http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-greatest-actors-turned-directors

Characters

Style

Themes

Narrative

Representation of the past

Narrative

• Strong cause-and-effect• High degree of narrative closure• Psychologically rounded, goal-

driven characters• Character subordinate to plot• Fictional world governed by

spatial and temporal verisimilitude

• Familiar rules, codes, conventions• Heterosexual romance normally

present as main plot or subplot

Art Cinema/ European • Loose cause and effect• Open/ambiguous endings• Ambiguous characters, often

lacking defined desires/goals • Plot subordinate to character• Psychological or social realism• Experimentation (less

formulaic)

Hollywood

http://www.dga.org/Craft/VisualHistory/Interviews/Peter-Bogdanovich.aspx

Psycho (dir. Hitchcock, 1960)

Schindler’s List (dir. Spielberg, 1993)

Raging Bull (dir. Scorsese, 1980)

Auteur

http://movies.amctv.com/movie-guide/the-50-greatest-directors-of-all-time/

Bioscope magazine: ‘special directors’

Germany: ‘Autoren film’

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

‘camera stylo’

Alexandre Astruc: 1948

Refer to a director’s discernable style through mise-en-scene or to filmmaking practices where the director’s signature was in evidence

Value personal expression and creativity

A director’s auteurist status emerges from the consistency of themes, images and styles over the whole body of his or her work;

Cahiers critics ideas…Wanted to elevate status of director by labeling them an auteur

Une Certaine Tendance du Cinema Francais (Francois Truffaut, 1954)

‘La Politique des auteurs’

The director’s personal expression is key in distinguishing whether they should be afforded the title of auteur

Auteur?

Trunk Shot

Non-linear narratives

Use of music

Use of dialogue

Strong female leads

Violence!

‘I’m shutting your butt down!’

metteur en scene

Merely adapt material given to them rather than making it their own…they lack extra depth involved (Bazin)