SO YOU WANNA BE A FILM NERD EPISODE 4: auteur theory

“I liked almost anybody that made you realize who the devil was making the picture.“ - Howard Hawks “Goethe? Shakespeare? Everything they put their name to is supposed to be good, and people rack their brains to find beauty in the silliest little thing they bungled. All great talents, like Goethe, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Michelangelo, created not only beautiful works, but things that were less than mediocre, quite simply awful.“ - Leo Tolstoy “The evolution of Western art towards greater personalization s