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...Kenyan villages and plains. This Brazilian director, who also found a place on the all-TIME 100 movies (City of God), likes to probe and prod a subject from a dozen oblique angles. 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 a placebo laced with cyanide...
...Yuen Qiu (who?s a hoot as the Alley?s bullying landlady), Chan?s boyhood schoolmate Yuen Wah (as the henpecked landlord) and Bruce Leung (as the mild-mannered ultimate warrior, the Beast). But though Chow the actor doesn?t take center stage until the second hour, Chow the auteur is fully in change. Behind the movie?s frantic fun is a directorial eye so acute it makes most Hollywood directors seem myopic...
...services such as Apple’s iTunes bring purchaseable music video content to computers and portable devices, and unprecedented attention is focused on the work auteur video directors such as Spike Jonze, the art form is well on its way to legitimization. In a tradition that will carry over to the next Music Editor of the Harvard Crimson, Eric L. Fritz ’08, we are now identifying the directors of the videos we cover, with the aim of promoting innovative work in the format...
...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?...