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André Bazin

1918 - 1958

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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 movies in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951 alongside Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca. He is notable for arguing that realism is the most important function of cinema. His call for objective reality in film, as understood through the use of deep focus as well as the lack of montage, were linked to his belief that the interpretation of an entire movie or a specific scene should be left to the spectator. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Bazin is the 1,014th most popular writer (up from 1,016th in 2019), the 1,169th most popular biography from France (down from 1,156th in 2019) and the 147th most popular French Writer.

André Bazin is most famous for his contributions to the film theory of realism. He was a French philosopher and critic who was born in 1908 and died in 1958. He was one of the first critics to take cinema seriously as an art form. He believed that film should be studied as a separate art form from other art forms, and he believed that it should be analyzed through its own language.

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Among writers, André Bazin ranks 1,014 out of 7,302. Before him are Nellie Bly, Ed Bradley, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Dalton Trumbo, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Khachatur Abovian. After him are Yosa Buson, Fyodor Tyutchev, Nicolas Chamfort, Johann Peter Eckermann, Clément Marot, and Eleanor H. Porter.

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Among people born in 1918, André Bazin ranks 56. Before him are Birgit Nilsson, Yasuhiro Nakasone, François Tombalbaye, Hans Scholl, Pavlik Morozov, and Robert Walker. After him are Lila Kedrova, João Figueiredo, Anna Mani, Günther Rall, Patricio Aylwin, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Among people deceased in 1958, André Bazin ranks 28. Before him are Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, John Boland, J. G. Strijdom, Giacomo Balla, Kim Tu-bong, and Edna Purviance. After him are Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, Ernst Heinkel, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Petru Groza, Ole Kirk Christiansen, and Nuri al-Said.

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Among people born in France, André Bazin ranks 1,169 out of 6,770. Before him are Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Leonard of Noblac (496), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762), and Édouard Lucas (1842). After him are Marion Cotillard (1975), Stéphane Grappelli (1908), Kylian Mbappé (1998), Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761), Marie Louise Gonzaga (1611), and Desireless (1952).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, André Bazin ranks 147. Before him are Jean Giraudoux (1882), Sonia Rykiel (1930), Victorien Sardou (1831), Heinrich Kramer (1430), Jacques Hébert (1757), and Joachim du Bellay (1522). After him are Nicolas Chamfort (1741), Clément Marot (1495), Madeleine de Scudéry (1607), Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), Alexandra David-Néel (1868), and Paulinus of Nola (354).

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