André Bazin
1918 - 1958
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Quotes
Biography
André Bazin (1918-1958) was a renowned French film critic and theorist, considered one of the founding figures of the French New Wave. Bazin co-founded and edited the influential film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, where he championed auteur theory and the idea of cinema as a tool for artistic expression. Known for his deep appreciation of realism in film, Bazin's writings had a profound impact on the study of cinema theory and criticism.
Famous Quotes (5)
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The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.
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In a film, each shot is like a word.
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The myth of total cinema, the cinema that would contain all other arts, is unrealizable.
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The camera is an eye at the heart of a hole in space.
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For the first time, the image of things is likewise the image of their duration, change mummified as it were.