Word: auteurism
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...went to Los Angeles, studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse - and he learned as much from their robust pace as he did from the gritty humanism of Italian neo-realist films and the romantic sweep of Indian cinema in its postwar Golden Age. He was both an art-house auteur and a director of popular hits, at least in the Arab crescent. He made political points, often different ones in different movies, but his didacticism was typically overwhelmed by his irrepressible urge to entertain...
When writer-director Andrew Stanton--whose last film was Pixar's all-time box-office champ, Finding Nemo--showed the first reels of WALL?E to the studio's brain trust three years ago, fellow auteur Brad Bird (The Incredibles) told him, "Man, you didn't make it easy for yourself." A movie that shows but doesn't tell, and whose leading characters are essentially mimes, could put an end to the eight-film box-office winning streak that began with Toy Story in 1995 and continued unbroken through last year's Ratatouille. To sell the project, Stanton had only...
...directed by M. Night Shyamalan; rated R; out now A toxic breeze blows through the northeastern U.S., and people start killing themselves. A married couple (Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel) goes on the run to stay alive, but nothing can save the lamest sci-fi drama yet from the auteur of The Sixth Sense. Laced with bizarre histrionics and sluggish scare tactics, The Happening is an ill wind indeed...
...John Malkovich, Human Nature, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Most film scribes making their move to the director's chair would pick a modest project, one that doesn't tax his tyro status. But Kaufman's first work as a total auteur is his most daunting project yet: a portrait of a creative mind in artistic and emotional crisis, painted as a vast mural that encompasses 30-plus years, slips from mundane reality into nightmare fantasy, and is set (not counting side trips to Germany) in two New York State river cities...
Perhaps only in Cannes would hundreds of people crush into lines, beg for tickets, offer to rent various body parts, for the chance to see the new Woody Allen film. The 72-year-old writer-director is long past his renown as America's wryest, most prolific auteur, let alone the King of Anarchy title he achieved with his early, funny movies; that Allen keeps making films is deemed by most of his compatriots an act of will, almost defiance, by a man whose genius evaporated some time in the late...