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Directors’ Directory
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2.2K1ZEMECKIS, Robert
The joker's joker. An expert in on-set improvisation. It's not often mentioned that Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was originally an all-live- action...
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WINNER, Michael
A tragic waste of talent. His early films show wit, imagination and a lightness of touch wholly absent from the sordid exploitation...
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1.8K
WENDERS, Wim
In a two-line film review for the Guardian Guide, make a joke about Guy Ritchie fans confusing him with a scouring powder...
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1.8K
WELLES, Orson
Always ‘the Master’. Single-handedly revolutionised the cinema with Citizen Kane, a film which tops every all-time greatest list but which nobody really...
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WATERS, John
The titan of trash. Make a joke about Divine and extra-strong mints. Now, alas, thoroughly absorbed into the mainstream. Jonathan Ross writes:...
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VON TRIER, Lars
The bard of back-to-basics. Shoots all his films on Super 8 with no cuts between scenes, using amateur actors in natural light...
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VERHOVEN, Paul
The gentleman pornographer from the Low Countries. Mention that, despite its overwhelming similarity to a Playstation shoot-’em-up focus-grouped by Norman Tebbit, Starship...
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1.7K
TRUFFAUT, Francois
The first scholar of Hollywood. His Cahiers du Cinema (literally: ‘Movie Jotters’) raised appreciation of the humble western to the level of...
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1.7K
TARANTINO, Quentin
Always ‘former video store nerd Quentin Tarantino’. As of spring 2004, he had seen every movie available on VHS twice over. An...
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1.8K
STONE, Oliver
America’s conscience. Shares a ranch with Jane Fonda. In a wry article for the Daily Telegraph, always remark that though his films...
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2.6K5
SPIELBERG, Steven
The audience’s director. The father of modern cinema. Always ‘the wide-eyed wunderkind’. Paradoxically, the eternal child of Hollywood is now making more...
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2.0K
SCOTT, Tony
The king of the fast-paced action montage. The stylist’s stylist. ‘Is it me or is it rather smokey in here?’ Raise the...
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1.9K
SCOTT, Ridley
He may have learnt his trade pointing a camera at a sliced loaf, but that’s no reason to deny Hannibal entry to...
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1.9K
SCORSESE, Martin
The director’s director. The streetfighting scholar of the silver screen. As of the year 2003, he had seen every film ever made...
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1.8K
SCHLESINGER, John
A director from over here who did rather well over there. During rehearsals for Marathon Man, to acquire the appropriate look of...
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RUSSELL, Ken
The visual symphonist. Scourge of the establishment. His louche biopics of classical composers may have failed to impress the general public, critics...
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1.8K
RUDOLPH, Alan
Always ‘the unjustly overlooked Alan Rudolph’.
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1.9K
ROMERO, George
The duke of dismemberment. Mention that his zombie trilogy is at heart the most serious critique of modern America to emerge from...
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1.8K
ROEG, Nicholas
The insider’s outsider. In a wry article for the Guardian Guide, either liken his editing technique to a food processor, or make...
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1.8K
RIVETTE, Jacques
Master of the four-hour longeur. When reviewing his masterpiece Celine and Julie Go Boating, be sure to remark: ‘Some time after the...
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1.7K
REINER, Rob
In a review of This Is Spinal Tap, refer to it as if it were a genuine documentary, and Spinal Tap a...
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1.9K
RAIMI, Sam
The sultan of splatter. In a review of his latest blockbuster, be sure to mention how far he’s come since the days...
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2.0K
POWELL, Michael
Always ‘the Master’. Along with the indefatigable Emeric Pressburger, his films defined an era of robust British gentility, without which we surely...
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1.9K
POLANSKI, Roman
His brilliance behind the camera will forever be overshadowed by his personal misfortune in front of it. We’re all guilty.
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1.7K
PECKINPAH, Sam
The viceroy of viscera. In a wry article for the Guardian Guide, point out that The Wild Bunch actually contains far less...
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2.4K
PASOLINI, Pier Paolo
He knew better than anyone the dark, perverted heart beating at the centre of the Catholic church. Mention that, despite the contents...
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2.5K
PARKER, Alan
Scourge of the establishment. In a wry article for the Guardian Guide, always say ‘like his fictional comedic namesake, he’s still angry!’...
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3.2K
De PALMA, Brian
The Primark Hitchcock. ‘Unfair! While it’s true that anyone with money and a megaphone could have made the shot-for-shot remake of Vertigo...
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2.3K
NICHOLS, Mike
The unsung artisan of American angst. In an article on visual style, mention ‘frames within frames’. His deft, peek-a-boo camerawork lent a...
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3.0K
MULCAHY, Russell
He may have learnt his trade pointing a camera at Simon le Bon on an elephant, but that’s no reason to deny...
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2.6K
MEYER, Russ
While the Carry Ons, Confessions films et al are worthy only of pitying derision, the true film buff can find much to...
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2.4K
MANN, Michael
The stylist’s stylist. Yet there’s so much more to his oeuvre than the rolled-up jacket sleeve and mirrored sunglass of popular cliché.
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2.4K
MALICK, Terence
Cinema’s mysterious recluse. Makes just one film every 16 1/2 years, but every one is a masterpiece. For aesthetic reasons, only shoots...
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2.4K
LYNCH, David
The wing-commander of weird. Never happier than when filming scenes of oxygen-fuelled rape, thuggish violence and steamy lesbo-dwarf sex, yet is physically...
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2.4K
LUMET, Sidney
The Dead End Kid who married Gloria Vanderbilt and never looked back. The actor’s director. A master technician, who thinks nothing of...
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LUCAS, George
A terrible waste of talent. ‘Ah, but though eighty percent of his oeuvre is undeniably formulaic pap, is he not Hollywood’s only...
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LESTER, Richard
A director from over there who did rather well over here. He brought speeded-up film back out of the silent age to...
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LEAN, David
Always ‘the Master’. Would think nothing of spending a fortnight on getting a three-second seascape shot just so. More fond of trains...
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LANDIS, John
With The Blues Brothers, he took the one Saturday Night Live sketch with no discernible jokes, and turned it into a multi-million...
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2.4K
KUROSAWA, Akira
The doyen of disembowelment. A greater influence on Hollywood than Hitchcock and Truffaut combined. ‘He borrowed our mise-en-scene, now we’re borrowing it...
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2.4K
KUBRICK, Stanley
The middle-brow’s middle-brow. Always ‘that bearded recluse, the shy, indefatigable Stanley Kubrick’. Perennially mistreated by his countrymen, he sought refuge from the...
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2.5K
JORDAN, Neil
The controversial Irish firebrand. Roguish male punters should allude to the lasting impression made by an adolescent encounter with Danielle Dax in...
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2.4K
JARMAN, Derek
The gay Spike Lee. Scourge of the establishment. Would think nothing of making a Pig Latin musical in which Michelangelo is transported...
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2.5K
JACKSON, Peter
The Grand Moff of gore. In a review of his latest blockbuster, be sure to mention how far he’s come since the...
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2.6K
IVORY, James
The harbourmaster of heritage. His chocolate box recreations of our colonial past are now so internationally renowned they are in danger of...
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2.4K
HUGHES, John
The erstwhile brigadier of bachelor rudery has grown up to become the chief petty officer of children’s slapstick. In a wry profile...
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HITCHCOCK, Alfred
Always ‘the Master’. His influence remains so all-pervasive in modern cinema it is perfectly possible to write a wry article about his...
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2.5K
HERZOG, Werner
Always ‘the steely-eyed Teutonic polymath’. Never felt a film was worthwhile if it didn’t involve hypnotising his all-dwarf cast to drag a...
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2.6K
GREENAWAY, Peter
The middle-brow’s middle-brow. Creates visual enigmas rather than films in the conventional, Hollywood sense. Has a knowledge of the classical painters so...
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GODARD, Jean-Luc
The cold-hearted romantic. Who else but Godard could take a minor Gregory Peck western, strip it apart shot by shot, then reassemble...
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