The election of Mitterrand was also of great and enduring cinematic significance: the leading auteur of the French cinema in the three subsequent decades is Mitterrand's first Minister of Culture, Jack Lang.
Cutting across genres and themes, the 40-film program reaches back to 1949, a year after the establishment of the two separate governments, and works up to the present with the United States premiere of "Low Life," the latest (his 99th!) from the leading auteur Im Kwon-taek.
The man behind Apollo 13 and those Dan Brown movies is Hollywood's leading auteur when it comes to delivering a film right down the middle of the road. .
Fantasy always plays a big role in Hollywood calendars, but it's now being conferred to the talents of leading auteurs.
Instead, it is a film that will surprise those who know Marsh only from his docs – the Oscar-winning Man on Wire and Bafta-nominated Project Nim – and also cement the director's reputation as one of the UK's leading auteurs.
Starring Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough, it was described by Wise as a "film that will surprise those who know Marsh only from his docs – the Oscar-winning Man on Wire and Bafta-nominated Project Nim – and also cement the director's reputation as one of the UK's leading auteurs".
While the end result may not represent the pinnacle of Nolan's extraordinary career, it nevertheless reaffirms him as cinema's leading blockbuster auteur, a director who can stamp his singular vision on to every frame of a gargantuan team effort in the manner of Spielberg, Cameron and Kubrick.
It's been years, if not decades, since Wim Wenders lived up to his reputation as a leading European auteur, but there are two sequences in his subdued new drama, Every Thing Will Be Fine, which truly justify it.
Fifteen years ago, Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike took a certain segment of the film world by storm with a string of shocking and/or irreverent films (Audition, Gozu, The Happiness of the Katakuris, Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q), which instantly established him as one of the world's leading cult auteurs.
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.
This live performance features explosive, riffing swingers and strong solos.But Evans also favors the bandleader-as-improv-auteur methods of leading, and such techniques are exhilarating but chancy territory for big jazz groups.
