auteurism
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Responsible for such laughably reductive shorthand as “Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’” or “Hal Ashby’s ‘Coming Home,’” auteurism is the taxonomic convenience that became a religion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
In Levine’s interpretation, auteurism has meant discarding months of work, much to his staff’s dismay.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
Signifiers of unslick auteurism are on immediate display — natural light, hand-held camera, a dreamy laxity when it comes to the use of focus.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2020
These constant huge events necessitated an editorial heavy-handedness that stifled the auteurism DC had made its signature.
From The Verge ● Oct. 30, 2019
As an uneven but galvanizing cri de coeur from one of America’s most important filmmakers, it proves that audiences haven’t given up on auteurism at its most fiercely didactic and bracingly idiosyncratic.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2019
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