--- Fred Camper <f@...> wrote:

>
> And David, don't take the "maybe you're not an
> auteurist" stuff the
> wrong way! If you're not, you can come out of the
> closet about it here
> and still post about what Charles Walters said after
> Judy Garland did a
> great number,

I don't consider Chuck Walters to be an auteur, Fred.

or who Bertolucci boffed during which
> picture he was
> making.

Or Allen Midgette either.

Maybe it will be healthy for our group to
> have one knowledgeable
> and witty anti-auteurist.
>
You rang?

Seriously, I consider "auteurs" to be a very select
group of film diretors: Fellini (curiously despised by
most auturists), Hitchcock, Bergman, Bresson, Dreyer,
Welles, Cocteau, Sturges, Wilder, Resnais, Sacha
Guitry, Rivette, Chris Marker, Jacques Demy, Godard,
Visconti, Franju, Whale, Agnes Varda, Pasolini,
Mankiewicz, Warhol (but not Morrissey), and Patrice
Chereau.

Non-"autuers" -- like Walters, Cukor, Wyler, Stevens
-- are perfectly capable of making great films.

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