Word: auteurs
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...movie power you're after, then you really want to direct. For sheer Hollywood eclat, "Tom Hanks in..." can't match "A Film by Tom Hanks." You suddenly bloom from mere interpreter to full creator--artistic boss. You radiate the chicest of French perfumes: Auteur. People take you seriously; critics take you too seriously. No longer just a pretty face, you are now a beautiful mind...
...most of its galloping 2-hr. 45-min. span, Gangs confidently enlarges this triangle to include the sweeping vision of a New York suddenly swarming with immigrants. Displaying an urgency and elegance unmatched by any other living auteur, Scorsese finds drama in visual contrast: a door in a dark, noisy room that is kicked open to reveal a silent, snow-laden street. One amazing panorama shows men coming off a ship from Ireland, being immediately conscripted and outfitted in Northern blue, then put on a troop ship--all in a single shot that ends with a view of the troop...
...Hour. His latest, The Tuxedo, is a wan spy caper with digital tricks that undermine Chan's amazing physical grace. Shu Qi, the Taiwan-born beguiler, has better luck with her English-language debut, The Transporter, a furious demolition derby produced by Besson and directed by Hong Kong action auteur Corey Yuen (Fong...
...This is the rich man's way of making films," says Dang Nhat Minh, the distinguished Vietnamese auteur who, as a favor to Noyce, shot second unit on the first major U.S.-financed film made in Vietnam since the war. The budget for The Quiet American was $30 million?100 times what Dang spent for his award-winning The Season of Guavas. "Basically, it's the same. Here, they just have a lot more equipment...
RJD2 may be following in some illustrious footsteps as a DJ-auteur, but seldom will you hear an album that as adeptly does what only a DJ can do: seamlessly meld disparate styles and epochs into a whole that is far more than the sum of its parts...