Personal Expression
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A new bomb disposal thriller is the first film about Iraq to make money. Sheila Johnston meets the war reporter who wrote it.
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Kathryn Bigelow wouldn't have been a studio head's first choice to direct The Hurt Locker, which releases nationwide on Friday.
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Cinematographer Barry Ackroyd has shot almost 50 features with numerous directors, but when it comes time to discuss his work on Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, his collaborations with two other helmers need to be referenced.
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The Hurt Locker was released in 2008 and was a hit; Winning six Oscars including ‘Best Picture’ and six Baftas including ‘Best Film’. The film is based on the story of a soldier who disarms bombs and struggles that come with being a soldier.
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Introduced in the 1950’s by French film critic Alexandre Astruc, auteur theory
places the director as one of the paramount creative voices throughout the production of a
film. Astruc argued that film did give individuals the opportunity to express their own
thoughts and craft a new worldview to impart on their audience. P
Red Carpet Interview - Bigelow
Vasquez, Gordon. (2009, April 15).The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal ,Jeremy Renner - An intense portyal of elite soldiers who disarm bombs in the heat of combat. - Red Carpet Interview and Movie Trailer from AFI Dallas. Retrieved fromhttps://youtu.be/RKAdunlcE-w
Jane Bigelow - Auteur
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Since the dawn of the cinema, there has always been a tension between genre and auteur film. Genre films are entertainment films produced for mass consumption; auteur films are films that are “authored” – that is, they are art works created by artistically-inclined film directors, meant for a smaller, more discerning audience.
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In 100 years of cinema, no American woman director has ever been invited to join the pantheon of international auteur directors. Non-American women
directors like Andrea Arnold, Jane Campion, Liliana Cavani, Claire Denis, Marleen Gorris, Agnieszka Holland, Lynne Ramsay, Agnes Varda, Lina Wertmuller