{"id":980,"date":"2004-04-08T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T20:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=980"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:55:16","slug":"les-modeles-de-pickpocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/04\/08\/les-modeles-de-pickpocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Modeles de Pickpocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, April 8, 2004, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/models-of-pickpocket-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2270 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/models-of-pickpocket-1.jpg\" alt=\"models-of-pickpocket-1\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Babette Mangolte in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Austere, wrenching and inimitable, the films of Robert Bresson are a touchstone for world cinephiles, and many regard <em>Pickpocket<\/em> (1959) as his greatest work. Babette Mangolte\u2019s fascinating documentary offers startling insight into the guarded director\u2019s creative process by tracking down the 1959 film\u2019s principals, including Martin Lassalle, the film\u2019s Raskolnikov-like protagonist, whom she discovered in Mexico City. In a series of interviews, the actors \u2013 all nonprofessionals at the time \u2013 describe perfectionist Bresson\u2019s grueling methods, by which the performances were stripped of all artifice and became \u201cmodels\u201d for the director\u2019s ideas.\u00a0 Filmmaker Mangolte \u2013 acclaimed for her work as cinematographer for Chantal Akerman, Yvonne Rainer, Sally Potter and others \u2013 has given us startling insight into a guarded artist\u2019s creative process (Jim Trainor). 2003, Babette Mangolte, France\/USA, 89 min, video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 8, 2004, 8pm Babette Mangolte in person! Austere, wrenching and inimitable, the films of Robert Bresson are a touchstone for world cinephiles, and many regard Pickpocket (1959) as his greatest work. Babette Mangolte\u2019s fascinating documentary offers startling insight into the guarded director\u2019s creative process by tracking down the 1959 film\u2019s principals, including Martin [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/04\/08\/les-modeles-de-pickpocket\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Les Modeles de Pickpocket<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[206,450,481,615],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9","tag-europe","tag-non-fiction","tag-portrait","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10084,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/10084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}