Hausner's appropriation of the title made famous by French auteur Jacques Rivette's 1969 film is apropos of the oddball story, as well as the only plausible explanation for such a highly improbable act.
The most famous writer-director here, geek auteur Kevin Smith, is responsible for the worst entry: a slight, gross, unfunny Halloween-themed piece about "cam girls" who torture their obnoxious boss.
That would be Richard Maxwell, the celebrated experimental theater auteur.
As Spain's most famous film director – the Oscar-winning auteur of dramas such as Talk to Her and Volver, which range from melancholic to subversive to downright twisted – you can imagine Almodóvar's anger being expressed in dark ways.
While I was out, the reader Driedchar posted a fascinating comment regarding our recent discussion of Pauline Kael and her famous essay against Andrew Sarris and the "auteur theory," "Circles and Squares": Trump's Lawyers Argue That He Cannot Be Impeached Because He Was Never Actually Elected What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?
While I was out, the reader Driedchar posted a fascinating comment regarding our recent discussion of Pauline Kael and her famous essay against Andrew Sarris and the "auteur theory," "Circles and Squares": Kael was justifiably angry when she wrote "Circles and Squares".
Auteur filmmaker Guy Maddin is famous for cinematic experiences that are throwbacks to the silent film era, like the neo-surrealist The Dead Father and the large-budget effort The Saddest Music in the World.
Read the full review A three-film epic from Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes, which uses the famous tale/cycle as a structuring device for Gomes' anatomy of Portugal's social and economic malaise.
Though he is famous as the leading American proponent of the "auteur theory," Mr. Sarris has often pointed out that it is not a theory in the strong, scientific sense (like the theory of evolution or the theory of relativity), but rather a guiding intuition: that a film is a work of art and the principal artist is the director.
Truffaut's later films, which borrow the manners and styles of the popular cinema even more blatantly than do his most famous early films, are closer to Hollywood's "auteur" films in the classic sense: their stylistic originality, personal import, and intellectual substance are packaged in a product that is intended to please a non-cinephile, non-intellectual audience.
