Word: auteuring
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Righteous people making miserable the lives they would save--that should be fun. But tyro auteur Alexander Payne cannot shape or propel his own good material. He lets things dawdle when briskness would be a boon, and defeats the gung-ho efforts of Dern and other worthy actors. Citizen Ruth means to evoke such '40s comedies as The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, but it is less Preston Sturges than depressed and turgid...
...bloody history, is a conservative country, uncomfortable in its debt to a founding father whose greatest gift was for violence. And maybe all that is about to change. For Michael Collins the enigma is now Michael Collins the movie--a $30 million epic by writer-director Neil Jordan, auteur previously of The Crying Game and currently firm in his insistence that he has made "a very true film" about a man in whose life, he says, one can read everything "that formed the north and south of Ireland today...
...abiding love for silent film that my childhood was spent in front of 16-millimeter films) it seemed propitious to launch a course on French cinema. It began with an enrollment of 120, soon split into two sections ("realism" and "new wave"), and then ramified into seminar-topics ("auteur" theory, structural cinema, cinema of cruelty...). The course became something of a machine, what Gilles Deleuze would have called a "spiritual automaton" that engulfed its students and teachers. It quickly happened that for practical reasons my department asked me to keep working in film and, despite a commitment to the work...
...enthusiasm could be contagious. In 1994, Toronto Film Festival audiences gave a rapturous reception to the films of top Tamil auteur Mani Rathnam, including Nayakan (1987), a terrific gangster epic in the Godfather style, and Roja (1992), a terrorist Love Story. The song lyrics alone could easily attract camp followers: imagine an American star crooning, "Your sexy appearance triggers procreation in the earth...Life's a cactus without you," or "On your beautiful body, sweat never tastes salty...
...sing the low-budget auteur. The 40 or so films Wynorski has made in the past decade have snap and menace and lots of folks with their clothes off. They also have an audience. Recently the director checked his TV Guide and found that 10 of his films were on the cable channels--usually late at night, when the kids are either asleep or stealthily time shifting. Wynorski owns...