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Jul 13, 2024 · Arising in France in the late 1940s, the auteur theory—as it was dubbed by the American film critic Andrew Sarris—was an outgrowth of the cinematic theories of André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc.
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3 days ago · The Talented Mr. Ripley (film) The Talented Mr. Ripley. (film) The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Anthony Minghella, based on Patricia Highsmith 's 1955 novel of the same name. Set in the 1950s, it stars Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, a con artist who is sent from New York City to Italy to ...
1 day ago · Auteur theory, a cornerstone of film criticism, posits that a film director is the primary creative force behind a movie, akin to an author of a novel. This perspective emerged in the mid-20th century from French film criticism and was popularized by American critic Andrew Sarris. The heart of the theory lies in the belief that a director's ...
Critics as diverse as Andrew Sarris and Dwight Macdonald treated it with contempt in 1962, and even Pauline Kael, who was possibly the movie’s biggest American champion, never devoted more than a few sentences to it.
Jul 3, 2024 · I’m known as a softie for Moral Seriousness, and Andrew Sarris warms to movies featuring Mature Relationships between Civilized Men and Women.
3 days ago · In praising the film, Andrew Sarris writing for the New York Observer said: "A surging undercurrent of black comedy drives us out to sea without ever breaking to the surface with glib psychological or sociological explanations.
Jul 3, 2024 · In this episode of CinemaNerdz: The Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Mike Tyrkus says that although A Quiet Place: Day One somehow manages to successfully take its place alongside both earlier entries in the series as a superb horror film in its own right.
