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Alfred Hitchcock: Masters of Cinema Series by Bill Krohn
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Category: No Category | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Alfred Hitchcock (UK, 1899-1980) is undeniably the world's most famous film director. His name has become synonymous with the cinema, and each new generation takes the same pleasure in rediscovering his films, which are now treasures of our artistic heritage. Hitchcock started out in the British s ...Show more
Billy Wilder: Masters of Cinema Series by Paolo Mereghetti; Noël Simsolo
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Masters of Cinema Ser.
Billy Wilder (USA, 1906-2002) is an undisputed master of American comedy, taking situation comedy to the edge of the absurd in Some Like it Hot(1959). But he also made pessimistic melodramas such as Sunset Boulevard(1950), in which Gloria Swanson gives a moving performance as a fallen star, and a few fi ...Show more
Charlie Chaplin: Masters of Cinema Series by Jerome Larcher
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Masters of Cinema
Charlie Chaplin (UK, 1889-Switzerland, 1977) is one of cinema's mythical figures, while the character he played so often has become an icon. After a childhood in Dickensian London and early work on the stage, it was his move to Hollywood that enabled him to express his rich talent to the maximum, becomi ...Show more
Clint Eastwood: Masters of Cinema Series by Bernard Benoliel
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Clint Eastwood (USA, b. 1930) is a veteran among the grand masters of contemporary American cinema, whose rise through the system took a highly unusual form. After playing iconic roles in Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns of the 1960s, he returned to Hollywood and underwent a controversial reincarnation ...Show more
David Lynch: Masters of Cinema Series by Thierry Jousse
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
David Lynch (USA, b. 1946) is perhaps the best known of all cult directors, whose Mulholland Drive marks cinema's arrival to the 21st century. His career began more than 30 years ago, with the groundbreaking, mystifying "Eraserhead" (1977). With "Blue Velvet" (1986), "Wild at Heart" (1990) and "Lost Hig ...Show more
Ethan and Joel Coen by Ian Nathan
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Masters of Cinema | Reading Level: very good
Ethan Coen (b. 1957) and Joel Coen (b. 1954), known as the Coen brothers, are among the most creative of contemporary American directors. From their very first feature, Blood Simple (1984), to their most recent film, True Grit (2010), they have written, directed and produced their films jointly. Their s ...Show more
Federico Fellini: Masters of Cinema Series by Angel Quintana
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Masters of Cinema
Federico Fellini (Italy, 1920-1993) is a major figure in the history of cinema, who created his own highly personal and baroque cinematic language. He had his first major success in 1954 with "La Strada", in which his wife and favourite actress Giulietta Masina plays the unforgettable Gelsomina, an inno ...Show more
Ingmar Bergman: Masters of Cinema Series by Noel Simsolo
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Masters of Cinema
Ingmar Bergman (Sweden, 1918-2007) is, in the world of cinema, a giant whose stature is comparable to that of Beethoven or Dostoyevsky. He made around fifty feature films that caught the spirit of his times, while endlessly reworking his private obsessions and anguish in the face of a silent God. In Sum ...Show more
Orson Welles: Masters of Cinema Series by Paolo Mereghetti
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Masters of Cinema
Welles began his direting career in 1940, at the age of twenty-five, with Citizen Kane, an undisputed, ground-breaking masterpiece of cinema history. Welles' satture as a baroque, impetuous and profoundly free artist made the sudios uncomfortable. He had control of every detail on the twelve feature fil ...Show more
Pedro Almodovar: Masters of Cinema Series by Thomas Sotinel
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Masters of Cinema Ser.
Pedro Almodovar (Spain, b. 1951) single-handedly represents the revival of Spanish cinema as part of the cultural flowering of the Movida Madrilena in the 1980s. New York was first to hail the unbridled imagination of this provocative director, whose films are filled with transsexuals, neurotics ("Women ...Show more
Tim Burton: Masters of Cinema Series by Aurelien Ferenczi
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Tim Burton (USA, b. 1958) is the youngest of Hollywood's most successful directors. He has the knack of making films with a very broad appeal, taking the silliness out of the representation of children, while remaining in touch with the child within himself and his audiences. Burton emerged as a directo ...Show more
Woody Allen: Masters of Cinema Series by Florence Colombiani
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Woody Allen (USA, b. 1935) has been a major comic director since the 1970s. Writer, director and actor, his self-portrayal as a neurotic, intellectual, sex-obsessed, Jewish New Yorker seeking comfort in psychoanalysis brought him immense popular success and acknowledged status as a writer ("Manhattan", ...Show more
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