THE+AUTEUR'S+PROJECT

For the Auteur’s project, you will become the expert in the work of a film director that you like. We will research, analyze, deconstruct, and construct - and watch their films. Our first step, therefore, is to choose our directors. Here are the rules: 1. No Tarantino. You just don’t have the budget for that much blood. 2. No Michael Bay. If you need an explanation, please see your guidance counselor about switching classes. 3. No doubling up. There are plenty of directors to go around. 4. Choose someone with a cohesive body of work and an obvious style. For example, James Cameron (//Aliens//, //Titanic//, //Avatar//) has made some of the century's most memorable and iconic films, but it would be harder to analyze a cohesive style than someone like Jean Jeunet (//Amelie, City of Lost Children//). **You don’t have to choose someone from the following approved lists, but if you choose someone off the list, you must check with me first.** 5. We will be doing a Genre project next year that will require you to learn in depth about a genre that is different in country and time period from your director. So if you choose something contemporary in the US/China now, you will choose a foreign director from an earlier time period for your genre project. || A list of Great non-white male & female directors: || A list of great White Male Directors (from outside of US/China) || English Speakin' White Guys || || **Mira Nair** Tran Anh Hung Chen Kaige **Maya Deren** Stephen Chow Zhang Yimou **Julie Taymor** Wong Kar Wai Akira Kurosawa **Jane Campion** Bong Joon-ho Chan-Wook Park Satyajit Ray Juzo Itami Spike Lee Apichatpong Weerasethakul || Jean-Luc Goddard Francious Truffaut Guillermo Del Toro Ingmar Bergman Luis Bunuel Micheal Gondry Jaques Tati Sergio Leone Nick Roeg Andrei Tarkovsky Pedro Almodovar Federico Fellini || David Lynch Wes Anderson Tim Burton Terry Gilliam Jim Jarmush Spike Jonze || CHOOSE YOUR DIRECTOR- But choose wisely, for while the true Auteur will bring your film studies to life, the false Auteur will take it from you. || **Your Name** || **Director** || **Film 1** || **Film 2** || **Film 3** || || Jeremy || Tarkovsky || solaris || nostlaghia || stalker - ivans childhood || || Jason || Stephen Chow || From Beijing With Love || King of Comedy || Shaolin Soccer || || Vivian || Wes Anderson || Grand Budapest || Rushmore || Royal Tannenbaums || || Jade || Spike Jones ||Billy||Wong Kar Wai ||In the Mood for Love||Happy Together||Days of Being Wild|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||