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Margaret Leclere was born on 8 July 1954 in Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, Wales, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for The Bushbaby (1969), The Lost Son (1999) and Our Mother's House (1967). She has been married to Eric Leclere since 1987.
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- Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, Wales, UK
Margaret Leclere. Actress: The Bushbaby. Margaret Leclere is known for The Bushbaby (1969), The Lost Son (1999) and Our Mother's House (1967). She is married to Eric Leclere.
- The Auteur Tyranny
- Art and Ethics
- Where Will This End?
The Auteur Theory became a tyranny, McCarthyite in its single-mindedness. Horribly, lists of auteur directors were drawn up, notably by American film critic Andrew Sarris. Those whose names were not on the list had been judged by critical opinion to be lesser directors. John Huston, for example, never made the list. His extraordinary number of grea...
But if cinema is an art form, then why treat it differently from the other arts? Conversely, why not include the other arts in the clean-up and stop revering the paintings of Picasso, Gauguin or Degas? Or stop reading the works of Lewis Carroll or Vladimir Nabokov, just in case? Let us not look at anything made by anybody who is, in Margaret Attwoo...
Charlie Chaplin, possibly the greatest auteur the world has known, made all his films before the Auteur Theory existed. Chaplin wrote, directed, starred in and composed the music for his movies. His stature as an artist is arguably on a level with Picasso. Of Picasso, the novelist Caroline Blackwood – speaking from personal experience – said: “He w...
Margaret Leclere is known as an Actor, Writer, and Adaptation. Some of her work includes The Lost Son, Loose Connections, and Escape From Kampala.
May 24, 2018 · The death of the auteur director in the #MeToo age. May 18, 2018 |. By Margaret Leclere. | The Conversation Verified. The Auteur Theory, which has held the film industry and film criticism in its grip since the 1950s, has recently come under attack from film critics – until now its greatest champions.
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Margaret Leclere. Stuck in Rotten Parts. 'Tall, Dark and Gruesome' An Autobiography. By Christopher Lee. Gollancz 314pp £15.99. In his first film role after the war, Christopher Lee was required to act being shot. His performance, based on his wartime experience, was badly received and he was told to try again.
