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unusual facts about auteur



30th International Istanbul Film Festival

British rock band Tindersticks started their Claire Denis Film Scores 1995-2010 international tour on April 11 with a live performance of scores the band made for French auteur Claire Denis.

Alexander Luria

Chris Doyle's auteur film Away with Words is largely inspired by Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist.

Antoine Jay

Les États-Unis et l'Angleterre, ou Souvenirs et réflexions d'un citoyen américain aka William Lee , essais traduits sur le manuscrit de l'auteur (1814)

Auteur theory

In Kael's review of Citizen Kane, a classic film for the auteur model, she points out how the film made extensive use of the distinctive talents of co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz and cinematographer Gregg Toland.

Deb Verhoeven

Her most recent book is Jane Campion published in 2009 by Routledge, a detailed case study of the commercial and cultural role of the auteur in the contemporary film industry.

Indigo Vertigo

According to Schaffer, who acknowledges a heavy influence from Lynch (and also Japanese auteur, Shinya Tsukamoto), the book is an experiment in subjective storytelling, and came about as the result of an unconventional, intuitive creative process developed by himself and KatieJane Garside (vocalist with extreme rock band Queenadreena).

Jean Graton

In 1986, at the Morzine Avoriaz BD Festival, he received the "Le sport: Une oeuvre, un Auteur" (Sport: A work, an author) award.

Let My People Go!

Scripted by director Mikael Buch and renowned arthouse auteur Christophe Honoré, Let My People Go! both celebrates and upends Jewish and gay stereotypes with wit, gusto and style to spare.

Rena Niehaus

Born in Oldenburg, Rena Niehaus was a minor star in 1970s Italian genre cinema, also appearing in several important "auteur" films as Alberto Lattuada's Cuore di cane and Eriprando Visconti's La Orca.

Santa Claus is a Black Man

Film director John Waters included the song on his 2004 Christmas music collection, A John Waters Christmas, despite the wishes of the elder Vann, who rejected Waters's request because the auteur "is not considered mainstream".


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