Word: auteurs
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...league, though he loves zippy tracking shots as much as Scorsese, and the New York Knicks as much as Allen. But Lee is a producer of genius, and not just in his self-marketing - which, don't knock it, is a boon to someone who's essentially an independent auteur. He chooses provocative projects, gets big stars when he needs them, makes vigorous, good-looking films and does it on half a Hollywood budget...
...such criticism is reasonably well founded. But luckily, the inverse of this purported drawback is also true. Girl Talk’s “studio” albums (though the term “studio” implies the presence of session musicians, which play no part in auteur Gregg Gillis’s process) pack the same infectiously danceable punch that his performances do. His online-distributed June album, “Feed the Animals,” is no exception. Within the context of Girl Talk’s mashups, no songs or artists...
...Alive, the Woodman has not been residing in the auteur empyrean for the past couple of decades. There was a four-film stretch of genuine stinkers - Small Time Crooks, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending and Anything Else - followed by one, Melinda and Melinda, that rose to the level of eh. And since this quintessential New Yorker exiled himself to Europe (where his fondest admirers live, and where the money for his pictures now comes from), he'd made a suave sex-and-murder mystery, Match Point, and two that deserve to have the veil of anonymity drawn...
...people who are hungry and have an appetite for education, so everyone looks to everyone else for advice and challenge each other and counsel each other. I didn't see any reason to stop that and get the attitude and ego and arrogance that a lot of more dictatorial, auteur directors have...
...Omar Sharif. But at film festivals, Chahine was for decades the prime, often the only, representative of an entire continent, Africa, and a world religion, Islam--though his family was Christian and his heritage Lebanese and Greek. He was both a nationalist and an internationalist, both an art-house auteur and a director of movies that were popular from Morocco to Indonesia...