Example sentences for: auteur

How can you use “auteur” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Writers covering televison and movies should tell their readers that the auteur theory isn't really relevant, especially when a new episode (complete with perfect three-act story structure!)

  • Biskind's book, accordingly, concludes with a litany of spectacular flameouts: Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, Spielberg's 1941 , William Friedkin's Sorcerer, and, of course, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate . According to Mardik Martin, Scorsese's erstwhile writing partner (as quoted by Biskind): "The auteur theory killed all these people.

  • The creepy part is, Upham is a sensitive, artistic type who announces early in the movie that he wants to depict the bonds that form among soldiers in combat--all of which also applies to the auteur of Saving Private Ryan , Steven Spielberg.

  • Derek Walcott and I didn't want an auteur director.

  • Indie auteur Hal Hartley's least mandarin and most likable film to date.


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