search tools

What Martin Scorsese taught me about being a man

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 20 May 2016
By the late 1960s, when Scorsese was coming through film school, auteur theory was the dominant mode through which cinema was interpreted and assessed. Auteur theory privileges the director above all other collaborators on film, and undoubtedly Scorsese is the author of all his films ... But like all theoretical perspectives, auteur theory has to elide ......

FromSoftware should never have gone back

Edit Ars Technica 13 May 2016
This story was written by Rich Stanton. Note. This article contains story spoilers for Dark Souls, Dark Souls II, and Dark Souls III. Games criticism has its weakness for auteur theory, and many, myself included, are guilty of crediting individuals for work done by teams of dozens, if not hundreds of people ... It's not that a Souls veteran would claim to know anything of Miyazaki personally from his worlds ... Dark Souls redux ... Bloodborne ... > ....

200 Years of Australian Fashion review – an arc towards sartorial nationalism

Edit The Guardian 15 Mar 2016
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. From a history of colonial gowns to a survey of Australiana in contemporary fashion, the NGV dramatically traces two centuries of elite clothing. @incrediblemelk. Fashion is richly ambiguous ... Related. Colonial couture to concept wear ... Twitter ... Related ... Instead, fashion auteur theory kicks in as the exhibition looks to independent and avant-garde designers as the wellsprings of sartorial nationalism ... ....

how the Bond production designer Ken Adam transformed film sets

Edit New Statesman 11 Mar 2016
The production designer Ken Adam, famous for his work on Dr Strangelove and seven James Bond films, has died at the age of 95. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... Something to undermine auteur theory. Douglas Slocombe allowing Dead of Night to haunt Raiders of the Lost Ark. pic.twitter.com/D0BKSMa735 ... It was, Sweet observed, “something to undermine auteur theory” ... Photo. Getty ... ....

Director James Gunn unhappy that Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director went to two ...

Edit DNA India 01 Mar 2016
-->. Gunn, director of 'Guardians of the Galaxy', explained his stance on Twitter. Filmmaker James Gunn has expressed his displeasure over the best picture win of journalism drama Spotlight at the 88th Academy Awards ... His post prompted responses from other users. Sela Shiloni commented, "The Revenant was an incredible achievement in directing ... That is what a director does ... It has nothing to do with the auteur theory ... True ... dna Web Team....

How Joan Didion the Writer Became Joan Didion the Legend

Edit Vanity Fair 02 Feb 2016
A Star Is Born, an Immaculate Conception. In 1968, Didion published Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of essays mostly and most strikingly about California, and, with a single exception, composed entirely while living in her new hometown ... The critics were just as beguiled ... “JOAN MADE IT O.K ... From the preface ... Fortunately, other friends came home in time to call an ambulance.] I guess Joan was listening.”The Auteur Theory ... L.A ... How?....

'Hitchcock/Truffaut' review: One great director interviews another

Edit Syracuse 18 Dec 2015
On July 2, 1962, Francois Truffaut wrote Alfred Hitchcock, proposing a series of in-depth interviews. Truffaut had directed three movies, including "The 400 Blows" and "Jules and Jim." ... He became the leading example of the auteur theory, developed by Truffaut and others in the French New Wave, which posits that the director is the primary creative force, the author of the film, ahead of producers, writers and actors ... Grade. A-minus ... PG-13....

'Hitchcock/Truffaut'

Edit Huffington Post 15 Dec 2015
Kent Jones' Hitchcock/Truffaut, currently playing at Film Forum, is a rare bird, a film based upon an iconic book which memorialized the extensive conversation between two great filmmakers. Truffaut had only made three films when he sought out Hitchcock in l962. Visiting Hitchcock for the young filmmaker championing the Nouvelle Vague and the auteur theory of cinema was like a pilgrim traveling to mecca ... ....

Time Magazine Names New Film and TV Critics in Stephanie Zacharek, Daniel D’Addario (Exclusive)

Edit The Wrap 09 Nov 2015
Also Read ... From. Nancy Gibbs. To ... Re ... Although she thinks the auteur theory “is overrated to the point of meaninglessness,” Stephanie finds pleasure in the work of Preston Sturges, Satyajit Ray, Jean-Luc Godard, Quentin Tarantino and Orson Welles–though she is quick to note that she is “more The Magnificent Ambersons than Citizen Kane.” Stephanie’s first day as TIME’s film critic will be Nov. 16 ... 9....

How critic Philip French rose to greatness, and why he worried for film's future

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 03 Nov 2015
In June, I took a train to north London to visit Philip French. He had retired from The Observer in August 2013, on his 80th birthday. We had met before, almost 30 years ago, when I was starting out as a film reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald. He interviewed me for the BBC about Australian cinema. I was flattered ... He was an early champion of the auteur theory when analysis of directorial style was not taken seriously ... Twitter ... ....

'Project Greenlight' finale: Effie's the hero, Jason's the villain, film at 11

Edit Mashable 02 Nov 2015
That's a less haughty/more snotty way of saying he subscribes to "auteur theory," the notion that a director ought to wield enough control to be considered the film's "author." ... Auteur theory can work for the right person — as long as that person is a mad genius with a crazy track record ... When you apply "auteur theory" to TV, you get True Detective Season 2....

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

Edit The Hindu 30 Oct 2015
After a long-drawn battle with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) over his debut film Titli, filmmaker Kanu Behl and his producer-mentor Dibakar Banerjee decided to make a quick parody about censorship in Indian films roping in others in the film frat like Mahesh Bhatt, Sudhir Mishra, Hansal Mehta, and taking a dig at an “invisible” Anurag Kashyap ... The whole auteur theory — I don’t believe in it....

Sunday, October 25

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 18 Oct 2015
FREE TO AIR. Scorpion Ten, 6.30pm  ... The Scorpion team members are uber geniuses after all, they know how to do that sort of stuff ...   ...   ... In fact, when previously embargoed American movies were released after World WarII, French film buffs spent so much time watching and admiring these movies that they developed the auteur theory (which sees the director as the primary creative force, even in studio-controlled movies) ... ....
×
×
×
×