The women are generally more interesting and complex than the men, which makes one wish the emphasis had been switched, but generally debut director Lee Chatametikool (who has been top Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul's editor for years) demonstrates empathy and ambition.
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There's mutual respect between these soft-spoken, iron-willed directors and company leaders who belong to the top tier of avant-garde auteurs in New York.
Few other filmmakers of his generation can lay claim to as many plaudits on the festival circuit and appearances on top-ten lists as the Taiwanese auteur.
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.
In terms of classical work, the Stratford Festival's artistic director, Des McAnuff, scored again with a top-flight production of Twelfth Night, and auteur Robert Lepage packed an unlikely venue the First Nations Huron-Wendat Reserve just outside Quebec city with enthusiastic young Francophone audiences for his site-specific The Tempest.
Two Days, One Night, the latest film from Belgian social-realist auteurs Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, took top honours at Sydney film festival at the weekend.
"Sharknado" auteur Anthony C. Ferrante said Derek was at the top of the list to play April's mom.
Filled with suspense, action and drama, filmmaker Christopher Nolan continues to top himself, proving over and over again that he is the ultimate auteur of his 30something peer group.
With Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell, the auteur behind "The Rockford Files," complied with an over-the-top action series that he thought the critics, if not viewers, would find a laugh riot.
