more