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.
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...
Not exact matches
The second phase of this fever dream is that the world immediately reaches out to these amateur
auteurs and fervently demands more of the same
as well
as offering princely sums for the privilege.
Milch in particular seems to have embodied the stereotype of
auteur as enfant terrible.
I've been enjoying The Word on the Street, a 2003 translation that casts the Big Guy
as a Hollywood
auteur with a taste for sweeping gestures.
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.
Instead they decided to become
auteurs by making a video of the video playing back on a smartphone held by an anonymous hand
as two anonymous young women added pointless voice - over commentary.
The films of indie
auteur Perry («Listen Up Philip») are known for a certain verbosity, but here there's no undertow, just bromides dressed up
as profundities.
Lister - Jones is also generous enough an
auteur to allow for memorable moments from others, whether it's hilarious bits from the likes of Retta (
as Anna and Ben's unlucky marriage counselor), Brooklyn Decker, and Jamie Chung; the escalating weirdness of Armisen (who was, of course, a seasoned indie - band drummer before he turned to acting and comedy); or a knockout dramatic scene between Pally and the great comedian Susie Essman
as Ben's mother, who provides some invaluable advice.
As a star -
auteur, he has always been the most important feature and effect of the series, although it's telling that Mr. De Palma oversaw the set - piece that gave the movies their foundational image: Mr. Cruise's operative, Ethan Hunt, hovering like a spider (or a puppet) above a luminous white floor while suspended by a very thin rope.
It's
as exhilaratingly honest and unshackled a work
as many have come to expect from this
auteur of cringe comedy, one that foresees, absorbs, and responds to all possible bile that might be directed its way, knowing full well of the muck it dredges up.
If it isn't quite up to the standards of «Ed Wood,» Tim Burton's 1994 tribute to the
auteur of such misbegotten fruits of moviemaking
as «Plan 9 From Outer Space,» it is nonetheless a much - needed distraction.
Regardless of opinion, he was not only one of the biggest stars of the postwar era but also one of the most powerful, and
as the writer, director, and producer of many of his features, he qualified
as a comic
auteur firmly in the tradition of Chaplin and Keaton.Born Joseph Levitch in Newark, NJ, on March 16, 1926, he was the son of borscht - belt comics, spending the majority of his childhood living with relatives but joining his parents each summer
as they performed in the Catskills.
Starring writer - director - producer and enigmatic «
auteur» Tommy Wiseau, who had unlimited funds but questionable talent, the $ 6 - million film has been hailed «The «Citizen Kane» of bad movies,» a fascinatingly inept and endlessly quotable cult sensation that has carved out a place for itself
as a midnight - movie communal experience.
It doesn't hurt that it was also selected
as Denmark's Foreign Language Oscar Entry, a distinguished honor, considering it beat out works from more prestigious
auteurs.
After all, the 71 - year - old French
auteur, whose film Beau Travail remains one of the great works of the last few decades, has taken an especially grim turn
as of late, with movies like Bastards, White Material and The Intruder exploring some of the darker sides of contemporary humanity.
Johnny Depp played hopeless B - movie
auteur Ed Wood Jr
as a never - say - die idealist who rescued Bela Lugosi from unemployment; Meryl Streep gave life to the deluded classical singer, Florence Foster Jenkins, who was rich enough to pay people to listen to her off - key warbling.
He's still working to rebrand himself
as something beyond a torture - porn
auteur, and he may have convinced himself that this movie, with its talk - radio debates, wants you to «make up your own mind» about its hero's odyssey.
Synopsis: Mad Men
auteur Matthew Weiner makes his feature directorial debut with You Are Here, a mix of comedy and drama that stars Owen Wilson
as Steve, a g...
Critics have seemingly cooled on Tarantino's pop culture patchwork technique over the years, mistaking cleverness for ironic detachment and his singularly innovative mode of theory - to - practice film geekery for plagiaristic slapdash kitsch just
as Tarantino is reaching personal heights
as an
auteur, and it begs the question: did Shakespeare have to deal with cooler - than - thou backlash from his detractors?
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.
The prime achievement of Penn's movie is that it accommodates those readings and others, even
as it evinces its
auteur's admiration for Chris's romanticism.
As with any
auteur, there is, for better or worse, the question of the image.
However, if anyone is up to the task it's the
auteurs responsible for Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance, and A Tale Of Two Sisters and The Good, The Bad, The Weird respectively, with their choice of English - language projects seemingly designed
as a challenge.
Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz (wife of
auteur Ulrich Seidl) and Severin Fiala first present Goodnight Mommy
as a mystery with a horror film premise — two nine - year - old twin brothers question their mother's identity after a facial surgery leaves most of her...
She regards the aforementioned Ruiz — with whom she recently introduced their fourth collaboration, the Balzac adaptation «Nucingen Haus,» at the London Film Festival —
as a close mentor, and is quick to compile a list of
auteurs she has long desired to working with, including Steven Soderbergh, Danny Boyle and Mike Leigh.
This is the
auteur's second project to utilize the real - life passing of time
as a storytelling device, following his Before series (whose latest entry, Before Midnight, was my favorite film of 2013), a trio of romance movies separated by 9 years each starring Hawke and Julie Delpy.
The movie is credited to two directors, Wanda Tuchock and George Nichols Jr., but film scholar Jeremy Arnold believes Tuchock, who also wrote the screenplay, should be regarded
as the film's sole
auteur: «This one has Wanda's fingerprints all over it.»
Planet Terror's not nearly
as smart
as it thinks it is; Death Proof's smarts are so edged and complicated that they could only be the product, unintentional, of an
auteur who's assimilated the undertow of his favourite films and, rarest of the rare, is able to reproduce those undertows in works that, however familiar, are completely original.
Arguably, a national distrust of the genuinely individual —
as opposed to the eccentric and «quirky» — accounts for the glaring absence at the heart of Australian cinema: the
auteur.
It showcases the stunning naturalistic performances that would become a hallmark of Pialat's work, and immediately cemented him
as one of France's best emerging
auteurs.
Very much a genre stylist in the mold of golden - age Hollywood directors like Anthony Mann or Raoul Walsh, Uchida showed little discernible personal style to mark him
as an
auteur in the French critical mold, but the uniformly high quality of his works and his ability to succeed in a variety of genres mark him
as a filmmaker very ripe for (re) consideration by critics.
The director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey) The talent: By this point in his career,
auteur - photographer Ceylan is a self - standing arthouse brand — which is just
as well, since the other names involved are unlikely to ring many bells with non-Turkish viewers.
Or,
as envelope - shredding
auteur Darren Aronofsky might prefer,
as a «mother!»
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.
And guiding it all is Audiard who, if he hasn't already established himself
as one of France's (and world cinema's) finest
auteurs, will do so here.
Organizers of London's 2012 Olympic effort have clearly filched the Chinese memo,
as they've secured their own now - cuddly
auteur as artistic director of their opening ceremony — one Mr. Danny Boyle.
This tribute to Schepisi's important contribution
as an Australian and international filmmaker, a distinctive
auteur and jobbing filmmaker, covers his early work in documentary (his fascinating short on The Age newspaper, People Make Papers), the mercurial critical reception of his groundbreaking opus The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the representation of landscape across his first three Australian features (specifically in the partisan and compassionate Evil Angels, 1988), his initial project in the United States (the elemental and mythic Western, Barbarosa), the now iconic Six Degrees of Separation, and the importance of adaptation and collaboration across his cinema.
Meanwhile, Mexican
auteur Amat Escalante's The Untamed was also cited
as not complete in time for Cannes, so there's a likelihood one of these will show up in Venice.
And then, there were a decent number of
auteurs who appeared at the Cannes Market who should (hopefully) pop up in Venice, such
as Lido regular Benoit Jacquot with his adaptation of Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, apparently retitled Never Ever, while Wim Wenders could be a contender with The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (though he may hold out for Berlin 2017, the same guess we'd wage for a new film from Volker Schlondorff, Return to Montauk).
I'm a bit taken aback (
as ever) by some of the filmmakers who've been shunted into other sections, but at least after all the well - justified complaints that last year's Palme competition was mostly made up of subpar work by established
auteurs, they haven't gone that route again (or, at least, not quite so pronouncedly).
as the kind of unpredictable, risk - taking,
auteur - driven movie our film landscape desperately needs.
«Midnight in Paris» McAdams teamed up with Owen Wilson (again) and Woody Allen for the 2011 Oscar winner «Midnight in Paris,» kicking off a stretch of prestige films in which she worked with
auteur director such
as Terrence Malick on «To the Wonder,» Brian de Palma on «Passion» and Wim Wenders on «Every Thing Will Be Fine.»
Brady Corbet is a familiar face on screen
as an actor in independent in a number of films by today's quintessential
auteurs.
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.
The opposing forces are a direct reflection of the challenge undertaken by director and co-writer Craig Brewer, who only half sells out
as he tries to leave an
auteur's mark while remaining faithful to a source that's loaded with dated, studio - friendly hokum.
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.
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.
The Disaster Artist: Bad moviemaking never looked
as good
as it does in James Franco's hilarious yet strangely sincere docudramedy about «The Room» and its
auteur Tommy Wiseau.
Hooper, of course, also places a great deal of emphasis on his own flaws
as a filmmaker, though perhaps not in the manner one might expect: Les Misérables seems, in his newly Oscar - carrying hands, an elaborate demo reel for his tics
as self - styled
auteur.