JJGittes73

It's about time someone does a crackerjack satire on Hollywood and all its BS, and this film delivers in spades! I saw this at a festival in Denver a few months back, and just re-watched the DVD that the filmmaker was nice enough to give me. Not only did I enjoy it every bit as much as the first viewing, I picked up on a lot of great bits I missed the first time out. This is not viewing for for those with low IQs, folks: it's smart stuff! "Auteur" tells the story of one real smarmy, self-important jerk named Eric (Beau Clark, who's an awesome actor that has "star" written all over him), a video pirate who's the best in the biz. He's so good, in fact, that he thinks he's the real deal: an auteur, a dyed-in-the-wool, honest-to-God genius filmmaker up there with Chaplin, Cassavetes, and Spielberg. Eric has a hot girlfriend, but he's bored with her, and obsessed with making his own film. When two shady businessmen, Mitch and Tony, offer him big bucks to videotape top secret screenings of new Hollywood blockbusters, Eric thinks he's found his golden goose. But all isn't as it seems...

Great acting, directing, writing, cinematography, editing, I mean everything about this flick f'in rocks! I found it tough to believe that it was a grad student film from the legendary AFI in Los Angeles. If this is what these guys do as students...

Calling Steven Spielberg! Give these kids a deal! 10 out of 10.