Word: auteurs
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...movie is made with whatever is left of the budget. This system has led to such Citizen Kane-esque opuses as Half Past Dead, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever, and the modern classic Battlefield Earth. It’s that kind of ethos that may be necessary for an auteur like Mamet to attain the status of “box office draw,” but it irreparably damages his ambition by tacking on mishmash such as this to his filmography...
...think I could take Michel,” he says, eyeing the auteur. “I can’t say that about a lot of people...
...might not expect much controversy from a strenuously reverent film adaptation of some famous chapters from the all-time best-selling book, one found in most homes, churches and hotel rooms. But with mouthy Mel Gibson as the auteur and the Gospels as his text, The Passion of the Christ has stoked a holy word war of an intensity not seen since Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ...
...Cecil B. De Mille, a preacher's son but with some Jewish ancestry, had scored a titanic hit with "The Ten Commandments" in 1923 - to its time, the top-grossing film after "The Birth of a Nation." Four years later, the extravagant auteur went from Old to New Testament. Another hit, thanks to De Mille's showmanship and expert marketing, and a color sequence for Easter Sunday, with Jesus surrounded by enough doves for a John Woo movie. "The King of Kings" played around the world for decades after it was released, until the proselytizing efforts of the Church...
...through America's Fox Searchlight), Fellini and Visconti. The state - which has had a strong hand in the film industry since the Fascist era - started offering up as much as 90% of a film's budget. The result: coddled directors pumping out obscure pictures few wanted to watch. "The auteur made films for himself, maybe for some critics, maybe for a small circle of friends, and maybe for a circuit of festivals, but not particularly or primarily with the public in mind," says Marco Chimenez, executive vice president of Cattleya, the company behind this year's Italian Oscar entry...