Hacks and Heroes

A tribute to a director (and all of them) who never got a dinner

I was always big into the auteur theory, because I loved Andrew Sarris’ film criticism, and once you got into it you began to see movies — particularly those made by the directors with the most obvious hallmarks — in an exciting new way. Still, many of the criticisms of auteurism made sense to me, too, because auteurists were so passionate about overcom…