Word: auteurism
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...This is the rich man's way of making films," says Dang Nhat Minh, the distinguished Vietnamese auteur who, as a favor to Noyce, shot second unit on the first major U.S.-financed film made in Vietnam since the war. The budget for The Quiet American was $30 million?100 times what Dang spent for his award-winning The Season of Guavas. "Basically, it's the same. Here, they just have a lot more equipment...
RJD2 may be following in some illustrious footsteps as a DJ-auteur, but seldom will you hear an album that as adeptly does what only a DJ can do: seamlessly meld disparate styles and epochs into a whole that is far more than the sum of its parts...
...some loved it because of its daring and compassion, while others felt that it was nonsensical (it features a musical interlude and the strangest storm you will ever see) and at over three hours much too long. Some believed that Anderson was the most bold, brilliant and heartfelt auteur in decades; others saw him as little more than a pretentious and immature child. Either way, most agreed that he was one of the most original of the modern filmmakers, a belief that will be further cemented with the release of his new film, Punch-Drunk Love, a romantic comedy featuring...
...revenge tale whose body count is belied by its simple title, is the 39-year-old American filmmaker's homage to the fight flicks that sparked his lifelong obsession with Asian cinema. The film, due out in the fall of 2003, is something of a departure for the upstart auteur, who is back on the set after a six-year break from directing. His three previous directorial projects?Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction (winner of the top prize at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival) and Jackie Brown?depicted quintessentially American underworlds and were shot entirely in Hollywood. In Kill Bill, Tarantino...
...into something Garbo-like, but that's hard to do when the media are in one of their postmodern feeding frenzies. He's soon running around like a fugitive in a three-door farce. Pacino, with his sad, baggy eyes and slightly depressed air, is perfect as the harassed auteur of his own misery. And writer-director Andrew Nicoll is a visually witty operative with a nice ear for the verbal side of Hollywood lunacy as well. Sure, Simone will put you in mind of Wag the Dog, in which the darker political consequences of fooling around with Mother Nature...