WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?: Facinating "Failures" by Cinema Auteurs

Some call them misunderstood masterpieces. Some say they’re just too difficult or different for the average, shallow film goer whose been spoiled by the Hollywood cookie-cutter movie machine. Some are, in fact, declared masterpieces despite huge problems that, by some sort of secret critical agreement, tend to be ignored. For me, they’re films that fascinate precisely because of their off-the-rails, visionary craziness. It would be wrong to suggest the directors responsible for these films knew exactly what they were doing on the one hand OR that the films are huge failures by artists who got in way over their heads on the...