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Directors 3 years ago

Víctor Erice | An Acclaimed Filmmaker

Víctor Erice Aras, born on June 30, 1940, in Karrantza, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain, is a renowned Spanish filmmaker. With his distinct artistic vision and evocative storytelling, Erice has left an indelible mark on the world of cinema.…

Actors 3 years ago

Dev Patel, the actor who took a decade to make the film Hollywood kept refusing to greenlight

From a council estate in Harrow to the Oscar stage in a single film, and then a decade…

Actors 3 years ago

Cem Yılmaz, the comedian who keeps sending an Istanbul carpet seller into space

He draws, writes, directs and fills arenas with nothing but a microphone. Two decades after G.O.R.A., Cem Yılmaz…

Directors 3 years ago

Robert Rodriguez, the director who sold Hollywood its own rebellion

The filmmaker who financed his first feature by enrolling as a paid clinical research subject—seven thousand dollars, fourteen…

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Bille August, the director who won the Palme d’Or twice and then disappeared into plain sight

Two Palme d’Or, one Oscar, forty years of filmmaking across three continents — and somehow the name that…

Directors 3 years ago

Celine Daemen, the director who turned virtual reality into an opera stage

A Dutch filmmaker who merged opera, philosophy, and immersive technology into something that critics called a landmark —…

Directors 3 years ago

Yorgos Lanthimos, the director who made discomfort the whole argument

Yorgos Lanthimos strips his films of explanatory psychology, warm resolutions, and emotional scaffolding — and the result has…

Directors 3 years ago

William Friedkin, the director who turned his own exile into a second career

He won the Oscar for Best Director at 36, then made what he believed was his finest film…

Directors 3 years ago

Michael Mann, who never made a crime film that was only about crime

Michael Mann built the television aesthetic that defined the 1980s — Miami Vice's electric surfaces, its synthetic menace,…

$Jackie Chan, the stuntman who paid for his legend in fractured bones$

Actors 3 years ago

directors

Víctor Erice | An Acclaimed Filmmaker

Dev Patel, the actor who took a decade to make the film Hollywood kept refusing to greenlight

Cem Yılmaz, the comedian who keeps sending an Istanbul carpet seller into space

Robert Rodriguez, the director who sold Hollywood its own rebellion

Bille August, the director who won the Palme d’Or twice and then disappeared into plain sight

Celine Daemen, the director who turned virtual reality into an opera stage

Yorgos Lanthimos, the director who made discomfort the whole argument

William Friedkin, the director who turned his own exile into a second career

Michael Mann, who never made a crime film that was only about crime

Jackie Chan, the stuntman who paid for his legend in fractured bones

Mario Casas, the poster boy who now directs his brother in the ring

Ernst Lubitsch, the director whose masterpiece was banned for thirty-three years

Anatomy of a Filmmaker: David Cronenberg