Word: auteurism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Thus began one of the most bustling, inspiring, preposterous and sustained bursts of misdirected energy in movie history. Over the next 30 years, Micheaux helmed about 23 silent films and 17 talking pictures. A full-service auteur, he typically adapted one of his own novels for the screen, directed it, produced it and released it. He financed the films by showing a previous work and a synopsis of his next project to exhibitors, friends, strangers on the street and the occasional Negro businessman. And when the film was ready, he peddled it theater door to theater door. (Sometimes...
...just had miscalculated because I put together a playwright who is essentially a wordsmith...with a director who is essentially an auteur,” explains Brustein...
...other hand, the auteur of Seven and Fight Club has never had a gift for making his characters likable (though Forest Whitaker does what he can to humanize one of the robbers). His talent is for sadism that is at once passionate and casual--and for turning what might be perfectly enjoyable genre films into faux-modernist art objects: ambitious but also cold, ugly and distancing...
...directed videos by Missy Elliott ("The Rain - Supa Dupa Fly") and Mary J. Blige ("Everything"). There was the elegantly creepy work of Floria Sigismondi who directed videos for shock-rocker Marilyn Manson (one featured him shaving his own armpit) and trip-hopper Tricky. And there was also prankster auteur Spike Jonze, the man behind Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet" (a video that explodes into a technicolor musical), the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" (a take-off on '70s TV cop shows), and Weezer's "Buddy Holly" (a good-natured "Happy Days" sendup). Jonze also showed that videos could indeed lead...
...From Me shocked audiences with its explicit sexual themes?and the main character's obsession with her own derriere. Last year he had Korea's censors in conniptions with Lies, an S&M whipfest that begins with a kinky sculptor deflowering a schoolgirl. Lies was in-your-face auteur cinema at its rawest?the censors took the scissors to it, the art-house crowd loved it and average moviegoers, well, they stayed away...