La politique des auteurs (André Bazin)  

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"Goethe? Shakespeare? Everything signed with their names is considered good, and one wracks one's brains to find beauty in their stupidities and failures, thus distorting the general taste. All these great talents, the Goethes, the Shakespeares, the Beethovens, the Michelangelos, created, side by side with their masterpieces, works not merely mediocre, but quite simply frightful." --Leo Tolstoy. Journal, 1895-99 , epigraph to "La politique des auteurs" (1957) by André Bazin


"Of course, the politique des auteurs is the application to the cinema of a notion that is widely accepted in the individual arts. Truffaut likes to quote Jean Giraudoux’s remark: ‘There are no works, there are only auteurs’ – a polemical sally which seems to me of limited significance. The opposite statement could just as well be set as an exam question. The two formulae, like the maxims of La Rochefoucauld and Chamfort, would simply reverse their proportion of truth and error. As for Eric Rohmer, he states (or rather asserts) that in art it is the auteurs, and not the works, that remain; and the programmes of film societies would seem to support this critical truth."[1] --"La politique des auteurs" (1957) by André Bazin

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"La politique des auteurs" (1957) is an essay by French film critic André Bazin, which appeared in the Cahiers du cinéma of April, 1957." The essay was partly a reaction to François Truffaut's "Ali Baba et la "Politique des Auteurs"," published in February 1955.

Bazin's "La politique des auteurs" was the basis for Andrew Sarris's "Notes on the Auteur Theory."

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