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Yes Anthony. I'm surprised that even in this post-auteurism world, it seems a large portion of directors (American, at least) getting major respect are still only on their third or fourth or fifth films (Jonze, either Anderson, and the Lady Coppola).
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 6 October 2003 05:35 (twenty years ago) link
I don't mean post-auteur as in we've moved past auteurism, but rather that we're living after it took over the cinephile world.
(That said, of all the traditional critical models, only genre-based criticism seems more to my liking than auteurism.)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 6 October 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link
i can't think of too many directors who willingly take a backseat to their writers publicity-wise (nevermind creatively) - i think it's interesting
(also his performances in his Praise You video + Three Kings are great)
― jones (actual), Monday, 6 October 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
heh "now he just needs to flex his directorial skills more, so we can tell whether he's a post-auteur artistic filmmaking genius or not"!!
― jones (actual), Monday, 6 October 2003 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
Um... I guess then that the ultimate post-auteur move would be to basically conceive, write, produce, compose/select music for, and act in a film but let someone else direct it, right? (Again:
Jackass.)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 6 October 2003 21:53 (twenty years ago) link
Rohmer: I think everyone will agree with me if I start by saying that
Jackass is a film about which you can say everything.
Godard: So let's start by saying it's literature.
Rohmer: And a kind of literature that is a little dubious, in so far as it imitates the American school that was so fashionable in Paris after 1945.
Kast: The relationship between literature and cinema is neither good nor clear. I think all that one can say is that literary people have a kind of confused contempt for the cinema, and film people suffer from a confused feeling of inferiority. The uniqueness of
Jackass is that the Spike Jonze-Johnny Knoxville collaboration is an exception to the rule I hae just stated.
Godard: Then we can say that the very first thing that strikes you about this film is that it is totally devoid of any cinematic references. You can describe
Jackass as Faulkner plus Stravinsky, but you can't identify it as such and such a film-maker plus such and such another.
Rivette: Maybe Jonze's film doesn't have any cinematic references, but I think you can find references that are oblique and more profound, because it's a film that recalls Eisenstein, in the sense that you can see some of Eisenstein's ideas put into practice, and, moreover, in a very new way.
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 02:33 (twenty years ago) link
five years pass...
one year passes...
five years pass...