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Alfred Hitchcock: Masters of Cinema Series by Bill Krohn
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Masters of Cinema Ser.
Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment. Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns with a new identity, a lo ...Show more
Alfred Hitchcock: Masters of Cinema Series by Bill Krohn
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Alfred Hitchcock (UK, 1899-1980) is undeniably the world's most famous film director. His name has become synonymous with the cinema, and each new generation takes the same pleasure in rediscovering his films, which are now treasures of our artistic heritage. Hitchcock started out in the British s ...Show more
Billy Wilder: Masters of Cinema Series by Paolo Mereghetti; Noël Simsolo
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Ser.
Billy Wilder (USA, 1906-2002) is an undisputed master of American comedy, taking situation comedy to the edge of the absurd in Some Like it Hot(1959). But he also made pessimistic melodramas such as Sunset Boulevard(1950), in which Gloria Swanson gives a moving performance as a fallen star, and a few fi ...Show more
Clint Eastwood: Masters of Cinema Series by Bernard Benoliel
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Clint Eastwood (USA, b. 1930) is a veteran among the grand masters of contemporary American cinema, whose rise through the system took a highly unusual form. After playing iconic roles in Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns of the 1960s, he returned to Hollywood and underwent a controversial reincarnation ...Show more
David Lynch: Masters of Cinema Series by Thierry Jousse
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
David Lynch (USA, b. 1946) is perhaps the best known of all cult directors, whose Mulholland Drive marks cinema's arrival to the 21st century. His career began more than 30 years ago, with the groundbreaking, mystifying "Eraserhead" (1977). With "Blue Velvet" (1986), "Wild at Heart" (1990) and "Lost Hig ...Show more
Francis Ford Coppola: Masters of Cinema Series by Stephane Delorme
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Francis Ford Coppola (USA, b. 1939) is the oldest of the generation of 'movie brats', including Scorsese and Spielberg, who breathed new life into the Hollywood of the 1970s. He revived the glory of the studio age with the legendary "Godfather" saga (1972-90), explored the soul of America at war in Viet ...Show more
Martin Scorsese: Masters of Cinema Series by Thomas Sotinel
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Martin Scorsese (USA, b. 1942) is among the most prolific of American directors, having made more than 25 features in a 40-year career that has seen him garner all the highest honours the film world can bestow. Since the success of "Taxi Driver" in 1976, which also marked the start of his long collabora ...Show more
Michael Mann by Scott Foundas
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Michael Man (born 1943) is one of the most interesting directors of our time, whose work lies at the intersection of the mainstream cinema and the avant-garde, of public entertainment and private obsession. Throughout his career, Mann has moved freely between television and cinema: he produced 'Miami Vi ...Show more
Pedro Almodovar: Masters of Cinema Series by Thomas Sotinel
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Masters of Cinema Ser.
Pedro Almodovar (Spain, b. 1951) single-handedly represents the revival of Spanish cinema as part of the cultural flowering of the Movida Madrilena in the 1980s. New York was first to hail the unbridled imagination of this provocative director, whose films are filled with transsexuals, neurotics ("Women ...Show more
Quentin Tarantino by Scott Foundas
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Quentin Tarantino (born 1963) is considered the enfant terrible of contemporary cinema. From his outstanding debut at the Sundance Film Festival with 'Reservoir Dogs' (1992) to his most recent controversial war film 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009), Tarantino has created a fascinating, violent, and highly ...Show more
Stanley Kubrick: Masters of Cinema Series by Bill Krohn
Category: Film | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1928-99) was a master who took the art of filmmaking further than any other contemporary director, a creative perfectionist whose work now fascinates new generations. He started out as a photographer before moving into film noir aged barely 25, after which the power and originality ...Show more
Steven Spielberg: Masters of Cinema Series by Clelia Cohen
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Masters of Cinema Series
Steven Spielberg (USA, born 1946) was the boy wonder of the new Hollywood of the 1970s. Taking Orson Welles as his model, he made Duel aged only 25, following it up with a string of successes that brought him the adulation of the studios. As a fan of special effects, and entirely attuned to the shift to ...Show more