Sentences with phrase «auteur theory»

This fact allows Perkins to sidestep many of the criticisms of auteur theory, and instead explore how these directors have shaped their own voices and personal philosophy.

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And my ambivalence over auteur theory is summed up in that not being so.

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In film, auteur theory contends that the director is the primary «author» of a motion picture, responsible for overseeing and uniting the entirety of a movie's aural and visual elements.

For the first time, the critics also chose to give their special award to a fellow critic: Andrew Sarris, the famed critic who wrote for the Village Voice and championed the «auteur theory.»

Andrew Sarris published «Notes from the Auteur Theory in 1962» in Jonas Mekas's deeply influential underground journal Film Culture; in the spring of» 63, Pauline Kael would answer him in Film Quarterly (America's longest - running magazine of film criticism) with her take - no - prisoners rebuttal «Circles and Squares.»

It's also a small stick in the eye of the auteur theory, which I've never bought into.

Shyamalan, if we follow the auteur theory as closely as he claims to, hates his fellow man enough so that a coda revealing a blessed pregnancy is framed in such a way as to suggest that mankind is spelling its own doom with this urge to procreate.

Instead of coming up through the ranks of the craft guilds, these young directors studied film history, auteur theory, and audience - pleasing techniques at New York University (NYU), University of Southern California (USC), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and Cal State, respectively.

This was all before the auteur theory.

In his famed 1962 essay, «Notes on the Auteur Theory,» Andrew Sarris gave the...

Among the biggest negative effects of the auteur theory is the idea that filmmakers are knowable; that every director not only has a distinctive influ...

Their wrangles over the auteur theory had the excitement of politics and sport.

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In his famed 1962 essay, «Notes on the Auteur Theory,» Andrew Sarris gave the highest praise to strong - willed directors like Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, who stamped their movies with an unmistakable personal vision.

Yet, with the very valid tenets of the auteur theory in mind, films co-directed by two distinct voices are special cases, especially in the case of the magnificent documentary Faces Places.

At CriticWire, Sam Adams rebuts: «The auteur theory helped legitimize the work of the overlooked studio craftsmen whose personalities shone through their work in disparate genres, and it's helped legitimize an art form whose boundaries are still being tested.

The Cahiers approach, which often focused on reconciling widescreen style and auteur theory, influenced British criticism, most notably Charles Barr's seminal 1963 essay «CinemaScope: Before and After» (1).

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In his book «The American Cinema,» Sarris, who helped to popularize the auteur theory in America, championed the late films of directors including John Ford, Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock.

As a result of that, and somewhat unexpectedly, Gibson is the single best case for the auteur theory working in the United States.

(They're critical to making good movies, period, and one of the tragedies of the auteur theory is the subsequent devaluing of editors.)

Andrew Sarris, one of the nation's most influential film critics and a champion of auteur theory, died on Wednesday at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan.

At this point in the history of film criticism, the auteur theory has become passé as a totalizing framework for understanding moviemaking as art, but Martel's three features (and this one in particular), in their distinctive, shared point - of - view and unique approach to mise - en - scène and sound, provide irrefutable evidence that international art cinema still serves as a showcase for singular directorial talents who are, indeed, the principal creative forces behind their films.

Popularized his favorite American directors in Paris, essentially preparing for ground for the auteur theory to be invented.

Rodriguez again takes his multifaceted role as director, writer, cinematographer, editor, composer, producer, production designer, and visual effects supervisor, taking the «theory» out of the auteur theory.

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«On the Set» is a vintage and largely static Q&A session between an unseen interviewer and then - muscular Schrader, who gives lengthy views on casting, Kinski, characters, the incest theme, and the auteur theory, while the camera occasionally zooms in and out.

His criticism as a writer for the Cahiers du cinema is just as important as his filmmaking, too — he's the one who first started the idea behind the auteur theory, though many others have modified it far from his original intent

For decades, Academy voters subscribed to American film critic Andrew Sarris» auteur theory, the concept that a film's director is its driving artistic force.

Two different people familiar with 2K's operations told me that the publisher's executives believe strongly in auteur theory, and that the company sees Blackman as a strong creative leader, much like they see original BioShock director Ken Levine.

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