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    movie, Inception, The Guardian ran an article comparing Christopher Nolan to famed Hollywood auteur, Stanley Kubrick. Most readers subsequently reacted negatively to the article’s central premise. However, The Guardian’s readers concurrently began pondering another question: is Christopher Nolan a modern Hollywood auteur? According to many scholastic sources, Nolan should not even be considered for auteur status. Most of these naysayers point out that six of his eight feature films have been remakes

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    Cronenberg or Pedro Almodovar (or any other auteur with negotiation with your tutor) and provide a justification of how they could be considered a film auteur. How can Alfred Hitchcock be considered a Film Auteur? In order for to find out if Alfred Hitchcock can be considered a film auteur, one must first find out what is the true meaning of a film auteur. The term film auteur was coined from a theory developed by Andrew Sarris, a film critic for which was the auteur theory, a theory in which the director

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    too far apart in comparison. Sometimes people find films more enjoyable than others, and often do not realize they come from the same director. The Auteur theory is a that defines the director as the sole author of the entire film, adding his or her own personal style. When it comes to the world of animation, director Hayao Miyazaki is a pioneer in auteur. His specific directorial style is seen in many of his films in which he manages to make films enjoyable to adults of all ages. Kiki's Delivery Service

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    Auteur Theory is based on three premises, the first being technique, the second being personal style, and the third being interior meaning. Furthermore, there is no specific order in which these three aspects must be presented or weighted with regard to a film. An Auteur must give films a distinctive quality thus exerting a personal creative vision and interjecting it into the his or her films. Kubrick made his first film in 1953 and has continued to make films till his death shortly after

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    In the early days, the French word “author” is also known as auteur. The Auteur Theory proposes that a film reflects the director’s personal creative force behind their films. It differs one director from the other, all giving out different creative ideas when making films. There are many directors these days in the film industry. The one that has caught my attention and is still doing so will have to be Tim Burton. With his famous odd looking glasses and multicolored lenses, Timothy Walter Burton

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    Many people have argued that his career fits within either the classical auteur theory or the structuralist auteur theory, but no argument has been as strong as the one that supports Disney’s career as the commercial auteur theory. The fact that Walt Disney’s work was very much affected by elements outside of his films shows that his career fits within the commercial, or consumer, auteur film theory. The commercial auteur theory supports the idea that the author is what a person has cultivated to

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    Realism In Still Walking

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    Analysis of Still Walking through Bazin’s film approach Hirokazu Koreeda got an international attention with his films like After Life, Nobody Knows, Air Doll... Still Walking his film that brought him great success was nominated to many awards. Film was about a family union regarding to anniversary of family’s dead son. In the Still Walking his style of portraying has similarity to Ozu’s way of family, people’s situation in life. Director Hirokazu Koreeda got his fame by people calling him new

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    introduction: in this essay, I will demonstrate the significance of understanding cinematography and mise-en-scene as a filmmaker and a spectator. without the ability of reading or understanding mise-en-scene and cinematography it would be extremely difficult for the spectators/audience to understand the visual storytelling the filmmaker is trying to attempt furthermore it would be even more difficult for the filmmaker to create a visual storytelling without at least knowing the power of mise en

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    Film techniques are used to represent clear images of what the filmmaker has in mind for the viewer. Mise-en-scène is a technique within filmmaking that displays what is to be filmed in front of the camera. Composition refers to the frame of the image that is being observed. Filmmakers utilize the space within each frame to bring attention to significant objects, characters, colors, backgrounds or lighting. Compositions can be symmetrical such that all contents are organized to convey a sense of

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    Lopez Et Memoir

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    The film “Être et avoir” is a observational film dealing with a teacher and the children attending a one-class school, in a very small-populated town in France. One of the main subjects in the film, teacher Lopez, is trying to teach this small class discipline and the fundamentals of education throughout the movie. Lopez is also the reason behind the controversy of the film’s success. After the film’s success, Lopez wanted to be paid more than the $20,000 that was to him and be featured as a co-author

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