Word: auteurism
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...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?...
...moment, Baron Cohen is doubtless playing the uncompromising artist, insisting that every frame of his film be shown as is; and Universal, I'd guess, is exerting its muscle both on the MPAA to approve a version with some shock value and on their star-auteur to throw the board a few boners and get the damn R. Baron Cohen shoots a lot of footage in his docucomedies, and, the studio spokesman told Waxman, "With the quantity of material available, I cannot foresee a problem. It's not even April and the film comes out July...
...DreamWorks films don't achieve or, for that matter, attempt. Katzenberg's boys, and the characters they birth, are Catskills entertainers, tossing gags into the audience like confetti, sweating to please you every single moment. A Pixar film may have one writer besides the director; it's total auteur handicrafting. Monsters vs Aliens credits two directors and half a dozen writers, and plays like the spiffiest sitcom - say, a superepisode of The Simpsons in which Marge grows huge, leaves Homer and doesn't return to Springfield...