Notes on the Cinematographer

French filmmaker Robert Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between cinematography and “cinema”—which, for him, is nothing more than an attempt to photograph theater and use it for the screen. Director of The Trial of Joan of Arc, Pickpocket, A Prisoner Escapes, Diary of a Country Priest, Money, and many other classic films, Robert Bresson is one of the most brilliant filmmakers in the history of film.