Word: auteuring
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This handsomely crafted studio production, unaccountably left to languish for a year in the Warner Bros. vault, comes from an unlikely auteur: poverty- row director Abel Ferrara, whose earlier work, from Ms. 45 to Bad Lieutenant, is a gallery of Grunge Guignol. Somehow, flanked by five scripters (including his regular collaborator Nicholas St. John), he managed to stoke his tale with the eerie subtlety of the best old B movies...
Vindicated TV auteur's NYPD Blue fared well -- where it aired...
...dark and downbeat, reeking of alienation -- is not what it was. In 1993, would studios green-light Lumet's Equus, Allen's Interiors, Altman's Quintet or Nichols' Carnal Knowledge? Cohn was a power broker during the decade or two when every movie director was by definition an untouchable auteur. Nowadays even true auteurs such as Scorsese are kept on rather short leashes, indulged their expensive artistic visions not much beyond one or two failures...
...mindless as the violence done to it. The rating system was preserved, the film's intricate internal rhythm destroyed. "My work is like my child," the mild-mannered director says. "If too many things are cut, it's like cutting my own flesh." Executive producer Sam Raimi, himself an auteur of high-style violence (The Evil Dead), admits he didn't have any good advice for Woo -- "except that one day it would all be over...
...keep doing films that will appeal to my generation, someday I can do films about 80-year-old hippies. And these pictures could be hits, even if the theaters have to be equipped with hearing aids and Braille subtitles." What a sweet ambition: to be the auteur of the baby tombers...