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...explicit acknowledgment of the camera's presence, Arbus shunned the technique popularized by Henri Cartier Bresson called "the decisive moment." This technique implies an unobtrusive use of the camera to catch people at the exact instant of time when they reveal a significant characteristic. From the photographs which result, it is easy to distill general truths that treat people only in a simplistic relationship to the larger mass of humanity...
...Where were you between 7:45 and 8:30 on the night of April 5?" demanded Investigating Magistrate Henri Pascal more than a week later. Like many other townspeople who were questioned after the murder, Leroy could not remember. In fact, his testimony was waffling and contradictory. Acting on his "strong personal conviction," Pascal promptly jailed Leroy on a murder charge...
Scorn. That despair suddenly dissolved when they heard lectures at the College de France by Philosopher Henri Bergson, whose theories of creative evolution exalted the spirit of man and his ability to find basic reality through intuition. Then, in 1905, Jacques and Raïssa, now newlyweds, happened into a life-changing friendship with Novelist Léon Bloy, a wild, irascible spirit and passionate Catholic who preached to his smug culture that faith and social conscience were inseparable. "Money," Bloy once wrote, "is the blood of the poor." Both of the Maritains were baptized as Catholics...
BURR HALL: French Film Festival: May 11: Talk by Henri Langlois and presentation of a rare film from his Cinematheque collection, 7:30. May 12: Jean Eustache, Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes with Jean-Pierre Leaud, 7:30, Maurice Pialat's L'Enfance Nue, 9:30. May 13: Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 7:30, Agnes Varda, Le Bonheur, 9:30. May 14: Eric Rohmer, La Collectionneuse, 7:30, My Night at Maud's, 9:30. May 15: Phillipe De Broca, Cartouche, with Claudia Cardinale and Jean-Paul Belmondo, 7:30, Love Game...
Devil's Island was supposed to be one of the world's tightest prisons. And one of the world's tightest movie sets is the location in Jamaica where Papillon, Henri Charrière's bestselling account of his escape, is being filmed...