Bill (in particular), didn't Barthes distinguish between an author and a writer? (And Truman Capote suggested a third activity, typing.) MIchael Bay has a...
I personally don't find the word "auteur" to be needed. "Good director" and "bad director" seem to do the job. I do believe that there are many shadings...
Joe, You've been dipping into Barthes more recently than I have, but my recollection is that author/writer was a distinction that favored "writer," which was a...
... For whatever it's worth (since I can't claim to have thought deeply about this), if I voted thus, I didn't mean to, since I do seem to associate the term...
Joe, You've been dipping into Barthes more recently than I have, but my recollection is that author/writer was a distinction that favored "writer," which was a...
For common sense purposes I believe that directors are the authors of their films (by definition, so to speak) and that there are good directors and bad...
... teams (the Dardenne brothers, for example) who are treated as auteurs without anyone feeling the need to assign all responsiblity to a single individual....
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from a foreign standpoint, I have always thought as funny the fact that american critics didn't translate "auteurs" into "authors" and preferred referring to...
Well that's scarcely a surprise because Barthes was keeping Techine and Sollers wasn't. Barthes makes an appearance as Thackery in "The Bronte Sisters." ... ...
... Chereau" Hunh? They're scarcely working in opposition to one another. One could easily imagine a Chereau "Happy Together" or a Wong Kar Wai "Son Frere." ...
Ruy, You are very learned in Cahiers matters - more than de Baecque, although you attribute some of what you say to him. It's true that in the 60s - and...
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I don't know about "J'embrasse pas," but I always thought that Catherine Deneuve's character in "Les voleurs" was both a spot-on and an extremely touching...
Hey Jonathan, do you remember when that boyfriend of Techine's was stranded in New York and got a job at Max's Kansas City to earn enough to fly back to ...
<I don't know about "J'embrasse pas," but I always thought that Catherine Deneuve's character in "Les voleurs" was both a spot-on and an extremely touching...
Enjoyed the posts on "what makes an auteur". Some directors were mentioned in passing, among them Joseph Pevney. He directed some outstanding works for...
"Loin" was shown at festivals in the U.S. but not given a general release. "Wild Reeds" is Techine's greatest film. ... __________________________________ Do...
(Picking up on a very small thread in Jake's post) ... Hill's done some fabulous work of late. I thought "Undisputed" was a great movie: as lean and compact...
... I think my own favorite would be the sublime "My Favorite Season," but I like most all of them (including the underrated "Alice and Martin.") Peter ...
same as in Brazil. Alice et Martin, which I found really poor, has been subtitled but never released. ... From: "David Ehrenstein" <cellar47@...> To:...
We've been delighted with what we consider to be our group's great success thus far, and think that as it continues to attract contributors from all over the...
The climactic scene in "Wild Reeds" where our hero gets a ride back on the motorcycle, clinging to the man he loves but cannot have, caressing him for what he...
Many thanks to Paul Gallagher for pointing me in the direction of this stimulating group. After reading through half the posts here (no small feat!), it ...
If people don't mind revisiting the My Favorite Year idea, let me make my case for ... 1932. Not only does 1932 produce the peak of Lubitsch in Trouble In...
