Word: auteurs
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...doesn't play Imagine at the end of the film to break people's hearts." Brian De Palma, who filmed Scarface from a Stone script, sees him achieving a volcanic maturity in Platoon: "He has now channeled his feeling and energy into a cohesive dramatic work. He's an auteur making a movie about what he experienced and understands. Seeing Platoon get through the system makes the soul feel good...
...this flawed but sweeping account of the President and the past that shaped him, Author Garry Wills happily records the incident but takes issue with Allison. He sees the President, in essence, as an auteur who "renews our past by resuming it. His approach is . . . associative; not a tracking shot, but montage. We make the connections. It is our movie...
Woody Allen, of course, can be funny when he wants to, and Radio Days certainly has its moments of mirth. But ever since becoming an "auteur director," Allen has avoided going for outright laughs--which is a shame, since he is still a better comedian than he is a serious artist...
...goes for everything. Tarkovsky may have the distinction of being the loudest and most pitch-perfect primal screamer in the history of Cold War cinema. Other directors seem to be doing semaphore and dumbshow, by comparison. The Sacrifice, filmed with Swedish and British actors by Russia's premiere film auteur, comes off like everybody's end-of-the-world nightmare dubbed in raving Esperanto. It's not the kind of movie you'd put into a time capsule; it's the time capsule itself, with everything inside...
...times this is repeated before finally Norman Mailer says, "Print." The day's twelve hours of shooting will not wrap until 3 a.m. Such grueling conditions might test the patience of a film veteran, let alone a neophyte director making his first major motion picture. But the white- haired auteur remains focused and remarkably relaxed. Clad in a bulky parka to ward off the oceanside chill, he comes off like a cross between a Roman senator and a retired longshoreman as he hobnobs with the crew, rehearses the cast and then stands back to watch the action, his eyes twinkling...