Word: auteurism
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...films. For the 1,500 international critics - yes, there still are that many left in a shrinking arts-news market - it's a giant screening room for hundreds of pictures, and a chance to get a jump on the rest of the world in discovering the hot new Romanian auteur. And for the celebrity hounds - the enormous paparazzi contingent and the locals who line the steps of the Festival's Grand Palais - Cannes offers the planet's strongest concentration of star quality. Except, perhaps, when Barack and Michelle Obama have a quiet dinner for two. (See pictures...
...France, the country that birthed the auteur theory, the real stars are the directors. Filmmakers who are not widely known in the States - Austria's Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon), Italy's Marco Bellocchio (Vincere), South Korea's Park Chan-wook (Thirst) and native son Alain Resnais (Wild Grass) - are considered masters here, and the prospect of a masterpiece from any one of them excites the cinemarati...
...obsessively taped its movies; there's a clique of Turner Classic Monastics who record, then trade, every premiere of an antique film on TCM. From its airing of films from the rowdy 1930-34 period, a new genre called pre-Code entered the FOOF phrase book along with auteur and film noir. To the faithful, TCM was the Lamborghini, the Mouton Rothschild, the very Callas of movie channels. Eventually, I got to see what all the rapture was about. And yes, it changed my life. (See TIME's list of the 100 most influential people in the world...
...million in North America on a $150 million budget. The period boxing epic Cinderella Man, reuniting Crowe with Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard, made its expected impact neither at the box office nor with the Academy. Attempting to show his sweet, light side, he teamed with with Gladiator auteur Ridley Scott for the romantic comedy A Good Year; that sad misfire earned just $7.5 million in its entire domestic run - less than 17 Again did on its first...
...Last Tycoon.” In January, the band’s return-to-form was announced by none other than Kanye, who introduced the first single from PB&J’s fifth studio album, “Living Thing,” on his blog. The bumptious auteur gloated, “THEY SENT THE SONG TO ME FIRST!” and went on to wax lyrically, “DRUMS ARE CRAZY AND I LIKE THE KIDS ON THE HOOK.” Kanye is totally right. “Nothing to Worry About?...