>Wyler directed "Jezebel" -- a film built entirely
>around Bette Davis and that Orry-Kelly dress. The
>script, the lighting, the camera movements, the other
>actors, EVERYTHING revolves around Bette Davis.
David, I don't like Wyler too much, but I don't think this excludes Wyler as
being the auteur. From what you describe, "Jezebel" (which I've not seen) is
a film about >Wyler's attitude towards< Bette Davis and the Orry-Kelly dress.
As long as Wyler had control over those camera movmeents, regardless whatever
or whomever they revolve around, I'm comfortable in calling him the auteur.
... David, I don't like Wyler too much, but I don't think this excludes Wyler as being the auteur. From what you describe, "Jezebel" (which I've not seen) is ...
... Not really. An auteur creates. Wyler working with Davis can only REACT to her presence. This is a perfectly acceptable way to make a film, but it's not the...
... I don't agree with this at all. There's a long tradition in American auteurism of using the word "auteur" to refer to a director who through the force of...
Dan Sallitt writes: "Implicit in the phrase "Kaufman has become an auteur" is some idea like, "An auteur is a filmmaker of any type who displays a recognizable...
... Neither have I seen JEZEBEL, but theoretically, at least, I'd be careful about saying that, provided Wyler's controlling the camera, the film is "about"...
I suppose this thread has left me wondering what we want to do with cases such as Jonathan Rosenbaum's Monroe anecdote, where in some sense the star appears to...
The Monroe anecdote is fascinating, but it seems a shaky foundation for drawing conclusions about auteurism. For one thing, what if Monroe was lying? It's...
... HIGH RISK (the 1995 film by Wong Jing, not the 1999 film by Vincent Kok with Jackie Chan). Warning: this is a particularly crummy film; hardly watchable,...
There is such a noticeable difference in quality between Chan's self-directed features, which are fun but not good films, and those where he is directed by...
... CRIME STORY? Hmm...I'm not sure what you see in that film. There's nothing more tiresome than Jackie Chan trying to be serious and dramatic. But I...
Matt wrote: > CRIME STORY? Hmm...I'm not sure what you see in that film. There's ... and ... Sammo Hung really only made one ... TWO); PROJECT A, WHEELS ON...
Thank you for the recommendations (Bill, is it? Or "Hotlove"?) and a provocative reading of CRIME STORY. I hadn't realized THE BIG HIT was one of Kirk...
... a ... It's not mine - I got it from Marco Muller, the new head of the Venice Festival, who lived on the mainland for a few years and is an even better...
I think the problem here is what we have in mind when discussing the concept of auteurism. Is it a matter of simple auteur-spotting? If so I guess we could...
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