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By Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Clint Eastwood
USA, (1930-) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Play Misty for Me (1971),
High Plains Drifter (1973),
Breezy (1973),
The Eiger Sanction (1975),
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976),
The Gauntlet (1977),
Bronco Billy (1980),
Firefox (1982),
Honkytonk Man (1982),
Sudden Impact (1983),
Pale Rider (1985),
Heartbreak Ridge (1986),
Bird (1988),
White Hunter Black Heart (1990),
The Rookie (1990),
Unforgiven (1992),
A Perfect World (1993),
The Bridges of Madison County (1995),
Absolute Power (1997),
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997),
True Crime (1999),
Space Cowboys (2000),
Blood Work (2002),
Mystic River (2003),
Million Dollar Baby (2004),
Flags of Our Fathers (2006),
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006),
Changeling (2008),
Gran Torino (2008),
Invictus (2009),
Hereafter (2010),
J. Edgar (2011),
Jersey Boys (2014),
American Sniper (2014),
Sully (2016),
The 15:17 to Paris (2018),
The Mule (2018),
Richard Jewell (2019)
Sergei Eisenstein
Russia, (1898-1948) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Strike (1925),
Battleship Potemkin (1925),
October (1928),
The General Line (1929),
¡Que viva Mexico! (1932),
Alexander Nevsky (1938),
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944),
Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1945)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Germany, (1945-1982) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Love is Colder Than Death (1969),
Katzelmacher (1969),
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970),
The American Soldier (1970),
Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971),
Whity (1971),
Beware of a Holy Whore (1971),
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971),
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972),
Jail Bait (1973),
World on a Wire (1973),
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974),
Martha (1974),
Effi Briest (1974),
Fox and His Friends (1975),
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975),
I Only Want You to Love Me (1976),
Despair (1978),
In a Year with 13 Moons (1978),
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979),
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980),
Lili Marleen (1981),
Lola (1981),
Veronika Voss (1982),
Querelle (1982)
Federico Fellini
Italy, (1920-1993) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Variety Lights (1950),
The White Sheik (1952),
I Vitelloni (1953),
La Strada (1954),
Il bidone (1955),
Nights of Cabiria (1957),
La Dolce Vita (1960),
Boccaccio '70 (1962),
8½ (1963),
Juliet of the Spirits (1965),
Spirits of the Dead (1968),
Fellini Satyricon (1969),
The Clowns (1970),
Fellini's Roma (1972),
Amarcord (1973),
Fellini's Casanova (1976),
Orchestra Rehearsal (1978),
City of Women (1980),
And the Ship Sails On (1983),
Ginger and Fred (1986),
Intervista (1987),
The Voice of the Moon (1990)
Abel Ferrara
USA, (1951-) [IMDB]
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Interview
Selected Filmography:
The Driller Killer (1979),
Ms. 45 (1981),
Fear City (1984),
Crime Story (1986),
China Girl (1987),
Cat Chaser (1989),
King of New York (1990),
Bad Lieutenant (1992),
Body Snatchers (1993),
Dangerous Game (1993),
The Addiction (1995),
The Funeral (1996),
The Blackout (1997),
New Rose Hotel (1998),
'R Xmas (2001),
Mary (2004),
Go Go Tales (2007),
Chelsea on the Rocks (2008),
Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2009),
4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011),
Welcome to New York (2014),
Pasolini (2014),
Tommaso (2019),
Siberia (2021),
Zeros and Ones (2021)
Louis Feuillade
France, (1873-1925) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
The Defect (1911),
Fantômas (1913),
Bout-de-Zan and the Shirker (1915),
Les vampires (1915),
Judex (1916),
Tih Minh (1918)
David Fincher
France, (1962-) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Alien 3 (1992),
Seven (1995),
The Game (1997),
Fight Club (1999),
Panic Room (2002),
Zodiac (2007),
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008),
The Social Network (2010),
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011),
Gone Girl (2014),
Mank (2020)
John Ford
USA, (1894-1973) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Bucking Broadway (1917),
Straight Shooting (1917),
Hell Bent (1918),
Just Pals (1920),
The Iron Horse (1924),
3 Bad Men (1926),
Upstream (1927),
Four Sons (1928),
Men Without Women (1930),
Born Reckless (1930),
Up the River (1930),
Seas Beneath (1931),
The Brat (1931),
Arrowsmith (1931),
Air Mail (1932),
Flesh (1932),
Pilgrimage (1933),
Doctor Bull (1933),
Judge Priest (1934),
The Lost Patrol (1934),
The World Moves On (1934),
The Whole Town's Talking (1935),
The Informer (1935),
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935),
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936),
Mary of Scotland (1936),
The Plough and the Stars (1936),
Wee Willie Winkie (1937),
The Hurricane (1937),
Four Men and a Prayer (1938),
Submarine Patrol (1938),
Stagecoach (1939),
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939),
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939),
The Grapes of Wrath (1940),
The Long Voyage Home (1940),
Tobacco Road (1941),
How Green Was My Valley (1941),
The Battle of Midway (1942),
December 7th (1943),
They Were Expendable (1945),
My Darling Clementine (1946),
The Fugitive (1947),
Fort Apache (1948),
3 Godfathers (1948),
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949),
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950),
Wagon Master (1950),
Rio Grande (1950),
The Quiet Man (1952),
What Price Glory (1952),
The Sun Shines Bright (1953),
Mogambo (1953),
The Long Gray Line (1955),
Mister Roberts (1955),
The Searchers (1956),
The Wings of Eagles (1957),
The Rising of the Moon (1957),
Gideon's Day (1958),
The Last Hurrah (1958),
The Horse Soldiers (1959),
Sergeant Rutledge (1960),
Two Rode Together (1961),
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962),
How the West Was Won (1962),
Donovan's Reef (1963),
Cheyenne Autumn (1964),
7 Women (1966)
William Friedkin
USA, (1935-2023) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
Good Times (1967),
The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968),
The Birthday Party (1968),
The Boys in the Band (1970),
The French Connection (1971),
The Exorcist (1973),
Sorcerer (1977),
The Brinks Job (1978),
Cruising (1980),
Deal of the Century (1983),
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985),
Rampage (1987),
The Guardian (1990),
Blue Chips (1994),
Jailbreakers (1994, TV),
Jade (1995),
12 Angry Men (1997, TV),
Rules of Engagement (2000),
The Hunted (2003),
Bug (2006),
Killer Joe (2012)
Samuel Fuller
USA, (1912-1997) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
I Shot Jesse James (1949),
The Baron of Arizona (1950),
The Steel Helmet (1951),
Fixed Bayonets! (1951),
Park Row (1952),
Pickup on South Street (1953),
Hell and High Water (1954),
House of Bamboo (1955),
China Gate (1957),
Run of the Arrow (1957),
Forty Guns (1957),
Verboten! (1959),
The Crimson Kimono (1959),
Underworld U.S.A. (1961),
Merrill's Marauders (1962),
Shock Corridor (1963),
The Naked Kiss (1964),
Shark! (1969),
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1974),
The Big Red One (1980),
White Dog (1982),
Thieves After Dark (1984),
Street of No Return (1989)
Terry Gilliam
USA, (1940-) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975),
Jabberwocky (1977),
Time Bandits (1981),
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983),
Brazil (1985),
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989),
The Fisher King (1991),
12 Monkeys (1995),
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998),
The Brothers Grimm (2005),
Tideland (2005),
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009),
The Zero Theorem (2014),
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2019)
Jean-Luc Godard
France, (1930-2022) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Breathless (1960),
A Woman Is a Woman (1961),
Vivre sa vie (1962),
Le Petit soldat (1963),
Les Carabiniers (1963),
Contempt (1963),
Band of Outsiders (1964),
A Married Woman (1964),
Alphaville (1965),
Pierrot le fou (1965),
Six in Paris (1965) [segment],
Masculin Féminin (1966),
Made in U.S.A. (1966),
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1966),
La Chinoise (1967),
Week End (1967),
Sympathy for the Devil (1968),
Le Gai Savoir (1969),
Tout va bien (1972),
Numéro deux (1975),
Every Man for Himself (1980),
Passion (1982),
First Name: Carmen (1983),
Détective (1985),
Hail Mary (1985),
Aria (1987) [segment],
King Lear (1987),
Nouvelle vague (1990),
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991),
Hélas pour moi (1993),
JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December (1994),
For Ever Mozart (1996),
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1998),
In Praise of Love (2001),
Notre Musique (2004),
Film socialisme (2010),
Goodbye to Language 3D (2014),
The Image Book (2018)
Stuart Gordon
USA, (1947-2020) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Re-Animator (1985),
From Beyond (1986),
Dolls (1987),
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) [story],
Robot Jox (1989),
Daughter of Darkness (1990),
The Pit and the Pendulum (1991),
Fortress (1992),
Body Snatchers (1993) [screenplay],
Castle Freak (1995),
Space Truckers (1996),
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998),
Dagon (2001),
King of the Ants (2003),
Edmond (2005),
Masters of Horror: Dreams In the Witch-House (2005),
Masters of Horror: The Black Cat (2007),
Stuck (2007)
D.W. Griffith
USA, (1875-1948) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
A Corner in Wheat (1909),
The Lonedale Operator (1909),
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912),
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913),
The Avenging Conscience (1914),
The Birth of a Nation (1915),
Intolerance (1916),
Hearts of the World (1918),
Broken Blossoms (1919),
True Heart Susie (1919),
Way Down East (1920),
Orphans of the Storm (1921),
America (1924),
Isn't Life Wonderful (1924),
Sally of the Sawdust (1925),
Abraham Lincoln (1930),
The Struggle (1931)
Howard Hawks
USA, (1896-1977) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
A Girl in Every Port (1928),
The Dawn Patrol (1930),
The Criminal Code (1931),
Scarface (1932),
The Crowd Roars (1932),
Tiger Shark (1932),
Today We Live (1933),
Twentieth Century (1934),
Barbary Coast (1935),
Ceiling Zero (1935),
The Road to Glory (1936),
Come and Get It (1936),
Bringing Up Baby (1938),
Only Angels Have Wings (1939),
His Girl Friday (1940),
Sergeant York (1941),
Ball of Fire (1941),
Air Force (1943),
To Have and Have Not (1944),
The Big Sleep (1946),
Red River (1948),
A Song Is Born (1948),
I Was a Male War Bride (1949),
The Thing from Another World (1951),
The Big Sky (1952),
Monkey Business (1952),
O. Henry's Full House (1952),
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953),
Land of the Pharaohs (1955),
Rio Bravo (1959),
Hatari! (1962),
Man's Favorite Sport? (1964),
Red Line 7000 (1965),
El Dorado (1967),
Rio Lobo (1970)
Todd Haynes
USA, (1961-) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988),
Poison (1991),
Dottie Gets Spanked (1993),
Safe (1995),
Velvet Goldmine (1998),
Far from Heaven (2002),
I'm Not There (2007),
Mildred Pierce (2011),
Carol (2015),
Wonderstruck (2017),
Dark Waters (2019),
The Velvet Underground (2021),
May December (2023)
Monte Hellman
USA, (1932-2021) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Beast from Haunted Cave (1959),
Flight to Fury (1964),
Back Door to Hell (1964),
Ride in the Whirlwind (1965),
The Shooting (1966),
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971),
Cockfighter (1974),
China 9, Liberty 37 (1978),
Iguana (1988),
Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! (1989),
Trapped Ashes (2006) (segment),
Road to Nowhere (2010)
Werner Herzog
Germany, (1942-) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
Signs of Life (1968),
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970),
Fata Morgana (1971),
Land of Silence and Darkness (1971),
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972),
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974),
Heart of Glass (1976),
Stroszek (1977),
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979),
Woyzeck (1979),
Fitzcarraldo (1982),
Cobra Verde (1987),
Lessons of Darkness (1992),
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997),
My Best Fiend (1999),
Invincible (2001),
Wheel of Time (2003),
The White Diamond (2004),
Grizzly Man (2005),
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005),
Rescue Dawn (2006),
Encounters at the End of the World (2007),
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009),
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009),
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010),
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010),
Into the Abyss (2011),
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016),
Into the Inferno (2016),
Salt and Fire (2017),
Queen of the Desert (2017),
Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Jack Hill
USA, (1933-) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
Blood Bath (1966),
Spider Baby (1967),
Fear Chamber (1968),
House of Evil (1968),
Pit Stop (1969),
Isle of the Snake People (1971),
The Big Doll House (1971),
Alien Terror (1971),
The Big Bird Cage (1972),
Coffy (1973),
Foxy Brown (1974),
Swinging Cheerleaders (1974),
Switchblade Sisters (1975),
Sorceress (1982)
Walter Hill
USA, (1942-) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Hard Times (1975),
The Driver (1978),
The Warriors (1979),
The Long Riders (1980),
Southern Comfort (1981),
48 Hrs. (1982),
Streets of Fire (1984),
Brewster's Millions (1985),
Crossroads (1986),
Extreme Prejudice (1987),
Red Heat (1988),
Johnny Handsome (1989),
Another 48 Hrs. (1990),
Trespass (1992),
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993),
Wild Bill (1995),
Last Man Standing (1996),
Undisputed (2002),
Deadwood (2004),
Broken Trail (2006),
Bullet to the Head (2013),
The Assignment (2017)
Alfred Hitchcock
UK-USA, (1899-1980) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
The Pleasure Garden (1925),
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927),
The Ring (1927),
Downhill (1927),
The Farmer's Wife (1928),
Easy Virtue (1928),
Champagne (1928),
The Manxman (1929),
Blackmail (1929),
Juno and the Paycock (1930),
Murder! (1930),
The Skin Game (1931),
Rich and Strange (1931),
Number Seventeen (1932),
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934),
The 39 Steps (1935),
Secret Agent (1936),
Sabotage (1936),
Young and Innocent (1937),
The Lady Vanishes (1938),
Jamaica Inn (1939),
Rebecca (1940),
Foreign Correspondent (1940),
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941),
Suspicion (1941),
Saboteur (1942),
Shadow of a Doubt (1943),
Lifeboat (1944),
Spellbound (1945),
Notorious (1946),
The Paradine Case (1947),
Rope (1948),
Under Capricorn (1949),
Stage Fright (1950),
Strangers on a Train (1951),
I Confess (1953),
Dial M for Murder (1954),
Rear Window (1954),
To Catch a Thief (1955),
The Trouble with Harry (1955),
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956),
The Wrong Man (1956),
Vertigo (1958),
North by Northwest (1959),
Psycho (1960),
The Birds (1963),
Marnie (1964),
Torn Curtain (1966),
Topaz (1969),
Frenzy (1972),
Family Plot (1976)
Tobe Hooper
USA, (1947-2017) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974),
Eaten Alive (1976),
Salem's Lot (1979),
The Funhouse (1981),
Poltergeist (1982),
Lifeforce (1985),
Invaders from Mars (1986),
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986),
Spontaneous Combustion (1990),
I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990),
Night Terrors (1993),
Body Bags (1993),
The Mangler (1995),
The Apartment Complex (1999),
Crocodile (2000),
Toolbox Murders (2004),
Dance of the Dead (2005),
The Damned Thing (2006),
Mortuary (2006),
Djinn (2013)
Hou Hsiao-hsien
China-Taiwan, (1947-) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
The Sandwich Man (1983),
A Summer at Grandpa's (1984),
A Time to Live, a Time to Die (1985),
Dust in the Wind (1987),
Daughter of the Nile (1987),
A City of Sadness (1989),
The Puppetmaster (1993),
Good Men, Good Women (1995),
Goodbye, South, Goodbye (1996),
Flowers of Shanghai (1998),
Millennium Mambo (2001),
Café Lumière (2003),
Three Times (2005),
Flight of the Red Balloon (2007),
The Assassin (2015)
John Huston
USA, (1906-1987) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
The Maltese Falcon (1941),
In This Our Life (1942),
Across the Pacific (1942),
Battle of San Pietro (1945),
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948),
Key Largo (1948),
We Were Strangers (1949),
The Asphalt Jungle (1950),
The Red Badge of Courage (1951),
The African Queen (1952),
Moulin Rouge (1953),
Beat the Devil (1954),
Moby Dick (1956),
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison (1957),
The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958),
The Roots of Heaven (1958),
The Unforgiven (1960),
The Misfits (1961),
Freud (1962),
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963),
The Night of the Iguana (1964),
The Bible (1966),
Casino Royale (1967),
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967),
Sinful Davey (1969),
A Walk with Love and Death (1969),
The Kremlin Letter (1970),
Fat City (1972),
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972),
The Mackintosh Man (1973),
The Man Who Would Be King (1975),
Wise Blood (1979),
Phobia (1980),
Victory (1981),
Annie (1982),
Under the Volcano (1984),
Prizzi's Honor (1985),
The Dead (1987)
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