![]() ![]() ![]() The "auteurs" are still out there, but most of them bore me. ![]() And I'm not going to get all Gore Vidal on you and claim that "the director is merely the brother-in-law", because that's exactly the defensive tack you'd expect from a screenwriter as touchy as Vidal. There are plenty, but most of them seem to operate outside the Hollywood ecosystem. Which isn't to say there are no auteurs left. ![]() With most directors now making a new film only once every three to five years, there is no room to make three hack-jobs for the studio and one abiding masterpiece for yourself. More and more I tend to find myself believing in what the writer Thomas Schatz called "the genius of the system".Įxcept the system he was talking about no longer exists, at least not in the way that used to foster geniuses like Nicholas Ray or Douglas Sirk or a hundred others, mainly by frustrating the hell out of them until they bit back by making marvellously personal works of art on celluloid. And it just encourages the tacky, egomaniacal film-school cult of the writer-director as lone presiding genius. It's become a misleading umbrella-term falsely uniting a diverse body of collectively created work under a single name. I flee in great haste from the mere mention of its name. T he auteur theory, I've finally decided, can kiss my ass. ![]()
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