Comments on: The Auteur Theory and Canned Soup http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70 Cinema will save us Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:23:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Gautam http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-5990 Gautam Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:54:14 +0000 http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70#comment-5990 Great to hear that Jeet! All the best! Great to hear that Jeet! All the best!

]]> By: jeet http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-5989 jeet Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:25:07 +0000 http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70#comment-5989 this is really gona help me in my exam..thank you.. this is really gona help me in my exam..thank you..

]]> By: Gautam http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-5788 Gautam Mon, 26 May 2008 17:12:37 +0000 http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70#comment-5788 Thank you Nitesh! You are as knowledgable as you are thorough in your subject. Your views are greatly appreciated! Thank you Nitesh! You are as knowledgable as you are thorough in your subject. Your views are greatly appreciated!

]]> By: Nitesh http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-5760 Nitesh Sun, 25 May 2008 21:06:53 +0000 http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70#comment-5760 Aeteur Theory was more of a political polemic in my opinion for the Cahier group, after all, they all wanted to make films one day, however, it seriously presented a new way of looking at film- I mean overnight ' Cinema from one industrial process of images turned into a profession of artist. The subsequent revamp of Aetuerism( with Andrew Sarris who made the terminology and theory popular in America) allowed various insights into cinema(themes, motifs, and especially mise-en-scene(the inherent force for differentiating directional quality and an important base to differentiate good and bad director(or as Truffaut say's Good and Bad Film). I think, if a film critic of the 1960 woke up today, he would be sad on the overall decline of counter-culture and the revolutionary romanticism, however, he would still be amazed with the shift in focus of Cinema in Europe to Asia in the current era. Today, Asia has as many Aetuers compared to the rest of the world, filmamkers whose vision and mise-en-scene( the final stage of 'putting' to the scene- images are unique) From the likes of Hou Hsien Hou, Tsai Ming Liang in Taiwan, Joe Achiptaong in Thailand, Hong Sang Soo, Kim Kim Duk, Park Chan Wook, Jia Zhangke, Shaji Karun, Buddeb, Murali Nair, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Abbas Kiorstami are just few of the filmmakers in Asia( and this does not include the Aetuers from rest of the world) who have given Cinema works which has given a whole new meaning to conceptualization of images. So, as, far as I'm concerned the whole parallel industry of ' Art' house or lets sat ' Good' Cinema has not become another commercial whore. As far, as Commercial films reaching the Aetuer-istic level is concerned, most advancement in the commercial film industry( Hollywood,. Bollyoowd, Hongkong, the example I'm paraphrasing is something which David Brodwell has talked about is, that such industries are taking the ' technical' aspects in a new light to tell the same story not out ways of re-inventing the cinematic idiom( after all, no matter how much Indian film use the Jimmy Jim, most films mise-en-scene resemble each other, the distinctive-ness of directors are categorically places in such place on stories) which, CInema is not all about. In the end, the critic would observe that though the Art Cinema world over is not as strong as it was before, but the overall quality(greatness) of Commercial films has decreased, after all, not long ago people like Hawks, Fuller, Ford, Huston, Welles, Wilder, Stroheim, and more were making movies in Hollywood. Exception exist even today, but exception largely don't make rules, as Godard cleverly mused. PS:Great site/blog though, insightful and informative. Enjoyed the post on German Expression, and yeah the Fred Astaire post too. Aeteur Theory was more of a political polemic in my opinion for the Cahier group, after all, they all wanted to make films one day, however, it seriously presented a new way of looking at film- I mean overnight ‘ Cinema from one industrial process of images turned into a profession of artist. The subsequent revamp of Aetuerism( with Andrew Sarris who made the terminology and theory popular in America) allowed various insights into cinema(themes, motifs, and especially mise-en-scene(the inherent force for differentiating directional quality and an important base to differentiate good and bad director(or as Truffaut say’s Good and Bad Film).

I think, if a film critic of the 1960 woke up today, he would be sad on the overall decline of counter-culture and the revolutionary romanticism, however, he would still be amazed with the shift in focus of Cinema in Europe to Asia in the current era. Today, Asia has as many Aetuers compared to the rest of the world, filmamkers whose vision and mise-en-scene( the final stage of ‘putting’ to the scene- images are unique) From the likes of Hou Hsien Hou, Tsai Ming Liang in Taiwan, Joe Achiptaong in Thailand, Hong Sang Soo, Kim Kim Duk, Park Chan Wook, Jia Zhangke, Shaji Karun, Buddeb, Murali Nair, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Abbas Kiorstami are just few of the filmmakers in Asia( and this does not include the Aetuers from rest of the world) who have given Cinema works which has given a whole new meaning to conceptualization of images.

So, as, far as I’m concerned the whole parallel industry of ‘ Art’ house or lets sat ‘ Good’ Cinema has not become another commercial whore. As far, as Commercial films reaching the Aetuer-istic level is concerned, most advancement in the commercial film industry( Hollywood,. Bollyoowd, Hongkong, the example I’m paraphrasing is something which David Brodwell has talked about is, that such industries are taking the ‘ technical’ aspects in a new light to tell the same story not out ways of re-inventing the cinematic idiom( after all, no matter how much Indian film use the Jimmy Jim, most films mise-en-scene resemble each other, the distinctive-ness of directors are categorically places in such place on stories) which, CInema is not all about.

In the end, the critic would observe that though the Art Cinema world over is not as strong as it was before, but the overall quality(greatness) of Commercial films has decreased, after all, not long ago people like Hawks, Fuller, Ford, Huston, Welles, Wilder, Stroheim, and more were making movies in Hollywood. Exception exist even today, but exception largely don’t make rules, as Godard cleverly mused.

PS:Great site/blog though, insightful and informative. Enjoyed the post on German Expression, and yeah the Fred Astaire post too.

]]> By: Gautam http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-5385 Gautam Wed, 14 May 2008 09:34:35 +0000 http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70#comment-5385 That is so true of many critics. It was amusing to watch Shymalan have a film critic character in 'Lady in the Water' and then have him killed brutally right after he claims to know the fact that he will narrowly escape his apparent death. I think this is what put the critics off 'Lady in the Water' otherwise it was not half as bad a film as they made it look like. That is so true of many critics. It was amusing to watch Shymalan have a film critic character in ‘Lady in the Water’ and then have him killed brutally right after he claims to know the fact that he will narrowly escape his apparent death. I think this is what put the critics off ‘Lady in the Water’ otherwise it was not half as bad a film as they made it look like.

]]> By: Liz http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-4068 Liz Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:33:56 +0000 http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=70#comment-4068 Isn't it damaging to judge a film based on its auteur? People expect a twist from Shyamalan because of his first big hit, and now he HAS to deliver or people are not satisfied. In my opinion, people's dissatisfaction with Signs had largely to do with the fact that there was no "big twist" like Sixth Sense or Unbreakable. So he engineered an even bigger twist for The Village, which people hated because it was too big of a twist. It can't be good to expect a certain thing of certain directors at the expense of enjoying their art. Isn’t it damaging to judge a film based on its auteur? People expect a twist from Shyamalan because of his first big hit, and now he HAS to deliver or people are not satisfied. In my opinion, people’s dissatisfaction with Signs had largely to do with the fact that there was no “big twist” like Sixth Sense or Unbreakable. So he engineered an even bigger twist for The Village, which people hated because it was too big of a twist. It can’t be good to expect a certain thing of certain directors at the expense of enjoying their art.

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