AUTEUR
Auteurism, as established by Francois Truffaut and many other writers and contributors for Cahiers du cinema, is a theory of film criticism in which the director is thought to be the ultimate ‘author’ of a film, with the creative thrust of the film being their primary artistic expression. In today’s blockbuster franchise world, that type of authorial control can oversee multiple films in a series. The X-Men superhero film series, headed by original director Bryan Singer, saw great success and a consistent world, before being changed in subsequent films by directors such as Brett Ratner, Gavin Hood, and Continue reading...
