Word: auteurs
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...auteur to the bone, his biggest grace and ultimate dilemma. His productions trace a clear evolution, each new single a complete and painstaking reinvention. And they consistently have machines one-upping humans at their game (the programmed rhythm in “Are You That Somebody,” too inhumanly angular and precise for a real drummer’s arms, being my favorite example) while the actual performers vocalize in stark contrast, like any good pop star. Point being that Tim may have started to run out of new ways to augment his friends. (The latest Missy album...
...king in the story is the hunky human warrior Aragorn (Mortensen). But Jackson is the true lord of these Rings. The New Zealand auteur spent seven years on the trilogy, collaborating on the scripts with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. He chose and directed this perfect cast, orchestrated the smashing visual effects--Tolkien's bestiary on the march in fantastical realms. In Return, the giant trolls, four-tusked elephants and flying, screeching serpents of Mordor will amaze adults and may startle small children. The spider monster Shelob, creeping up on Frodo and mummifying him in a silken straitjacket, offers...
...regeneration a possibility for Willie? Sure. This is a Christmas movie. But it's also a Terry Zwigoff film, and the auteur of such dark delights as Crumb and Ghost World is not about to abandon his obsession with dysfunction among the lower socioeconomic classes. He holds back Willie's reformation until the last possible moment...
Cross the wires of the Burton myths, as Hollywood studios often do, and--it's alive!--you get Frankenstein's multiplex monster, a developmentally arrested auteur capable of turning out an almost consistently profitable brand of kooky horror. Naturally, Burton loathes these myths. "You get pigeonholed very easily in Hollywood," he says, "even if you do something they were leery of to begin with. I try not to think about it, but, oh, it kind of drives me out of my mind...
...Thing, because the movie’s inspiration is 50 years of B-grade movies, a heritage lost as the movie becomes the newest trend. Since they are often unaware of its background, these trendy devotees run the risk of trivializing the history so key to auteur Quentin Tarantino’s passions. Woe on those of us whose private, beautiful passions have been swept up like so many proverbial pogs to be flipped and discarded. This is not just a Halloween-induced travesty; Kill Bill is making such huge waves that trendsetters are bringing it to the very forefront...