The sustained critical success of auteur directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier, the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of the «new extremism» particularly in French cinema, and the rise in recent years of the «feel - bad» film have all contributed to a rise in the critical attention paid to the relationship between violence and European art cinema. (sensesofcinema.com)
The sustained critical success of auteur directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier, the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of the «new extremism» particularly in French cinema, and the rise in recent... (sensesofcinema.com)
Unlike Chaplin and Keaton, they were not themselves great auteur directors, or worked with any; the same could be said of Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers, but their respective phenomena overrided the impact of any decision - making body behind the camera, as a hurricane is to a weatherman. (slantmagazine.com)