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:emoji_thumbsup: Damin. Kane is really, for lack of a better term, the great "Piltdown Man" of the auteurist camp. Because of the relatively, and atypically, autonomous influence wielded by the film's primary creative force, in it the Cahiers du Cinema group (and, later, Sarris and his...

Just as many have wanted to be Sturges. It can be said that this era of ironic filmmaking finds its genesis in Sturges; yet no one has directly aped his style. I continue to maintain that a film can be influential, even immensely so, without necessarily spawning meticulous facsimiles of the...

Quite a moot point. Indeed, perhaps no other film has been heralded as the great champion of the auteurist philosophy than Kane. Legion are testimonials from filmmakers as diverse as Lean, Bogdanovich, Scorsese, Friedkin, Kubrick, Gilliam, Kieslowski, Spielberg, etc., to the influence of Welles’...

Polls like this can be ambigious in definition, so I'm going to provide my list of 10 of the most important films ever made (a slight adaptation of my "10 most important ever" list). :) The Great Train Robbery, 1903 (Cinema's original pioneer; film's first Western, plot, close-ups, and...