Sentences with phrase «with auteurist»

The performances a big and broad, maybe even clunky to the eye not covered with auteurist spectacles.

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.

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.

Thematically, however, K - 19 exists within Bigelow's auteurist wheelhouse, exhibiting the filmmaker's unresolved relationship with authority.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

Logan isn't auteurist screenwriting; it's just good screenwriting, strengthened with good ideas.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's a noble effort — and one worth a look for the super serious film buffs, as outsize auteurist projects of this scale are, indeed, rare events — but something is amiss when I come away with more to chew on about what guided the filmmaker's technique than what drove the title subject.