Sentences with word «auteurist»

Film critic A.O. Scott, in his New York Times review, somewhat (but not entirely) jokingly referred to this new film as an example of a kind of auteurist cinema, in that the aesthetic clearly reflects the vision of one man, director Michael Bay (who also directed the previous three films).

That Haneke has been able to conquer all before him with two very different films, neither of which will go down as highpoints in his career, seems only to confirm the widespread notion that he is head and shoulders above every other filmmaker working in auteurist cinema at present.

So, the European Film Awards isn't a celebration of the industry (unlike the Oscars), but an affirmation of auteurist cinema.

As auteurist filmmakers rise in arthouse visibility and critical approbation, some succumb to «Bono - it is».

In the spirit of auteurist sensibility, he argues that Welles's movies have a distinctive acting style: a focused theatricality.

There are thrilling action set - pieces and quieter moments of poetry, violent outbursts of gore and distinct auteurist flourishes.

Fuller has a lot in common with director Nicholas Ray, as both are revered by auteurists for their profoundly personal films made largely within the confines of the studio system, and their careers are roughly parallel, running from the late 40s to the early 60s (Fuller lasted a bit longer, making a pair of significant films in the 1980s).

But both directors also take poetic license in creating a universe of their own, giving us at once a compelling historiographic account, a pure work of auteurist vision, and a playful historical recreation, with touches of bizarre humour and an ineffable absurdist spirit interspersed throughout.

The major studio head - scratcher of its year, the ultimate distillation of Michael Mann's brand of clean sheen noir, and the most authentically auteurist film of the aughts, Miami Vice was the movie offspring of a successful and ever - parodied 80s TV series that was nothing like the original.

The performances a big and broad, maybe even clunky to the eye not covered with auteurist spectacles.

Carpenter may be dealing in»50s Western tropes, but he's also leaving calling cards in nearly every frame; auteurist fingerprints that we recognize now like crime scene data.

Wyler, along with his good friends John Huston and Billy Wilder, represents a school of Hollywood filmmaking that put the script first, moved between entertainments and serious social commentary according to whim, and won too many damn Oscars to ever win the approval of many auteurist critics.

Marvel has been able to avoid franchise fatigue — with the exception of a couple of hiccups, like whatever the hell Thor: The Dark World was — by incorporating more auteurist visions to its films in recent years.

Freed from content restrictions, the new episodes feature an abundance of profanity, violent imagery, and some nudity, but they also reflect auteurist intent, independent of mainstream conventions, that is frequently thrilling.

Thematically, however, K - 19 exists within Bigelow's auteurist wheelhouse, exhibiting the filmmaker's unresolved relationship with authority.

We thought it time for the two leading auteurists of the Sixties to take stock.

Actress Alia Shawkat has been quietly building one of the most interesting careers around, from television («Arrested Development») to independent films, finding a unique, almost auteurist groove in her work.

In the singular world of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, auteurist homage and social consciousness are joined by some of the most lovingly filmed dogs in contemporary cinema.

Though the special blood effects (presumably augmented by additional digital buckets for this unrated edition) look a bit like those in 300, it doesn't have that film's fearless leaps over the top, nor can it boast Apocalypto's bizarre, fascinating mix of naturalism and auteurist nuttiness.

Beyond its wadding of auteurist interest, Crimewave is a singularly entertaining watch, a platform for its makers» most wildly unchecked, brazenly silly, excesses.

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.

For the first 45 minutes, Max Joseph's debut feature plays like a feisty artistic auteurist exploration of the DJ world and lifestyle.

But without David Fincher's chilly auteurist touch, «Dark Places» is...

Otherwise the main auteurist input seems to come from screenwriter Graham Yost, whose script for Speed was another simpleminded bomb - about - to - go - off exercise but without the male bonding.

That little tidbit alone will have auteurists foaming at the mouth.

The weekly Reader in Chicago, born in 1969, has spawned a new kind of national newspaper, the giveaway lifestyle weekly, and each of these papers — The Phoenix, LA Weekly, etc. has its own resident auteurist or deconstructionist.

For one thing, Kael later became the most fanatical auteurist of all, championing favorite directors like Sam Peckinpah and Brian De Palma who brandished a highly personal approach.

Auteurist Franchise Works Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017, S.S. Rajamouli) Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016, Paul W.S. Anderson) Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017, Rian Johnson)

And it seems to me that there's nothing a baby - boomer auteurist hates more than a technically skilled apolitical genre filmmaker.

From Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion, a derivative film about derivatives, to the more or less solid auteurist permutations of the Mission: Impossible franchise, the results have varied, but Cruise's reputation as the sort of star who can get moderately interesting pulp bankrolled and realized by moderately interesting talents has deservedly persisted.

Roberto Rossellini was one of the heroes of 50s French auteurist criticism, exemplifying personal, independent filmmaking, along with Max Ophuls, Nicholas Ray, Jean Renoir, and Orson Welles.

But the post — Dirty Dozen era also brought Marvin into a series of more memorable antagonisms, duked out in richly drawn auteurist microcosms.

What better way to honor the staunch auteurist than to dive into his lengthy, difficult career?

,» Darren Aronofsky's hallucinatory journey to the dark side of auteurist obsession.

Logan isn't auteurist screenwriting; it's just good screenwriting, strengthened with good ideas.

If Ricki and the Flash adds anything new to Demme's auteurist perspective, it lies in an increased awareness of the inevitable pain that comes with aging.

The tonal shifts and bravura filmic flourishes — starting with a masterful tracking shot at the movie's opening — in this logic serve as auteurist fissures, ruptures that connote a certain artiness, a too - be-readness.

For a filmmaker's greatest work — or second greatest, seeing as we've set ourselves the impossible task of ranking these films — it might be expected that said film stand as a complete auteurist statement, one undeniably marked with the stamp of its author.

Not least Paul Schrader, whose particular brand of nihilism deserves equal credit to his director — whether you read John Ford's The Searchers or Robert Bresson's Pickpocket as the film's foremost influence depends on which auteurist lens you favour.

«Grandiloquent nonsense aside, Shyamalan's storytelling tropes are so pronounced that he is ripe for the kind of retrospective appreciation the so - called vulgar auteurists have brought to filmmakers like John McTiernan.