<div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Peter Larson wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" dir="auto">An obvious question, but do directors of films made in Japan have to be directed by Japanese people?</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div><div dir="auto">Of course not. I haven’t heard of any outrage. But I do know a bunch of film people who went “Huh” when they heard. I think they would prefer to see a local director feted and in the competition. Unlike immigrant John Williams, Wenders dropped in to shoot with key German personnel and then went home.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyway, it made me think how auteurism pegs the nationality of co-productions at award competitions. And it’s all haunted by nationalism. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Markus</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div>
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