Word: auteuring
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...Tarantino Jury did give a prize to a politically correct road movie, but not this one. Instead, the Mise-en-Scene (Best Director) award went to Tony Gatlif, the Algerian-born French auteur of ?Exiles,? about the southbound trip two young people take from France through Spain to return to their parents? birthplace in Algeria. You could canvass critics from Sweden to the Sahara and not find one who liked the movie - but that?s juries...
...color-coded parable of love and death. Daggers is a jauntier piece, as renegade killer femmes do fantastic battle with the 9th century cops who pursue and fall in love with them. The Almodóvar and Zhang films foregrounded a crucial movie element often lost in Cannes' ponderous auteur gazing: star quality. Bad Education's lead actor is Mexico's Gael García Bernal, who rocketed to international celebrity in Y Tu Mamá También, and who plays the young Ernesto Guevara, pre-Che, in Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries. Salles makes icons of the struggling...
...certain populist auteur made his feature-length debut with 1983’s underappreciated The Hunger, giving world-wide audiences the distinct pleasures of an extraordinarily well-cast David Bowie as an emaciated vampire and a steamy love scene between Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve. Since then, Tony Scott has audaciously continued to hijack mainstream film. Now, he is reunited with Crimson Tide costar Denzel Washington for the story of Creasy, an alcoholic former Special Forces operative recruited by his old friend Rayburn (Christopher Walken) to guard Pita (Dakota Fanning), the young daughter of Mexico City businessman Samuel (Latin heartthrob...
...reduces the casualties and gentles down the mood. You get less kill, more Bill. The first was show, this is tell--anecdotes at 10 paces. Of course, this being a Tarantino film, the conversations are as long and lurid and finely choreographed as the martial-arts set pieces. (The auteur is a bit of a diva himself: he loves arias, visual and verbal.) So you get a lecture on the toxic properties of the black mamba snake and a disquisition on the psychological duality of Superman...
...certain populist auteur made his feature-length debut with 1983’s underappreciated The Hunger, giving world-wide audiences the distinct pleasures of an extraordinarily well-cast David Bowie as an emaciated vampire and a steamy love scene between Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve...