by Angelo Muredda When Project X spilled forth from its amniotic septic tank last spring, I read it as a prime example of a producer - driven form
of auteurism pioneered by Judd Apatow.
Director Richard Linklater's
meandering auteurism has led him to this culminating effort, a low key... read more →
Embracing that kind of
auteurism means the long - running series can continue while feeling fresh and different, and it's a strategy other studios could benefit from copying.
And
where auteurism helps the talented and experienced Lynn Hershman Leeson get the kind of critical attention she deserves.
As it is, the stilted claims
at auteurism (he's known as the master of eye violence, mainly for a few juicy bits from The Beyond and Zombie) do more, perhaps, to relegate his work to a sort of camp gulag: the Siberia of legitimate cinema, where adolescent tools congregate for midnight showings armed with irony and a crippling baggage of disdain and contempt.
This is no more tellingly evident than in the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Bernardo Bertolucci, the very symbol of an earlier — some might say, golden — age of
European auteurism.
The short is called «The Red Drum Getaway» and it pits Hitchcock's Jimmy Stewart against the
sinister auteurism of Stanley Kubrick.
We don't typically think of actors when we talk
about auteurism, but as Quandt's selection shows, Trintignant is a performer who brings a certain cache with him across his body of work, and as such has long galvanized directors into casting him either to or against type.
But its cynical poison is deadlier towards Hollywood as a piece of satire, arguably arguing
against Auteurism (even though, historically speaking, it wasn't really a -LSB-...]
There's also some
cinematic auteurism, borrowing well from film directors Michael Antonioni and Michael Haneke, each who employed several minute - long single frame shots to evoke somberness and slowly heightening suspense.
Daniel Day - Lewis resembles an Easter Island sculpture crossed with a handsomely groomed Adonis in «Phantom Thread,» Paul Thomas Anderson's ode to extravagance, texture,
tyrannical auteurism and its most ingenious subversions.
«Inside Out» and the stranglehold of Minnesota Nice; 20th anniversary of «Kids»; Small -
screen auteurism of Keith Gordon; Danny Elfman on Tim Burton; John Lasseter on the evolution of storytelling.
And one needn't take a stand on the validity of
auteurism as a framework for discussing movies to acknowledge the way it continues to dominate discussions of current works of international art cinema; those of us invested in movies as art continue to latch on to the director as artist.
Guardians of the Galaxy still feels like it has its own personality, and some
directorial auteurism, propelling it along.
There are few filmmakers as distinctive as the South Korean master Hong Sang - soo, a writer - director whose films are immediately recognisable to even those with very little investment
in auteurism.
You could probably trace an interesting historical path through the halcyon days of IP experimentation, and small design
team auteurism up through the much more conservative design ethos of current AAA publishers using LucasArts as your through line.
The bad news is Lucy is prurient pap that pup - critics will declare proof of «
vulgar auteurism,» no matter the redundancy and ignorance of the term itself.
These developments — the rise
of auteurism, its adaptation to commercial Hollywood pictures, and a new seriousness about the mass culture — combined by the middle 1970s to alter, perhaps permanently, the way we regarded all the films we attended.
While similarity in tone and theme is undoubtedly a result of
auteurism, it also has the effect of undermining the permanence of change and the teleology of a narrative.
Auteurism was the issue of the day.
Auteurism was on the rise when Whale's career and his life were in eclipse.
There's a potency to his films, a certain generosity and warmth that defines
his auteurism more than anything else, and, with that, an ebullient hopefulness about the cycle of growth that can be infectious.
Odd, too, to hear him pore over the themes in Williams's work, since he goes on for pages in his Hitchcock book about the fallacy of
auteurism.
It's important to acknowledge that Kaufman has become an auteur in the public consciousness, but it's equally important to understand that
auteurism is more a way of viewing films than a formula for understanding how films are created.
Auteurism has less to do with the way movies are made than with the way they are elucidated and evaluated, It is more a critical instrument than a creative inspiration.
despite the seismic changes in critical fashion during the past half century,
auteurism — at its most basic, the idea that there is an author to a film — has been central to the historical development of both popular film and serious film criticism and theory... aspects of auteurism have overlapped with virtually every subsequent critical theory and paradigm.
In a film culture dominated — visibly or not — by views inextricably tied to the concept of
auteurism, there's something irresistible about judging films by how they reflect the artistic evolution of their director.