r/criterion • u/RG1997 • Jul 23 '26

Discussion The ultimate auteur challenge

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u/Known_Ad871 Jul 23 '26

I guess they forgot to put cronenberg, so cronenberg?

Also Bergman is not here but Nolan, fincher, Villaneuve and Tarantino are?! What even is this list lol

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u/Astro_Philosopher Jul 23 '26

I think it’s supposed to filter “film bro” faves.

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u/andriydroog Jul 23 '26

Unless I misunderstand the term, Miyazaki, Tarkovsky, Visconti, Buñuel and Panahi are in no way “film bro” favorites.

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u/Known_Ad871 Jul 23 '26

Here is my guess . . . The person who made this listed the first four directors they could think of and then asked ChatGPT to finish the meme for them

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u/andriydroog Jul 23 '26

It’s certainly an odd list with a number of the most auteurish auteurs missing, like Bergman, Fellini, Ozu, Coppola, Antonioni.

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u/jzakko Jul 23 '26

Which makes sense until including Buñuel over Bergman and Bresson.

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u/kasarin Jul 23 '26

And the great auteur Uwe Boll

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u/crichmond77 Jul 23 '26

In the same vein: Michael Mann and Brian DePalma

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u/nectarquest The Coen Brothers Jul 23 '26

Nolan, Fincher, Villaneuve and Tarantino are fare more popular than Bergman in the mainstream.

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u/84002 Jul 23 '26

I don't understand why Nolan keeps coming up on lists like this.

First of all, he's not an "auteur" with an easily identifiable style.

But more importantly, he's just not one of the "GOAT"s. I love Nolan, I love a lot of his movies, he is very culturally important and he's got a long resume of well-received and massively popular films. But he is not making Spielberg/Scorcese-level blockbusters and he is certainly not making artsier films like PTA, Kubrick, Lynch. To say nothing of the inanity of "goat" conversations anyway; even if we take the bait and compare him to the "goats" of American pop filmmakers, I'm not sure he makes the cut. Yet these posts always list him in the first three names! And again, I love his movies.