Sentence examples for genius auteur from inspiring English sources

Either they were the work of some kind of genius auteur not appreciated in his own time, or a front for an international heroin cartel.

His Victor-Meldrewism was reaffirmed this week, when Das Capital, a compilation of the work of his 1990s band the Auteurs (subtitled, typically, The Songwriting Genius of Luke Haines and the Auteurs), failed to reach the Top 75.

And yet, for all that, he was an undisputed genius; pop's first studio auteur.

This was the auteur as masculine genius, a warrior amid a sea of passive women.

"He is the New Wave cinéaste who understood that you have to be a genius, just like a literary auteur," said Pierre Rissient, who had bumped into Mr. Godard on the Champs-Élysées one day and was hired as the film's assistant director.

Hideo Kojima, the auteur and self-described genius behind the Metal Gear Solid franchise, made this cyberpunk adventure/virtual comic experience in 1988 for the Japanese MSX computer; it was released with upgrades in the early 90s for CD-ROM consoles, and came out in North America and Europe on the SEGA-CD platform.

It's titled "Thumbscrew," and was directed by a shadowy auteur named Stanislas Cordova, a secretive genius whose dark art films are intensely studied by rabid fans known as Cordovites.

He had, by many accounts, a miserable life, but he was a fantastic genius who was one of the great auteurs of the medium.

The American music-listening public has built up this idea of truly great musicians as auteurs, lone geniuses holed up in the studio, translating these beautiful symphonies in their heads to tape through some sort of ineffible process.

In France we really have this cult of the auteur, as if he's a kind of genius.

Films have become long and boring because directors have been told they're auteurs, so they resent good screenplays, fearing their genius will be compromised by anything too well written.