Author | Robert Bresson |
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Original title | Notes sur le cinématographe |
Translator | Jonathan Griffin |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
Publication date | 5 March 1975 |
Published in English | 1977 |
Pages | 139 |
Notes on the Cinematographer ( French: Notes sur le cinématographe) is a 1975 book by the French filmmaker Robert Bresson. It collects Bresson's reflections on cinema written as short aphorisms. [1] J. M. G. Le Clézio wrote a preface for a new edition in 1988. [2] The book was published in English in 1977, translated by Jonathan Griffin. [3]
Publishers Weekly wrote in 1986: "The casual but succinct observations, presented here three or four to a page, consist of short paragraphs or single sentences. ... All demonstrate a scintillating curiosity and quest for perfection." [4]
In a 2010 British Film Institute poll, Notes on the Cinematographer was ranked the second greatest book about film. [5]