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Autorenfilm

English translation: film d'auteur/auteur movie

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German term or phrase:Autorenfilm
English translation:film d'auteur/auteur movie
Entered by: verbis

16:53 Jan 18, 2006
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
German term or phrase: Autorenfilm
I would like to know a meaning of this term.
Saga
film d'auteur/auteur movie
Explanation:
Although almost unknown in Germany, Alain Fleischer, the photographic artist, filmmaker and author born in 1944 in Paris, is the most important cross-generic artist working in European film d'auteur cinema. He is crossing the traditional borders separating art and cinema, word and image, fiction and documentation, in many award-winning films. This first German retrospective of Fleischer's films will be rounded off by an exhibition of his large-format photographs, and a literary reading.

http://www.kunstfilmbiennale.de/programm.html

In the center of the film and cinema critique we find Jeremy, a Jean-Luc Godard in the making. Shot in black and white, his experimental film features close-ups of coffee cups and other "spectacular elements" that bring his girlfriend to exclaim that his film is "boring". The pedant movie critics he imagines seem to share the same opinion and his small film will only find success with a few intellectuals in a "film d'auteur" festival.
http://www.plume-noire.com/movies/reviews/cq.html

means so-to-say "made by excellent directors"

hth
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verbis
Local time: 18:57
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4film d'auteur/auteur movie
verbis
3non-commercial
tanyazst
4 -1Film l'auteur
Karl Apsel
2film written and directed by the same person
Jonathan MacKerron


Discussion entries: 3





  

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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
film d'auteur/auteur movie


Explanation:
Although almost unknown in Germany, Alain Fleischer, the photographic artist, filmmaker and author born in 1944 in Paris, is the most important cross-generic artist working in European film d'auteur cinema. He is crossing the traditional borders separating art and cinema, word and image, fiction and documentation, in many award-winning films. This first German retrospective of Fleischer's films will be rounded off by an exhibition of his large-format photographs, and a literary reading.

http://www.kunstfilmbiennale.de/programm.html

In the center of the film and cinema critique we find Jeremy, a Jean-Luc Godard in the making. Shot in black and white, his experimental film features close-ups of coffee cups and other "spectacular elements" that bring his girlfriend to exclaim that his film is "boring". The pedant movie critics he imagines seem to share the same opinion and his small film will only find success with a few intellectuals in a "film d'auteur" festival.
http://www.plume-noire.com/movies/reviews/cq.html

means so-to-say "made by excellent directors"

hth

verbis
Local time: 18:57
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 3
Grading comment
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Kim Metzger: Auteur theory maintains that directors like Hitchcock exert a level of creative control equivalent to the author of a literary work. http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-french-phrases-used-by-...
14 mins
  -> ;)
agree  Daniel Bird: film d'auteur
2 hrs
  -> :)
agree  Sarah Downing: I love Truffaut - my favourite film is "Jules et Jim" - It's beautiful!
3 hrs
  -> I love Malle ...........xxxx... I love "Damage" (sorry, I ignore its French title....) 'Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.'
agree  Richard Benham: I think the defining thing about this kind of film is that it's a "Joe Blow" film; so it's regarded as the work essentially of one person (the director), assisted by others.
5 hrs
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
non-commercial


Explanation:
non-commercial
that's the general idea
It's an author's movie. It's not a Hollywood product. It's not in the same galaxy as the ones we were talking about.

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Note added at 18 mins (2006-01-18 17:11:34 GMT)
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that is, done without following the generally accepted success-boosters, not guaranteed blockbusters

tanyazst
Belarus
Local time: 19:57
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Film l'auteur


Explanation:
Wikepedia provides the following definition:

Als Autorenfilm werden Filme bezeichnet, in denen Autor (Drehbuchautor) und Regisseur identisch sind und das Drehbuch möglichst keine Adaption, sondern die originale Schöpfung des Autors darstellt. Letzteres ist allerdings unter Filmforschern strittig. Viele sehen als das wichtigste Element eher die persönliche Handschrift eines Filmemachers, die vor allem durch eine ähnliche Grundtendenz ("Werkzusammenhang") mehrerer Filme dieses Regisseurs erkannt werden kann (Personalstil). Vor allem sind Autorenfilme selten Auftragsprojekte von großen Filmstudios. Und wenn, dann lässt das Studio dem Beauftragten weitestgehend freie Hand. Viele moderne Filmemacher des Autorenkinos sehen in ihren Filmen Kunstwerke mit literarischem Ausdruck. Ein solcher Autorenfilmer wird auch oft mit dem französischen Wort auteur bezeichnet, das sich mit der französischen Auteur-Theorie und der Nouvelle Vague durchgesetzt hat. Vorbild für die auteur-Bewegung war und ist der britische Star-Regisseur Alfred Hitchcock.

I.e. an "Autorenfilm" has the following characteristics:

* script author and director are identical
* script is most likely not an adaptation
* rarely produced on behalf of large studios
* film makers often see them as pieces of art with a literary expression

Die [englische] Übersetzung "Film l'auteur" stammt aus "FilmTalk - Film Wörterbuch Deutsch-Englisch; Englisch-Deutsch.

Zur Verwendung dieses Begriffs siehe auch den zweiten Link unten.




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Note added at 29 mins (2006-01-18 17:22:48 GMT)
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Reply to Asker's Note:

Not necessarily as an "Independent film" may have its script from a different author. I guess that's why "Autorenfilm" or "Film l'auteur is a category of its own ... It is "independent" though in the sense of not being financed by a large production company.

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Note added at 1 hr 1 min (2006-01-18 17:54:42 GMT)
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okay, Richard's point is taken; I translate German <> English, please excuse my French ;-)


    Reference: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorenfilm
    Reference: http://www.criticalsecret.com/hotsociety_inprogress/filmogra...
Karl Apsel
Ireland
Local time: 17:57
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Richard Benham: Attention à l'orthographe : "film d'auteur", et non pas "l' auteur".//Someone else's getting it wrong is no excuse for your doing likewise. This is supposed to be a site for professional translators, not professional copiers and pasters.
26 mins
  -> the spelling is as per the sources mentioned above; okay, point taken; I translate German <> English, please excuse my French ;-)
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
film written and directed by the same person


Explanation:
a rather non-sexy translation provided by Muret-Sanders

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Note added at 3 hrs 52 mins (2006-01-18 20:45:25 GMT)
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Duden confirms "bei dem der Verfasser des Drehbuchs auch die Regie führt."

Jonathan MacKerron
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 27
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