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Paddy Fairfax

26Mar12

You should add this years 'Shame' and 'We need to talk about Kevin'

Dimitris Psachos

14Jan11

Elia Kazan?

Joe Bowman

19Mar11

If you scroll down on the comments, you'll see that I took Kazan off the list since he was essentially raised in the US.

Adam J.

4Dec10

You should see Leningrad Cowboys as well. I'd say it belongs on this list more than anything. Very dry humour, I should warn. This is a fantastic list!

H. K. ‡

6Apr10

I recommend the Elvis Costello album 'King of America'

Joe Bowman

31Mar10

Thanks, Roger. I did some research, and though he was born in Turkey, his family immigrated to the US when he was three or four. List corrected.

Hideous Bitch Princess

31Mar10

I was under the impression Elia Kazan was raised in New York, and for all intensive purposes American.

Joe Bowman

24Feb10

William Klein is an American though, so Mr. Freedom wouldn't count.

Seth Farmer

3Feb10

Interesting list. Once Upon a Time in America may be the definitive example.

Kenji

20Nov09

silly me, it just occurred to me it's a film by lots of different directors, and sure enough

Joe Bowman

20Nov09

No problem -- thanks for the suggestions. I wanted to throw some titles together before I started doing some research.

Kenji

20Nov09

ah i don't know the film, it's credited here to Mira Nair- auteurs fault, sorry

Joe Bowman

20Nov09

What Nair did I choose, or are you referring to NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU? That's on the list for Fatih Akin and Yvan Attal, not Nair.

Kenji

20Nov09

No, i thought there might be a problem with Renoir here- lots by Kazan you've added! So i'm wondering why you did pick Nair, or was this an oversight?

Joe Bowman

20Nov09

I thought the list might get too crowded with British directors. None of the Renoir films on The Auteurs fit the list. I probably wouldn't count Mira Nair.

Maybe a pity you're not allowing British directors too, like Laughton, Hitch, Mendes...but how about Curtiz (e.g Mildred Pierce), Sjostrom, Kazan, Renoir, Lubitsch, Stroheim, Lang, Zinnemann, Ulmer, Preminger- lots of Austrians- and don't forget Leone's West to go with his America. Does Mira Nair count as European?