Tag: film

• The 300 Greatest Directors – 2024 Edition

  

  The position change in comparison to last year’s list is in brackets to the side. It should be noted these do not take into account 2024 releases. We are currently in the process of updating the site’s listings. This has taken longer than expected, so we’re publishing the list like this and will make the…

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  October 12, 2024

  Uncategorized

  awards, cinema, film, history, List Updated, Top 250 Directors, Top 300 Directors

• Separating Polly Platt and Peter Bogdanovich

  

  Challenging the narrative: Polly Platt, Peter Bogdanovich, and the truth behind their creative partnership. Examining the revisionist history of 70s cinema.

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  May 16, 2024

  Movie Talk

  film, movie-reviews, movies, New Hollywood, Peter Bogdanovich, Polly Platt, ryan-oneal

• Overlooked Gems: 5 Indie Filmmakers Who Should Have Been Given a Chance at Mainstream Success

  

  Discover 5 overlooked indie filmmakers who deserved mainstream success. Their gritty, raw, and unapologetic visions set them apart, yet they remained outside Hollywood’s spotlight. Explore their untold stories and what could have been.

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  March 25, 2024

  Filmmaker Lists, Lists

  Allison Anders, cinema, Eagle Pennell, entertainment, featured, film, George Armitage, movies, Tom DiCillo, Victor Nunez

• No French New Wave: Philippe Garrel and the Zanzibar Group

  

  The Zanzibar Group emerged from the student movements of May 1968 and helped usher in a new Post-French New Wave cinema with the likes of Philippe Garrel.

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  March 22, 2024

  Peripheral Subjects

  film, Film Movements, French Films, French New Wave, May 1968, Philippe Garrel, Zanzibar Group

• How Carol Reed Stole an Oscar from Stanley Kubrick – 1968 Academy Award for Best Director

  

  Explore the reasons behind Carol Reed’s surprising Best Director win for Oliver! at the 1968 Academy Awards, despite facing tough competition from groundbreaking films.

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  March 15, 2024

  Rewind: Academy Award for Best Director

  1968, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Academy Awards, Anthony Harvey, Carol Reed, film, Franco Zeffirelli, Gene Saks, Gillo Pontecorvo, Ingmar Bergman, Jiri Menzel, Lindsay Anderson, movies, Norman Jewison, Oliver!, oscars, Paul Newman, Peter Yates, Richard Lester, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, William Wyler

• The 13 Best Suspense Directors Ever

  

  Discover the secrets of cinema’s master suspense directors, from Hitchcock to Nolan. Prepare for a heart-pounding journey through the genre’s most iconic films.

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  March 14, 2024

  Filmmaker Lists, Lists

  Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma, Christopher Nolan, Claude Chabrol, Dario Argento, David Fincher, film, Fritz Lang, Henri Verneuil, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Horror, John Carpenter, Michael Haneke, movie, movies, Park Chan-wook, Roman Polanski

• The 100 Oldest Living Film Directors

  Directors are working longer than ever before with people like Clint Eastwood still active, but who is the oldest living film director alive in 2024?

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  February 4, 2024

  Lists, Uncategorized

  Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alexander Kluge, Alfonso Arau, Clint Eastwood, Costa-Gavras, Drama, Elaine MAy, film, Frederick Wiseman, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, Im Kwon-taek, Jack Hill, James Ivory, Jan Svankmajer, Jan Troell, Jerry Schatzberg, John Boorman, Jorge Sanjines, Ken Jacobs, Ken Loach, Lilliana Cavani, Marcel Ophuls, Marta Meszaros, Masahiro Shinoda, Mel Brooks, movies, Oldest Living Director, Peter Kubelka, Peter Watkins, Philip Kaufman, Richard Lester, Robert Benton, Robert Redford, Roger Corman, Roman Polanski, Senior filmmakers, Shyam Benegal, Susumu Hani, Taviani Brothers, Tinto Brass, Woody Allen, Yoji Yamada

• The Most Anticipated Films of 2024: #16 – Drive-Away Dolls

  

  Drive-Away Dolls is Ethan Coen’s first feature film without his brother Joel. The Tragedy of Macbeth was a great film which lacked classic Coen-elements. Will this be a stronger debut?

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  December 18, 2023

  Anticipated Films

  Anticipated Films 2024, Coen Brothers, Drive-Away Dolls, Ethan Coen, film, Joel Coen, movies

• The Most Anticipated Films of 2024: #15 – Horizon: An American Saga

  

  Kevin Costner is gambling everything on the success of Horizon: An American Saga, his first directed film in over 20 years. Here’s hoping it’s equal to Dances with Wolves and Open Range.

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  December 18, 2023

  Anticipated Films

  Anticipated Films 2024, dances-with-wolves, film, Kevin Costner, Review, yellowstone

• The Most Anticipated Films of 2024: #12 – Civil War

  

  Alex Garland’s Civil War is a speculative (perhaps prescient) sci-fi film about a potential US civil war. It is A24’s biggest ever movie. Do you need more reasons to want to see it?

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  December 15, 2023

  Anticipated Films

  Alex Garland, Anticipated Films 2024, film, Horror, movies, Sci-Fi