Word: auteurism
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...show Punk'd and Knoxville's heir aberrant. Not only is Kutcher a gossip-page staple thanks to his dalliance with Demi Moore, but he is also morphing into a legitimate thespian (stop that giggling!). He has half a dozen movies on the way, including The Woods, from Signs auteur M. Night Shyamalan. Rumors even have him starring in a big-screen remake of that other '70s show, The Dukes of Hazzard, with Britney Spears mentioned to fill the short-shorts of Daisy Duke. Dude, where's the General...
...visual imagination, a generous wit, an understanding of the human impulse not just to survive but to save others. Dogville may have had the big buzz at Cannes, but Belleville was the great news. Von Trier disappointed his fans by getting shut out at award time. But another Danish auteur did have reason to be there and be pleased: Christoffer Boe, director of Reconstruction, which won the Camera d'Or for best first feature. As he accepted his prize, Boe made this plea into the ether: "Vincent Gallo, don't give up! We need to fight conventional filmmaking." Someone needs...
...Writer's Block, which opens off-Broadway next week. Details about the production are scarce. "I'm the wife of a dentist, living in Connecticut," says actress BEBE NEUWIRTH. "It's sort of a living-room sex farce." So what's it like working with the 67-year-old auteur? "He speaks very simply," says Neuwirth. "There's nothing very fancy going on. There's no intellectual conceptual bull____ going on." God knows, Lilith would never stand for that...
...argument. He may or may not take himself seriously but he does take his work seriously, and the difference between the two is virtually nonexistent. "You are discovering yourself as you make the films," he says. "And it's difficult to be objective." Adoor is a cinematic throwback, an auteur who controls every major aspect of his films: writing, directing, producing, editing. Before filming he shares his scripts only with his longtime cinematographer, Ravi Varma, the sole person aside from Adoor to provide genuine creative input in an Adoor Gopalakrishnan movie. "The actors should be free," he says...
...also Adoor's most accessible work, but don't dare suggest that he's compromising to expand his audience. In fact, it's best not to offer any criticism at all, especially if it's about the wind. The auteur can be awfully sensitive about the wind. After finishing Shadow Kill, Adoor and I - along with his longtime colleague and friend P.K. Nair, former director of India's National Film Archive - adjourn to Adoor's house for lunch. Over dessert in the director's spacious office Nair gently points out that one of the core images in Shadow Kill - wind...