As far as acting in features goes, you could work with a big-name younger director with auteur status who isn't going to be intimidated by you.
During the commercial Load / Reload period, they partnered with auteur Anton Corbijn on music videos and provocateur Andres Serrano on album artwork.
Composed with auteur level attention to detail, she explores the symbolism and rituals of her cultural heritage, both European and African.
"I like working with auteurs," Kidman said of Herzog.
And Far Afar was certainly a cinephile choice from a jury heavy with auteurs known for their seriousness – including president Alfonso Cuaron, Pawel Pawlikowski, Lynne Ramsay, Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien and Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
As a bisexual woman with an androgynous, non-sexualised alter ego (she describes Christine as "a young boy dreaming of being Beyoncé") working in a male-dominated industry, she's unafraid to fight her corner, sympathising with auteurs such as Grimes and Björk.
At 48, Ruffalo now finds himself in an enviable position: a well-earned reputation as an actor's actor, with auteurs on his CV such as Fincher, Scorsese (Shutter Island), Michael Mann (Collateral) and Jane Campion (In the Cut); but also a reputation as a bit of a thinking woman's crumpet.
| "Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor," though gorgeous, is a comedown from the Met's thunderclap 2002 show of Renaissance tapestries, which awakened us to an almost forgotten major art form (collaborative like the movies, with auteurs including Raphael) that flourished in the age of big-walled, drafty palaces.
Used to working with auteurs, Savides was "adept at crawling into a director's personal style and enhancing it from the inside," Back Stage magazine said last year.
Whatever the P.R. implications or lost currency with auteurs, the attention to the commercial side of filmmaking would often pan out for Rothman at Fox.
Today, we're taking things a little easy and just getting acquainted with Kingston, but we've also got two new DOs & DON'Ts & Friends with Skinema auteur Chris Nieratko, and a smattering of Dancehall vids in the music channel.
