Sentences with phrase «as an auteur»

It's all a bit too perfect a play on Kojima's own status as The Auteur of Metal Gear Solid, a role he's always been ambiguous about enjoying, and the modern explosion of fan identification with celebrity.

Although the notion of auteur is not entirely customary in Hong Kong where films are often shot quickly and marketed via their accessibility as popular entertainment, Wong's status as auteur marks his position within Hong Kong cinema's industrial environment and signifies his complete creative freedom and control of every facet of his films» production.

With such high profile slices of movie beefcake determined to make their mark as auteurs as well as deliverers of dialogue, now is a good time to look back at some other aesthetically - pleasing performers who put their necks on the line as bona fide film directors...

Stars are seen as the auteurs of their films and why not, since what difference does it make who directed the next Schwarzenegger film when Arnold has the final authority?

More importantly, many lawyers, and in particular many important and therefore influential lawyers, actually thrive on that type of total concentration, and cherish their roles as auteurs as much as a skilled surgeon or a prima donna.

Similarly positioning himself as collector, curator or even naturalist, Dion reinscribes himself below artist as auteur in the art taxonomy.

The second film of Francois Truffaut's «Hitchcock Period» (and the Nouvelle Vague legend's first English - language feature), Fahrenheit 451 is swathed in dread and melancholy — a sense belying cinematographer Nicolas Roeg's bright, elemental colour scheme and simply blocked mise - en - scéne, though a sense completely in line with Roeg's subsequent work as auteur.

A serious examination of De Palma as an auteur, coming through one of the most fevered epochs of Hollywood history and surviving to tell the tale.

FILM CRITICISM IN THE SEVENTIES The Sixties saw the rise of a new breed of anti-establishment film critics, who championed movies as art, and their directors as auteurs.

Only once in a blue moon does a screenwriter who isn't a director become known as an auteur.

A modest speaker despite his 50 - year career, Sidney Lumet was never one to overstate his role as an auteur.

She thinks back to the best of times and the worst of times, as that auteur from across the Channel would put it, when Raymonde Veber became the best female tennis player in a nation that didn't belong to her anymore.

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In De Palma, co-directors Jake Paltrow (left) and Noah Baumbach (right) focus solely on Brian De Palma's retelling of his fascinating career as an auteur.

It's not much of an achievement that co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo (held over from Captain America the Winter Soldier) make a better film than Zack Snyder... but it's worth noting that Marvel (corporation as auteur) have nurtured their characters (even in weaker films like Iron Man 2) to the point when they carry more screen weight than lasting icons Batman and Superman.

Despite having only directed two major features Forster is already one of Hollywood's hottest directors and is regarded as an auteur among industry circles.

A section of fifteen deleted scenes totalling 22 minutes with optional commentary from Frankel and Livoisi is kind of maddening for Frankel's oft - repeated confession that he's never seen this material — trusting his editor that implicitly only betrays his TV training and makes it difficult to take Frankel seriously as an auteur.

Their sixth movie as auteurs, 1996's Fargo, brought the brothers a whole new level of recognition, earning them a Best Original Screenplay Oscar and their first Best Picture nomination.

And it was always expected that Martin Scorsese's religious drama Silence (read our review) would not be as accessible as the auteur's crime - driven productions, but it managed a disappointing $ 1.9 million in its wide debut and finished 16th on the charts.

It shares some of the positive traits of his first two films as auteur, but without repeating beats and while finding a rhythm, tone, and feel all its own.

«Knight of Cups» — Terrence Malick's integrity as a auteur director, in my mind, is currently held together with duct tape and bailing wire.

And in the case of «Phantom Thread,» about the world of London haute couture in the 1950s, it's a movie about the fashion designer as auteur.

A while back a friend suggested «Arthur Freed as auteur» as a potential book or thesis title.

What I liked most about Stallone's willingness to take a shot on a fresh idea from a minority perspective — this is the first instalment of one of his two venerable franchises to not spring from a Stallone - written script — is that it feeds into the idea of Stallone as an auteur maybe, a canny cultural anthropologist definitely.

Hence, this Boxer Rebellion drama has an insane production dysfunction story behind it, and the end product is very nearly as maudit as auteur pictures get.

This resulted in some lazy observations about mainstream news media, and a fame hungry public, and ultimately exposes Gervais» limitations as an auteur.

Taken as an auteur piece, the picture is sort of stunning: Hollywood's Peter Pan savant pissing on Neverland and the Lost Boys.

The legendary independent director, who made exploitation films but was honored as an auteur, died Saturday at his home in the Hollywood Hills.

As much credit as auteur Mike Leigh deserves for changing the landscape of British cinema with his -LSB-...]

But Strickland has achieved prominence as an auteur - in - exile, almost as if he were a foreign infiltrator into the predominantly realist world of British film.

It's atrociously - edited, though Beatty is at a place where the sometimes - comical choppiness might be seen as an auteur statement, or at least a «Fuck you, I'm Warren Beatty.»

Banished as an auteur, Soderbergh is free to scribble in the margins all he likes, so he has a field day.

He's made a comic French New Wave pastiche about Jean - Luc Godard's early years with perpetually ubiquitous Louis Garrel as the auteur and Stacy Martin as his young lover (the other leading star of the film).

The verbal pyrotechnics are sorely needed, mind you, for this is a film built on as slender a narrative thread as the auteur has ever created.

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the only screenwriter working today who could be perceived as an auteur, tackles this quandary and develops the dilemmas that accompany it in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

It's also, for director Wes Anderson, a return to the stop - motion animation style of his 2009 sleeper classic Fantastic Mr. Fox, which has quietly gained a following among some of the director's fans as the auteur's low - key masterpiece.

Pitt works on blockbusters, indie films, with A-list directors like Ridley Scott as often as auteurs like Terrence Malick.

It's a fitting simile for the whole game: as if Suda has let his fame as an auteur go to his head, and is simultaneously phoning it in and losing his sense of restraint.

With the release of her film Face in the Crowd (2014), an examination of crowd dynamics and the individual, Prager solidified her standing as an auteur whose ominous, experimental works conjure feelings of anxiety, apprehension, and dread, while simultaneously offering the viewing pleasure and intrigue of a Hollywood movie.

Walter Hill's relatively recent status as an auteur may have been stymied by his unwillingness to take on sprawling, pretentious, or overstuffed shots or edits; for him, the somewhat anonymous vocabulary of the studio picture was one well enough worth perfecting.

I like Eastwood's take on the autumn light as a shooting element, one that pops up in nearly all his work as an auteur.

Baumbach and Paltrow entertain those notions, but the film remains a serious examination of De Palma as an auteur, coming through one of the most fevered epochs of Hollywood history and surviving to tell the tale.

I'm not the only one who regards it as Lewton's greatest film, and I assume the main reason for its neglect is auteurist thinking — only directors are seen as auteurs — and the absence of stars.

And idk... Maybe like Aonuma pointed out... Maybe this only happens in the west where one guy is singled out as the auteur of a single game or series.

The precision at play is stunning, as there is a distinct sense of control over every scenario, marking this as the auteur's tightest work.

Brooks» recurrent concerns — the rhetoric and ideology of success, failure, and the unhappy happy ending, and the long - take long shot style he places them in — position him as an auteur, and one who deserves greater critical attention.

It's not the stylist that endures with the best filmmakers, it's the core of humanity and their ability to address big questions in accessible ways; with three films (compare to Tarantino after his third film), Kon has established himself as an auteur on the world stage.

Jonze has proven himself both as an auteur and a writer now, and has given us one of the very best films of the year.