Some great stuff: and in some ways it is good to see the Palme in Audiard's hands — a master, and an utterly distinctive director.
Vanishing Point's Matthew Lenton, a most distinctive director, directs Spectretown which explores the bothy ballads of north-east Scotland, and Tatterdemalion from the creators of Boris and Sergey may come under the Comedy heading but is likely to have a strong theatrical component.
But it is still an arresting work from this important and distinctive director.
But it remains an oddly anonymous enterprise from this talented and distinctive director.
In a statement, Wood said: "Quentin is the most revolutionary, distinctive director of our time.
But shouldn't somebody speak up on the behalf of the one distinctive director of this series, George Stevens, who directed "Swing Time" (arguably the best of the lot)?
It boasts a healthy output and an eclectic crop of distinctive directors, ranging from the icy Paolo Sorrentino to the clownish Roberto Benigni and the mercurial Nanni Moretti, who won the 2001 Palme d'Or for his family drama The Son's Room.
It's now remembered as a golden age of distinctive directors and personal, creative, edgy, grown-up, enduring movies – many of them made by Spielberg and Lucas's buddies like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman and William Friedkin.
Going back as far to David Lynch's Twin Peaks in 1990, and Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz a decade before that, distinctive directors have found the freedom to tell ongoing stories, using the template of a longer series to explore, especially, particular tones.
With Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson establishes himself as one of the most exciting and distinctive directors around.
