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Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa , 1910-98, Japanese film director, scriptwriter, and producer, b. Tokyo. He is regarded as one of the world's greatest directors. In Rashomon (1950), he introduced Western audiences to Japanese film. Its bleakly humanistic stance toward the slippery nature of truth and its highly... Read more |
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder 1906-2002, American film director, producer, and writer, b. Sucha, Galicia (now Poland) as Samuel Wilder. He wrote for films in Berlin, fled the Nazis, and arrived in Hollywood in 1934. After writing various screenplays, he directed his first film in 1942, and soon developed a... Read more |
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Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti , 1906-76, Italian film director and writer, b. Milan as Luchino Visconti de Modrone. One of Italy's most acclaimed directors, Visconti has been called the father of neorealism for his early films Ossessione (1942) and La terra trema (1948). His increasingly lavish productions... Read more |
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Steven Soderbergh
SODERBERGH, Steven Nationality:American. Born:14 January 1963, in Atlanta, Georgia. Education:High school graduate, 1980. Family:Married Betsy Brantley, 1989 (divorced, 1994); one daughter. Career:Did odd jobs while writing scripts and directing... Read more |
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Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo , 1933-, French film actor, b. Neuilly-sur-Seine, studied Paris Conservatory. Belmondo made his film debut in 1957, but first gained fame in Breathless (1960), playing a restless, flippant young hoodlum. His particularly disengaged style appealed to young audiences of the day,... Read more |
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Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock 1899-1980, English-American film director, writer, and producer, b. London. Hitchcock began his career as a director in 1925 and became prominent with The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938). In 1940 he began working in the United States. In his suspense thrillers,... Read more |
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Carl Stalling
STALLING, Carl Composer. Nationality:American. Career:1920s—accompanist for silent films; 1928—musical director at Walt Disney's studios; 1931–36—employed by Ub Iwerks's studio; 1936–57—musical director for Warner Bros. cartoons. Died:29 November... 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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Louis Malle
Louis Malle , 1932-95, French film director, b. Thumeries, France. Malle's motion pictures are noted for their nonjudgmental approach to often taboo material, for which he sought to cause the audience to reevaluate its attitudes. The Fire Within (1963), for example, concerns the last hours of a... Read more |
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Nature by design: ... how Disney's treatment of animals has altered our sense...
...Disney's nature films were part of...blasted the films' ecological...before seen in nature: a bonded pair...occurred in White Wilderness (1958). The film crew brought...much of the audience. ... |
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Disney Institute taps new audience for creative vacation experience.
...a brand new audience when it opens...at the Walt Disney World Resort. The Disney Institute is...an overnight wilderness adventure which...managed by the Nature Conservancy...into how Walt Disney told stories through ... |
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EARTH: TOO BIG TO FAIL.(Pasatiempo)
...Mexican Earth, nature documentary...3 chiles Walt Disney's "True...animals in the wilderness and let Mother...with feature films such as Winged...documentary find a wide audience beyond the local co-op. So when Disney ... |
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An environmental movement (possibly) raised on Disney cartoons
...unit for nature documentaries...These films have taught...policies and the films for distorted...angles the film's attachment...activities by Disney, which has...landmark film, the first of Disney's ... |
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Survivor films: Live or let die?
...action-survival film about a group...crashes in the icy wilderness. Whether audiences will embrace the film warmly remains...about man versus nature, but bad weather...villain, and the audience might start expecting...tried ... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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Human nature ; Herzog delves into soul of 'Grizzly Man'
...battles against nature and against society...himself in his films and thanks to...immersion into the wilderness has not been...That's the Disney approach...ranted against the Disney- ization of...very, very wide audience ... |
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'Arctic Tale' warms the heart; Not preachy, film is a gentle environmental...
...area between nature documentary and fictionalized wilderness adventure, not...to the young audiences it was made for...National Geographic Films. Nanu the polar...tradition of Disney wildlife movies...youth, and the film is ... |
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Walking a vine line `Tarzan' holds appeal for both adults and kids
...Disney animated films, this one is...members of the audience, who, like...older animated films, and unattainable...action process. Disney uses a process...in it. In the film, the infant...course almost all ... |
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FUNNY REMAKE OF 'HOMEWARD'.(Life & Leisure)
...today's young audience? Or, as with Disney World, Tokyo...and Euro-Disney, the company...the smack of Disney repetition...predictable, wilderness action to give...Reed Smoot's nature photography...the original ... |
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Why 'Up' should fly away with the best film award
...Russell, the Wilderness scout, intent on...out to make their audiences weep. Up marks...the evolution of Disney, from cute and...and onwards. Disney was never wary of...is Up. Not since Disney'sBeauty and the...ancient cultures and ... |
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