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Chapter Eight Robert Bresson: Mouchette

  • Phillip Lopate
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My Affair with Art House Cinema
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. CURTAIN RAISERS
  5. Chapter One On Changing One’s Mind About a Movie 7
  6. Chapter Two How I Look at Movies 15
  7. FEATURE FILMS
  8. Chapter Three Maren Ade: The Forest for the Trees 23
  9. Chapter Four Chantal Akerman: No Home Movie 27
  10. Chapter Five Antonioni’s Le Amiche: Another Look 30
  11. Chapter Six Ingmar Bergman: Scenes from a Marriage and Saraband 35
  12. Chapter Seven Raymond Bernard: Wooden Crosses and Les Misérables 43
  13. Chapter Eight Robert Bresson: Mouchette 47
  14. Chapter Nine Lino Brocka: Insiang 52
  15. Chapter Ten John Cassavetes: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 56
  16. Chapter Eleven Claude Chabrol: The Swindle 61
  17. Chapter Twelve George Clooney: Good Night, and Good Luck 64
  18. Chapter Thirteen David Cronenberg: eXistenZ 72
  19. Chapter Fourteen Jean- Pierre and Luc Dardenne 75
  20. Chapter Fifteen Arnaud Desplechin: A Christmas Tale 83
  21. Chapter Sixteen Carl Dreyer: Gertrud 88
  22. Chapter Seventeen Lena Dunham: Tiny Furniture 91
  23. Chapter Eighteen Paul Fejos: Lonesome 96
  24. Chapter Nineteen Emmanuel Finkiel: Voyages 102
  25. Chapter Twenty John Ford: The Sun Shines Bright 107
  26. Chapter Twenty-One Jean- Luc Godard: Breathless and Band of Outsiders 112
  27. Chapter Twenty-Two Hong Sang-soo 121
  28. Chapter Twenty-Three Hou Hsiao-hsien 130
  29. Chapter Twenty-Four Otar Iosseliani 136
  30. Chapter Twenty-Five Elia Kazan 147
  31. Chapter Twenty-Six Abbas Kiarostami: Through the Olive Trees and Taste of Cherry 151
  32. Chapter Twenty-Seven Hirokazu Kore-eda 154
  33. Chapter Twenty-Eight Akira Kurosawa: Rashomon 163
  34. Chapter Twenty-Nine Alberto Lattuada: Mafioso 167
  35. Chapter Thirty Richard Linklater: Before Midnight 172
  36. Chapter Thirty-One Harold Lloyd: Speedy 177
  37. Chapter Thirty-Two Ernst Lubitsch 182
  38. Chapter Thirty-Three Sidney Lumet: Long Day’s Journey Into Night 191
  39. Chapter Thirty-Four David Lynch: Mulholland Drive 196
  40. Chapter Thirty-Five Dušan Makavejev: The Wolf and the Teddy Bear 203
  41. Chapter Thirty-Six Kenji Mizoguchi: Ugetsu and Utamaro and His Five Women 216
  42. Chapter Thirty-Seven Mikio Naruse: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 224
  43. Chapter Thirty-Eight Yasujirō Ozu: Late Spring 228
  44. Chapter Thirty-Nine Christian Petzold: Barbara 231
  45. Chapter Forty Maurice Pialat: Naked Childhood, Van Gogh, and Le Garçu 233
  46. Chapter Forty-One Alain Resnais: Middle and Late Resnais 242
  47. Chapter Forty-Two Dino Risi: Il Sorpasso 247
  48. Chapter Forty-Three Éric Rohmer: La Collectionneuse, The Marquise of O, and Le Rayon Vert 253
  49. Chapter Forty-Four Raúl Ruiz: Time Regained 266
  50. Chapter Forty-Five Alexander Sokurov 273
  51. Chapter Forty-Six Paolo Sorrentino: The Great Beauty 275
  52. Chapter Forty-Seven Jean- Marie Straub: Not Reconciled 281
  53. Chapter Forty-Eight Andrei Tarkovsky: Solaris 283
  54. Chapter Forty-Nine François Truffaut 287
  55. INTERMISSION: DOCUMENTARIES AND ESSAY FILMS
  56. Chapter Fifty Frederick Wiseman: Composing an American Epic 293
  57. Chapter Fifty-One Alain Resnais: Night and Fog 298
  58. Chapter Fifty-Two Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin: Chronicle of a Summer 301
  59. Chapter Fifty-Three Alan Berliner 305
  60. Chapter Fifty-Four Robert Gardner: Dead Birds 310
  61. Chapter Fifty-Five Sam Green and Bill Spiegel: The Weather Underground 319
  62. Chapter Fifty-Six Jafar Panahi: This Is Not a Film 325
  63. Chapter Fifty-Seven Documentary Splendors and Errors 328
  64. Chapter Fifty-Eight Ross McElwee: Bright Leaves 332
  65. Chapter Fifty-Nine Mark Rappaport’s Essay Films 335
  66. Chapter Sixty Marcel Ophuls 342
  67. Chapter Sixty-One City Essay Films 344
  68. FILM CRITICS
  69. Chapter Sixty-Two The Making of Manny Farber 361
  70. Chapter Sixty-Three Roger Ebert: Life Itself 364
  71. Chapter Sixty-Four Stanley Kauffmann 368
  72. Chapter Sixty-Five Pauline Kael: A Biography 370
  73. Chapter Sixty-Six Stanley Cavell 374
  74. Chapter Sixty-Seven James Harvey 377
  75. Chapter Sixty-Eight Jonathan Rosenbaum 381
  76. Chapter Sixty-Nine Jonathan Baumbach 384
  77. EXIT MUSIC: A FEW LAST THOUGHTS
  78. Chapter Seventy Repertory Movie Theaters, Ravishing Revivals 391
  79. Conclusion: The Faith of a Cineaste 397
  80. NOTES 401
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