While not technically a memoir, Notes on the Cinematographer nonetheless functions as such, in that it records in flitting glimpses the development of one man’s artistic and spiritual growth. “Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.” Reading Notes on the Cinematographer, his 1975 collection of memoranda, fragments, quotes, and aphorisms, one gathers he felt the same way about writing: that, in both media, a sense of reverence for the “secret laws” of life is best expressed in silence. “The great difficulty for filmmakers is precisely not to show things,” Robert Bresson once declared during an interview for French television. This piece is a wonderful companion to his amazing Los Angeles Review of Books piece on the Evergetinos, which can be read here. This guest post comes from Mockingbird friend Michael Centore.
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