The Auteur Theory

1999

Comedy / Mystery / Thriller

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 33% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.9/10 10 351 351

Plot summary

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.

Director

Evan Oppenheimer Photo
Evan Oppenheimer

Top cast

Natasha Lyonne Photo
Natasha Lyonne as Rosemary Olson - Finalist
Jeremy Sisto Photo
Jeremy Sisto as Jules - The Crap Shoot of Life
J.P. Manoux Photo
J.P. Manoux as Unknown Filmmaker
Sean Gunn Photo
Sean Gunn as Tori York
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715.82 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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29.97 fps
1 hr 17 min
Seeds 8
1.3 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
29.97 fps
1 hr 17 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by b_scheim 2 / 10

can't say I liked it...

I just watched this movie on the The Movie Channel about an hour ago, and frankly, I must say that I am shocked to see that the 18 people who voted for it here averaged a 7.0 in their ratings of it. The plot is already explained here so I won't go into it, but I really must voice that I thought this was a truly awful movie. I understand that that may be "part of the point", the "in" joke on independent filmmaking, but what I viewed was a thoroughly - and at times, painfully - bad film. The art of satire is to mirror life while leaving an artist's touch (of opinion); however, if this is dir. Evan Oppenheimer's genuine take on indie films, he is missing something big. The basic idea for "The Auteur Theory" really isn't bad, but the script and acting are so genuinely awful that they really make it impossible for this film to convey itself as any kind of a legitimate satire. Maybe I'm just missing something, I don't know, or perhaps I don't know enough about the inner circles of independent film-making to be able to see how this film succeeds; but if that is the case, then what are we supposed to think of a film so "smart" that its audience doesn't even get it?Or maybe, this was simply a bad film by a bad director who failed to convey his criticisms, let alone cast them as satire. If this is the case, then bam!, you hit the mark Oppenheimer.
Reviewed by anarchyinnyc 5 / 10

Good anarchic fun!

I really enjoyed this movie and it's spirit of anarchy. Featured everything under the sun, and the kitchen sink (if ya know what i mean).But why didn't it have more New York in it? there was one hilarious over-the-top student film called "young and hungry in new york", which was great (looked like the lower east side to me), but i would love to have seen more of New York in this movie. I have a feeling most of it was shot somewhere else, the movie never really says.Still, this movie shows that anarchy can be funny!
Reviewed by tedg

Murderous

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