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b. Southampton, England, 1927
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“Not one word of criticism written has ever altered in any way my scripts or my next project. I believe in what I’m doing wholeheartedly, passionately, and what’s more, I simply go about my business. I suppose such a thing can be annoying to some people.”
– Ken Russell
The idea that Ken Russell, most recently [...]
b. 4 April 1957, Orimattila, Finland
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Two Finns are in a bar. After hours of silence, one man raises his glass to the other and says, “Cheers.” The other man snaps back, “I didn’t come here for conversation.”
The world of Aki Kaurismäki undoubtedly owes much to the deadpan mien of his homeland, as evidenced in this [...]
b. February 4, 1914, London, England
d. August 3, 1995, Los Angeles, California, USA
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One of the most important auteurs in 1950s cinema is one of the most marginal: Ida Lupino. Even today, only two of her feature films, The Hitch-Hiker (1953) and The Trouble With Angels (1966), are available on DVD, and, although her [...]
b. 1948 Paris, France
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When you look at the hills, beyond the houses and beyond the trees, where the earth touches the sky, that’s the horizon. The closer you get to that line, the father it moves. If you walk towards it, it moves away. It flees from you. I must also explain this [...]
b. 1888 Berlin, Germany
d. 1976 Locarno, Switzerland
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Although its centre was Paris, the cinematic avant-garde that emerged after World War I originated in Germany. Composed almost exclusively of modern painters and photographers, the international experimental film movement mounted a sustained effort to extend the formal strategies of the various strands of post-war modernism to the cinema. [...]
b. November, 28, 1961, Mexico City, Mexico.
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Moviemakers these days work in a field undergoing many kinds of change, but perhaps the most notable is the collapse of the old notion of a ‘foreign film.’
- Elisabeth Eaves (1)
Up to 2008, only two of the six long features Alfonso Cuarón has directed had been produced [...]
b. 23 October, 1954, Pingtung County, Taiwan
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Ang Lee’s Fine Line Between East and West
Taiwan-born Ang Lee is that most unlikely of filmmakers: a man equally at home with Jane Austen or Marvel Comics, the American West or Qing Dynasty China, the family drama or myths of unrequited love. His appeal is broad, [...]
b. 15 December 1954, Liverpool, England
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Ever since Repo Man burst onto the scene in 1984, Alex Cox has been one of the most disruptive voices in Anglophone independent cinema. Although his public profile has diminished since he made his name in the 1980s with Repo Man and Sid and Nancy (1986), Cox [...]
