Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

This landmark collection of essays considers the global legacy of John Grierson, the father of British documentary. Featuring the work of leading s...

In Rose Eichenbaum's latest book on the confluence of art making and human expression, she sits down with thirty-five modern day storytellersthe di...

In summer 2016, a new exhibit on del Toro's work will begin at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, focusing on the recurring themes in his films,...

Norfolk Summer presents the story about the making of a film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates Joseph Losey's award-winning movie The Go-Betwe...

JOY is the story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and, in the process, ...

The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino dir...

If you look for a meaning, youll miss everything that happens.Almost twenty-five years after the death of Andrei Tarkovsky, the mystery of his film...

J.J. Abrams is one of the most successful director-writer-producers working in Hollywood, and now that he is being offered the chance to visit a ga...

On the centennial of his birth, the defining wunderkind of modern entertainment gets his due in a groundbreaking new biography of his early years-f...

The New Iranian Cinema is considered by many to be the most fascinating cultural phenomenon produced within the Islamic Republic of Iran. Containin...

Henry Brandt (19211998) was a legendary figure in Swiss postwar film-making, a photographer and a pioneer of the nouveau cinéma suisse. His second ...

This is the first English-language study of internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, examining the cultural, production and exhi...

Recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlic in the form of a lexicon of film terms tied to anecdotes spanning Grlic''s life. ...

Known as the 'Georgian Socrates' of Soviet philosophy, Merab Mamardashvili was a defining personality of the late-Soviet intelligentsia. In the 197...

William Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. Best known for his experimental film about i...

*** I loved it. An amazing book. - Louis Theroux A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless. - Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show Rivet...

He was Red Skelton's favorite director, and mentored Lucille Ball in the art of physical comedy. In his 15-year Hollywood career, S. Sylvan Simon (...

As the first woman to win two Best Documentary Oscarsand the recipient of numerous lifetime achievement awards, Barbara Kopple deserves scholarly a...

A richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary cinematic worlds of beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift...