Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE COULD probably be no more appropriate film with which to close a series entitled "The Crisis in Narrative Cinema" than Robert Bresson's Pickpocket. Bresson's work is highly individualistic, representative of no particular movement in the current cinema, and thus almost alone among current French filmmakers he has not benefitted by the surge of interest in the new-wave in this country. This is particularly unfortunate since Bresson is one of the few truly great living directors, and the unavailability of his films here makes us truly poorer indeed. Pickpocket, made in 1959, represents the very essence...
...with the the cinemaverite movement. According to their work, cinemaverite's "truthfulness" requires a chance meeting between subject and camera, where there is no time to bother with meaningful composition or cogent verbal statements. They assume that neither occurs in "real" life and thus has no place in "truth cinema". For them the presence of the camera (cinema) is only another aspect of truth, one which is expressed either by incessant zooms or reflections of the camera in the nearest mirror. Their films never appear to be structured, since this would betray their vision of reality...
...maintaining mystery, on refusing to give rational explanations of people and cities, is one which denies the possibilities of objective truth. By using documentary materials to establish a romantic truth. Marker places himself in a diametrically opposite position from the American documentarians. For Marker, truth is a subset of cinema. TERRY CURTIS...
...CINEMA...
...spends part of each year on a ranch near Lost Cabin, Wyo. His brilliant paintings and bronzes-of stampeding steers, dust-churning ponies and lean-featured frontiersmen -have the same quality of rough-chiseled permanence that epitomizes another kind of artist, John Wayne, our cover subject this week. As Cinema Critic Stefan Kanfer, who wrote the story, puts it: "The usherettes and the popcorn machines may have gone, but John Wayne remains. He has endured in an industry notorious for its instability...