It’s a month dedicated to the Coen brothers at MovieZeal; I’ll be contributing a piece later in the month; in the meantime, check out this great review of Raising Arizona by Evan Derrick, who writes
Raising Arizona continues the Coens’ fascination with bending genre, the screwball comedy (ala Peter Bogdanovitch) serving as their guinea pig this [...]
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Auteurism is Alive and Well in the Blogosphere
They’re talking about the “auteur theory” again over at girish’s place. Although this is over a week old, it’s still worth checking out; there are fresh comments today!
The auteur theory had it’s origins in the influential French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. Although critics such as editor André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc contributed to the notion, [...]