the auteur theory
In film criticism, the 1950s-era auteur theory holds that a director's films reflect that director's personal creative vision, as if he or she were the primary "auteur", or author. In some cases, film producers are considered to have a similar "auteur" role for films that they have produced.
Auteur theory has had a major impact on film criticism ever since it was advocated by film director and film critic François Truffaut in 1954. "Auteurism" is the method of analysing films based on this theory or, alternately, the characteristics of a director's work that makes her or him an auteur. Both the auteur theory and the auteurism method of film analysis are frequently associated with the French New Wave and the film critics who wrote for the influential French film review periodical Cahiers du cinéma.
This was created to be updated as and when as a chronology of photographs depicting the life of a girl who wants to be a bit taller. In that sense, it is a pretentious, arty blog as the mis-spelled, foreign language-esque username should have already indicated.
Other functions of this are listed as follows:
- For personal notes and reminders.
- Football steam-release.
- Demonstration of obsessive tendencies (subject: Steve Finnan).
- To state and picture items to be sold/traded/up for grabs.
- Listing of pleas for help and need.
Things to read:
- Amy Hempel: The Dog of the Marriage
- Thomas L. Friedman: The World Is Flat
- David Goldblatt: The Ball Is Round (A Global History of Football)
- Maria McCann: As Meat Loves Salt
- Gore Vidal: at least something by the guy
- Simon Van Booy: The Secret Lives of People in Love
- Lydia Davis: Varieties of Disturbance
- Margaret Atwood: The Tent
- Andre Aciman: Call Me By Your Name
Things to finish reading:
- Adam Cottier: Steven Gerrard, Portrait of a Hero (p46)
- Banana Yoshimoto: Amrita
- Tommy Koh & Chang Li Lin: Little Red Dot
- Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of a Dog in Night Time
Things to watch:
- F. est un salaud (1998); Marcel Gisler
- Machuca (2004); Andrés Wood
- Le Dernier Jour (2004), Rodolphe Marconi
Things to buy:
- Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera
- Indochine's 3.6.3 Album or Concert DVD
- Sondre Lerche's Faces Down & Phantom Punch Album
Books read in 2007:
1. Ng Yi-sheng - SQ21
2. Scott Heim - Mysterious Skin
3. Karen Farrington - This is Nicotine
4. Gilbert King - woman, child for sale
5. Carol Ann Duffy (compiled) - Stopping for Death
6. Manuel Puig - Kiss of the Spider Woman
7. James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
8. Cyril Wong - Unmarked Treasure
9. Kafka - Metamorphosis
10. Seamus Heaney - The Naturalist
11. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Memories of My Melancholy Whores
12. Truman Capote - Other Voices, Other Rooms
13. Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
14. Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire
15. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
16. Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie
17. Tennessee Williams - Sweet Bird of Youth
18. Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
19. Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
20. Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase
21. William Shakespeare - Macbeth
22. Nancy Huddleston Parker - Jealous-Hearted Me
23. Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden
24. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
25. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
26. Walter Russell Mead - Special Providence
27. Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth
28. Patrick Macias & Izumi Evers - Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno
1. Marie Sellier - V Comm Van Gogh
Music:
01. Jim Robitaille Group - Parallels
02. George Wallington - Minor March
03. Dizzy Gillespie - The Eternal Triangle
04. Andrew Hill - Tired Trade
05. John Patitucci - Circular
06. Keith Jarrett - Southern Smiles
07. The Bad Plus - Frog and Toad
08. Hiromi - Green Tea Farm
09. Jackie Terrason - Parisian Thoroughfare
10. Bill Evans - Conception
11. The Gamits - Bridges
12. RHCP - Road Trippin'
13. Colin Hay - Overkill (Acoustic)
14. Voltaire - Dunce
15. Andrew Bird - Banking on a Myth
16. Stephane Grappelli - Sweet Lorraine
17. Mark O'Connor w/ JoFi Burr & Frank Vignela - In the Cluster Blues