Word: auteur
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...toys off the balcony of her home into the neighbor's chimney). Dealbreaker details the reasons a young woman breaks up with various boyfriends. The climactic scene involves a man, a bathroom visit and unused toilet paper. Shakespeare in Love it ain't. "Basically it's filthy," says the auteur. "Poop filthy." But Paltrow says the film reflects her real character more than the soigné woman she sees in magazine profiles of herself...
...probe and prod a subject from a dozen oblique angles. That could have made for a schizophrenic movie, but this time, opposites attract: the actor and the director make a smart pair. The result is a First World story seen through the acute eyes of a Third World auteur--a film of nuance and power, flawlessly acted and an adventure to watch, with the aftertaste of an aspirin laced with cyanide...
...Cruise is not the only celebrity on a spiritual tear. Out-there auteur DAVID LYNCH is opening his Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace this week in Hollywood. Lynch, a daily practitioner of Transcendental Meditation for more than 30 years, wants to promote teaching it in schools. "It's a hellhole out there," Lynch says. "This is the way you fix it. The students start getting bright as a shiny penny. It's the home of total knowledge." And we thought we had total knowledge when we figured out who killed Laura Palmer...
...whose idea of an action sequence is to have two characters walk while they talk--do a remake of the '70s kids' baseball movie Bad News Bears? It's because, although his office building off the highway in Austin, Texas, is lined with framed posters of French auteur Jean-Luc Godard movies, Richard Linklater is not a film snob. He just likes to make movies. "I would have loved to have been a '40s studio director like Vincente Minnelli. You ended up with a real diverse career," says Linklater. "Now you don't get a call from Darryl Zanuck saying...
...Seeking Susan raked in $27.5 million on a $5 million budget and graced many a ten-best list. Now that, as Seidelman notes, "women directors are no longer looked at as novelty items," their more established sisters can get back into the act. Barbra Streisand, 43, the all-around auteur of 1983's Yentl, will soon direct an adaptation of the AIDS play The Normal Heart. And Elaine May, 53, an early-'70s trailblazer with her comedies A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid, is currently directing Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in Ishtar--at $30 million, the most expensive...