If you take yourself further from American cinema, further even than the European landscape, you’ll enter the world of the extreme, dark, and yet, violently poetic work of Korean director, Park Chan-Wook. Chan-Wook's Point of View Park was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and initially …
With a Lovecraftian influence drawing an innocence and sympathy from the grotesque, Guillermo Del Toro’s dark storytelling roots blossom into beauty and pathos for his monsters, and an underlying cynicism of humanity.
In an age of blockbusters, auteurs are becoming few and far between. Many unique directors will have a penchant for telling a variety of stories, where some will have interests in more specific themes and stories. Nicolas Winding Refn, the polarising Danish director falls into …
With his films, you have to make sure that you’re looking closely.
Known for his fastidious approach to filmmaking, Stanley Kubrick is the embodiment of an auteur. Each of his films sits atop their respective genre and continue to draw debate and controversy. History Coming from a photography and documentary background, Stanley Kubrick’s move into narrative filmmaking utilised his …
Known by cult cinema fans as the master of the surreal, Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky presents avant-garde images that challenge viewers and present questions of religion, mysticism, and spiritualism. Before starting his film career, Jodorowsky practiced poetry and dropped out of college to pursue theatre and …
The postmodern auteur not only quotes, borrows and steals from other influences but they are able to present them in a fashion so as to make them feel fresh and somehow original.
Michelangelo Antonioni was not only an auteur but a disrupter in the film industry. A director whose films went against the grain.
Wes Anderson is a visually and thematically strong director and, although he has not completed a large portfolio of work, he has created pieces that always include his signature.
He works tirelessly creating: drama, comedy, pathos, empathy, nihilism and hope through an orchestra of characters and creative endeavour.
