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- noun Plural form of
auteurist .
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And I was hooked up with a group of East Coast auteurists – mainly Howard Mandelbaum, Roger McNiven, Robert Smith, and Jeff Wise – who helped expand my taste and also had experience publishing zines and director monographs at the University of Connecticut.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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According to the French auteurists via Andrew Sarris, the director comes in with eighteen cans of film under his arm the way that Sinclair Lewis would come in with a novel.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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The auteurists posited that directors were in the best position to provide a film with its signature style and outlook, and that the best directors (not all directors) did just that, as any careful analysis of the body of work of a John Ford or an Alfred Hitchcock would manifestly show.
Film and Literature 2007
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The Hawks cult that developed in the '60s also didn't spend much time on this movie, even though it's really quite a bit better than some of the later Hawks movies that the auteurists defended.
Archive 2007-06-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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The Hawks cult that developed in the '60s also didn't spend much time on this movie, even though it's really quite a bit better than some of the later Hawks movies that the auteurists defended.
Hawks and Hawkins Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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The early auteurists had a particular fondness for movies where a director brought a lot of visual flair to a terrible script, like Nicholas Ray did to a movie like Party Girl; it was considered the ultimate triumph of the director's art to make something out of nothing, rather than make a good movie from a good script.
Archive 2006-02-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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What we want, though, is a different matter - and that's what separates most people from auteurists - we want great music, and because of those three albums back in
Expecting Rain here 2010
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What we want, though, is a different matter - and that's what separates most people from auteurists - we want great music, and because of those three albums back in
Expecting Rain here 2010
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Big River and The Secret Garden, doesn't believe his sharp right turn into accessible family drama from the "Hedwig" crowd will rattle the auteurists too much.
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Lerner, though nearly unknown except to auteurists and noir fans, is dry, expert, unexcited and really, really good.
Movie City News 2010
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