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Maya Deren
Maya Deren Maya Deren (1917-1961) wore many hats in her brief lifetime: avant-garde filmmaker, documentarian, author, and Voudoun priestess, to name a few. Her influence, especially in independent film, has not only endured but also increased in the decades following her death. Deren was a... Read more |
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Andrei Arsenievich Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was, arguably, the greatest filmmaker of his nation. While perhaps not the innovator that fellow Russian Sergei Eisenstein was, Tarkovsky nevertheless imbued each of his films with a poetry that embraced life and... Read more |
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Alexander Dovzhenko
Alexander Dovzhenko Soviet filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko (1894–1956) made several Russian–cinema classics of the 1920s and 1930s, but his heroic epics of peasants triumphing over a harsh, forbidding landscape never quite fully fit the political ideologies of the Stalinist era.... Read more |
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Saul Bass
Saul Bass The contributions of American designer Saul Bass (1920-1996) initiated a revolution in the film advertising industry. Where motion picture advertising was once an unrefined and artless trade, Bass endowed the craft with the sophistication of a bonafide art form. In the world of... Read more |
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Hans Richter
Hans Richter , 1888-1976, American artist, b. Germany. A painter and filmmaker, Richter was influenced by cubism and Dada and was a member of the Dutch de Stijl group (see Stijl, de ). His preoccupation with continuity led him first to scroll painting and then to the making of abstract films... Read more |
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Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir , 1894-1979, French film director and writer, b. Paris; son of Pierre Auguste Renoir. He made his first film in 1926. Gathering around him a devoted coterie of actors and technicians, Renoir developed a collective approach to filmmaking, favoring improvisational acting, open-air... Read more |
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder , 1946-82, German filmmaker, b. Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria. One of the most highly regarded and prolific directors of the post-World War II generation and a leading figure in modern German cinema, he began his career as an actor in Munich's avant-garde theater and... Read more |
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cinema verite
cinéma vérité a style of filmmaking that attempts to convey candid realism. Often employing lightweight, hand-held cameras and sound equipment, it shows people in everyday situations and uses authentic dialogue, naturalness of action, and a minimum of rearrangement for the... Read more |
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Peter Jackson
Jackson, Peter October 31, 1961 • Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand Filmmaker Peter Jackson made a name for himself in the movie industry with a small collection of gory, low-budget horror films including Dead Aliveand The Frighteners.He worked from... Read more |
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Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (born 1941) is considered to be one of the world's greatest animators. His naturalistic style has shaped the genre of animation both in Japan and around the world. Art Had Wartime Origins Born in Tokyo on January 5, 1941, Miyazaki spent his... Read more |
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Eisenstein's theory
...Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict...50 Sergei Eisenstein, who was born...reveals that Eisenstein was much more...once the 1917 revolution was under way...Bergan portrays Eisenstein as a man who...never-was, Que ... |
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Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict
...Eisenstein's life was particularly...the Russian revolution and, in particular...and tastes. Eisenstein, however...all else, Eisenstein was a voracious...recounts, Eisenstein developed a...Mexican film "Que ... |
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Master of montage celebrated in film series: Assessing his impact 100
...to quash the revolution by firing on...Mexico."Eisenstein: The Master...clips from Eisenstein's films...Both his life experience...sweeping look at Eisenstein's career...magnum opus, "Que Viva Mexico... |
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"Okonomien Der Zeit". (Reviews).(Brief Article)
...wastes it, is leading a life that is potentially subversive...visualization of a period in a life with documentation of...deals with the filming of Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico! (1931) and...possibility of real political ... |
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"Okonomien Der Zeit"
...wastes it, is leading a life that is potentially subversive...visualization of a period in a life with documentation of...deals with the filming of Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico! (1931) and...possibility of real political ... |
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FILM SNEAK PEEK VIEWS OF MEXICO HIGHLIGHT SERIES.(L.A. Life)
...tonight with ``Que Viva Mexico...director Sergei Eisenstein. The film...through the 1910 revolution. It is followed...documentary ``The Life and Death of...Kazan's ``Viva Zapata...Hawks film ``Viva Villa!'' ... |