What is an Auteur? | Hand-Picked by MUBI

This month marks the conclusion of the year-long series dedicated to cinema’s most distinctive auteurs: https://mubi.io/auteurs
This final installment on MUBI US will feature a double bill by Patrick Wang, one of the most singular voices in contemporary American independent cinema, and two deeply personal and profound diary films by the groundbreaking champion of avant-garde cinema Jonas Mekas on what would have been the director’s 97th birthday.

The idea of a film director being the “auteur”—or author—of a film is one that was put to paper by François Truffaut in the 1950s, reformulated by American critic Andrew Sarris in the 1960s, and has been debated and re-interpreted ever since. MUBI’s new series aims to explore the increasingly complicated question of what constitutes an auteur. With this ongoing program, arranged in a series of director double bills ranging from the likes of Alfonso Cuarón to Claire Denis, we hope to elucidate this nebulous term while also shedding light on some of cinema’s finest masters along the way.

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