Great Directors
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By Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Jane Campion
New Zealand, (1954-) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
Two Friends (1986),
Sweetie (1989),
An Angel at My Table (1990),
The Piano (1993),
The Portrait of a Lady (1996),
Holy Smoke! (1999),
In the Cut (2003),
Bright Star (2009),
Top of the Lake (2013-2017),
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Frank Capra
Italy-USA, (1897-1991) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
The Strong Man (1926),
Long Pants (1927),
The Matinee Idol (1928),
The Power of the Press (1928),
Ladies of Leisure (1930),
Rain or Shine (1930),
The Miracle Woman (1931),
Platinum Blonde (1931),
Forbidden (1932),
American Madness (1932),
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933),
Lady for a Day (1933),
It Happened One Night (1934),
Broadway Bill (1934),
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936),
Lost Horizon (1937),
You Can't Take It with You (1938),
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939),
Meet John Doe (1941),
Prelude to War (1942),
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944),
It's a Wonderful Life (1946),
State of the Union (1948),
Our Mr. Sun (1956),
Hemo the Magnificent (1957),
A Hole in the Head (1959),
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Leos Carax
France, (1960-) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Boy Meets Girl (1984),
Mauvais Sang (1986),
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991),
Pola X (1999),
Tokyo! (2008) [segment],
Holy Motors (2012),
Annette (2021)
John Carpenter
USA, (1948-) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
Dark Star (1974),
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976),
Halloween (1978),
Someone's Watching Me! (1978, TV),
Elvis (1979, TV),
The Fog (1980),
Escape from New York (1981),
The Thing (1982),
Christine (1983),
Starman (1984),
Big Trouble in Little China (1986),
Prince of Darkness (1987),
They Live (1988),
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992),
Body Bags (1993, segment),
In the Mouth of Madness (1995),
Village of the Damned (1995),
Escape from L.A. (1996),
Vampires (1998),
Ghosts of Mars (2001),
Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns (2005),
Masters of Horror: Pro-Life (2006),
The Ward (2011)
John Cassavetes
USA, (1929-1989) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Shadows (1959),
Johnny Staccato (TV Series, 1959-1960),
Too Late Blues (1961),
A Child Is Waiting (1963),
Faces (1968),
Husbands (1970),
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971),
A Woman Under the Influence (1974),
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976),
Opening Night (1977),
Gloria (1980),
Love Streams (1984),
Big Trouble (1986)
Claude Chabrol
France, (1930-2010) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Le Beau Serge (1958),
Les Cousins (1959),
À double tour (1959),
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960),
Six in Paris (1965) [segment],
The Champagne Murders (1967),
Les Biches (1968),
La Femme infidèle (1969),
This Man Must Die (1969),
Le Boucher (1970),
La Rupture (1970),
Juste avant la nuit (1971),
Ten Days Wonder (1971),
Les Noces rouges (1973),
Les innocents aux mains sales (1975),
Violette (1978),
The Blood of Others (1984),
Poulet au vinaigre (1985),
Inspecteur Lavardin (1986),
Masques (1987),
The Cry of the Owl (1987),
Story of Women (1988),
Madame Bovary (1991),
Betty (1992),
L'Enfer (1994),
La Cérémonie (1995),
The Swindle (1997),
The Color of Lies (1999),
Merci pour le chocolat (2000),
The Flower of Evil (2003),
The Bridesmaid (2004),
Comedy of Power (2006),
A Girl Cut in Two (2007),
Inspector Bellamy (2009)
Charles Chaplin
UK, (1889-1977) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Chaplin at Keystone (1914),
Chaplin's Essanay Comedies (1915),
Chaplin's Mutual Comedies (1916-1917),
The Kid (1921),
The Pilgrim (1923),
A Woman of Paris (1923),
The Gold Rush (1925),
The Circus (1928),
City Lights (1931),
Modern Times (1936),
The Great Dictator (1940),
Monsieur Verdoux (1947),
Limelight (1952),
A King in New York (1957),
The Chaplin Revue (1959),
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
France, (1907-1977) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Tout pour l'amour (1933),
Caprice de princesse (1934),
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942),
Le Corbeau (1943),
Quai des Orfèvres (1947),
Manon (1949),
Miquette (1950),
The Wages of Fear (1953),
Diabolique (1955),
The Mystery of Picasso (1956),
Les espions (1957),
The Truth (1960),
Inferno (1964/2009),
La Prisonnière (1968)
Joel Coen
USA, (1954-) [IMDB]
Ethan Coen
USA, (1957-) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Blood Simple (1984),
Raising Arizona (1987),
Miller's Crossing (1990),
Barton Fink (1991),
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994),
Fargo (1996),
The Big Lebowski (1998),
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000),
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001),
Intolerable Cruelty (2003),
The Ladykillers (2004),
No Country for Old Men (2007),
Burn After Reading (2008),
A Serious Man (2009),
True Grit (2010),
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013),
Hail, Caesar! (2016),
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018),
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) [Joel only],
Drive-Away Dolls (2024) [Ethan only]
Ryan Coogler
USA, (1986-) [IMDB]
Interview |
Interview
Selected Filmography:
Fruitvale Station (2013),
Creed (2015),
Black Panther (2018),
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Francis Ford Coppola
USA, (1939-) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Tonight for Sure (1962),
Dementia 13 (1963),
You're a Big Boy Now (1966),
Finian's Rainbow (1968),
The Rain People (1969),
The Godfather (1972),
The Conversation (1974),
The Godfather Part II (1974),
Apocalypse Now (1979),
One from the Heart (1982),
The Outsiders (1983),
Rumble Fish (1983),
The Cotton Club (1984),
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986),
Gardens of Stone (1987),
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988),
New York Stories (1989),
The Godfather Part III (1990),
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992),
Jack (1996),
The Rainmaker (1997),
Youth Without Youth (2007),
Tetro (2009),
Twixt (2012),
Megalopolis (2024)
Sofia Coppola
USA, (1971-) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
The Virgin Suicides (1999),
Lost in Translation (2003),
Marie Antoinette (2006),
Somewhere (2010),
The Bling Ring (2013),
A Very Murray Christmas (2015),
The Beguiled (2017),
On the Rocks (2020),
Priscilla (2023)
Sergio Corbucci
Italy, (1926-1990) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Duel of the Titans (1961),
The Two Marshals (1961),
Castle of Blood (1964),
Minnesota Clay (1964),
Django (1966),
Ringo and his Golden Pistol (1966),
Navajo Joe (1966),
The Hellbenders (1967),
The Mercenary (1968),
The Great Silence (1968),
The Specialists (1969),
Companeros (1970),
Shoot First... Ask Questions Later (1975),
High Rollers (1976),
Mr. Robinson (1976),
Trinity: Gambling for High Stakes (1978),
Super Fuzz (1980),
A Friend Is a Treasure (1981)
Roger Corman
USA, (1926-2024) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Five Guns West (1955),
Apache Woman (1955),
Day the World Ended (1955),
Swamp Women (1956),
The Oklahoma Woman (1956),
Gunslinger (1956),
It Conquered the World (1956),
Naked Paradise (1957),
Not of This Earth (1957),
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957),
The Undead (1957),
Rock All Night (1957),
Teenage Doll (1957),
Sorority Girl (1957),
The Saga of the Viking Women (1957),
Carnival Rock (1957),
War of the Satellites (1958),
Machine-Gun Kelly (1958),
Teenage Cave Man (1958),
She Gods of Shark Reef (1958),
I Mobster (1959),
A Bucket of Blood (1959),
The Wasp Woman (1959),
Ski Troop Attack (1960),
The Fall of the House of Usher (1960),
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960),
Last Woman on Earth (1960),
Atlas (1961),
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961),
Pit and the Pendulum (1961),
The Premature Burial (1962),
The Intruder (1962),
Tales of Terror (1962),
Tower of London (1962),
The Raven (1963),
The Young Racers (1963),
The Terror (1963),
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963),
The Haunted Palace (1963),
The Masque of the Red Death (1964),
The Secret Invasion (1964),
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964),
The Wild Angels (1966),
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967),
The Trip (1967),
Bloody Mama (1970),
Gas-s-s-s (1970),
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971),
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Alex Cox
UK, (1954-) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Repo Man (1984),
Sid & Nancy (1986),
Straight to Hell (1987),
Walker (1987),
Highway Patrolman (1991),
Death and the Compass (1992),
The Winner (1996),
Three Businessmen (1998),
Revengers Tragedy (2002),
Searchers 2.0 (2007),
Repo Chick (2009),
Bill the Galactic Hero (2014),
Tombstone Rashomon (2016)
Wes Craven
USA, (1939-2015) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
The Last House on the Left (1972),
The Hills Have Eyes (1977),
Summer of Fear (1978),
Deadly Blessing (1981),
Swamp Thing (1982),
Invitation to Hell! (1984, TV),
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984),
Chiller (1985, TV),
The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985),
Deadly Friend (1986),
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988),
Shocker (1989),
Night Visions (1990, TV)
The People Under the Stairs (1991),
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994),
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995),
Scream (1996),
Scream 2 (1997),
Music of the Heart (1999),
Scream 3 (2000),
Cursed (2005),
Red Eye (2005),
Paris, je t'aime (2006) [segment],
My Soul to Take (2010),
Scream 4 (2011)
David Cronenberg
Canada, (1943-) [IMDB]
Interview 1,
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Selected Filmography:
Stereo (1969),
Crimes of the Future (1970),
Shivers (1975),
Rabid (1977),
Fast Company (1979),
The Brood (1979),
Scanners (1981),
Videodrome (1983),
The Dead Zone (1983),
The Fly (1986),
Dead Ringers (1988),
Naked Lunch (1991),
M. Butterfly (1993),
Crash (1996),
eXistenZ (1999),
Spider (2002),
A History of Violence (2005),
Eastern Promises (2007),
A Dangerous Method (2011),
Cosmopolis (2012),
Maps to the Stars (2015),
Crimes of the Future (2022)
Alfonso Cuarón
Mexico, (1961-) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
Sólo con tu pareja (1991),
A Little Princess (1995),
Great Expectations (1998),
Y Tu Mamá También (2001),
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004),
Children of Men (2006),
Gravity (2013),
Roma (2018)
George Cukor
USA, (1899-1983) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
What Price Hollywood? (1932),
A Bill of Divorcement (1932),
Dinner at Eight (1933),
Little Women (1933),
David Copperfield (1935),
Sylvia Scarlett (1935),
Romeo and Juliet (1936),
Camille (1936),
Holiday (1938),
The Women (1939),
The Philadelphia Story (1940),
Two-Faced Woman (1941),
Gaslight (1944),
A Double Life (1947),
Adam's Rib (1949),
Born Yesterday (1950),
The Marrying Kind (1952),
Pat and Mike (1952),
The Actress (1953),
It Should Happen to You (1954),
A Star Is Born (1954),
Bhowani Junction (1956),
Les Girls (1957),
Heller in Pink Tights (1960),
Let's Make Love (1960),
The Chapman Report (1962),
My Fair Lady (1964),
Justine (1969),
Travels with My Aunt (1972),
Rich and Famous (1981)
Michael Curtiz
Hungary-USA, (1886-1962) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Doctor X (1932),
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933),
The Kennel Murder Case (1933),
Captain Blood (1935),
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936),
The Walking Dead (1936),
Kid Galahad (1937),
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938),
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938),
Four's a Crowd (1938),
Dodge City (1939),
The Sea Hawk (1940),
Virginia City (1940),
Santa Fe Trail (1940),
The Sea Wolf (1941),
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942),
Casablanca (1942),
Passage to Marseille (1944),
Mildred Pierce (1945),
Night and Day (1946),
The Unsuspected (1947),
Life with Father (1947),
My Dream Is Yours (1949),
Flamingo Road (1949),
The Breaking Point (1950),
Young Man with a Horn (1950),
White Christmas (1954),
We're No Angels (1955),
King Creole (1958),
The Hangman (1959),
The Man in the Net (1959)
The Comancheros (1961)
Joe Dante
USA, (1946-) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
Hollywood Boulevard (1976),
Piranha (1978),
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979) [story, uncredited director],
The Howling (1981),
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983),
Gremlins (1984),
Explorers (1985),
Innerspace (1987),
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987),
The 'Burbs (1989),
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990),
Matinee (1993),
Runaway Daughters (1994, TV),
The Second Civil War (1997, TV),
Small Soldiers (1998),
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003),
Masters of Horror: Homecoming (2005),
Masters of Horror: The Screwfly Solution (2006),
Trapped Ashes (2006),
The Hole (2009),
Burying the Ex (2015),
Nightmare Cinema (2018) [segment]
Terence Davies
USA, (1945-2023) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983),
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988),
The Long Day Closes (1992),
The Neon Bible (1995),
The House of Mirth (2000),
Of Time and the City (2008),
The Deep Blue Sea (2011),
Sunset Song (2015),
A Quiet Passion (2016),
Benediction (2021)
Manoel de Oliveira
Portugal, (1908-2015) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Labor on the Douro River (1931),
A Song of Lisbon (1933),
Aniki Bóbó (1942),
Doomed Love (1979),
Francisca (1981),
Os Canibais (1988),
No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990),
A Divina Comédia (1991),
Abraham's Valley (1993),
A Caixa (1994),
The Convent (1995),
Party (1996),
Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997),
Inquietude (1998),
The Letter (1999),
Word and Utopia (2000),
I'm Going Home (2001),
Porto of My Childhood (2001),
The Uncertainty Principle (2002),
A Talking Picture (2003),
The Fifth Empire (2004),
Magic Mirror (2005),
Belle Toujours (2006),
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma (2007),
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (2009),
The Strange Case of Angelica (2010),
O Gebo e a Sombra (2012)
Brian De Palma
USA, (1940-) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Greetings (1968),
The Wedding Party (1969),
Hi, Mom! (1970),
Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972),
Sisters (1973),
Phantom of the Paradise (1974),
Carrie (1976),
Obsession (1976),
The Fury (1978),
Dressed to Kill (1980),
Home Movies (1980),
Blow Out (1981),
Scarface (1983),
Body Double (1984),
Wise Guys (1986),
The Untouchables (1987),
Casualties of War (1989),
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990),
Raising Cain (1992),
Carlito's Way (1993),
Mission: Impossible (1996),
Snake Eyes (1998),
Mission to Mars (2000),
Femme Fatale (2002),
The Black Dahlia (2006),
Redacted (2007),
Passion (2013),
Domino (2019)
Vittorio De Sica
Italy, (1901-1974) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Shoeshine (1946),
Bicycle Thieves (1948),
Miracle in Milan (1951),
Umberto D. (1952),
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953),
Two Women (1960),
Boccaccio '70 (1962),
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963),
Marriage Italian-Style (1964),
After the Fox (1966),
The Witches (1967),
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
André de Toth
Hungary-USA, (1913-2002) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Passport to Suez (1943),
None Shall Escape (1944),
Dark Waters (1944),
Ramrod (1947),
The Other Love (1947),
Pitfall (1948),
Slattery's Hurricane (1949),
The Gunfighter (1950) [story],
Man in the Saddle (1951),
Carson City (1952),
Springfield Rifle (1952),
Last of the Comanches (1953),
House of Wax (1953),
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953),
Thunder Over the Plains (1953),
Crime Wave (1954),
Tanganyika (1954),
The Bounty Hunter (1954),
Riding Shotgun (1955),
The Indian Fighter (1955),
Hidden Fear (1957),
Monkey on My Back (1957),
The Two-Headed Spy (1958),
Day of the Outlaw (1959),
Man on a String (1960),
Morgan, the Pirate (1960),
The Mongols (1961),
Gold for the Caesars (1963),
Play Dirty (1968)
Guillermo Del Toro
Mexico, (1964-) [IMDB]
Interview 1,
2
Selected Filmography:
Cronos (1993),
Mimic (1997),
The Devil's Backbone (2001),
Blade II (2002),
Hellboy (2004),
Pan's Labyrinth (2006),
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008),
Pacific Rim (2013),
Crimson Peak (2015),
Trollhunters (2017),
The Shape of Water (2017),
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) [screenplay],
Nightmare Alley (2021),
Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
Claire Denis
France, (1948-) [IMDB]
Interview
Selected Filmography:
Chocolat (1988),
I Can't Sleep (1994),
Nenette and Boni (1996),
Beau Travail (1999),
Trouble Every Day (2001),
Friday Night (2002),
The Intruder (2004),
35 Shots of Rum (2008),
White Material (2009),
Bastards (2013),
Let the Sunshine In (2018),
High Life (2019),
Both Sides of the Blade (2022),
Stars at Noon (2022)
Maya Deren
Ukraine, (1917-1961) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943),
The Witch's Cradle (1943) [unfinished],
At Land (1944),
A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945),
Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946),
The Private Life of a Cat (1947),
Meditation on Violence (1948),
Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951) [unfinished],
The Very Eye of Night (1958)
Stanley Donen
USA, (1924-2019) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
On the Town (1949),
Royal Wedding (1951),
Singin' in the Rain (1952),
Give a Girl a Break (1953),
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954),
It's Always Fair Weather (1955),
Funny Face (1957),
Kiss Them for Me (1957),
The Pajama Game (1957),
Damn Yankees! (1958),
Indiscreet (1958),
The Grass Is Greener (1960),
Charade (1963),
Arabesque (1966),
Bedazzled (1967),
Two for the Road (1967),
The Little Prince (1974),
Movie Movie (1978),
Saturn City (1980),
Blame It on Rio (1984)
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Denmark, (1889-1968) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
The Parson's Widow (1920),
Leaves from Satan's Book (1921),
Michael (1924),
Master of the House (1925),
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928),
Vampyr (1932),
Day of Wrath (1943),
They Caught the Ferry (1948),
Ordet (1955),
Gertrud (1964)
Allan Dwan
Canada, (1885-1981) [IMDB]
Selected Filmography:
The Good Bad Man (1916),
The Half-Breed (1916),
A Modern Musketeer (1917),
Getting Mary Married (1919),
Robin Hood (1922),
Zaza (1923),
Manhandled (1924),
Stage Struck (1925),
The Iron Mask (1929),
Tide of Empire (1929),
Man to Man (1930),
Chances (1931),
American Madness (1932),
While Paris Sleeps (1932),
Hollywood Party (1934),
Black Sheep (1935),
Heidi (1937),
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938),
Suez (1938),
Frontier Marshal (1939),
The Gorilla (1939),
The Three Musketeers (1939),
Young People (1940),
Look Who's Laughing (1941),
Rise and Shine (1941),
Here We Go Again (1942),
Around the World (1943),
Up in Mabel's Room (1944),
Brewster's Millions (1945),
Getting Gertie's Garter (1945),
Calendar Girl (1947),
Driftwood (1947),
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949),
Belle Le Grand (1951),
The Wild Blue Yonder (1951),
I Dream of Jeanie (1952),
Montana Belle (1952),
Woman They Almost Lynched (1953),
Cattle Queen of Montana (1954),
Passion (1954),
Silver Lode (1954),
Escape to Burma (1955),
Pearl of the South Pacific (1955),
Tennessee's Partner (1955),
Slightly Scarlet (1956),
The Restless Breed (1957),
The River's Edge (1957),
Enchanted Island (1958),
Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)
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