And so it has happened: the age of the auteur has long been in full swing, the director is the acknowledged champion of cinematic art, but the script is nonetheless often the dominant factor in the on-screen results — all the more so, all-too-frequently, in independent or low-budget filmmaking.
In the mid-1960s, when François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette were in full swing as directors, Mr. Téchiné was doing what they had done in their previous lives: writing film criticism for Cahiers du Cinéma.
Addressing the American Academy in Berlin in June, Mr. Gelb came out swinging against directors who set out to provoke and bewilder.
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Cameron McCormick, Spieth's swing coach and the director of instruction at Brook Hollow Golf Club in Dallas, cited the calluses as evidence of Spieth's work ethic.
"As a critic, he was best known for his big-band reviews during the swing era," said Dan Morgenstern, director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.
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Original director Steven Soderbergh swung out due to money woes and the script was on the bench until Sony Pictures brought in a costly transfer – all-star all-rounder Aaron Sorkin – to do a rewrite.
It's an exciting concept that would nevertheless have most writer-directors swinging from the trees with nerves.
"President Barack Obama is on a roll in the key swing states," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
"Because Republicans are so united, we have the freedom to send him to swing states," said Karen P. Hughes, communications director for the Bush campaign.
