Word: auteuring
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...claimed sole director’s credit, making only a passing reference to Plympton’s contribution. Plympton’s obvious and trite interpretation of West’s song indicates that he was probably kept on a very short creative leash.Rumor has it that music video auteur Michel Gondry has also directed a version of “Heard ’Em Say” that is due for release near Christmas. Let’s hope that Kanye blesses the Frenchman with a little more artistic liberty, equality, and fraternity. —Bernard...
...performance and lent them a funerary solemnity. Unfortunately, Chris Columbus’ cinematic adaptation of the musical is a devastating betrayal of Larson’s creative legacy, retaining none of its source material’s verve, intensity, or gravitas. Perhaps this should not shock; Colombus is the auteur behind the “Home Alone” series.Columbus never devises a satisfactory way to translate the conventions of musical theatre into the cinematic idiom: “Rent” doesn’t embrace its show-tune cheesiness in the manner of Rob Marshall?...
...LEGENDARY JERRY" COLLECTION It's long past time to admit that we were wrong about Jerry Lewis and the French were right. In his 10-year run as Dean Martin's goony pal, Lewis was the master of extreme physical and verbal comedy. As the auteur and star of another decade's worth of prime movie farces, from the near wordless The Bellboy to the daft poignancy of The Nutty Professor (in a dual role as both himself and Dean), he bent the medium as smartly as he distorted his own body. This 10-film set deserves a Lgion...
...Russian-born Lewton produced, but did not direct, the 10 low-budget films in this long-overdue package. Yet, heading a B-movie unit in the '40s at RKO, he was as much an auteur as Hitchcock. His pictures had horror-movie titles--The Curse of the Cat People, The Body Snatcher, Isle of the Dead, I Walked with a Zombie--but they are really suspense films, achieving their thrills through indirection: a shiver of shadow, say, to quicken the heroine's anxiety. Lewton's monsters needed no special effects, for he created them purely in the imaginations...
...gleam about; the man has more pizzazz than Mikhail Baryshnikov, Napoleon Dynamite, and Jennifer Lopez combined. Walken is inexplicably adroit, and appears to not even break a sweat. He darts from scene to scene with such natural exuberance, it’s a wonder no music video auteur has thought of casting him before. One minute he’s dancing down the escalator, the next he’s prancing through an elevator hallway, culminating in a surreal Peter Pan-like flight through the air in the final minute of the video. As absurd...