Sentences with phrase «of auteurist»

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.

From the blockbuster arena, «Noah» has the right mix of auteurist cred and epic sweep (plus commercial success) to pick up votes, even if few truly loved the movie.

,» Darren Aronofsky's hallucinatory journey to the dark side of auteurist obsession.

Altman received five Academy Award nominations for best director, his last for one of the auteurist highlights of the early 21st century, «Gosford Park.»

So, the European Film Awards isn't a celebration of the industry (unlike the Oscars), but an affirmation of auteurist cinema.

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).

Howard Hawks's 1939 aviation classic Only Angels Have Wings is an exemplar of the auteurist Hollywood entertainer's capability to fuse «a personal existential statement and a delightful piece of showmanship.»

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

While concentrating on a relatively small number of individual films, the author of Flesh and Excess steers clear of any auteurist snobbery, and brings to the subject a joyfully amorphous critical stance, deftly avoiding the canonising practices of much film criticism.

Beyond its wadding of auteurist interest, Crimewave is a singularly entertaining watch, a platform for its makers» most wildly unchecked, brazenly silly, excesses.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Your defense of Bay's «auteurist» aesthetic sense - «a man who never outgrew directing Super Bowl commercials»; «Bay has a style - a weird one, certainly, a hybrid of a nose - picking jock and a slick ad man who shoots a can of Pepsi, a Chevy Camaro, and a leggy blonde with the same voyeur's eye, and his bizarre gallery of ethnic sounds, voices, and faces is not without precedent» - makes this movie sound about as appealing as... well, exactly the things you described.

At the risk of further estranging myself from De Palma geeks, I must admit I rather enjoyed watching a Body Double without Armond White guilt - tripping my subconscious — which is not to say that Looker circumvents an auteurist reading altogether, but the idiosyncrasies that betray it as «Crichtonian» (like a novelistic conceit that starts off each new act with a placard indicating the day of the week *) are less than venerable and thus hardly lend themselves to an apologia.

Freed from content restrictions, the new episodes feature an abundance of profanity, violent imagery, and some nudity, but they also reflect auteurist intent, independent of mainstream conventions, that is frequently thrilling.

I finally warmed to Benton with Nobody's Fool three years ago, and now the splendors of Twilight make me wonder if his auteurist pedigree blinded me to the feeling for character he's developed through his emulation of Hawks and company, and his equally pronounced sense of place.

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 cinema.

The major studio head - scratcher of its year, the ultimate distillation of Michael Mann's brand of clean sheen noir, and the most authentically auteurist film of the aughts, Miami Vice was the movie offspring of a successful and ever - parodied 80s TV series that was nothing like the original.

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.

For all of its superb, shock - and - awe - generating visuals — aided by oft - nominated master cinematographer Roger Deakin's (Sicario, Prisoners, Skyfall, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) singular eye for composition — Blade Runner 2049 often feels like Villeneuve, lured by the promise of revisiting a world created by a visionary filmmaker, not only wanted to put his own, auteurist stamp on said world, creating a continuation of a standalone, sequel - adverse film that «fits» on a narrative, thematic, and visual level, but found himself seduced like so many fans over the decades by the pure power of Scott's world - building and simply couldn't leave.

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.

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.

1 is certainly a triumph of film - preservation efforts, but it's also the label's symbolic demand to unlock the auteurist prescriptions of many prestige, home - video releases.

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.

For the first 45 minutes, Max Joseph's debut feature plays like a feisty artistic auteurist exploration of the DJ world and lifestyle.

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.

For one thing, Kael later became the most fanatical auteurist of all, championing favorite directors like Sam Peckinpah and Brian De Palma who brandished a highly personal approach.

I totally understand the logic of not splitting the winners or nominees of the Directing and Picture categories, especially for a practicing auteurist like me.

Great Directors on TCM: Fred Zinnemann I don't tend to think of Fred Zinnemann when I think of great directors, and I'm sure that's influenced by my auteurist outlook.

From Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion, a derivative film about derivatives, to the more or less solid auteurist permutations of the Mission: Impossible franchise, the results have varied, but Cruise's reputation as the sort of star who can get moderately interesting pulp bankrolled and realized by moderately interesting talents has deservedly persisted.

Salon's Andrew O'Hehir says, «it's a magnificent drama with an immense emotional payoff, combining old - fashioned Hollywood storytelling and an auteurist, European - style sense of mystery.»

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)...

Roberto Rossellini was one of the heroes of 50s French auteurist criticism, exemplifying personal, independent filmmaking, along with Max Ophuls, Nicholas Ray, Jean Renoir, and Orson Welles.

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

I was not a fan of his recent efforts Tree of Life or Knight of Cups, but his auteurist style - the camera roving where it pleases like a documentary - maker after dropping a couple of tabs of acid - finally clicked here, perfectly encapsulating desire and alienation against the backdrop of the Austin music scene.

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 elsewherof 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 elsewherof 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 elsewherof 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 elsewherOf 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.

There are thrilling action set - pieces and quieter moments of poetry, violent outbursts of gore and distinct auteurist flourishes.

Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, David O. Russell, Paul Thomas Anderson, all of whom debuted early works at Sundance, wanted to develop their auteurist sensibilities on a grand scale.

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.

For a filmmaker's greatest work — or second greatest, seeing as we've set ourselves the impossible task of ranking these films — it might be expected that said film stand as a complete auteurist statement, one undeniably marked with the stamp of its author.

Not least Paul Schrader, whose particular brand of nihilism deserves equal credit to his director — whether you read John Ford's The Searchers or Robert Bresson's Pickpocket as the film's foremost influence depends on which auteurist lens you favour.

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.

«Grandiloquent nonsense aside, Shyamalan's storytelling tropes are so pronounced that he is ripe for the kind of retrospective appreciation the so - called vulgar auteurists have brought to filmmakers like John McTiernan.

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.

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.

Its aesthetic influences, which range from David Lynch to Gaspar Noé, all but guaranteed the film's elevation from the slums of B - movie obscurity to some kind of vulgar - auteurist master class, where a surrealist action niche nobody asked for could suddenly be filled.

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.