Film Profiles
 Trent Harris (2/98)
Winsor McCay (7/98)

Coming:
Charlie Chaplin
Bernard Herrmann
Gordon Willis
Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond
Claude Rains
David Mamet
Marlene Dietrich
Stanley Kubrick

 One of the greatest things the French ever did was to introduce the word "auteur" in regard to movies. An auteur is a figure, almost always a director, who puts his own personal imprint on the movies he is involved with. All the great directors have been called auteurs at one time or another.

Besides just movie reviews, I plan on writing profiles on some of my favorite auteurs on this page. Not just directors, though: writers, stars, composers, and cinematographers all deserve recognition. I will watch most of the filmography for each figure I profile and then record my impressions of what makes that artist unique and worthy of study.

Dale's Film Profiles

  • Trent Harris: Harris is an independent filmmaker from Utah whose movies are unmistakably eccentric, local, and audacious.
  • Winsor McCay: If Walt Disney was the father of animation, then Winsor McCay was the grandfather.