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Carol Lynley and a supporting
cast of off-putting dolls
in Otto Preminger’s “Bunny Lake
Is Missing” (1965).
Photograph:
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Deciding Whether to Trust Your
Senses. Or Not.
New on Disc:
Preminger’s ‘Bunny
Lake Is Missing’ and ‘Skidoo’
NYT
JAN. 23, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/
movies/homevideo/new-on-disc-premingers-bunny-lake-is-missing-and-skidoo.html
Joan Micklin USA
1935-2020

Joan Micklin Silver
in the late 1970s
while filming an
adaptation of the Ann Beattie novel
“Chilly Scenes of
Winter.”
She had a love-hate
relationship
with movie studios.
Photograph: United
Artists, via Photofest
Joan Micklin
Silver, Director of ‘Crossing Delancey,’ Dies at 85
She broke barriers
for women, directing seven feature films,
including “Hester
Street” and “Between the Lines,”
as well as TV
movies.
NYT
Jan. 1, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/
movies/joan-micklin-silver-dead.html
filmmaker whose first feature,
“Hester Street,”
expanded the marketplace
for
American independent film
and
broke barriers
for
women in directing
(...)
Ms.
Silver wrote and directed
“Hester Street” (1975),
the
story of a young Jewish
immigrant couple from Russia
on
the Lower East Side
of
Manhattan in the 1890s.
It
was a personal effort,
a
low-budget 34-day location shoot,
that became a family project.
Studios said the story
was
too narrowly
and
historically ethnic.
For
one thing,
much of the film,
in
black and white,
was
in Yiddish
with English subtitles.
“Nobody wanted to release it,”
Ms.
Silver recalled
in
a visual history interview
for
the Directors Guild of America
in
2005.
“The only offer was to release it
on
16 to the synagogue market,”
she
added,
referring to 16-millimeter film.
Ms.
Silver’s husband,
Raphael D. Silver,
a
commercial
real estate developer,
stepped in to finance,
produce
and
even distribute the film
after selling it
to
some international markets
while attending
the
Cannes Film Festival.
“Hester Street” opened
at
the Plaza Theater
in
Manhattan in October 1975,
then in theaters nationwide,
and
soon earned $5 million
(about $25 million today),
almost 14 times
its
$370,000 budget.
(Ms. Silver sometimes cited
an
even lower budget figure:
$320,000.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/
movies/joan-micklin-silver-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/
movies/joan-micklin-silver-dead.html
Alan Parker UK
1944-2020

With Gene Hackman
[ left ]
during the making of
Mississippi
Burning, 1988.
Photograph:
Robert R
McElroy/Getty Images
Alan Parker – a life in pictures
Film director Alan Parker has
died at the age of 76.
Here we look back at his
multi-award winning career,
including hits such as Bugsy
Malone, Evita and Midnight Express
G
Fri 31 Jul 2020
18.49 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2020/jul/31/
alan-parker-a-life-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/film/alan-parker
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2020/jul/31/
alan-parker-a-life-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/31/
alan-parker-a-maker-of-glorious-films-with-a-gift-for-connecting-with-audiences
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/22/
my-favourite-film-aged-12-bugsy-malone
http://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2013/jun/20/alan-parker-video-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/jan/07/guardianinterviewsatbfisouthbank1
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/21/
movies/the-screen-alan-parker-s-birdy.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/15/
pink-floyd-the-wall-film-review-1982
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/16/
archives/bugsy-malone-puts-youth-in-20s-gang-movies.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Express_(film)
- 1978
John Daniel
Singleton USA
1968-2019
John Singleton
('s)
powerful debut
film,
“Boyz N the
Hood,”
earned him
an Oscar
nomination
for best
director,
the first
for an
African-American
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/
obituaries/john-singleton-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/
movies/john-singleton-poetic-justice.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/
718219541/john-singleton-pioneering-director-of-boyz-n-the-hood-dies-at-51
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/
obituaries/john-singleton-dead.html
Lawrence George
Cohen USA
1936-2019
writer and
director
whose
wide-ranging career
included
mainstream
television
series,
outlandish horror movies
featuring killer
babies
and killer
yogurt,
slick thrillers
and even a few
blaxploitation
films
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/
obituaries/larry-cohen-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/
obituaries/larry-cohen-dead.html
Stanley Donen
USA 1924-2019
Stanley Donen
(...)
directed Fred
Astaire
dancing on the
ceiling,
Gene Kelly
singing in the
rain
and a host of
other
sparkling
moments
from some of
Hollywood’s
greatest
musicals
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/
obituaries/stanley-donen-dead.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/23/
stanley-donen-director-singin-in-the-rain-dies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/
obituaries/stanley-donen-dead.html
https://www.npr.org/2012/08/09/
158489285/60-years-later-still-singin-in-the-rain
https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=1150720 - September 27, 2002
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/feb/06/
100-top-film-moments-saving-private-ryan-taxi-driver
Jonas Mekas
LITH / USA 1922-2019

Mr. Mekas in one of his
best-known autobiographical films,
“Lost, Lost, Lost,” from 1976.
Chronicling his own life in
words and moving pictures
became a vast, almost lifelong
project.
Photograph: Kino Lorber
Jonas Mekas, ‘Godfather’ of
American Avant-Garde Film, Is Dead at 96
NYT
Jan. 23, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/
obituaries/jonas-mekas-dead.html
Influential
figure
in American
underground cinema,
as a perceptive
critic
and a maker of
films
that celebrated
‘little moments
of paradise’ in his life
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/24/
jonas-mekas-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/24/
jonas-mekas-obituary
Lewis Gilbert
UK 1920-2018
Gilbert (...)
may have been
best known
for his three
007 films,
but it’s the
films
he made about
working
class life
that are his
great
achievement
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2018/feb/28/
lewis-gilbert-master-craftsman-bond-working-class-trilogy-alfie
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2018/feb/28/
lewis-gilbert-master-craftsman-bond-working-class-trilogy-alfie
Robert Jonathan Demme USA
1944-2017
https://www.npr.org/tags/126949943/jonathan-demme
https://www.npr.org/2017/04/27/
525844510/jodie-foster-remembers-her-mentor-jonathan-demme-who-died-at-73
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2017/apr/26/
jonathan-demme-silence-of-the-lambs-film-a-life-in-pictures
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/04/26/
525756211/david-byrne-remembers-jonathan-demme-collaborating-on-stop-making-sense
https://www.npr.org/series/pop-culture-happy-hour/2017/04/26/
525716786/jonathan-demme-and-the-simple-power-of-the-close-up
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/
movies/jonathan-demme-dead-movie-director-oscar-winner.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/26/
525714291/jonathan-demme-director-of-silence-of-the-lambs-dies-at-73
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/movies/
review-ricki-and-the-flash-puts-meryl-streep-behind-a-telecaster.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/talk/2007/11/
demme_producer_writer_director.html
https://www.npr.org/2006/02/09/
5194173/heart-of-gold-neil-young-and-jonathan-demme
https://www.theguardian.com/film/1998/oct/10/2
https://www.theguardian.com/film/
News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_review/0,,530779,00.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/22/
movies/review-film-philadelphia-tom-hanks-aids-victim-who-fights-establishment.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/14/
movies/review-film-methods-of-madness-in-silence-of-the-lambs.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/19/
movies/movies-talking-heads-in-stop-making-sense.html
Guy Hamilton
UK 1922-2016
director whose
emphasis
on fast pacing
and witty repartee
made
“Goldfinger” a model
for the James
Bond films to follow,
and who directed
three more installments
in the series
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/
movies/guy-hamilton-director-of-goldfinger-dies-at-93.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/
movies/guy-hamilton-director-of-goldfinger-dies-at-93.html
Wesley Earl
"Wes" Craven USA
1939-2015
https://www.theguardian.com/film/wes-craven
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/31/
wes-craven-nightmare-on-elm-street-and-scream-director-dies-at-76
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/31/
436291657/rest-in-peace-wes-craven-the-rest-of-us-sure-wont
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/aug/31/
wes-craven-professional-scaremonger-who-rewrote-the-horror-film-rules
http://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2015/aug/31/
wes-craven-his-life-and-career-in-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/aug/31/
wes-craven-the-mainstream-horror-maestro-inspired-by-ingmar-bergman
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/31/
wes-craven-nightmare-on-elm-street-and-scream-director-dies-at-76
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/movies/
wes-craven-a-master-of-slasher-horror-films-dies-at-76.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/30/
436171462/wes-craven-master-horror-movie-director-dies-at-76
Paul Almond
CAN 1931-2015
Canadian
director
whose television film “Seven Up!”
examined the
lives of a group
of midcentury British children
and became the
basis
of the documentary series
that has
followed them
into middle age
(...)
One of the most
highly regarded
documentaries of all time,
the “Up” series,
as it is collectively known,
is most closely
associated
with Michael Apted,
who directed all
but the inaugural
installment.
But it was Mr.
Almond
who helped
conceive that film,
first shown
on
British television
in 1964.
Forty minutes
long
and shot in black and white,
“Seven Up!”
examined
the enduring British class system
through the
lives of 14 7-year-olds
from across the
socioeconomic
spectrum.
He can be heard
asking the children
— 10 boys and
four girls —
questions about
family, love
and adult aspirations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/
arts/television/paul-almond-the-director-of-seven-up-dies-at-83.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/
arts/television/paul-almond-the-director-of-seven-up-dies-at-83.html
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/apr/15/
paul-almond-director-seven-up-dies-aged-83
Richard Leland
Bare USA
1913-2015
director whose
career
began during World War II
and who became
a
Hollywood mainstay
in the early
days of television
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/
arts/richard-l-bare-director-of-green-acres-dies-at-101.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/
arts/richard-l-bare-director-of-green-acres-dies-at-101.html
Mike Nichols
(born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky) USA
1931-2014

Nichols in rehearsal for a
production of “Journey to the Day” in 1960.
Photograph from CBS Photo
Archive/Getty Images
1931-2014
Mike Nichols
The writer-director Nicole
Holofcener
on the film that ruined adulthood.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/25/magazine/2014-the-lives-they-lived.html
one of America’s
most celebrated directors,
whose long,
protean résumé
of critic- and crowd-pleasing work
earned him
adulation
both on Broadway
and in Hollywood
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/
movies/mike-nichols-celebrated-director-dies-at-83.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/
opinion/graduate-vietnam-movie.html
https://www.npr.org/2016/01/29/
464781450/revisiting-the-craft-and-vision-graduate-director-mike-nichols
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/
movies/mike-nichols-celebrated-director-dies-at-83.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/20/
365403720/award-winning-director-mike-nichols-dies-at-83
Andrew Victor
McLaglen USA
1920-2014
British-born
director
whose work in American westerns
on television
and in the movies
starred such notable screen
cowpokes,
gunslingers and lawmen
as John Wayne, Clint Eastwood,
James Arness and
James Stewart
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/
arts/andrew-mclaglen-director-of-westerns-dies-at-94.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/
arts/andrew-mclaglen-director-of-westerns-dies-at-94.html
Richard Samuel
Attenborough UK
1923-2014
Richard
Attenborough
(...)
after a
distinguished stage
and film acting career in Britain
reinvented
himself to become
the internationally admired director
of the
monumental “Gandhi”
and other films
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/
arts/richard-attenborough-actor-director-and-giant-of-british-cinema-dies-at-90.html
http://www.theguardian.com/film/richard-attenborough
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/
arts/richard-attenborough-actor-director-and-giant-of-british-cinema-dies-at-90.html
http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/aug/25/
richard-attenborough-best-movie-scenes
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/25/
richard-attenborough-tribute-david-puttnam
http://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2014/aug/24/
richard-attenborough-dies-gallery
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/aug/24/
richard-attenborough-a-career-in-clips
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/24/
richard-attenborough-death-sad-british-film-industry
http://www.theguardian.com/film/live/2014/aug/25/
richard-attenborough-dies-at-90-the-world-reacts
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/24/
richard-attenborough-died-aged-90
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/sep/06/
tsunami2004.worldcinema
Brian Geoffrey Hutton USA 1935-2014
Brian G Hutton
(...)
directed
Where
Eagles Dare (1968)
and Kelly's Heroes (1970),
second world war
pictures
starring Clint Eastwood
that are among
the most popular films
ever made.
In these two
huge
box-office hits,
Hutton
demonstrated
that he could handle
action sequences
with aplomb
and coax nuanced
performances from his actors
within the
limited confines
of adventure movies.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/24/brian-g-hutton
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/24/
brian-g-hutton
Irwin Mazursky USA
1930-2014
innovative
director
and screenwriter
who both
satirized
and sympathized with America’s
panorama of
social upheavals
in the late 1960s and ’70s
in films that
included
“Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,”
“Blume in Love”
and “An Unmarried Woman”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/02/arts/paul-mazursky-director-dies-at-84.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/02/
arts/paul-mazursky-director-dies-at-84.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/05/
archives/an-unmarried-woman-film-with-jill-clayburghthe-cast.html
Alain Resnais
FR 1922 - 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/10/
archives/alain-resnais-the-man-who-makes-movies-of-the-mind-alain-resnais.html
Bryan Forbes UK 1926-2013
Creative force
in British film industry
who worked on
movies
including
The Stepford
Wives
and Whistle Down the Wind
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2013/may/09/
bryan-forbes-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/may/09/
bryan-forbes-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/may/08/
bryan-forbes-dies
Taylor Mead USA 1924-2013
poet, actor
and exuberant bohemian
who colluded
with Andy Warhol
in the 1960s
to nurture
a new approach
to making movies
— sometimes
spontaneously,
always inexpensively
(hand-held 16-millimeter
cameras sufficed)
and brashly experimental
(one film consisted
of an hourlong shot
of Mr. Mead’s bare posterior)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/
movies/taylor-mead-bohemian-and-actor-dies-at-88.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/
movies/taylor-mead-bohemian-and-actor-dies-at-88.html
Harold Michael Gray USA 1935-2013
writer and
filmmaker
who tackled thorny
contemporary issues
in his work,
including
race
relations in Chicago,
American drug policy and,
most notably,
the safety
of nuclear power plants
— the subject
of
the 1979 film
“The China Syndrome,”
for which he
wrote
the original screenplay —
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/arts/mike-gray-china-syndrome-writer-dies-at-77.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/
arts/mike-gray-china-syndrome-writer-dies-at-77.html
Gerry Anderson UK
1929-2012
(born Gerald Alexander Abrahams)
British filmmaker
who
transformed
old-fashioned puppets
into futuristic action heroes
in
the 1960s
in the hugely popular
children’s show
“Thunderbirds,”
and later cast
real people in
series
including “U.F.O.”
and “Space: 1999”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/
arts/television/gerry-anderson-animator-of-puppetry-dies-at-83.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/
arts/television/gerry-anderson-animator-of-puppetry-dies-at-83.html
Tony Scott UK 1944-2012
director
of exuberant action
films
including "Top Gun"
and "Unstoppable"
and a prolific producer
of television
shows and commercials
in partnership
with his older brother,
Ridley Scott
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html
?res=9502E4DB163AF932A1575BC0A9649D8B63&ref=tonyscott
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/
movies/tony-scotts-suicide-complicates-top-gun-3d-project.html
https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/
director-tony-scott-jumps-to-his-death-from-los-angeles-bridge/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/dec/15/denzelwashington.actionandadventure
Donald Herman Sharp AUS 1922-2011
veteran film
director
who had never watched
a horror movie
until Hammer Films
— the English studio
described,
usually admiringly,
as
dripping cinematic blood —
enlisted him
in the mid-1960s
to help revivify
its presentation
of Gothic terror
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/
movies/don-sharp-director-dies-at-89-revived-hammer-horror-films.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/
movies/don-sharp-director-dies-at-89-revived-hammer-horror-films.html
Ken Russell UK
1927-2011
English filmmaker and writer
whose outsize personality
matched the confrontational
brashness of his movies,
among them “Women in Love”
and “The Devils”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/ken-russell
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/22/
tommy-review-ken-russells-the-who-rock-opera-pinball-wizard
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/nov/29/
ken-russell-post-war-london-in-pictures-rolleicord-teddy-girls
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/
arts/ken-russell-controversial-director-dies-at-84.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/nov/28/
ken-russell
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/nov/28/
ken-russell-dies-aged-84
Jordan Belson USA 1926-2011
an experimental
filmmaker
whose
work
— abstract,
mutable
and hypnotic —
is a series
of studies of color,
movement and light
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/
movies/jordan-belson-experimental-filmmaker-dies-at-85.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/
movies/jordan-belson-experimental-filmmaker-dies-at-85.html
George Andrew Kuchar USA 1942-2011
filmmaker
whose campy
yet ardent
low-budget movies
inspired
underground directors
like John Waters
and David Lynch
in the 1960s,
and helped kindle
the do-it-yourself
moviemaking aesthetic
now ubiquitous
on
YouTube
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/
movies/george-kuchar-underground-filmmaker-dies-at-69.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/movies/
george-kuchar-underground-filmmaker-dies-at-69.html
Sidney Lumet USA 1924-2011
director
who preferred
the
streets of New York
to the back lots
of Hollywood
and whose stories
of conscience
— “12 Angry Men,”
“Serpico,”
“Dog Day Afternoon,”
“The Verdict,”
“Network” —
became modern
American film classics
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/
movies/sidney-lumet-director-of-american-classics-dies-at-86.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/sidney-lumet
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/28/
546733177/celebrating-30-years-of-fresh-air-prolific-filmmaker-sidney-lumet
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/28/
546831908/fresh-air-30-elia-kazan-kirk-douglas-sidney-lumet
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/15/
135409975/sidney-lumet-a-director-who-gave-actors-his-all
https://www.npr.org/2011/04/15/
135409975/sidney-lumet-a-director-who-gave-actors-his-all
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr/10/sidney-lumet-career-director-clips
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr/10/sidney-lumet-obituary
https://www.npr.org/2011/04/09/
135275073/award-winning-director-sidney-lumet-dies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2011/apr/09/sidney-lumet-films-in-pictures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr/09/sidney-lumetdies-86
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/movies/
sidney-lumet-director-of-american-classics-dies-at-86.html
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/11/02/movies/1247465445450/
critics-picks-the-verdict.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/dec/16/awardsandprizes.news
https://www.npr.org/2001/02/02/
1117995/film-director-sidney-lumet
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/16/
archives/serpico-the-saint-francis-of-copdom-saint-francis-of-cops.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1957/04/15/
archives/screen-12-angry-men-jury-room-drama-has-debut-at-capitol.html
Peter Gerard Lennon
IR
1930-2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/20/
peter-lennon-obituary
Peter Yates
UK
1928-2011
four-time
Oscar-nominated
British director of Bullitt,
Breaking Away
and The Dresser
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/10/peter-yates-bullitt-director-dies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/10/
peter-yates-bullitt-director-dies
Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump)
USA
1922-2010
writer and director
who was hailed
as a
Hollywood master
of screwball farces
and rude comedies
like “Victor/Victoria”
and the “Pink Panther” movies
https://www.theguardian.com/film/blake-edwards
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/movies/17edwards.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/dec/16/blake-edwards-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/dec/16/blake-edwards-life-in-clips
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2010/dec/16/1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/dec/16/blake-edwards-dies-88
Isadore / Irvin Kershner
USA
1923-2010
film director
who made
name-brand
Hollywood
movies
with name-brand
Hollywood stars
— including
“The Empire Strikes Back,”
the second film in the original
“Star
Wars” trilogy —
without ever becoming
a name brand himself
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/
movies/30kershner.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/
movies/30kershner.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2010/dec/02/
irvin-kershner-photos-empire-strikes-back
http://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/
MovieDetails/55837
- The Return of a Man Called Horse - 1976
George Hickenlooper
USA 1963-2010
director whose credits include
an
Emmy-winning documentary
about the making of “Apocalypse Now”
and a film starring Kevin Spacey
as the disgraced lobbyist
Jack Abramoff
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/movies/01hickenlooper.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/
movies/01hickenlooper.html
Roy Ward Baker UK 1916-2010
director who made
A Night to Remember,
the
1958 film recounting
the final night
aboard the Titanic
(...)
He started out as
an assistant director
on
Alfred Hitchcock's
The Lady Vanishes
in London in 1938.
After serving in the army
during the second world war,
he went to Hollywood,
where he directed
Marilyn Monroe
in the 1962 movie
Don't Bother to Knock.
He later returned to England
where he directed a number
of television dramas including
The Avengers, The Persuaders
and Minder.
During the latter half of his career,
Ward Baker directed
a number of British
horror films
including the 1970 flick
The Vampire Lovers,
as well as Scars of Dracula,
which
was followed
by The Vault of Horror in 1973.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/oct/08/television
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/oct/08/
television
Arthur Penn USA 1922-2010
stage, television
and motion picture
director
whose revolutionary treatment
of sex and violence
in the 1967 film
“Bonnie and Clyde”
transformed
the American film industry
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/weekinreview/03dave.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/29/arthur-penn-obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/movies/30penn.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/29/arthur-penn-bonnie-clyde
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/
movies/12scot.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2007/feb/14/arthurpenn
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/24/
archives/pravda-finds-little-big-man-exposes-crimes-of-capitalism.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/21/
archives/dustin-calls-him-grandpa-chief-dan-george.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/10/21/
bonnie-and-clyde
https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/24/
archives/screenthe-miracle-worker-opens-william-gibson-drama-at-two-theatres.html
Clive Donner UK 1926-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/arts/television/09donner.html
Joseph Ezekiel Strick
USA 1923-2010
Academy
Award-winning director,
screenwriter and producer
known for
filming
the unfilmable
— in particular weighty,
bawdy literary works
whose screen
adaptations
often ran afoul
of censors worldwide
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/arts/08strick.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jun/17/joseph-strick-obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/arts/08strick.html
Ronald Neame UK 1911-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/
movies/19neame.html
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/
review?res=9B05E3DA1631E63BBC4B52DFB4678389669EDE
- 'Poseidon Adventure' - December 13, 1972
Dennis Lee Hopper
USA
1936-2010
Dennis Hopper ('s)
portrayals of drug-addled,
often deranged
misfits
in the landmark films
“Easy Rider,”
“Apocalypse Now”
and “Blue Velvet”
drew on his early
out-of-control experiences
as part of a new generation
of
Hollywood rebel
https://www.theguardian.com/film/dennis-hopper
http://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2010/06/02/127375345/hopper - June
2, 2010
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127307586 - June 1,
2010
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127273585 - May 30,
2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/may/30/dennis-hopper-uneasy-rider - May
29, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/movies/30hopper.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123235973
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64S1OJ20100529
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64S1QZ20100529
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64S1RH20100529
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jan/07/dennis-hopper-dies-74
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/2010-05-29-dennis-hopper_N.htm
http://mediagallery.usatoday.com/Dennis-Hopper:-May-17,-1936---May-29,-2010/G1419
http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Celebrities/Actors,+Agents/Dennis+Hopper
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/movies/11dargis.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103744891 - May 2, 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/jul/04/art.usa
Joseph William Sarno USA 1921-2010
sexploitation film director
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/
arts/03sarno.html
Jack Cardiff
UK 1914-2009
film director and cinematographer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr/23/
jack-cardiff-obituary
Robert Mulligan
USA
1925-2008
(...) Hollywood
director
best known
for the 1962
classic film
“To Kill a
Mockingbird”
(...)
Mr. Mulligan received
an Academy Award
nomination
for the film,
based on Harper
Lee’s
Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel
about rape,
racism and injustice
in the
Depression-era South.
Gregory Peck
won
an Oscar
for his
portrayal
of Atticus Finch,
the Alabama
lawyer
who defends
a black man
(played by Brock Peters)
falsely accused
of raping a white woman.
The film also
won Oscars
for its
screenplay,
by Horton Foote,
and for art
direction.
Mr. Mulligan’s
other notable films
include
“Summer
of ’42”
(1971),
about an affair
between a youth
and an older
woman;
“Up the Down
Staircase”
(1967),
from Bel
Kaufman’s novel
about a New York
City
schoolteacher;
and “Inside
Daisy Clover”
(1965),
from Gavin
Lambert’s novel
about the
out-of-control life
of a young film
star.
His last film
was
“The Man in the
Moon”
(1991),
a coming-of-age
story
set in 1950s
Louisiana.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/
movies/23mulligan.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/dec/23/
obituary-robert-mulligan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/dec/22/
film-director-robert-mulligan-dies-aged-83
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/
movies/23mulligan.html
Jules Dassin
USA
1911-2008
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/apr/02/obituaries.mainsection
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/04/remembering_jules_dassin.html
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/apr/11/johnpatterson.charltonheston
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/movies/01dassin.html
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/aug/02/artsfeatures1
Sydney Irwin Pollack
USA
1934-2008
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/04/
437648259/aretha-franklin-blocks-premiere-of-concert-film-amazing-grace
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/movies/28poll.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/27/obituaries.news
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/27/obituaries
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/05/pollack_blog.html
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/05/sydney_pollack_on_youtube.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90849612 - May 27, 2008
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90836312 - May 26, 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2008/may/27/sydneypollack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/2008/may/27/1?picture=334410903
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4616788 - April 23, 2005
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2635601320080527
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINN2616364220080527
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/movies/27pollack.html
Anthony Minghella
UK
1954-2008
https://www.theguardian.com/film/anthonyminghella/0,,2266376,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/movies/18cnd-minghella.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/dec/11/1
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/feb/16/awardsandprizes
Stuart Rosenberg
USA 1927-2007
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/21/
archives/film-effective-laughing-policemanthe-cast.html
https://www.nytimes.com/watching/
recommendations/watching-film-cool-hand-luke - 1967
Richard O. Fleischer
USA
1916-2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/movies/27fleischer.html
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/28/guardianobituaries.usa
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/27/
db2702.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/27/ixportal.html
Robert Altman
USA
1925-2006
https://www.theguardian.com/film/robertaltman
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/feb/01/theatre.arthurmiller
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/oct/18/news2
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
USA
1912-2006
photographer, film director,
author and musician
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/
lens/shaft-gordon-parks-photos.html
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/09/
guardianobituaries.usa
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/
arts/design/08parks.html
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/mar/08/
news
Robert Wise 1914-2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/15/
arts/15wise.html
Russ Meyer 1922-2004
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/sep/22/
news.xanbrooks
Michael Leighton
George Relph 1915-2004
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/oct/08/
guardianobituaries.film
Larry Buchanan
(Marcus Larry Seale Jr) USA 1923-2004
cinema
shlockmeister,
he made Z-movies
that appalled and delighted
audiences
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/06/guardianobituaries.film
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/06/
guardianobituaries.film
John Schlesinger
USA 1926-2003
Academy-Award-winning
director of "Midnight Cowboy"
whose other films
— including "Billy Liar,"
"Sunday, Bloody
Sunday"
and "Darling"
— often captured
the plight of individuals
grasping for life
support
in contemporary society
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/obituaries/26SCHL.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/john-schlesinger.shtml
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/24/
midnight-cowboy-50th-anniversary-x-rated-best-picture-winner
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/jul/29/artsfeatures
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jul/26/
guardianobituaries.filmnews - July 25, 2003
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jul/26/guardianobituaries.filmnews
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/jul/26/features.comment
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/obituaries/26SCHL.html
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1357409
Elia Kazan
USA
1909-2003
Billy Wilder
USA
1906-2002
Almost all the 25 films
Billy
Wilder made
as a writer-director
displayed
his slashing wit
and
stinging
social satire.
Yet no other
major filmmaker
slipped so easily
into so many genres.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/billy_wilder/index.html
- broken URL
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/billy-wilder
https://www.theguardian.com/film/billywilder
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/cinemasexiles/biographies/the-directors/billy-wilder/107/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/wilder_b.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/15/
the-apartment-billy-wilder-jack-lemmon
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/31/
746391982/double-indemnity-is-75-but-anklets-and-film-noir-are-forever
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/01/
sunset-boulevard-what-billy-wilders-satire-really-tells-us-about-hollywood
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/18/some-like-it-hot-marilyn-monroe-bfi-restored
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jun/09/john-patterson-billy-wilder
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/29/
us/billy-wilder-master-of-caustic-films-dies-at-95.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jul/16/cyprus
https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/oct/14/3
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/19/
archives/wilders-uneven-film-of-front-pagethe-cast.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1959/03/30/
archives/screen-2hour-comedy.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/04/10/
sunset_boulevard_1950_review.shtml
https://www.nytimes.com/1944/09/07/
archives/the-screen-double-indemnity-a-tough-melodrama-with-stanwyck-and.html
Karel Reisz
Czech / UK 1926-2002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Cinema
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/444789/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/mar/16/
betsy-blair-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/may/22/
featuresreviews.guardianreview12
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/nov/28/
guardianobituaries.filmnews
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/mar/22/
artsfeatures
Stanley Earl Kramer
USA
1913-2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/21/
movies/stanley-kramer-filmmaker-with-social-bent-dies-at-87.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1179924.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/atoday/stories/s249535.htm
Oscar "Budd" Boetticher Jr
USA
1916-2001
matador
and then a
maverick
movie-maker
who shot
classic
B westerns
but never made
it
on to the A list
of Hollywood
directors
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/dec/03/
guardianobituaries.filmnews
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/dec/03/
guardianobituaries.filmnews
Joseph H. Lewis
USA 1907-2000
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/
obituaries/peggy-cummins-seductive-star-of-a-cult-film-dies-at-92.html
Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall
USA 1920-1999
Huntz Hall (...)
for 20 years
played the slow-witted
sidekick of Leo Gorcey
in more than 80
''Bowery Boys,''
''Dead End Kids''
and ''East Side Kids''
movies
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/02/
arts/huntz-hall-perpetual-youth-in-bowery-films-dies-at-78.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/02/
arts/huntz-hall-perpetual-youth-in-bowery-films-dies-at-78.html
Charles Crichton
UK
1910-1999
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/
obituary-charles-crichton-1119361.html
Abraham Polonsky
USA 1910-1999
director
and
screenwriter
who was
an early
Hollywood
master of film noir
and who worked
under many disguises
after being
blacklisted
in the
McCarthy era
(...)
His movies
included
''Force of Evil,''
a 1948 film
about racketeering
in which he directed
the
actor
John Garfield.
In 1996
Stephen
Holden,
the New York Times
film critic, describing
that
performance and others,
wrote that ''you
can still feel
the dangerous urban-realist kick''
although the
work came from
''a time when Hollywood films
still aspired to a genteel,
upper-middle-class
sense of values.''
The previous
year,
Mr. Polonsky had
won
an Oscar nomination
for writing the
screenplay
for ''Body and Soul,''
in which
Garfield played
a money-mad boxer.
In the early
1950's,
Mr. Polonsky
refused to testify
about his
Communist
Party affiliations
or name party
members.
His refusal prompted
20th Century Fox
to fire him.
He was then
unable to find work
under his own
name
for nearly two decades;
he had only nine
films
to his credit.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/29/
movies/abraham-polonsky-88-dies-director-damaged-by-blacklist.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/
movies/the-blacklist-at-lincoln-center-and-anthology-film-archives.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/29/
movies/abraham-polonsky-88-dies-director-damaged-by-blacklist.html
Leslie Clark Stevens IV USA
1924-1998
writer,
director and producer
who achieved
success
on Broadway,
in Hollywood
and
on television
with plays like
''The Marriage-Go-Round,''
films like
''The
Left-Handed Gun''
and television
series like
''The Outer
Limits''
(...)
Mr. Stevens
first made his
mark
Off Broadway
in 1953 with
''Bullfight,''
and after
several
other productions
he succeeded on
Broadway
with the 1958
comedy
''The
Marriage-Go-Round.''
That same year,
he went to
Hollywood
and wrote,
co-produced
and directed his
first film,
''Private
Property.''
This inspection
of a Don Juan
who plots the
seduction
of a well-to-do
housewife
was a success
that brought
Mr. Stevens
to 20th Century
Fox
to adapt
''The
Marriage-Go-Round''
(1960).
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/01/
arts/leslie-stevens-74-entertainment-producer-director-and-writer.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/01/
arts/leslie-stevens-74-entertainment-producer-director-and-writer.html
Alan Jay Pakula USA
1928-1998
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/nov/19/
the-parallax-view-kennedy-assassination
Shirley Clarke
USA
1919-1997
Dancer,
bride,
runaway wife,
radical filmmaker
and pioneer
— Shirley Clarke
is one of the great
undertold stories
of American independent
cinema.
A woman working
in a predominantly male world,
a white director who turned
her camera on black subjects,
she was a Park Avenue rich girl
who willed herself to become
a dancer and a
filmmaker,
ran away to bohemia,
hung out with the Beats
and held to her own vision
in
triumph and defeat.
She helped inspire
a new film movement
and made urgently
vibrant work that blurs
fiction and nonfiction,
only to be marginalized,
written out of histories
and dismissed
as a dilettante.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/
movies/the-shirley-clarke-project-by-milestone-films.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/
movies/the-shirley-clarke-project-by-milestone-films.html
Fred Zinnemann
AUS / USA
1907-1997
director
who
grappled
with issues
of moral courage
in such Academy
Award-winning films
as ''From Here to Eternity''
in 1953
and ''A Man for
All Seasons''
in 1966
(...)
Mr. Zinnemann
also filmed ''The Search,''
a poignant 1948
account
of the plight of Europe's
war orphans;
''The Men,''
Carl Foreman's
compassionate 1950 study
of paraplegic veterans,
and Foreman's
suspenseful western
''High Noon,''
which won
the
1952 best-director
and best-movie awards
from the New
York critics.
''From Here to
Eternity,''
Dalton Trumbo's
forceful adaptation
of James Jones's
novel
about the prewar Army,
won eight Oscars
and earned
Mr. Zinnemann
best-director awards
from both
the
New York Film Critics
and the Screen Directors Guild.
''A Man for All
Seasons,''
Robert Bolt's drama
about Sir Thomas
More's
steadfast defiance
of Henry VIII,
won six Academy
Awards
and the best-director
and best-movie
awards
from the New York critics.
At the core
of
Mr. Zinnemann's
finest films
lay a crisis
of
moral courage
that challenged
a character
to face his
conscience
and test his integrity.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/15/movies/fred-zinnemann-director-of-many-classics-dies-at-89.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/15/
movies/fred-zinnemann-director-of-many-classics-dies-at-89.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/cinemasexiles/biographies/the-directors/biography-fred-zinnemann/109/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/18/john-patterson-from-here-to-eternity
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/15/
movies/fred-zinnemann-director-of-many-classics-dies-at-89.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1952/07/25/
archives/the-screen-in-review-high-noon-a-western-of-rare-achievement-is-new.html
Samuel
Fuller USA 1912-1997
Saul Bass
USA
1920-1996
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/
arts/design/saul-bass-made-the-title-sequence-into-a-film-star.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/21/
archives/ants-are-the-stars-of-phase-iv-the-cast.html
Louis Malle FR / USA
1932-1995
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Malle
Ida Lupino UK / USA
1918-1995
earthy,
intelligent
movie actress
who created
a
luminous gallery
of worldly wise
villainesses,
gangster's molls
and hand-wringing
neurotics
(...)
In the early
1950's,
she directed
and
helped write
successful
low-budget movies
on such
sensitive issues
as illegitimacy
("Not Wanted"),
rape
("Outrage")
and pathological murder
("The Hitch-Hiker").
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/05/
obituaries/ida-lupino-film-actress-and-director-is-dead-at-77.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/05/
obituaries/ida-lupino-film-actress-and-director-is-dead-at-77.html
Lindsay Gordon
Anderson UK 1923-1994
Lindsay Anderson's
tragedy
was that his combative
temperament,
allied with a total
refusal
to compromise,
resulted
in so many battles
and so few films.
His natural domain
was the
moral
high ground,
from which
he looked down
at
everyone else
with the arrogance
of a
cultural laird.
Ask anyone
who knew Anderson
or had dealings with him
and one word tends
to spring
to mind
- 'prickly'.
He was a difficult man,
but intensely likeable
and
invigorating to be with;
and he may well have been
the single most
important individual
in the post-war British
cinema.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lindsay-anderson-1445974.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lindsay-anderson-1445974.html
Michael Derek Elworthy
Jarman UK 1942-1994
Over three decades
from the
70s
to the 90s,
Derek Jarman
had carved out
a reputation
as Britain's leading
experimental film-maker,
an artist-poet
of the screen
who gave us films
such as Sebastiane,
Caravaggio
and The Garden.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/apr/11/tilda-swinton-gospel-according-to-saint-derek-jarman
http://www.theguardian.com/film/derek-jarman
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2020/feb/19/
derek-jarman-and-friends-in-dungeness-unseen-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/apr/11/
tilda-swinton-gospel-according-to-saint-derek-jarman
http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/apr/10/
the-gospel-according-to-st-derek-jarman-documentary-video
http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2008/feb/26/derek.jarman
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/nov/02/arts.artsnews
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz USA
1909-1993
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/24/
movies/the-sometimes-bumpy-ride-of-being-joseph-mankiewicz.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/06/
movies/joseph-l-mankiewicz-literate-skeptic-of-the-cinema-dies-at-83.html
John Eliot Sturges
USA
1911-1992
director of
action films
like "The Magnificent Seven,"
"The Great
Escape,"
"Gunfight at the O K Corral"
and "Ice Station
Zebra"
(...)
Mr. Sturges's
movies
were often
mean and muscular
and celebrated
situations
involving tough men
in desperate situations.
He gave starring
roles
to Steve McQueen,
Charles Bronson
and James Coburn
in "The
Magnificent Seven"
in 1960
and "The
Great Escape"
in 1963.
Lee Marvin
and
Ernest Borgnine
earned wide
recognition
in "Bad Day at Black Rock,"
for which Mr.
Sturges
was nominated
for an Academy
Award
for direction in 1955.
(...)
Mr. Sturges
directed
more than
40 documentary films
when he was
in
the Army Air Corps
in World War II.
He enjoyed
making movies
about the war
and once said
they were about
"why our side won."
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/22/arts/john-sturges-film-director-is-dead-at-82.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/22/
arts/john-sturges-film-director-is-dead-at-82.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1963/08/08/
archives/screen-pows-in-great-escapeinmates-of-nazi-camp-are-stereotypical.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1960/11/24/
archives/screen-on-japanese-idea-magnificent-seven-a-us-western-opens.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1955/02/02/
archives/screen-drama-at-rivoli-spencer-tracy-seen-in-bad-day-at-black-rock.html
Jack Arnold USA 1916-1992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Arnold_(director)
Cecil Antonio Richardson
UK 1928-1991
known as Tony Richardson
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/apr/10/
how-we-made-a-taste-of-honey-rita-tushingham
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/30/
look-back-in-anger-review-john-osbourne-tony-richardson-richard-burton
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/aug/30/
tony-richardson-classics-mademoiselle
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/mar/27/
featuresreviews.guardianreview15
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/mar/22/
artsfeatures
William Gerald
Forbes (Bill) Douglas UK
1934-1991
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/18/
comrades-tolpuddle-martyrs-bill-douglas
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/jun/27/
dvdreviews.drama
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/jun/20/
filmandmusic1.filmandmusic5
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/jun/20/
filmandmusic1.filmandmusic6
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/18/
movies/movie-trilogy-on-a-life.html
Donald Siegel USA
1912-1991
http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/oct/30/
why-invasion-of-the-bodysnatchers-is-the-film-to-watch-this-week-video-review
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/23/killers-lee-marvin-ronald-reagan-dvd
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/movies/13mccarthy.html
Frank Russell
Capra ITA / USA 1897-1991
(born
Francesco Rosario Capra)
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0518.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/14/
its-a-wonderful-life-review-frank-capra-christmas-rerelease
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/
movies/its-a-wonderful-life-review.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1946/12/23/
archives/the-screen-in-review-at-three-theatres-its-a-wonderful-life-with.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1939/10/20/
archives/the-screen-in-review-frank-capras-mr-smith-goes-to-washington-at.html
Richard Thorpe USA
1896-1991
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thorpe
Alan Clarke
UK 1935-1990
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/448390/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Clarke
Michael Latham Powell
UK
1905-1990
https://www.theguardian.com/film/michael-powell
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/05/
thelma-schoonmaker-a-matter-of-life-and-death-scorsese-powell-and-pressburger
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/04/
war-love-and-wierdness-a-matter-of-life-and-death-70-years-on
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/aug/18/
edge-of-the-world-by-michael-powell-a-gripping-voyage-into-the-past
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/21/
tales-of-hoffmann-dvd-review-philip-french-powell-pressburger-purest-film
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/may/20/
life-death-colonel-blimp-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/nov/16/
peeping-tom-pornography-press-camera
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/may/14/
scorsese-michael-powell-red-shoes
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/apr/22/
jack-cardiff-black-narcissus-cinematographer
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jan/19/
kathleen-byron
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/aug/05/3
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jul/23/
film.jgballard
Martin Ritt
USA 1914-1990
director admired
for making films
that explored
moral choices
and reflected
concern for racially
and economically
oppressed people
(...)
Beginning in
1957,
Mr. Ritt
directed
and occasionally
co-produced
25
diverse films,
including
"Edge
of the City,"
"The Long Hot
Summer,"
"Hud,"
"The Spy Who
Came In
From the Cold,"
"Sounder,"
"Pete
'n' Tillie,"
"Norma Rae,"
"Murphy's
Romance,"
"Nuts"
and "Stanley and
Iris."
Most of his
films
were quietly
moving studies
of human
relationships,
punctuated
by
periodic hits
that gave the
husky,
tough-minded
director
freedom to deal
with social issues
and the
alienation
of outsiders.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/11/
obituaries/martin-ritt-director-dead-at-76-maker-of-socially-conscious-films.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/11/
obituaries/martin-ritt-director-dead-at-76-maker-of-socially-conscious-films.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/02/
archives/film-norma-rae-milltown-storyunionism-in-the-south.html
Jack Smith
USA
1932-1989
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/sep/23/
jack-smith-muse-maria-montez
Franklin J. Schaffner
USA
1920-1989
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/03/
obituaries/franklin-j-schaffner-dies-at-69-an-oscar-winning-film-director.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/17/
archives/the-screen-papillonescapist-film-stars-mcqueen-hoffman.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/1968/mar/22/features
- Planet of the Apes - 1968
John Nicholas Cassavetes
GR / USA
1929-1989
https://www.theguardian.com/film/johncassavetes
https://www.theguardian.com/film/Century_Of_Films/Story/0,,365683,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/
movies/ben-gazzara-actor-of-stage-and-screen-dies-at-81.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/14/
archives/a-woman-under-influence-stars-gena-rowlands-as-frenetic-wifethe.html
Sergio Leone ITA
1929-1989
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/sep/19/2
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/01/
movies/film-once-upon-a-time-inamerica.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1969/05/29/
archives/once-upon-the-time-in-west.html
Hal Ashby
USA
1929-1988
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Ashby
Emeric Pressburger HUN / UK
1902-1988
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/05/
thelma-schoonmaker-a-matter-of-life-and-death-scorsese-powell-and-pressburger
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/04/
war-love-and-wierdness-a-matter-of-life-and-death-70-years-on
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/21/
tales-of-hoffmann-dvd-review-philip-french-powell-pressburger-purest-film
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/may/20/
life-death-colonel-blimp-review
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/apr/22/
jack-cardiff-black-narcissus-cinematographer
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jan/19/
kathleen-byron
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/sep/26/2
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/apr/20/
michael-powell
Robert Louis Fosse / Bob Fosse USA
1927-1987
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/11/
archives/lenny-with-dustin-hoffman-is-one-fourth-brilliant.html
Ralph Nelson
USA 1916-1987
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/jul/20/features
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/25/
obituaries/ralph-nelson-early-tv-director-made-requiem-for-heavyweight.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/13/
archives/candice-bergen-stars-in-violent-western-two-other-films-open-at.html
*****
Andy Warhol
USA
1928-1987
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/18/
andy-warhol-at-the-tate-gallery-18-february-1971
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/arts/design/digitizing-warhols-film-trove-to-save-it.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/movies/louis-waldon-actor-in-warhol-films-dies-at-78.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/arts/artsspecial/11angell.html
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/89507
Clarence Brown
USA
1890-1987
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/apr/18/
artsfeatures1
John Marcellus
Huston USA 1906-1987
https://www.theguardian.com/film/john-huston
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/may/11/
anjelica-john-huston-african-queen
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/17/
movies/film-the-dead-by-huston.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/13/
movies/film-huston-s-under-the-volcano.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1961/02/02/
archives/gable-and-monroe-star-in-script-by-miller.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1948/07/17/
archives/the-screen-key-largo-remake-of-drama-by-anderson-with-bogart-and.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/10/04/
archives/the-maltese-falcon-a-fast-mysterythriller-with-quality-and-charm-at.html
Douglas Sirk USA
1900-1987
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/
movies/homevideo/15kehr.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/16/obituaries/
douglas-sirk-made-magnificent-obsession.html
Otto Ludwig Preminger AUSTR/HUNG - USA
1905-1986
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/24/
obituaries/otto-preminger-80-dies-producer-and-director.html
https://www.amazon.com/Preminger-autobiography-Otto/dp/0385034806
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/movies/homevideo/
new-on-disc-premingers-bunny-lake-is-missing-and-skidoo.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/24/
obituaries/otto-preminger-80-dies-producer-and-director.html
Vincente
Minnelli USA 1903-1986
Vincente Minnelli
('s)
deft intermingling
of song,
dance and
plot
made him one
of the greatest
directors
of Hollywood
musicals,
(...)
Mr. Minnelli
won
an Academy
Award
for directing
''Gigi''
in 1958.
The prize was one
of nine Oscars
for
the picture,
the most any movie
had won until
then.
Among the other
Oscars for ''Gigi''
was the one
for
best film
of the year,
which Mr.
Minnelli's
1951 movie
''An American in
Paris''
also received.
The director's
other notable
film
musicals
included
''The
Band Wagon''
(1953),
''Meet Me in St.
Louis''
(1944)
and ''The Pirate''
(1948).
The latter two
starred
the tempestuous
singer-actress
Judy Garland,
to whom
he was
married
from 1945 to 1951.
Their daughter, Liza,
inherited Mr.
Minnelli's
large dark eyes
and Miss Garland's
stage talents
and won
an Academy Award
herself,
for her
performance
in ''Cabaret''
(1972).
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/26/
obituaries/vincente-minnelli-dies-famed-director-was-76.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/feb/11/
derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm.derekmalcolm
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/26/
obituaries/vincente-minnelli-dies-famed-director-was-76.html
https://www.nytimes.com/watching/titles/the-band-wagon - 1953
https://www.nytimes.com/1944/11/29/
archives/the-screen-meet-me-in-st-louis-a-period-film-that-has-charm-with.html
John Boulting
UK
1913-1985
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/508434/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/may/19/
features.review1
Henry Hathaway USA 1898-1985
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/11/
true-grit-john-wayne-1969-henry-hathaway
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/13/
arts/henry-hathaway-dies-at-86-directed-more-than-60-films.html
Orson Welles USA 1915-1985
Joseph Losey USA / UK
1909-1984
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/mar/27/
the-servant-homosexuality-harold-pinter
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jun/21/
joseph-losey-the-servant-bfi
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jun/05/
accident-film-review-dirk-bogarde
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/may/24/
joseph-losey-film-director
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/02/
featuresreviews.guardianreview15
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/19/
archives/screen-figures-in-a-landscape-bowslosey-work-appears-at-festival.html
Sam Peckinpah USA 1925-1984
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/29/
obituaries/sam-peckinpah-movie-director-dies.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/18/
the-wild-bunch-at-50-sam-peckinpah-enduring-nihilism-western
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/30/
bloody-sam-peckinpah-wasted-insane-wild-bunch
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/
movies/rod-lurie-remakes-peckinpahs-straw-dogs.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/dec/27/
sam-peckinpah-alfredo-garcia
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/29/
obituaries/sam-peckinpah-movie-director-dies.html
Thorold Barron Dickinson
UK 1903-1984
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/15/
gaslight-thorold-dickinson-classic-dvd
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/jan/28/
slade-film-school-studies-ucl
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/oct/04/
art.film.thorolddickinson
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/nov/07/1
George Dewey Cukor USA 1899-1983
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/
arts/gaslight-movie-afterlife.html
http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2015/feb/12/
philadelphia-story-film-you-should-watch-video-review
https://www.nytimes.com/1944/05/05/
archives/gaslight-adapted-from-play-angel-street-at-capitol-hardys-blonde.html
Robert Aldrich USA 1918-1983
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/07/
obituaries/robert-aldrich-film-director-who-made-the-dirty-dozen.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/
movies/homevideo/robert-aldrichs-vera-cruz-and-kiss-me-deadly-on-dvd.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/jun/16/2
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/13/
movies/critic-s-choice-film-the-absolutely-noirest-of-the-noir.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/11/
movies/critic-s-notebook-a-brash-outsider-inside-hollywood.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/07/
obituaries/robert-aldrich-film-director-who-made-the-dirty-dozen.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/16/
archives/ulzanas-raidaldrich-directs-cast-led-by-lancaster.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1968/12/17/
archives/screen-sister-georgerobert-aldrich-directs-film-of-marcus-play.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1962/11/07/
archives/screen-bette-davis-and-joan-crawfordthey-portray-sisters-in.html
https://www.criterion.com/films/27620-kiss-me-deadly - 1955
https://www.nytimes.com/1954/12/27/
archives/gary-cooper-and-burt-lancaster-star-in-vera-cruz-at-the-capitol.html
King Wallis Vidor
USA
1894-1982
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/02/
obituaries/king-vidor-88-director-of-films-for-more-than-40-years-is-dead.html
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tree-Autobiography-King-Vidor/dp/0573606021
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/02/
obituaries/king-vidor-88-director-of-films-for-more-than-40-years-is-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/03/
archives/long-live-vidor-a-hollywood-king-long-live-vidor-who-was-a-king-of.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1947/05/08/
archives/duel-in-the-sun-selznicks-lavish-western-that-stars-jennifer-jones.html
William Wyler
GER / USA
1902-1981
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/29/
obituaries/wyler-is-dead-at-79-director-had-won-3-academy-awards.html
Terence Fisher
UK
1904-1980
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Fisher
Raoul Walsh
USA
1887-1980
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/03/
obituaries/raoul-walsh-93-dead-early-director-of-movies.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/
movies/homevideo/new-dvds-the-thief-of-bagdad-and-chronicle-of-a-summer.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1940/07/27/
archives/the-screen-they-drive-by-night-is-tough-stuff-at-the-strand-in.html
Barbara Loden
USA
1932-1980
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/01/
archives/young-wife-fulfills-herself-as-a-robberbarbara-lodens-film-opens-at.html
Lewis Milestone
(born Lev Milstein) MOLD / USA 1895-1980
https://www.theguardian.com/film/News_Story/
Critic_Review/Observer_review/0,,1081200,00.html
- 9 November 2003
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/nov/03/1
Erle C. Kenton USA
1896-1980
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/
movies/homevideo/new-on-blu-ray-erle-c-kentons-island-of-lost-souls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1944/12/16/
archives/at-the-rialto.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1942/04/04/
archives/the-screen-that-monsters-back.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1942/03/12/
archives/at-the-rialto.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/10/14/
archives/at-the-rialto.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/06/05/
archives/at-the-central.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1939/10/06/
archives/the-screen-four-films-in-review-ingrid-bergman-of-sweden-makes-her.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1937/02/15/
archives/the-screen-del-rio-dix-and-morris-in-devils-playground-at-the.html
https://criterioncast.com/podcast/episode-128-
erle-kentons-the-island-of-lost-souls - movie released in 1932
https://www.nytimes.com/1931/03/02/
archives/the-screen-killing-the-killer-chronicle-of-mother-love-movietone.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1925/10/20/
archives/trouble-and-love.html
Nicholas Ray USA
1911-1979
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/18/
archives/nicholas-ray-67-director-of-films-johnny-guitar-rebel-without-a.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/
movies/homevideo/wim-wenderss-the-american-friend.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/movies/17ray.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/News_Story/
Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,4267,1094468,00.html - 28 November
2003
https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/mar/25/derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm.derekmalcolm
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/dec/27/penelope-houston
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/18/
archives/nicholas-ray-67-director-of-films-johnny-guitar-rebel-without-a.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1956/08/03/
archives/screen-tax-of-tedium-bigger-than-life-has-debut-at-victoria.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1955/10/27/
archives/the-screen-delinquency-rebel-without-cause-has-debut-at-astor.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1954/05/28/
archives/the-screen-in-review-johnny-guitar-opens-at-the-mayfair.html
Ernest Beaumont
Schoedsack USA 1893-1979
https://www.nytimes.com/1933/03/03/
archives/a-fantastic-film-in-which-a-monstrous-ape-uses-automobiles-for.html
Robert Florey FR / USA
1900-1979
https://www.nytimes.com/1949/09/05/
archives/at-the-globe.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/02/07/
archives/at-the-rialto.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1938/10/07/
archives/the-screen-king-of-alcatraz-rules-the-screen-of-the-criterionthe.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1933/05/15/
archives/without-benefit.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1932/02/11/
archives/after-edgar-allan-poe.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1929/05/25/
archives/the-screen.html
Mark Robson CAN
1913-1978
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/22/
archives/mark-robson-film-director-dies-did-champion-and-earthquake-praised.html
Howard Hawks USA
1896-1977
https://www.theguardian.com/film/howardhawks
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/sep/24/
why-i-love-first-scene-his-girl-friday
https://www.nytimes.com/1946/08/24/
archives/the-screen-the-big-sleep-warner-film-in-which-bogart-and-bacall-are.html
Delmer Lawrence Daves
USA 1904-1977
https://www.nytimes.com/1947/09/06/
archives/dark-passage-warner-thriller-in-which-humphrey-bogart-and-lauren.html
Charles Spencer
Chaplin Jr. UK / USA 1889-1977
Motion
Picture Production - Directors At Work
[ Note from Anglonautes >
Marlon Brando (L) with Charlie Chaplin (R),
possibly during the shooting of
A Countess from Hong Kong,
a 1967 film directed by Charlie Chaplin ]
Date taken: 1966
Photographer:
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=5a994d832309b144 - broken link
https://www.theguardian.com/film/charliechaplin
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/charles-chaplin
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/30/
reviews/chaplin-obit.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/
opinion/hollywood-movies-1919.html
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/dec/08/charlie-chaplin-los-angeles
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/
movies/homevideo/charlie-chaplin-in-the-gold-rush-remastered.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/feb/17/1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/28/charlie-chaplin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/mar/06/charlie-chaplin-film
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/30/
reviews/chaplin-obit.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1969/12/16/
archives/little-trampcircus-28-film-with-chaplin-is-revived.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1952/10/24/
archives/the-screen-chaplins-limelight-opens-charlie-chaplin-in-limelight.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1940/10/16/
archives/the-screen-in-review-the-great-dictator-by-and-with-charlie-chaplin.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/1936/jul/14/
derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm
https://www.nytimes.com/1936/02/06/
archives/heralding-the-return-after-an-undue-absence-of-charlie-chaplin-in.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1931/02/07/
archives/chaplin-hilarious-in-his-city-lights-tramps-antics-in-nondialogue.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1925/08/17/
archives/the-screen-charlie-chaplins-new-comedy.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1923/02/23/
archives/form-mew-cinema-group-fairbanks-chaplin-griffith-and-others-to.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1921/01/22/
archives/the-screen.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immigrant_(1917_film)
Dalton Trumbo USA
1905-1976
Trumbo
(...)
was
one
of 10 filmmakers
– the so-called
Hollywood Ten –
who were cited
for
contempt of Congress
in 1947
when they refused
to testify about
their political beliefs
before the House
Un-American
Activities Committee;
he served
11
months in prison
and was
effectively unable
to continue working
in the film industry.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/
dalton-trumbos-screenwriting-credit-restored-to-roman-holiday/
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/28/
546730779/celebrating-30-years-of-fresh-air-the-kirk-douglas-interview
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/
movies/trumbo-recalls-the-ghoul
s-and-the-hunted-of-hollywood.html
https://www.npr.org/2015/11/06/
454996142/bryan-cranston-becomes-blacklisted-screenwriter-dalton-trumbo-in-new-biopic
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/
movies/review-bryan-cranston-in-trumbo-as-a-screenwriter-in-a-hollywood-under-siege.html
https://www.npr.org/2015/11/05/
453960594/in-trumbo-bryan-cranston-brings-a-long-uncredited-writer-to-life
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/05/
453960594/in-trumbo-bryan-cranston-brings-a-long-uncredited-writer-to-life
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/
dalton-trumbos-screenwriting-credit-restored-to-roman-holiday/
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=91576667 - June 17, 2008
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/aug/09/
features.features11
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/jun/11/
johnpatterson
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/18/
movies/spartacus-a-classic-restored.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/17/
archives/the-screen-papillonescapist-film-stars-mcqueen-hoffman.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/05/
archives/pacifist-strategy-of-johnny-got-his-gun.html
Fritz Lang AUS / GER / USA
1890-1976
https://www.theguardian.com/film/fritz-lang
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/
movies/dr-mabuse-the-gambler.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/27/
ive-never-seen-metropolis-fritz-lang-film
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/
arts/fritz-lang-woman-in-the-moon.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/
movies/sam-fuller-and-fritz-lang-audacious-auteurs-of-noir.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/24/
the-big-heat-review-fritz-lang-1953-thriller-shocking-power
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/08/
destiny-review-fritz-lang-silent-melodrama-love-death
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/07/
spione-review-fritz-lang-philip-french-classic-dvd
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/23/f
ritz-lang-woman-in-the-moon-dvd-review-philip-french
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/
movies/homevideo/fritz-langs-hangmen-must-die-and-man-hunt-on-blu-ray.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/07/
m-review-timeless-portrayal-crime-punishment
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/04/
m-review-fritz-lang
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/
movies/23dargis.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/movies/05metropolis.html
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/nov/30/artsfeatures2
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/jan/02/3
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/19/
archives/screen-contempt-opens-at-lincolnjeanluc-godard-film-lacks-his-style.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1948/01/16/
archives/on-the-screen-secret-beyond-the-door-with-joan-bennett-and-michael.html
Carol Reed UK
1906-1976
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2019/sep/05/
the-third-man-behind-the-scenes-film-noir-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/mar/16/1
Busby Berkeley USA
1895-1976
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/23/
busby-berkeley-dance-42nd-street-choreography-film-musicals
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. USA 1905-1976
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/
667391184/sex-lies-and-stardom-exploitation-in-howard-hughes-hollywood
William Augustus
Wellman USA 1896-1975
nearly legendary
Hollywood director
who
made 82 movies,
including “Wings,”
“Beau Geste,”
the
original “A Star Is Born,”
“Public Enemy”
and
the classic anti-lynching film,
“The Ox-Bow Incident,”
Mr.
Wellman
was
a handsome, roisterous,
tough-talking,
hard-drinking maverick,
whose own life story
might well have served
as
a screenplay for a film.
As
a youth
he
was put on probation
for car theft,
he
dropped out of high school
to
become a professional
ice
hockey player,
and
he was a World War I flying ace
as
a member
of
the storied Lafayette Escadrille.
Mr.
Wellman brought
his
direct knowledge of aviation
to
the making
of
the 1929 air war classic, “Wings,”
which gave Gary Cooper
his
first important movie role,
and
to several other films
on
flying subjects,
including
“The High and the Mighty”
and
“Gallant Journey.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/11/
archives/william-a-wellman-dies-directed-movie-classics.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/
movies/homevideo/william-a-wellmans-wings-with-clara-bow-on-blu-ray.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/11/
archives/william-a-wellman-dies-directed-movie-classics.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1943/05/10/
archives/the-screen-the-oxbow-incident-drama-of-mob-violence-with-dana.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1927/08/13/
archives/the-screen-the-flying-fighters.html
Ranald MacDougall
USA 1915-1973
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/14/
archives/ranald-mdougall-a-screen-writer-58.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1963/06/13/
archives/the-screen-cleopatra-has-premiere-at-rivoli4hour-epic-is-tribute-to.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1961/03/11/
archives/screen-beyond-belief-go-naked-in-the-world-opens-at-the-capitol.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1960/07/07/
archives/screen-subterraneanskerouacs-world-of-the-beatniks-on-view.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1959/05/21/
archives/screen-radioactive-city-the-world-the-flesh-and-the-devil-opens.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1957/08/23/
archives/screen-man-on-fire-crosby-has-difficult-role-in-state-film.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1955/07/08/
archives/were-no-angels-bows.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1954/05/29/
archives/at-the-victoria.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1951/12/08/
archives/the-screen-in-review-ill-never-forget-you-with-tyrone-power-ann.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1951/08/02/
archives/the-screen-in-review-mr-belvedere-rings-the-bell-with-clifton-webb.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1950/06/17/
archives/the-screen-in-review-bright-leaf-with-gary-cooper-as-tobacco.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1948/10/30/
archives/june-bride-with-bette-davis-and-robert-montgomery-opens-at-the.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1947/05/30/
archives/possessed-psychological-film-with-joan-crawford-as-the-star-opens.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1945/01/27/
archives/the-screen-objective-burma-a-realistic-and-excitingly-told-war-film.html
George Pearson UK 1875-1973
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/03/
lost-silent-film-love-life-and-laughter-dutch-archive-bfi
Merian Caldwell
Cooper USA 1893-1973
Hollywood director,
producer and author
who created “King Kong”
and spent three years
making a film of the 50-foot ape
who defied airplanes from a perch
atop the Empire State Building
(...)
In addition
to
a long and illustrious career
in
the film industry,
Mr.
Cooper had led an adventurous life
as
a pilot in France in World War I,
with the Kosciusko Squadron in Poland,
as
an explorer in Arabia; and Iran,
as
the innovator,
with Lowell Thomas, of Cinerama,
as
an airline director,
as
a general in the Air Force
and
as chief of staff
to
Gen. Claire L. Chennault
of
“Flying Tiger” fame.
It
was the film of “King Kong”
in
the early nineteen-thirties
that made his name known
throughout the world.
Mr.
Cooper
conceived the idea of the big ape
terrorizing civilization and wrote the story,
finishing work begun by Edgar Wallace,
the
mystery-story writer,
who
died before he had completed it.
The
film took three years to make,
with two years of the time
devoted to research.
There were superimposed shots,
enlarged miniatures
and
so many technical innovations
—three inventions used later
in
many films marked the research —
that progress was slow.
In addition to Fay Wray,
the
giant ape
—who was 18 inches tall
in
the miniature shots
but
had an 8-foot arm
for close-ups —
had
as co-stars Robert Armstrong
and
Bruce Cabot.
(...)
Mr. Cooper
made many other films
of
considerable merit,
among them “Grass,” “Chang,”
“Four Feathers,” “Little Women”
and
“Northwest Passage.”
Others included
“Flying Down to Rio,”
“The Last Days of Pompeii,”
“Lost Patrol,” “Fort Apache,”
“She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,”
“Wagon Master,”
“Rio Grande” and “Quiet Man.”
Over the years Hollywood's top stars
—Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn,
John Wayne, Fred Astaire
and
others by the dozen—
worked with and for Mr. Cooper.
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/22/
archives/merian-cooper-creator-of-king-kong-backed-civil-aviation.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/22/
archives/merian-cooper-creator-of-king-kong-backed-civil-aviation.html
John Ford USA 1894-1973
https://www.theguardian.com/film/johnford
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/01/
archives/john-ford-78-film-director-who-won-4-oscars-is-dead-daring-and.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/
movies/young-mr-lincoln-henry-fonda.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/
movies/07silent.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/01/
archives/john-ford-78-film-director-who-won-4-oscars-is-dead-daring-and.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1946/12/04/
archives/the-screen-darling-clementine-with-henry-fonda-as-marshal-of.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/10/29/
archives/a-beautiful-and-affecting-film-achievement-is-how-green-was-my.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1940/01/25/
archives/the-screen-in-review-twentieth-centuryfox-shows-a-flawless-film.html
Robert Siodmak
USA
1900-1973
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/12/
archives/robert-siodmak-film-director-72-master-of-lowkeysuspense-in-the.html
William Dieterle
USA
1893-1972
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/16/
archives/william-dieterle-is-dead-at-79-a-director-of-stage-and-screen.html
Edgar G. Ulmer
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY / USA
1904-1972
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_G._Ulmer
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/
arts/black-cat-boris-karloff-bela-lugosi.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/
movies/a-bmovie-auteur-toiling-in-hollywoods-shadows.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1934/05/19/
archives/not-related-to-poe.html
Harold Clayton
Lloyd USA 1893-1971
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/21/
archives/harold-lloyd-18931971.html
Basil Dearden (born Basil Clive Dear)
UK 1911-1971
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jul/20/
victim-review-dirk-bogarde-basil-dearden-gay-drama-rerelease
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/oct/11/2
Josef von
Sternberg AUSTRIA / USA 1894-1969
(born Jonas Sternberg)
hhttps://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/04/
archives/josef-von-sternberg-1894-1969.html
ttps://www.nytimes.com/1935/05/04/
archives/the-paramount-presents-mr-von-sternbergs-the-devil-is-a-woman-on.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1934/09/15/
archives/mr-von-sternberg-presents-miss-dietrich-and-the-scarlet-empress-at.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1932/02/18/
archives/marlene-dietrich-in-a-brilliantly-directed-melodrama-set-aboard-a.html
Karl W. Freund
GER / USA 1890-1969
https://www.nytimes.com/1969/05/06/
archives/karl-freund-oscarwinning-cameraman-for-the-good-earfh-dies-af-79.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1933/01/07/
archives/life-after-3700-years.html
Thomas Leo McCarey USA
1898-1969
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/
movies/with-seriously-funny-moma-celebrates-leo-mccarey-an-early-film-talent.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/
movies/homevideo/21kehr.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/
movies/film-a-kind-man-who-became-a-hard-man.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1969/07/06/
archives/leo-mccarey-director-is-dead-j-won-oscars-or-fgoing-my-wayj-was.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1957/07/20/
archives/the-screen-an-affair-to-remember-stewart-granger-stars-in-gun-glory.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1948/09/17/
archives/gary-cooper-plays-good-sam-in-leo-mccareys-production-at-radio-city.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1946/06/17/
archives/show-world-tops-salaries-for-1944-leo-mccarey-with-1113035-highestc.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1940/05/31/
archives/the-screen-my-favorite-wife-a-lively-farce-with-cary-grant-and.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1939/03/17/
archives/the-screen-love-affair-a-bittersweet-romance-opens-at-the-music.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1933/11/23/
archives/the-four-marx-brothers.html
Michael Reeves
UK
1944-1969
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/507493/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/
Century_Of_Films/Story/0,,408045,00.html - 7 December 2000
Alice Guy-Blaché
FR / USA 1873-1968
starting in
1896,
she made
around
1,000 films,
constantly pushing
visual and thematic
boundaries.
She experimented
with early
synchronized sound,
color
and special
effects.
She explored
gender, race and
class.
And she inspired
future giants
like Sergei
Eisenstein,
Alfred Hitchcock
and Agnès Varda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/
movies/alice-guy-blache-be-natural.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/20/
why-was-pioneering-director-alice-guy-blache-erased-from-film-making-history
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/
movies/alice-guy-blache-be-natural.html
Anthony Mann
USA
1906-1967
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/mar/23/
artsfeatures1
https://www.nytimes.com/1955/09/01/
archives/screen-stewart-out-west-plays-heroic-stoic-in-man-from-laramie.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1950/06/08/
archives/the-screen-in-review-cowboy-wins-loses-recovers-rifle-in-winchester.html
Buster Keaton / Joseph Frank
Keaton Jr. USA 1895-1966
https://www.theguardian.com/film/busterkeaton
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/31/
silent-witness-unseen-buster-keaton-sketches-underline-his-comic-genius
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/10/
473536101/buster-keaton-and-samuel-beckett-walk-into-a-movie-studio
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/sep/07/
silent-era-film-stars-risked-their-lives-doing-film-stunts
http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/jan/23/
the-general-buster-keaton-film-video-review
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/01/
archives/buster-keatons-fivestar-general-keatons-fivestar-general.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/21/
archives/buster-keaton-in-becketts-first-film.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1928/09/17/
archives/the-screen-mystery-ships-a-sympathetic-robber-keaton-and-our-gang.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1927/02/08/
archives/the-screen-a-civil-war-farce.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1924/05/26/
archives/the-screen-love-after-forty.html
Walter Elias
"Walt" Disney USA
1901-1966

"Snow White," released in 1937,
was a big gamble.
It cost over $2 million to make,
but paid off by earning $7
million,
about $117 million in today's
dollars.
Walt Disney Productions
Walt Disney, a Visionary Who Was
Crazy Like a Mouse
NYT
SEPT. 12, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/
business/media/walt-disney-a-visionary-who-was-crazy-like-a-mouse.html
http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2015/nov/04/
lost-disney-film-sleigh-bells-uncovered-after-almost-90-years-video
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/
business/media/walt-disney-a-visionary-who-was-crazy-like-a-mouse.html
Peter Lorre (Born
László Loewenstein) HUN / USA 1904-1964
https://www.nytimes.com/1935/08/05/
archives/the-screen-peter-lorre-in-his-first-american-photoplay-mad-love-on.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1933/04/03/
archives/the-daesseldorf-murders.html
Frank Borzage
USA 1894-1962
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/
movies/homevideo/09dvds.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/01/
movies/review-film-naivete-and-sophistication-join-in-a-1929-silent.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1929/07/22/
archives/the-screen-more-on-melodrama-etched-in-moonlight-from-sudermanns.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Angel_(1928_film)
Michael Curtiz
HUN
1886-1962
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jun/01/
the-sea-hawk-battles-hitler
https://www.nytimes.com/1942/11/27/
archives/casablanca-with-humphrey-bogart-and-ingrid-bergman-at-hollywood.html
Charles Albert
Browning, Jr. / Tod Browning USA
1880-1962
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/09/
tod-browning-freaks-banned
http://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/apr/15/
derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm.derekmalcolm
http://www.theguardian.com/film/movie/76209/freaks
https://www.nytimes.com/1932/07/09/
archives/the-circus-side-show.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1931/02/13/
archives/the-screen-bram-stokers-human-vampire.html
Charles Laughton UK
1899-1962
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/19/
night-of-the-hunter-review-mark-kermode
https://www.nytimes.com/1955/09/30/
archives/bogeyman-plus.html
Cecil Blount
DeMille USA 1881-1959

Portrait of movie dir. Cecil B. De Mille.
Location: Hollywood, CA, US
Date taken: 1945
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=4b06145866ccd210 - broken link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille
Maximillian
Oppenheimer - known as Max Ophüls GER
/ FR / USA
1902-1957
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/
movies/letter-from-an-unknown-woman-max-ophuls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/
movies/film-master-of-motion-and-emotion.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1948/04/29/
archives/the-screen-letter-from-unknown-woman-with-fontaine-and-jourdan.html
Erich Oswald Hans
Carl Maria von Stroheim AUSTRIA / USA
1885-1957
(born Erich Oswald
Stroheim)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Stroheim
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/01/
sunset-boulevard-what-billy-wilders-satire-really-tells-us-about-hollywood
https://www.nytimes.com/1928/10/15/
archives/the-screen-mr-von-stroheims-picture.html
James Whale
UK
1889-1957
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/apr/27/
the-old-dark-house-review-james-whale-horror-classic
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/
t-magazine/art/frankenstein-monster-queer-art.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/
movies/the-old-dark-house-james-whale-quad-cinema.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/
movies/29whale.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1935/05/11/
archives/at-the-roxy.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1932/10/28/
archives/boris-karloff-charles-laughton-and-raymond-massey-in-a-film-of.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1931/12/05/
archives/the-screen-a-manmade-monster-in-grand-guignol-film-story-lawrence.html
Cecil Hepworth
UK 1874-1953
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/450004/index.html
https://www.victorian-cinema.net/hepworth
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/may/31/
helen-of-four-gates-film
Victor Lonzo
Fleming USA 1889-1949
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/25/
883216627/gone-with-the-wind-returns-to-hbo-max-with-new-introduction
https://www.nytimes.com/1939/12/20/
archives/the-screen-in-review-david-selznicks-gone-with-the-wind-has-its.html
David Llewelyn
Wark Griffith / D.W. Griffith USA
1875-1948
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/
d-w-griffith-about-d-w-griffith/621/
https://www.nytimes.com/1948/07/24/
archives/david-w-griffith-film-pioneer-dies-producer-of-birth-of-nation.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/10/
lillian-gish-the-birth-of-a-nation-controversy-name-removed-cinema-ohio
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/
movies/101-years-ago-the-birth-of-a-nation-had-its-first-screenings.html
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=114237513 - Oct. 28, 2009
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/10/
lillian-gish-the-birth-of-a-nation-controversy-name-removed-cinema-ohio
https://www.npr.org/templates/story
/story.php?storyId=5377305 - May 2, 2006
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/
movies/101-years-ago-the-birth-of-a-nation-had-its-first-screenings.html
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/25/
451717690/birth-of-a-race-the-obscure-demise-of-a-would-be-rebuttal-to-racism
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/05/
birth-of-a-nation-100-year-anniversary-racism-cinema
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/mar/04/
the-film-that-makes-me-cry-the-mothering-heart
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/08/
383279630/100-years-later-whats-the-legacy-of-birth-of-a-nation
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/jul/29/
birth-of-a-nation-dw-griffith-masterpiece
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/
movies/film-forum-shows-d-w-griffiths-vast-intolerance.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/
movies/homevideo/birth-of-a-nation-born-again-for-dvd.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/jan/05/
culture.features1
https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/nov/25/3
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/14/
archives/miriam-cooper-walsh-84-star-in-birth-of-a-nation.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1948/07/24/
archives/david-w-griffith-film-pioneer-dies-producer-of-birth-of-nation.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1930/12/22/
archives/birth-of-a-nation-revived-dw-griffiths-film-with-sound-effects.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1923/02/23/
archives/form-mew-cinema-group-fairbanks-chaplin-griffith-and-others-to.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1922/09/17/
archives/griffith-film-stirs-anger-of-parisians-first-showing-of-orphans-of.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1922/03/24/
archives/london-sees-griffith-film-orphans-of-the-storm-shown-on-suspended.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1916/09/06/
archives/intolerance-impressive-dw-griffiths-new-picture-is-a-stupendous.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1915/03/28/
archives/five-dollar-movies-prophesied-d-w-griffith-says-they-are-sure-to.html
Ernst Lubitsch
GER / USA 1892-1947
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/cinemasexiles/biographies/the-directors/biography-
ernst-lubitsch/126/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/oct/04/festivals
Rupert Julian
NZ, AUS, USA 1879-1943
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Julian
https://www.nytimes.com/1925/09/07/
archives/the-screen.html
T. Hayes Hunter
USA 1884-1944
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Hayes_Hunter
https://www.nytimes.com/1934/01/27/
archives/back-from-the-grave.html
Edwin Stanton
Porter USA 1870-1941
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_S._Porter
https://www.victorian-cinema.net/porter
Lois Weber
USA 1879-1939
Counting shorts
and feature-length
movies,
she directed
at
least 138 films
— all before 1940.
She became
the first American
woman
to direct a feature-length
dramatic film with
The Merchant
of Venice
in 1914.
"In her day,
she was considered
one of the three great minds
of the early film
industry,
alongside D.W.
Griffith
and Cecil B.
DeMille,"
says Shelley
Stamp,
a film historian
at the University
of California, Santa Cruz.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/05/
682372051/lois-weber-hollywoods-forgotten-early-pioneer-has-2-films-restored
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/05/
682372051/lois-weber-hollywoods-forgotten-early-pioneer-has-2-films-restored
Paul Leni (born Paul Josef Levi) GER /
USA 1885-1929
German filmmaker
and
a key figure
in
German Expressionist
filmmaking,
making Backstairs
(Hintertreppe,
1921)
and
Waxworks
(Das Wachsfigurenkabinett,
1924)
in
Germany,
and
The Cat and the Canary
(1927),
The
Chinese Parrot
(1927),
The
Man Who Laughs
(1928),
and
The Last Warning
(1929)
in
the U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Leni - 14 October 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Leni
https://www.nytimes.com/1929/01/07/
archives/the-screen-a-nonchalant-sleuth-who-is-the-killer-giddy-comedy-the.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1928/04/28/
archives/the-screen-his-grim-grin.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1927/11/06/
archives/an-artist-and-stage-settings-paul-leni-seeks-to-reflect-character.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1927/09/10/
archives/the-screen.html
https://eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/
waxworks-das-wachsfigurenkabinett/ - movie released in 1924
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