Sentences with phrase «directors as auteurs»

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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.

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 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.»

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

Esteemed as one of the most prominent French independent directors of the post-World War II era, Jean - Pierre Melville laid a proto - auteur framework for the French Nouvelle Vague directors that followed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Esteemed as one of the most prominent French independent directors of the post-World War II era, Jean - Pierre Melville laid a proto - auteur framework for the French Nouvelle Vague directors that followed in the...

Joan Micklin Silver By Shonni Enelow The director of such lovingly idiosyncratic films as Crossing Delancey and Hester Street merits reconsideration as a true offbeat American auteur

I thought about changing my prediction to a shock win for Michael Haneke until I remembered that no director of a foreign language film has ever won this prize — no not even Federico Fellini or Ingmar Bergman, Oscar's indisputable favorites as foreign auteurs go.

Unlike the «Auteur» or «Shreiber» theories favouring either the director or the writer as the true author of a film, the «Fís» Theory holds that a true singular voice can only be attained when the director is also the writer.

From the outset, the loss of Greengrass as director should have a detrimental effect on the overall quality of this film, but this isn't the main obstacle facing Legacy, as they have a very capable auteur in the form of Gilroy, and it should be remembered that the franchise was kick - started by Doug Liman some ten years ago.

He showed a brief spark in 2008 with his Spanish installment, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona,» but the aging director is sadly less than a pale shadow of the auteur / performer who enthralled audiences in the «70s, «80s, and even the early «90s with masterful comedies such as «Annie Hall,» «Crimes and Misdemeanors,» and «Husbands and Wives.»

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.

A director once anointed as a promising auteur, has now had many revoke that status from him.

He draws thematic inspiration from classic Western director John Ford (specifically 1956's «The Searchers») and from his beloved»30s and»40s crime movies as well as the visual aesthetic of French New Wave auteurs.

Even then in May, amongst the line - up of melodramas and arthouses from auteurs all around the world, it stood out as an entertaining and commercial thriller, though this is just the first take on live - action from the 39 - year - old South Korean director who packed on his back only several animated movies, most notably The King of Pigs and The Fake.

Relievedly, the competition jury headed by Italian auteur Nanni Moretti felt differently, naming Reygadas as the surprise winner of the festival's best director prize.

And Ava DuVernay, whose versatility and remarkable C.V. should already have her viewed as one of the premiere American auteur directors.

Fans of the Korean auteur (as well as fans of good sci - fi in general) were understandably very vexed by the decision to cut the film down by twenty minutes and add expository voice over, eager to see the director's original, uncompromising vision.

Betsy's Wedding finds the auteur Alan Alda, as writer / director / star, trying to nail down a Woody Allen ensemble vibe, albeit with a zippier pace.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Some critics have described Richard Linklater, the director of «Boyhood,» as a defiant auteur because of the personal nature of this coming - of - age story (which even features the director's daughter in a key supporting role).

After all, he is now a true «auteur», being credited as the sole writer, producer and director of The Happening.

As with all such things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle: Bright is an entertaining - enough high - concept feature with a few glaring holes that fans of its director, cop - corruption auteur David Ayer, will likely enjoy.

Saulnier succeeds into full - on auteur as writer / director / cinematographer of this instantly engrossing shocker, aided by a consistent cast, lead by a true - blue Macon Blair.

Also too good to pass up: Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, a striking documentary profile of one of the strongest practitioners of urban street photography, directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, Apr. 15; Godard Mon Amour, director Michel Hazanavicius» cool, dramatized portrait of iconic French auteur Jean - Luc Godard (Louis Garrel), as told by Godard's one - time wife, Anne Wiazemsky, Apr. 15; and, from Japanese master Koreeda Hirokazu, The Third Murder, a chambered nautilus of a murder mystery, starring Fukuyama Masaharu and Yakusho Kôji, Apr. 6.

Director Alexander Hall is nobody's idea of an auteur; the rest of his filmography has been largely forgotten, and the Oscar nomination he received for his functional work here (notable primarily for depicting heaven as a dry - ice limbo) looks downright absurd nestled alongside the likes of Orson Welles (Citizen Kane), Howard Hawks (Sergeant York), and winner John Ford (How Green Was My Valley).

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive contends that the answer to the eternal struggle between what is real and what is fantasy comes in the form of a Keatsian confusion — it's the difference between Adam's dream and Eve rendered flesh, blurred in the mind of the creator and his audience.A film is a dream of the director made tangible, a conceit familiar from the fourth wall - breaking in Ingmar Bergman's Persona (banishing any mystery there might have been regarding the visual references to that film in Lynch's piece), and a movie's characters therefore become projections of its maker's sublimated longing (clarifying too the auteur's use of wardrobe and colour schemes from Hitchcock's meditation on objectification, Vertigo, as well as those of his first collaboration with inamorata Tippi Hedren, The Birds).

Resnais is also given a nice showcase via a lengthy, vintage Q&A session from 1961, where the camera stays on the director, and Resnais answers queries regarding his disuse of the possessive credit («A Film By»), views on the Auteur theory, his rather humbling self - classification as a working editor, and his reply on the ever popular question by cinema tightwads, «Is Cinema dead?»

«Midnight Special» — It almost seems that young writer / director (gearing towards auteur) can do know wrong, as his entire catalog for me, thus far, has ranged from good to fantastic.

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.

Luchino Visconti comes to mind as an obvious predecessor to this 64 - year - old director's multiform auteur profile, except that Visconti didn't link the three mediums quite so decisively.

Indebted to Se7en for its overly intricate murder scenes, as well as to Requiem for a Dream's relentless music - video pacing, Saw doesn't announce first - time director James Wan as a new auteur, but as a media - saturated copycat.

While some auteurs locked out of the comp in 2015 have been invited back to the fold (Desplechin, Kawase) of Fremaux's loving arms, the usual trend of displacement has crafted an unusually exciting crop of titles in the Directors» Fortnight sidebar, as well as miscellaneous groupings of designated Special Screenings and Out of Competition slots specifically designed for auteurs who will remain part of the official program but away from the glaring inspection of competition pressures.

Seeing as Garrel opened the Directors» Fortnight in 2015 with In the Shadow of Women, we expect another auteur of similar stature to snag the distinction, perhaps Roman Polanski's Based on a True Story.

What You Need To Know: A notoriously slow and deliberate filmmaker and editor, who tends to write his films as he is shooting them (must be nice), Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar - wai is one of the most world - renowned international directors, but this will be his first film since his poorly received 2007 English - language debut, «My Blueberry Nights.»

What You Need To Know: A notoriously slow and deliberate filmmaker and editor, who tends to write his film as as he is shooting (what a luxury), Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar - Wai is one of the most world - renowned international directors, but this will be his first film since his 2007 poorly received English - language debut, «My Blueberry Nights.»

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.

Braff, best known to TV viewers for his lead role on the long - running, much - syndicated hospital comedy «Scrubs», graduated to auteur status as writer - director - star of the acclaimed, hit 2004 indie Garden State.

As I write this Thursday afternoon, we are still waiting to see two strong Palme contenders: The Wild Pear Tree by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a Cannes favourite who took the top prize in 2014 with Winter Sleep; and Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Capernaum, titled for a Biblical town where Jesus Christ is said to have performed miracles, which is getting good advance buzz for its story about an unhappy boy launching a lawsuit against the adults who vex him.

Many auteur directors create films that seem to exist in pocket universes as self - contained, circumscribed and minutely thought - through as the virtual - reality environment of a computer game or the fantasy setting of a paperback trilogy.

The film - obsessed stand - up and TV auteur stars as a successful sitcom producer who finds himself at wit's end when his idol, a Woody Allen-esque movie director (John Malkovich), takes a leering interest in his spoiled 17 - year - old daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz).

Powerful drama from writer - director Kelly Reichardt («Wendy and Lucy») further establishes her as an auteur who finds poignancy in the stillness

Fellow film - makers are equally impressed: Ben Affleck has likened Anderson to Orson Welles, while Sam Mendes calls him «a true auteur», one of a small group of directors «who I would classify as geniuses».

Given that Split is the creation of Mr M Night Shyamalan, the writer / director / auteur behind deathless chiller The Sixth Sense — and several other almost as scary but not quite so good films (Unbreakable, Signs, Lady In The Water)-- these personalities are not all cuddly and kooky.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.