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.
Not exact matches
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.
As a window into the auteur's late - career preoccupation with adolescent angst, «Bertolucci Makes The Dreamers» is illuminating, bookended as it is by telling quotes («When I'm with these kids, I feel the same age» and «Maybe I didn't talk enough about young people when I was young») that make one wish Bertolucci would do a film about the vanishing act of youth rather than these pitiful attempts to trap it in a ja
As a window into the
auteur's late -
career preoccupation with adolescent angst, «Bertolucci Makes The Dreamers» is illuminating, bookended
as it is by telling quotes («When I'm with these kids, I feel the same age» and «Maybe I didn't talk enough about young people when I was young») that make one wish Bertolucci would do a film about the vanishing act of youth rather than these pitiful attempts to trap it in a ja
as it is by telling quotes («When I'm with these kids, I feel the same age» and «Maybe I didn't talk enough about young people when I was young») that make one wish Bertolucci would do a film about the vanishing act of youth rather than these pitiful attempts to trap it in a jar.
: Ida served
as a
career rebirth of sorts for the filmmaker, and now that we've got an
auteur friendly distrib backing the project, this larger scaled production will likely be targeted for a top tier fest such
as Cannes or Venice.
Another cinephilic
auteur, Volker Schlöndorff (who began his
career in France
as an assistant to Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, and Jean - Pierre Melville before returning to make his own films in his native Germany), was an inspired choice
as this year's Guest Director in Telluride.
During the decade, established
auteurs like John Carpenter, David Lynch, Rob Reiner, Sam Raimi, Wes Craven and Jonathan Demme flourished in the burgeoning horror market, but new comers like David Fincher, Peter Jackson, and Robert Rodriguez were able to jump start their
careers in the genre
as well.
The pop - cultural consensus on horror director Tobe Hooper would seem to be that, with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he somehow made one of the genre's defining masterpieces right out of the gate only to squander a promising
career on a string of strange mediocrities that ultimately marked him more
as a hack - for - hire than an
auteur in the tradition of more respected contemporaries such
as John Carpenter, Wes Craven, or George A. Romero.
In her varied and long
career, Moreau has worked with such legendary
auteurs as Luis Buñuel, Michelangelo Antonioni, Orson Welles (who once called her «the greatest actress in the world»), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and she continues to work today, in films by some of contemporary cinema's most revered names, such
as Amos Gitai, Tsai Ming - liang, and François Ozon.
A modest speaker despite his 50 - year
career, Sidney Lumet was never one to overstate his role
as an
auteur.
Just
as Johnny Depp gave his
career - best performance
as Z - movie
auteur Ed Wood, Franco achieves what could become his most iconic role.