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his career makes it clear that he is indeed, in the literal Cahiers du Cinema sense, an auteur, willing to make the sorts of sacrifices for creative control that real auteurs have to make—choices that indicate either raging egotism or passionate dedication or a childlike desire to run the whole sandbox, or all three.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
turned to American motion pictures
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
taste hierarchies like these stink. And they stink because they stand in the way of actually seeing the work on its own terms. Often, what this looks like is an artist or a viewer insisting on describing TV series by way of other media, praising a good show by calling it “cinematic” or “novelistic.” It’s a cliché by this point, but the early-aughts... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
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Charlie Sextro • Filmmaker Sean Baker on not giving up – The Creative Independent
Yeah, that was really surreal. And Abel Ferrara as well as Bruno Dumont, whose film P’tit Quinquin had a big impact on The Florida Project . You can see the behavior of the kids and everything, but I used that as a reference.
Charlie Sextro • Filmmaker Sean Baker on not giving up – The Creative Independent
One analyst reported a variety of views of the film On Golden Pond (Rydell, 1981) starring Katherine Hepburn, and with Jane Fonda playing the daughter of her real life father, Henry. One person said it was about an older couple at the end of their life;