What is Cinema?
Volume 1
Recommended by Andrew Sarris, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #13 in Cinema, Ranked #16 in Film — see more rankings.
André Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although Bazin made no films, his name has been one of the most important in French cinema since World War II. He was co-founder of the influential Cahiers du Cinéma, which under his leadership became one of the world's most distinguished publications. Championing the films of Jean Renoir (who contributed a short foreword to Volume I), Orson Welles, and Roberto Rossellini, he became the... more
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Andrew Sarris Bazin believed that films should be smooth, and needn’t be so socially weighty; he felt that films should have a realism to them. (Source)
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