Word: auteur
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What Hollywood couldn't ignore it would try to co-opt. The year was 1967, the films Bonnie and Clyde (whose script was originally offered to Godard) and The Graduate (with its jazzy ransacking of the European film lexicon), and soon American directors had the auteur status that had been the exclusive province of foreigners. Then U.S. films got gamier, porno went legit, and the raincoat brigade didn't have to take its sex in Swedish...
...flight attendant Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst), who refuses to leave him alone and, in an Unexpected Twist, teaches him to see the world in a new and clearer way.Drew and Claire’s burgeoning love is handled rather clumsily by Crowe, which is surprising considering he is the auteur behind classic romances like “Say Anything” and “Jerry Maguire.” Although Crowe at times mocks cheesy “chick flicks,” he too often succumbs to the genre, reverting to its poor, contrived conventions. (Honestly, does every...
Alfonso Cuarón, the “Y Tu Mamá También” auteur, produces, as does Guillermo Del Toro, who directed the critically acclaimed “Hellboy” and “Cronos.” In front of the camera, frequent Pedro Almodóvar collaborator Leonor Watling performs stunningly, and the reliably great Alred Molina (“Spider Man 2”) makes a cameo appearance...
...perhaps, an unsurprising conclusion that the auteur behind “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive,” the TV show “Twin Peaks,” and “Eraserhead” is strange. In addition to continuing to direct—“Inland Empire,” his next film, is out next year and he continually updates his website davidlynch.com with short films—Lynch has created the David Lynch Foundation to support transcendental mediation...
...bring attention to this “forgotten” director, the Harvard Film Archive, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts Film Program, has launched a centennial tribute to this Japanese auteur, featuring a 19-film retrospective...