Mike Grost's Auteurist Checklists
May 14, 2015 2:57 PM Subscribe
Diligent lists of the recurring images, events, themes, and subjects in the films of Orson Welles, George Cukor, Michael Antonioni, Jacques Tourneur, Frank Capra, John Ford, Anthony Mann, Agnès Varda, Howard Hawks, Robert Siodmak, Louis Feuillade, and many other directors.
Oh. OK. I guess this is the next hole I'm going to fall into.
Better go say goodbye to my family.
posted by ernielundquist at 3:20 PM on May 14, 2015 [2 favorites]
Better go say goodbye to my family.
posted by ernielundquist at 3:20 PM on May 14, 2015 [2 favorites]
Mike Grost was the subject of an article in Life Magazine, May 21, 1965 issue, (I can't link to but it is available via Google books) which describes his life as a freshman at Michigan State when he was eleven years old.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 3:24 PM on May 14, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by TWinbrook8 at 3:24 PM on May 14, 2015 [3 favorites]
Wow, that's going to take some time to get through. Some great stuff in there though.
posted by octothorpe at 4:16 PM on May 14, 2015
posted by octothorpe at 4:16 PM on May 14, 2015
What, no Lynch, Fellini, Malle,Trufaut, Anger or Troma Team? What kind of list is this?
posted by Plutocratte at 6:32 PM on May 14, 2015
posted by Plutocratte at 6:32 PM on May 14, 2015
Where's Ed Wood?
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:49 PM on May 14, 2015
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:49 PM on May 14, 2015
His choices strike me as very idiosyncratic, as do some of the film techniques and themes he focuses on vs. the ones he doesn't. (Also he missed a purse in Bresson. Gerard has a big kiss-clasp purse that he uses to collect money from his deliveries in Au Hasard Balthasar.)
I like that his perspective is so different, though. I actually am enjoying reading it a lot. He likes a lot of the same things I like, but it's almost like he has a parallel universe interpretation of them sometimes. Like he's me with a black turtleneck and goatee. Or maybe I'm the one with the black turtleneck and goatee.
Either way, I am really, really liking this site a lot.
posted by ernielundquist at 7:12 PM on May 14, 2015
I like that his perspective is so different, though. I actually am enjoying reading it a lot. He likes a lot of the same things I like, but it's almost like he has a parallel universe interpretation of them sometimes. Like he's me with a black turtleneck and goatee. Or maybe I'm the one with the black turtleneck and goatee.
Either way, I am really, really liking this site a lot.
posted by ernielundquist at 7:12 PM on May 14, 2015
Mike Grost was the subject of a book, Genius In Residence, which I read over and over when I was in grade school. I was never as much of a prodigy as him -- to a great extent because the positive changes which he and his generation spurred made it possible to be advanced yet still well-served by school -- but his story showed that you could be smart and not alienated, supercilious, or unpopular. Years later I was happy to learn, thanks to the all-knowing Internet, that he seems to have found a good career and has a lot of time to pursue his interests. If you know a young person who's feeling kind of outcast from peers by her intelligence, I'd recommend tossing the book her way, as it's very heartening -- and pretty funny too.
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 9:02 PM on May 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 9:02 PM on May 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
Needs more Tommy Wiseau.
posted by DrAstroZoom at 7:59 AM on May 15, 2015
posted by DrAstroZoom at 7:59 AM on May 15, 2015
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