Has the cult of director lost its power? (My Name is Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, Inception, Reservoir Dogs)

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This week we're discussing directors who have achieved cult status: the ones you can recognise within 24 frames of a film - the Taratinos, the Hitchcocks and of course, the Nolans. We come up with rules for achieving cult of director status and question if superstar directors still have power in the era of streaming services.
References
A quick guide to auteur theory by Jax Griffin for filminquiry.com
Pauline Kael's rebuttal to auteur theory
Pauline Kael on Taratino and Pulp Fiction
Christopher Nolan: A Labyrinth of Linkages by David Bordwell and Kristen Thompson - essays looking closely at Nolan's narrative and cinematic style
Wally Pfister's cinematography in Inception by Prachurya Das
Hitchcock's Psycho marketing campaign
Dramatic Tension in North by Northwest by Junming Jiang
The directing and writing style of Greta Gerwig
Film Pharmacy recommendations
Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. by Donald Petrie
20th Century Women (2016) dir. by Mike Mills
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017) dir. by Griffin Dunne

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