Word: auteurs
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...first scene in The Wild Bunch--a swarm of red ants devouring a scorpion as children giggle at the sport--could summarize Peckinpah's view of humanity. Something in this legendary auteur, who drank and crazied himself out of a brilliant career, said, "Life is awful. Ain't it fun to watch?" This DVD package spotlights two wild westerns (The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) and two mild ones (Ride the High Country and The Ballad of Cable Hogue), all paying tribute to colorful, mournful rogues whose time had passed. For Peckinpah, elegy was autobiography...
...style Allen accentuates the best elements of his work. The beautiful drama notably lacks Allen’s neuroticisms, self-deprecating humor, and, thankfully, the characteristic on-screen appearance by the aging director himself. Nor does the protagonist, Chris Wilton (Jonathan-Rhys Meyer) seem like a caricature of the auteur. For once, a Woody Allen film seems less about the man, and more about the nature of passion and obsession.Not only has Allen abstracted himself from the plot, but the native New Yorker has also moved his setting from his usual Manhattan streets to a romanticized London, which both affords...
...Kenyan villages and plains. This Brazilian director, who also found a place on the all-TIME 100 movies (City of God), likes to probe and prod a subject from a dozen oblique angles. The result is a First World story seen through the acute eyes of a Third World auteur--a film of nuance and power, flawlessly acted and an adventure to watch, with the aftertaste of a placebo laced with cyanide...
...Yuen Qiu (who?s a hoot as the Alley?s bullying landlady), Chan?s boyhood schoolmate Yuen Wah (as the henpecked landlord) and Bruce Leung (as the mild-mannered ultimate warrior, the Beast). But though Chow the actor doesn?t take center stage until the second hour, Chow the auteur is fully in change. Behind the movie?s frantic fun is a directorial eye so acute it makes most Hollywood directors seem myopic...
...services such as Apple’s iTunes bring purchaseable music video content to computers and portable devices, and unprecedented attention is focused on the work auteur video directors such as Spike Jonze, the art form is well on its way to legitimization. In a tradition that will carry over to the next Music Editor of the Harvard Crimson, Eric L. Fritz ’08, we are now identifying the directors of the videos we cover, with the aim of promoting innovative work in the format...