Word: auteurist
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Last week Lyubimov, 69, made his U.S. debut at Washington's Arena Stage with ! a revised Crime and Punishment in English, a language he does not read or speak. To make the stage action conform to the vision in his head -- the standard by which Lyubimov, an auteurist and something of an autocrat, judges success -- he discussed the aims of the piece in Russian with Michael Henry Heim, an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, who wrote the English dialogue. Lyubimov then guided the actors through Interpreter Alexander Gelman, who is trained...
...tall man in a tweed sports jacket walks back and forth along the aisles of the theater, gabbling into a microphone about the auteurist theory of stage direction. Then he drags recalcitrant actors from the wings and introduces them by their real names. After angry debate, they undertake to improvise scenes that will define their 1920s Sicilian characters, only to have the speaker break in and say they have talked enough. All the while, an impish man uses a video camera to record the proceedings and simultaneously project them onto a screen at center stage. The cameraman narrates a "documentary...
...Ladd Co., beset in the past year by the commercial flops of The Right Stuff, Star 80 and Mike's Murder, could not have been happy to find itself with one more auteurist fantasia. When Leone delivered his film at an hour over the contracted 2 hr. 45 min., a team headed by Editor Zach Staenberg went to work, putting the story into chronological order, jettisoning some of the most operatically violent scenes, dropping Deborah (and her child by Max) from the 1968 section and giving Max a new way out of his climactic misery. Says Jay Kanter, vice...
...materials are certainly saccharine. The lovers not only are adolescents but possess near genius IQs. Daniel (Thelonious Bernard), the son of a Parisian cab driver, is a movie buff with the auteurist sensibility of a Sorbonne professor and the computer know-how of an M.I.T. grad. Lauren (Diane Lane), the stepdaughter of an overseas American corporate executive, reads Heidegger for kicks. These two meet, go steady, then flee their meddling parents by traveling by train with Olivier from Paris to Venice. Hokey as it seems, this film's Romeo and Juliet want to pledge their eternal love by kissing...
...Pink Panther is a very controversial animal. Sample a random number of reasonably intelligent people on what they think of these stupid Blake Edwards movies and you'll get replies ranging from, "I sleep through them" to "What wonderful pictures! Real fun and unpertentious, you know?" Although more boneheaded "auteurist" cinema scholars--Black Edwards fans all--could probably give you a shot-by-shot analysis of this unsubtle director's techniques, most critics will find it hard to be objective about Revenge of the Pink Panther. So much depends on one's mood, the setting, the company, an, of course...