Product Details

• Actors: Luigi Amodeo, Angeline Ball, Alain Benatar, Michael Benyaer, Daniel Cantor
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Pathfinder Home Ent.
• VHS Release Date: September 24, 2002
• Run Time: 77 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006FDGC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #665,907 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

At an absurdly self-indulgent student film festival, the directors of the (mostly terrible) short films start getting killed off one by one and a budding British documentary filmmaker decides to investigate.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you liked "Living in Oblivion" or "The Big Picture"..., August 31, 2002

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Stevie Meehan (Bay Ridge, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Auteur Theory (DVD)

...then you should definitely check out "The Auteur Theory". It's extremely clever in its writing and execution, examining (and making fun of) the extremely competitive student film world (which is like the elephant world -- sorry, that's a reference to this film...). The acting is very good, for the most part, the musical score is excellent, and the photography is good (especialy the bad student films, some of which are brilliant in their awfulness). My only problem with this movie is that sometimes it's more clever than it is funny.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very amusing little film, August 31, 2002

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Andrew Pettitte (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Auteur Theory [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I thought this was a very well-made little gem when I caught it on Showtime, and I'm glad to be able to pick it up on video. There's an amusing murder mystery angle to it, but the main point of the film is to comically satirize the pretentions of filmmakers, who (in my mind) can always use getting the piss taken out of them. Congratulations to the actors involved in this film, as well as everybody else involved in the making of it. From the looks of it, they had a good time doing it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very entertaining little film, August 31, 2002

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Andrew Pettitte (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Auteur Theory (DVD)

I thought this was a very well-made little gem when I caught it on Showtime, and I'm glad to be able to pick it up on video. There's an amusing murder mystery angle to it, but the main point of the film is to comically satirize the pretentions of filmmakers, who (in my mind) can always use getting the piss taken out of them. Congratulations to the actors involved in this film, as well as everybody else involved in the making of it. From the looks of it, they had a good time doing it.