“If only one honest man were needed to rescue the cinema from its own deadening course, Bresson alone, in all his saintliness, would suffice to get the job done.”
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Sun 17 May at 10:57 AM
Peter Rinaldi
Whose name would you put in this quote, instead of Bresson, more than 50 years later, to save us from our own deadening course in cinema?
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