1
: a film director whose practice accords with the auteur theory
broadly
: director sense c
2
: an artist (such as a musician or writer) whose style and practice are distinctive
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Without spoiling too much, the movie builds to a cartoonish finale worthy of Looney Tunes auteur Frank Tashlin, with a public execution witnessed by the masses that wears its rhetoric on its sleeve.
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Eric Kohn, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
More importantly, perhaps, is the revelation that 36-year-old director Brady Corbet is that most worshipped kind of filmmaker, an auteur.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Eureka Boundary-pushing Argentine auteur Lisandro Alonso weaves an ambitious triptych traveling across the Americas and across centuries to examine the experiences of Indigenous peoples in the aftermath of colonization.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Black Box Diaries will begin streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime on January 7.
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French-Senegalese director Mati Diop announces herself as a rare documentary auteur with Dahomey, a riveting exploration of the meaning of artifacts looted from West Africa by France.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024
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Eric Kohn, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
More importantly, perhaps, is the revelation that 36-year-old director Brady Corbet is that most worshipped kind of filmmaker, an auteur.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Eureka Boundary-pushing Argentine auteur Lisandro Alonso weaves an ambitious triptych traveling across the Americas and across centuries to examine the experiences of Indigenous peoples in the aftermath of colonization.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Black Box Diaries will begin streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime on January 7.
Dahomey
French-Senegalese director Mati Diop announces herself as a rare documentary auteur with Dahomey, a riveting exploration of the meaning of artifacts looted from West Africa by France.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Auteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auteur. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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