Sentences with phrase «which auteurist»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.