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André Bazin ( French: [bazɛ̃]; 18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist. He started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951, with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca .
Apr 18, 2018 · André Bazin, the high priest of realism, practically invented film studies. It’s time he was rehabilitated from postmodern sneers, argues Peter Matthews. This piece from our August 1999 issue is republished in honour of Bazin’s centenary.
André Bazin, film critic, theorist, philosopher, and humanist wrote a series of essays between the years 1944 and 1958, before he died at the young age of 40. The majority of them were anthologized in their original language in the four volume set Qu’est- ce que le cinéma?
André Bazin (b. 1918–d. 1958) may well be the most influential critic ever to have written about cinema.
In one of his most important articles, André Bazin brings a much-needed sense of perspective to the critical theory dominating the viewpoint of many of the other critics writing for Cahiers du Cinema.
Introduction: Revisiting André Bazin Douglas Smith André Bazin remains the best-known film critic and theorist of the mid-twentieth century. A regular film reviewer and columnist, co-founder of Cahiers du cinéma, defender of Orson Welles, champion of Italian Neo-Realism and mentor to the French New Wave, Bazin
Bazin, born in 1918, lived through one of the most fertile and probing intellectual movements of the past half century. France during the 30’, 40’s, and 50’s saw rise to several great thinkers and philosophical movements.
