On Wed, 13 Apr 1994, Jordan Adam Stein wrote: > From: Jordan Stein > Can anybody reccomend anything for me to red on Bresson? Is > Bresson considered to part of any cinematc trend, or was his style > extremely unique at that time. I kmow that I was extreme in saying that > he's not part of the French cannon(it's hard to be articulate when you have > only two seconds to type a message, and it's very jarring for me to read > what I write in people's replys), but is are there any directors, or > stylistic tendencys today, which can be linked to Bresson. Two pieces which might serve as an introduction to Bresson: 1. essays by P. Adams Sitney ("The Rhetoric of Robert Bresson") and Ken Kelman ("The Structure of Fate"), both printed in Sitney's (editor): "The Essential Cinema" (vol. 1) 2. David Bordwell's "Narration in the Fiction Film" : essay on the Bresson film "Pickpocket" (pp. 289-310) -- Steven M. Blacher Wellfleet Productions 13910 Old Harbor Lane, Suite 209 Marina Del Rey, CA. 90292 Telephone: 310.821.8867 Fax: 310.827.7878 Electronic Mail: [log in to unmask] --