Word: auteuristic
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...Dayton and Faris didn't get nominated, and that's a bad sign for Sunshine's Best Picture chances. Oscar, you see, was an auteurist long before the French critics of Cahiers du Cinema proclaimed that the director was the author of his films. The winner of the Best Director statuette has made film named Best Picture 76% of the time - 53 of the 70 possible years - since 1937, when the Academy standardized the category with five nominations...
With Gods and Monsters, a fictionalized biography of the last days of Frankenstein director James Whale, and Kinsey, Condon aligns himself with the great pantheon of directors like John Ford, Douglas Sirk and Francis Ford Coppola who bring auteurist pizzazz to classical Hollywood filmmaking structures...
...office takings (which in 2002 were €5.6 billion), directors and producers need to better understand the business of moviemaking. "It's the perpetual struggle between art and commerce," says Colin Vaines, executive vice president of European production and development at Miramax. "In Europe, where there is such an auteurist culture - the director is king or queen and they drive everything along - it isn't always possible to contemplate the marketplace alongside the art." It's not as if European cinema lacks funds; on the contrary, many European films are government-subsidized in ways that Hollywood can only envy. France...
...sketches about evolution; and with Oliver Stone about playing assassinated gay politician Harvey Milk in Mayor of Castro Street. Some comedies, some full-bore dramas, some possible box-office hits, some certainly not. But Williams doesn't think of himself as a latter-day Woody Allen. He has no auteurist ambitions. "It takes a lot of discipline and vision, and I am too lazy for that. I have never been able to really write." The only thing of which he's professionally certain is his feeling about network TV: never again. "This one ((ABC executive)) came...
...year-old? For which the director is a Japanese staging his first work entirely in English? For which the costumes are pieced together from antique kimonos, the set is metal gratings and a chair, and Lear spends a long while stuffed into a laundry cart? Surely this is auteurist direction run riot, the sort of conceptual staging of Shakespeare that makes theatergoers yearn for the days of the director as traffic...