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On the Auteurship of Actors7 comments

Ronak M Soni wrote 1 week ago: We normally ascribe a movie to the director and, to a lesser extent, writer. Not that actors don’t g … more →

Tags: General, Movies, Acting, Waking Life

Auteur Theory

ncowie wrote 1 month ago: We watched the films several times, watched the director’s commentary and discussed auteur the … more →

Tags: film

Directors And Their Screenwriters

mdino wrote 1 month ago: The relationships between directors and their screenwriters are often complicated.  Ranging from the … more →

Tags: Film Directors, SCREENWRITERS, Hitchcock, directors, wilder, scorsese, schrader, John Michael Hayes, I.A.L. Diamond

Better than being hit over the head with a baseball bat

thirithch wrote 3 months ago: Quentin Tarantino loves cinema. If anyone ever doubted that, fifteen minutes of Inglourious Basterds … more →

Tags: hyperbolic praise, inglourious basterds, Man Crush, post its., Quentin Tarantino, trash aesthetic

the auteurs

tobogganeer wrote 3 months ago: signed myself up for (on?) the auteurs in a vain attempt to watch go get some rosemary. it’s a … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

auteurdecinema: my moniker, explained...

Kenneth Y. Law wrote 3 months ago: I’m a filmmaker. I tell stories. I translate ideas into stories. Capturing the essence of an i … more →

Tags: About Me, Rants & Raves, thing-a-ma-fux, University of Washington, UW, Auteur, IMDB, Wiki, Will I Am

Michael Winterbottom: A Book Review2 comments

eyemaster wrote 4 months ago: Brian McFarlane and Deane Williams’s bantamweight volume, part of Manchester University Press … more →

Tags: Articles, damon smith, Michael Winterbottom, Brian McFarlane, Deane Williams, Bright Lights Film Journal, Book Review

The Curse of Collaboration

Keith Boynton wrote 5 months ago: Filmmaking is a notoriously collaborative process.  No matter how hard some people try to see film a … more →

Tags: Keith Boynton, Film Directors, Cahiers du Cinema, Collaboration, taking all the credit

'From' in which sense exactly?4 comments

Jonathan McCalmont wrote 6 months ago: One of the running themes of this blog since its inception has been my on-again, off-again relations … more →

Tags: film, Horror, The Last House on the Left, Film Posters, sean s. cunningham, Wes Craven

Great Adaptations

Emily wrote 8 months ago: I have just read an incredibly interesting essay on The Shining. After reading umpteen chapters on S … more →

Tags: 1, Genre, Film Studies, Film criticism, teh exorcist, The Shining, William Friedman, william blatty, Stephen King

FILM Film as an act of Love {by Sukhdev Sanhu}

adferoafferro wrote 8 months ago: Film as an act of Love by Sukhdev Sandhu Fifty years ago, François Truffaut’s Quatre cents coups her … more →

Tags: film, Film Directors, Culture, criticism, film theory, Film Analysis, Film Editing, Film Narrative, Truffaut

A Couple of Squared Circles, Sarris and Kael – Excerpt2 comments

A.R. Duckworth wrote 9 months ago: This excerpt is quoted in the introduction of Pauline Kael’s article, and after some thought,  … more →

Tags: Auteur/Authorship, film, Cinema, Film Form, Andrew Sarris, Notes On The Auteur Theory, pauline kael, Circles and Squares

A Couple of Squared Circles, Sarris and Kael – Part II29 comments

A.R. Duckworth wrote 9 months ago: Part Two: ‘Circles and Squares’ – Pauline Kael II Pauline Kael’s acerbic rep … more →

Tags: Hollywood, Philosophy, Auteur/Authorship, film, Cinema, Mise en Scène, Narrative, Film Form, Aesthetics

A Couple of Squared Circles, Sarris and Kael – Part I1 comment

A.R. Duckworth wrote 10 months ago: Part One: ‘Notes On The Auteur Theory In 1962′ – Andrew Sarris Andrew Sarris, infl … more →

Tags: Hollywood, Auteur/Authorship, Author, authorship, La Politque des Auteurs, Hollywood Discourse, metacriticism, Auteur, Andrew Sarris

On Sarris and Monotheism4 comments

aintmsbtraven wrote 10 months ago: I am deeply indebted to my ol’ pal J.W. Hastings for pointing me in the direction of this comm … more →

Tags: Ethan Mordden, pseudoteurial node of meaning

rough note 10: edupunk/dogme/miscellany part 1/on the manifesto

fatalist wrote 1 year ago: edupunk. interesting that someone decided that “d.i.y.” in the punk sense and anything e … more →

Tags: rough note, Film, Theory, edupunk, manifesto, dogme 95, Miscellaneous, Truffaut, von trier

Study Guide for The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)

Ali Nihat Eken wrote 1 year ago: Understanding the French New Wave through Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959) Background informati … more →

Tags: Sinema, Medya Okuryazarlığı, Öğretmenler için.., Eğitim, Education, Media Literacy, For teachers & students, The French New Wave, Cahiers du Cinema

Kevin Cournoyer On The Auteur Theory2 comments

A.R. Duckworth wrote 1 year ago: Why do you reject the idea of film director as an Auteur?  When you see credits like “a so and so fi … more →

Tags: Interview, Hollywood, Auter, Kevin Cournoyer, Filmmaking, Organic Process, Fiction, Literary, Novel

John Cassavetes and the Role of the Author4 comments

monoursblanc wrote 1 year ago: “The study of authorship is not in itself a theory, only a topic or theme. It can involve a gr … more →

Tags: Other, A Woman Under the Influence, Auteur, authorship, Cinéma vérité, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie


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