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Jean Epstein

Born March 25, 1897(1897-03-25)
Warsaw Flag of Poland Poland
Died April 3, 1953 (aged 56)
Paris Flag of France France
Occupation Film director
Years active 1922—1948

Jean Epstein (25 March 1897, Warsaw – 3 April 1953, Paris) was a film director and early film theoretician. Events 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Warsaw (Warszawa; also known by other names) is the Capital and Largest city of Poland. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Warsaw (Warszawa; also known by other names) is the Capital and Largest city of Poland. Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Film theory debates the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to Reality, the other Arts individual

He started directing his own films in 1922 with Pasteur, followed by L'Auberge rouge and Coeur fidèle (both 1923). Coeur fidèle (1923 is a French Silent film made by the director and film theorist Jean Epstein. Famous film director Luis Buñuel worked as an assistant director to Epstein on Mauprat (1926) and La Chute de la maison Usher (1928). Luis Buñuel Portolés (22 February 1900 &ndash 29 July 1983 was a Spanish -born Filmmaker and naturalized Mexican who worked mainly in Mexico For the 1928 American version of Fall of the House of Usher see The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 American film La Chute de la maison Epstein's criticism appeared in the early modernist journal L'Esprit Nouveau.

During the making of Coeur fidèle Epstein now chose to film a simple story of love and violence "to win the confidence of those, still so numerous, who believe that only the lowest melodrama can interest the public", and also in the hope of creating "a melodrama so stripped of all the conventions ordinarily attached to the genre, so sober, so simple, that it might approach the nobility and excellence of tragedy". Coeur fidèle (1923 is a French Silent film made by the director and film theorist Jean Epstein. [1] He wrote the scenario in a single night.

Epstein had been much impressed by Abel Gance's recently completed La Roue, and in Coeur fidèle he sought to apply its techniques of rapid and rhythmic editing as well as the innovative use of close-ups and superimpositions of images. Abel Gance (25 October 1889 - 10 November 1981 was a French Film director, producer, Writer, Actor and editor best La Roue (or Roue La) is a silent French film directed by Abel Gance, who later directed "Napoleon" and "J'accuse" These techniques are most apparent during the first half of the film: the opening sequence establishing Marie's situation in the harbour bar through a series of close-ups of her face, her hands, the table and glasses that she is cleaning; the use of images of the sea and the port, either intercut or superimposed, to convey the yearnings of Jean and Marie; and the film's most celebrated sequence at the fairground in which a highly complex series of rhythmically assembled images charts the tension of the relationship between Marie and Petit Paul. The later scenes of the film are relatively conventional in the techniques employed and depend more upon situation and action than upon photography and processing of the images.

First influenced by German expressionism in the 20's, Jean Epstein finds his own way by discovering Brittany. German Expressionism is the term used to refer to a number of related creative movements which emerged in Germany before the first world war which reached a peak in Berlin Brittany (Breizh bʁejs Bretagne; Gallo: Bertaèyn) is a former independent Celtic kingdom and Duchy, now incorporated into He then expresses himself through documentaries of islands such as Finis Terrae filmed in Ouessant, Mor vran (The sea of the crows, in breton) filmed in Sein, L'Or des mers filmed in Hoëdic, Le Tempestaire filmed in Belle-Ile. Ushant (Enez Eusa Ouessant is an Island in the English Channel which marks the north-westernmost point of European France. Hoëdic (officially Hœdic) in Edig is an Island off the south coast of Morbihan in Brittany, France, at. Belle-Île or Belle-Île-en-Mer ( ar Gerveur in Modern Breton)— Guedel in Old Breton—is a French Island off the Chanson d'Armor is known as the first Breton-speaking film in History. His two novels also take place in Breton isles: L'Or des mers in Ouessant and Les Recteurs et la sirène in Sein.

In August 2005, his films La Glace à trois faces (1927) and Le Tempestaire (The Tempest) (1947) were restored and re-released on the DVD collection Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s.

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  1. ^ Jean Epstein. For the 1928 American version of Fall of the House of Usher see The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 American film La Chute de la maison Avant-Garde is a DVD-series with experimental films released by Kino International. Présentation de "Coeur fidèle", in Ecrits sur le cinéma, 1, 124 (jan. 1924) [quoted in Richard Abel, French cinema: the first wave 1915-1929 (Princeton University Press, 1984), p. 360.
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