Sentences with phrase «in auteurist»

It might be argued that this strategy is more attributable to Kubee Glasmon and John Bright's script than to Wellman's direction — a typical oversight in the auteurist 60s, even from an alleged antiauteurist.

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.

Not exact matches

Next year is not looking so promising in New York, where exactly two institutions (Anthology & BAM) remain devoted to film on film and simply showing non-canonical auteurist series.

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.

What steamed me back in 1977 was the prominence of the auteurist - trained movie brats — filmmakers like Benton, Peter Bogdanovich, Brian De Palma, John Milius, and Martin Scorsese — in relation to their models as well as their European counterparts.

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 cinemIn 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 cinemin contemporary cinema.

But I associated him with the auteurist moment in film criticism, and I wanted to pick someone like Nicholas Ray or Minnelli, who had been important to the French in the 1950s.

We may have inferred spurious behavioural similarities between Max Fischer, Royal Tennenbaum or Steve Zissou in the director himself — characters as an extension of the creator's personality, as the auteurists would have it — yet this latest work appears wholly obsessed with the mechanics and logistics of Anderson's experience writing and directing movies.

Across the pond (the other pond), Kiyoshi Kurosawa leaves the J - Horror genre for which he's probably best known in the United States (see: Bright Future, Pulse, Cure) and injects his auteurist theme of the individual pulled by a massive, unknowable, malignant force into the bedlam into an intimate domestic drama.

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

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).

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.

Rather, their tragic «lost» status stems from the fact that they exist only in truncated, bowdlerized form, having been wrested from the hands of their visionary directors by studio functionaries who were too craven and bottom - line - obsessed to cut these directors some auteurist slack.

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

Auteurist critics who mined these strata have rejected Zinnemann because his is a literal - minded cinema of the spectator, where the images and narrative are displayed with craft and artistry, but which do not ask the viewer to participate in completing the equation of form and content.

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.

Argento's work in the States brings out his more gothic sensibilities (for him, Poe was our founding father) and Jenifer's auteurist stamp is most visibly felt in its frills and flourishes: the Claudio Simonetti score (part Goblin lullaby, part Bernard Hermann melodramatic ambience), the scary cat, and the lonely overhead from a second - floor window.

Coming from an auteurist symposium in a 2009 issue of the invaluable online journal Reverse Shot, this video essay (constructed by Kevin B. Lee) takes to assessing Claire Denis» enigmatic 2004 work L'Intrus (The Intruder)...

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

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.

All that said, it pays to remind ourselves that while the program last year was starrier, almost all of the big auteurist films fell some way short of expectations («Knight of Cups,» «Queen Of The Desert,» «Every Thing Will Be Fine» respectively) and the true stars emerged elsewhere — in Andrew Haigh «s now Oscar - nominated «45 Years,» in Jafar Panahi «s Golden Bear - winner «Taxi,» Pablo Larraín «s Grand Prix winner «The Club,» and elsewhere.

Anderson cultivates this atmosphere of free - floating discomfort by pushing forward his signature auteurist move — the tracking shot — in a truly breathtaking direction.

Perhaps all would be forgiven if M: i: III were competently - directed (while M: I - 2 is one of the stupidest films ever made, as John Woo is one of the best action directors of the past twenty - five years, damn if it's not beautiful, coherent, auteurist stupidity), but it's a glassy - eyed, dead thing complete with superfluous flashbacks to events we don't care about involving characters we don't recognize, an interminable party sequence in which Cruise trots out his smile like it was a weathered, beaten - down trophy wife, and a smug, self - congratulatory conclusion full of high - fives, victory arms, and shit - eating grins.

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

Sarris was in that first Corliss issue with «Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1970,» an update on his decade - earlier staking - out of the American auteurist territory that had initiated a blazing (un) civil war in the critical fraternity.

Witches (1990), based on a Roald Dahl novel (Anjelica Huston's witch has done as much damage to impressionable young minds as Jenny Agutter's skinny dipping in Walkabout), is one of the strangest children's films ever made, but it managed to connect with both its intended audience and armchair auteurists.

Maybe there's enough of a Gray hardcore out there to get the same auteurist votes as Haneke or Malick in recent years, but without the distributor support, it's a longer shot, though might figure in to some degree if voting were being held now.

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.

For those who accuse Hong Sang - soo of essentially telling the same kinds of stories in his films, the first half of his latest, «Right Now, Wrong Then,» will look especially like a case of auteurist déjà vu.