The phrase "auteur discussed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a discussion or analysis of a specific auteur, typically in film or literature studies.
Example: "In the seminar, the auteur discussed was Alfred Hitchcock, focusing on his unique storytelling techniques."
Alternatives: "the discussed auteur" or "the auteur in question".
Music video auteurs Shynola discuss their distinguished works and upcoming feature; "Joan Collins" introduces giant ant sci-fi; there's a hands-on tribute to celluloid; and Birmingham's gangland is re-explored on film and on foot.
The new short from Swedish auteur Ruben Östlund, Autobiographical Scene Number 6882, starts appropriately mundane a group of friends are walking across a bridge, discussing the finer aspects of alcohol, when they begin cajoling each other into jumping off the bridge into the river, approximately 100 feet below.
Just as the film was set to open in Los Angeles, Dunst, who took home the lead actress prize when "Melancholia" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, sat down to discuss how she invested the character with her own experiences and those of the controversial Danish auteur, who's grappled with depression — "all sensible people have," the filmmaker has said.
Mr. Polanski was more reluctant to discuss his film, which was poorly received even in France, a nation that tends to be generous to auteurs.
(Six additional images are on view in our online slide show, and I discuss the piece in an #iframe: (http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/04/07/080407on_audio_brody).)—Richard Brody If any still photographer from movie sets can be said to have earned the cinematic honorific of "auteur," Raymond Cauchetier would be the one.
Perhaps discussing the work this way at all, in mantras or books or seminars, zaps the art from it — many independent auteurs already understand that the best way to work around the confines of the studios is simply not to write for them, that trying to learn the secrets of writing a blockbuster is in some way admitting that commerce does, in the end, matter as much as creativity.
But given the auteur-ish styles of Anderson, a four-time Oscar nominee, and Pynchon, a National Book Award recipient, there will be much to discuss here.
Painter, auteur, enigma, murderer.
