Andrew Sarris
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Andrew Sarris was an American film critic. He was a leading proponent and popularizer of the auteur theory of film criticism, which he detailed in his 1968 book, The American Cinema.
Sarris on Cinema Then, Cinema Now (December 1990)
Auteur
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An auteur is an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose control is so unbounded, the director becomes the "author" of each film, and can manifest a personal style, vision, an
Alfred Hitchcock was often mentioned as an auteur director with a unique, recognizable style that left an imprint of his "authorship" on all of his films.
Film director and critic François Truffaut in 1965
Brian Wilson, pictured in 1966 during the recording of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
Hideo Kojima during the Tokyo Game Show in 2011