The theater darkens, and you're ready for a good giggle out of the past, but what comes on the screen is not "Bananas" or "Annie Hall," but "Interiors" or "September" or another of Mr. Allen's Bergmanesque experiments in seriousness that will surely go down as footnotes in the career of an important comic auteur.
Yet Cannes retains its allure, with premieres from some of the most important international auteurs and a star platform that functions as the European equivalent to the Academy Awards.
Nearly as important as the auteur additions were the ad buys, Hirsch said.
Andrew Sarris imported the auteur theory from France.
As Variety's hard-nosed chief film critic, he has sure judgment and a crisp delivery; but he also gives dissenters a fair hearing, and is revealing about Hawks's largely posthumous reputation as an important auteur.In Hollywood jargon, both Mr McGilligan and Mr McCarthy are image men rather than word men.
No less important to rock than the auteur theory was to film, the singer-songwriter was radical in uniting stardom with creative control.
"Burning," on the other hand, has a haunting ambiguity that the auteur felt was important to maintain throughout the picture.
But more important to Bannon's career as the auteur of agenda-driven documentaries was Bossie, who got his start as a political activist and investigator working in opposition to Bill Clinton and his Democratic allies.
With few exceptions, this has been a year of pointless, derivative action movies or bloated, self-indulgent offerings from auteurs seeking to make terribly important films.
But this lavishly illustrated volume, with illuminating glimpses into his work in opera, theater and film, is an important reminder that Mr. Zeffirelli was once an auteur, a major artist with a vibrant, varied vision: even, at least at one point, modest.
The auteurs had landed, and what is more they had Important Things To Say about borders and states and sovereignty and empires.
