O'Donoghue, Darragh. "Beyond the visible: realism in the films of Jacques Becker", in Cinéaste, vol.44, no.1 (2018). (Archived at the Wayback Machine, 27/7/2020.) Retrieved 26 September 2020.
O'Donoghue, Darragh. "Beyond the visible: realism in the films of Jacques Becker", in Cinéaste, vol.44, no.1 (2018): "Becker is the crucial link between the two golden ages of French cinema—the 1930s experiments in realism of Jean Renoir, with whom he worked as assistant and creative collaborator for six years during the period he created most of his recognized masterpieces, and the New Wave directors who, as critics, interviewed Becker and celebrated him as one of the few French filmmakers of his era to eke out a distinctive personal style, and whose work they regularly cited and engaged with in their own as crucial intertexts." Retrieved 28 October 2020.
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Vignaux, Valérie. Notes for the Jacques Becker rétrospective at the Cinémathèque française, April 2017: "...il révèle s’intéresser « aux personnages par un certain nombre de côtés qui ne sont pas seulement ceux qui sont indispensables à la compréhension de l’action.» Autant de moments anti-dramatiques où les personnages vivent et où nous découvrons leurs caractères à partir de gestes ou de situations inessentielles...." ("...[Becker] reveals that he is interested 'in the characters through various aspects which are not only those which are vital for understanding the story'. All those anti-dramatic moments in which the characters live their lives and we discover their characters through gestures or inessential situations....") Retrieved 28 October 2020.
Quoted by Valérie Vignaux in notes for the Jacques Becker rétrospective at the Cinémathèque française, April 2017: "J’étais vraiment poursuivi par l’obsession d’être catalogué; et c’est une chose à laquelle j’ai prêté une grande attention pendant très longtemps."
Vignaux, Valérie. Notes for the Jacques Becker rétrospective at the Cinémathèque française, April 2017: "Cinéaste classique et déjà moderne, il livre une réflexion sur la représentation du temps." ("A classic filmmaker and at the same time a modern one, he gives a reflection on the representation of the time.")
Brody, Richard. On Le Trou, in The New Yorker, 1 August 2018: "It’s nearly context-free, and has the feel of a work of pure virtuosity, in which the physical details that adorn Becker’s earlier films now become an end in themselves."
Brody, Richard. On the Retrospective of Jacques Becker, in The New Yorker, 1 August 2018: "...in a 1947 article titled “The Author of Films: A Complete Author?,” he went into detail on the subject of the director as “auteur,” saying that “The author of a talking film tells a story with images, words, and sounds,” and emphasizing the importance of directors working on their own screenplays and making their films “personal,” whether the subject was one of their own invention or one provided by another writer. Becker proved his ideas with his films, even before the future New Wave, following in his footsteps, did the same."
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O'Brien, Geoffrey (25 October 2018). "Out of Renoir's Shadow". The New York Review of Books. 65 (16).
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Ebiri, Bilge. "For Jacques Becker, God was in the details", in The Village Voice, 3 August 2018: "He created entire worlds from the smallest details.... Becker knows how to direct our attention. These small particulars both pull us in further and lead us to a greater understanding of the story and characters. ... [Becker's] studied minimalism — a care for the in-between moments; the particulars that shape the everyday; the details that make our worlds knowable, and relatable — would gain greater importance in cinema in later years..."
Ebiri, Bilge. "For Jacques Becker, God was in the details", in The Village Voice, 3 August 2018: "Jacques Becker stands as an old-wave craftsman with a new-wave spirit."
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O'Donoghue, Darragh. "Beyond the visible: realism in the films of Jacques Becker", in Cinéaste, vol.44, no.1 (2018). (Archived at the Wayback Machine, 27/7/2020.) Retrieved 26 September 2020.
