Word: auteuring
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...jury that was expected to reward eccentricity and innovation (because it was headed by iconoclastic American auteur David Lynch) gave the Palme d'Or to Roman Polanski's The Pianist, a conventional, if sharply drawn, epic about a Jew surviving the Warsaw Ghetto. Second place, the Grand Prix, went to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past?one of the deadpan-comic Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. And Im's thanks-for-coming prize was the only laurel Asia received. The one competing Chinese film, Jia Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures, got nothing. As for Hong...
...smidge too cool. This time the world impinged on the art. The ruckus began just before the festival, when the American Jewish Congress called for a near-boycott on grounds of French anti-Semitism. That charge was answered on opening day when Woody Allen, France's favorite U.S. auteur, showed up to say he loved the French and commended them for voting the straight anti-anti-Semitic ticket in the recent election. Then Cannes presented its first-ever Palestinian film in competition: Elia Suleiman's monstrously witty Divine Intervention, in which a balloon with Yasser Arafat's face...
...Thus began one of the most bustling, inspiring, preposterous and sustained bursts of misdirected energy in movie history. Over the next 30 years, Micheaux helmed about 23 silent films and 17 talking pictures. A full-service auteur, he typically adapted one of his own novels for the screen, directed it, produced it and released it. He financed the films by showing a previous work and a synopsis of his next project to exhibitors, friends, strangers on the street and the occasional Negro businessman. And when the film was ready, he peddled it theater door to theater door. (Sometimes...
...director, is now on display. So is a documentary, Woody Allen: A Life in Film, handsomely produced by TIME contributor Richard Schickel and airing May 18 on Turner Classic Movies, along with an 18-film retrospective. Thus Woodyphiles and Woodyphobes alike have the chance not only to hear the auteur discuss his body of work but also to measure the early movies against the more recent stuff. Alas, it's no contest. Youth wins again...
...just had miscalculated because I put together a playwright who is essentially a wordsmith...with a director who is essentially an auteur,” explains Brustein...