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Jean Epstein ( French: [ɛp.ʃtajn]; 25 March 1897 – 2 April 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist.
Dec 20, 2010 · Jean Epstein was an important figure in the school of filmmaking variously called “French Impressionism”, the “narrative avant-garde”, the “first cinematic avant-garde”, and the “pre-war French school”.
Major filmmakers such as René Clair, Jean Renoir, Jean Grémillon, Eisenstein, Robert Flaherty, and Luchino Visconti have testified to the profound impact Epstein’s films and ideas had on their own work.
If cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein. Cocteau, Buñuel (who was his assistant), Hitchcock, Pasolini and Godard, an...
Mar 5, 2016 · The Films of Jean Epstein. The Cinémathèque Française today holds more than 40,000 film prints, but Jean Epstein’s The Fall of the House of Usher of 1928 was the first. Given a little money to initiate his long-dreamt-of film museum, Henri Langlois procured Epstein’s silent masterwork straightaway—“not only the ultimate expression of ...
Filmmaker and theoretician Jean Epstein profoundly influenced film practice, criti-cism and reception in France during the 1920s and well beyond. His work not only forms the crux of the debates of his time, but also remains key to understanding later developments in film practice and theory. Epstein’s film criticism is among
Filmmaker and theoretician Jean Epstein profoundly influenced film practice, criticism and reception in France during the 1920s and well beyond. His work not only forms the crux of the debates of his time, but also remains key to understanding later developments in film practice and theory.
Jul 23, 2022 · “The first theoretician of the cinema was unquestionably Jean Epstein whose essays published between 1920 and 1922 first established the basis of visual expression founded on means that were properly regarded as fundamental: editing and closeups, that is, rhythm and symbol.”
Jean Epstein (French: [ɛp.ʃtajn]; 25 March 1897 – 2 April 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, he directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the ...
Jul 1, 2014 · Amid the recent revival of interest in the work of Jean Epstein, Christophe Wall-Romana has produced a remarkably complete, intelligent, and sensitive monograph on Epstein's philosophy and cinematography.
