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.
Not exact matches
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 on the rise when Whale's career and his life were
in eclipse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.