Notes on the cinematographer - Robert Bresson

A collection of Bresson's working memos which the great French director made for his own use. In all of them, Bresson reflects with a craftsman's insight on techniques and their philosophical and aesthetic implications. Not surprisingly, these acute reflections not only sharpen a filmmaker's sensibility but that of any artist in any medium. Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between what he terms cinematography' and something rather different: 'cinema' - which for him is nothing but an attempt to photograph theatre and use it for the screen.'