André Bazin Quotes

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I imagine the supreme cinematic perversion to consist of an execution projected in reverse, like those comical newsreels where one sees the diver bursting up out of the water toward his diving board.

André Bazin

The cinema gives us a substitute world which fits our desires.

André Bazin

André Bazin

André Bazin

Born: April 18, 1918

Died: November 11, 1958 (aged 40)

Bio: André Bazin was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.

Known for:

What is cinema?
Jean Renoir ..
The cinema of cruelty
Orson Welles (1950)
Qu est-ce que le cinema ? (1958)

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