For my purposes,
game auteurs do indeed exist, if only because some indie game designers view themselves as such, and many fans accept them as such.
Keita Takahashi, most famous for creating Katamari Damacy, is the rare video
game auteur who works in nothing but shades of unadulterated, utterly charming whimsy.
Hideo Kojima is one of the most celebrated video game developers of all time (many have called him a video
game auteur), and he has...
Not exact matches
The idea of an
auteur is an unfamiliar one to most
games.
The irony here is that television's new burst of prestige is partially due to the format speaking in an increasingly cinematic language: there's the attraction to
auteur output (David Fincher's Mindhunter, Steven Soderbergh's The Knick, and Paul Sorrentino's The Young Pope come to mind), the inflating budgets, the flirtation with feature - length episodes, as seen with the likes of Westworld and
Game of Thrones.
Wong Kar Wai By Olivier Assayas The Hong Kong movie
game - changer is poetically reappraised by the cutting - edge French
auteur in this appreciation of a man, a filmmaker, and a city
It's not a flick for serious film
auteurs and the storyline is largely nonsensical, but seeing Angie animate a beloved video
game character is a worthwhile spectacle.
Time and space collide when a possessed
game grabs hold of two friends eager for a sinful night of sex and drugs in Indian
auteur Q's first foray into horror.
Few
games feel so over-produced yet so embellished by its
auteur's eccentricities.
A heady psychosexual drama that's steeped in dense anxieties and rich European glamour (the film was partially funded by Chanel), Olivier Assayas's latest finds the French
auteur at the very top of his
game.
As usual, many of the predicted
auteur films which didn't make Fremaux's final cut for the main competition or Un Certain Regard could be fair
game to turn up here, although many a notable name has been known to hold off for a higher berth premiere out of Venice.
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is one of the few
auteurs in video gaming, mostly because you can usually count on him to bring a certain level of outrageous insanity to the
games he creates.
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.
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, the
auteur up the
game, brilliantly showcasing the indelible, pristine designs of costumer Courtney Hoffman.
Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation
Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair
Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.
We want
auteurs who allow us to marvel at seeing their strong, clear visions brought to life within a video
game.
«Hideo Kojima, the world - renowned
game creator and
auteur known for pushing the boundaries of the video
game medium, is now on the advisory board at Prologue Immersive.
Red Cliff Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: John Woo's Chinese - language historical epic finds the Hong Kong
auteur at the top of his
game, staging a third - century battle royale that's as breathlessly paced as it is artfully choreographed.
And idk... Maybe like Aonuma pointed out... Maybe this only happens in the west where one guy is singled out as the
auteur of a single
game or series.
[In an in - depth opinion piece,
game designer and researcher Douglas Wilson urges more collaborative approaches to
game design, suggesting that «the «
auteur» school of
game development is not only outmoded, but dangerous to the vitality of the medium».]
I believe that the «
auteur» school of
game development is not only outmoded, but dangerous to the vitality of the medium.
One particularly illuminating example of the
auteur school of indie
game design is Jason Rohrer's Gravitation.
I suspect Ubisoft's model of spreading development across multiple studios allows for technical brilliance but saps their
games of the meaningful narrative drive you get with an
auteur, or a tightly knit studio, or even just vision.
In the same year, to do BioShock Infinite and work with an
auteur like Ken Levine and be a part of a franchise — the original BioShock was one of the first
games in a long time to scare the piss out of me.
Yet in being critically successful, the
games earned a remastered collection on the PlayStation 3, widening the
games» audience, and putting Fumito Ueda in a special list of
auteur directors.
It seems like David Cage is the kind of
auteur who's more concerned with the story and making it epic and grand and exciting and Luc Besson that he forgets about the small stuff, which anyone playing the
game with the least bit of interest would have picked up and retained.
Hideo Kojima, the world - renowned
game creator and
auteur known for pushing the boundaries of the video
game medium, is now on the advisory board at Prologue Immersive.
Venice, CA: Hideo Kojima, the world - renowned
game creator and
auteur known for pushing the boundaries of the video
game medium, is now on the advisory board at Prologue Immersive.
Generously crammed with entertaining dialog and awash with the sort of boundless imagination which has long deserted many of the elder
auteurs in the genre, Super Chibi Knight's myriad setting spans everything from haunted forests and pirate ships, through to temples and lost mines and in showing such variety does a great job of providing a kaleidoscopic aperture into the unfettered imagination of an eight - year old
gamer.
A lip - smacking and eager - eyed Bear Grylls has today thrown his unequivocal and unasked - for support behind The Witness, upcoming puzzle
game from indie
auteur Jonathan Blow, best known for his work with Braid and also his apparent habit...
It's hard to think of many AAA
games which have lost their visionary
auteur and then gone on to make surprising improvements.
Following that, we had the announcement of the episodic cel - shaded horror title D4, by
auteur game designer Swery65, creator of Deadly Premonition.
Polyphony Digital boss (and
auteur - supreme) Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that myriad patches will be improving several aspects of the
game over the next few weeks.
In the pantheon of
auteur game designers, off to the side of the great hall with the golden 50 foot statues of Shigeru Miyamoto and Shigesato Itoi, and past the quirky hipster exhibit with beautiful...
Kojima is one of the rare
auteurs in big - budget
game design: a creator nearly as well - known as his trademark series, which just spawned the epic Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
It's the idea of an «
auteur»
game made within a traditional structure (indie
games are nearly always this way now).
Just looking at the Suda 51 name and Juliet Starling's outfit, you know this is going to be another bat - shit crazy
game from the Japanese
auteur and Grasshopper Manufacture.
As video
games have begun to grow up and media critics have begun to take gaming more seriously as a potential art form, a similar tacit acceptance of the notion of the
auteur has often defined discussions of «important
games».
Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear series and one of the few developers for whom the «
auteur» label has stuck, was not at the
Game Awards last night to receive the Best Score / Soundtrack and Best Action / Adventure
Game awards won by Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
Fortunately, Hideo Kojima saw potential in the project, prompting the Metal Gear
auteur to champion the
game - thereby allowing the development team at MercurySteam to realize their ambitions.
Mileage is likely to vary depending on your attachment to the works of
auteur game director Yoko Taro.
It's a fitting simile for the whole
game: as if Suda has let his fame as an
auteur go to his head, and is simultaneously phoning it in and losing his sense of restraint.