It is nearly impossible to define the essence of Nicholas Ray’s 1958 masterpiece Wind Across the Everglades, at once a kind of Floridian swamp western, a mysterious parable about the richness of the natural world, as well as an existential grudge match waged between an environmentalist and a bird poacher (Christopher Plummer and the powerful… Read more »
In the past, I have loosely touched on what makes an auteur an auteur. It’s a tricky title to nail down due to the subjective nature of what it means to have complete control over the vision of your art. It becomes even trickier when you try and apply the same theory to something outside… Read more »
Auteur theory is a complicated subject to broach, seeing that the debate to place a definition on the term “auteur”has been ongoing since the 1940s. Everyone has their own variation and take on the term that gets assigned to monolithic and specific directors. To me, however, an auteur is a director with a singular and… Read more »