Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of thei...

Oscar Micheauxthe most prolific African American filmmaker to date and a filmmaking giant of the silent periodhas finally found his rightful place ...

Lone Scherfig was the first of a number of women directors to take up the challenge of Dogme, the back-to-basics, manifesto-based, rule-governed, a...

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating det...

The autobiography of pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist Sergei Eisenstein, noted in particular for his silent films, ''Strik...

Richard Hayward was one of Irelands best-loved cultural figures of the mid-twentieth century. A popular Irish travel writer, actor and singer, he l...

Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exempli...

Tonino Valerii is one of Italy's best genre directors. He started his career as Sergio Leone's assistant on For a Few Dollars More before moving on...

Named one of TIME magazine's 100 Greatest Men of the Century, Bruce Lee's impact and influence has only grown since his untimely death in 1973. Par...

Originally a successful painter from Romania, Jean Negulesco worked in Hollywood first as an art director, then as a second unit director. He was l...

Budd Boetticher (1916-2001) was a bullfighter, a pleasant madman and a talented journeyman filmmaker who could--with the right material and driv...

The samurai films of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa are set in the past, but they tell us much about the present, as do his crime st...

Engineering Hollywood tells the story of the formation of the Hollywood studio system not as the product of a genius producer, but as an industry t...