Dates and directors and critics

Film

Billy Wilder

Double Indemnity

Clint Eastwood

Unforgiven

Chloe Zhao

Nomadland

Mervyn LeRoy

I am fugitive from a chain gang

Andrew Sarris

Popularized auteurism in 1960s as a mistranslation. American/Hollywood cinema is the “only good cinema”

Cinema becomes divided into a canon of the “good,” the “great” . . . and everyone else

Pauleen Kael

Sarris believes that what makes an auteuris ‘an élan of the soul.’ (This critical language is barbarous. Where else should élan come from? It’s like saying ‘a digestion of the stomach.’ A film critic need not be a theoretician, but it is necessary that he know how to use words. This might, indeed, be a first premise for a theory.)

the production code

In 1930 it was written as a “moral blueprint” that the industry adopted. (What moral obligations do filmmakers have?)

Not fully enforced . . .

. . . until **1934**

Lois Weber

“the masculinization of the industry“.

An Auteur Director of Suspense and was well known for her cross-cutting technique.

The Lumiere brothers

Created the cinématographe with which the brothers made the first motion picture. They only saw film as a fluke.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

All about Eve

Norman Jewison

In The Heat of The Night

Jordan Peele

Nope

Oscar Micheaux

the first by a Black American to be shown in white movie theaters, to portray racial injustice suffered by Black Americans, delving into topics such as lynching, job discrimination, and mob violence.

Florian Donnersmarck

The Lives of others

Giueseppe Tornatore

Cinema Paradiso

Martin Scorsese

Hugo

Marcel Camus

Black Orpheus

Gene Kelly

Singin in the Rain