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When researching the work of a great filmmaker, it's important to talk not only with the director but also with the cast, crew, and other associates in production.

Allow us to do away with modesty for a moment and theorise on why our show works: it's not that we talk about the works of great filmmakers, it's that each filmmaker is told through the unique perspective of that month's guest.

So join us on Friday, September 5, as Linda DeLibero — Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University — and Christopher Llewellyn Reed — Chair of Film / Video at Stevenson University — celebrate the life and work of this great filmmaker on his 72nd birthday on Midday with Dan Rodricks, on WYPR 88.1 FM, Baltimore's NPR News Station, during the second hour, 1 - 2 pm.

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You should see The Post because it's an engrossing and rewarding drama told exceptionally well by a fine ensemble cast and one of the great filmmakers putting out his best work in ages.

You can say what you want about his more recent fare, but it's undeniable that Woody Allen is still one of the greatest working filmmakers.

I think what has not been mentioned in our discussion is almost all of the great or supposedly great filmmakers that are working below their highest level this year.

It's a misstep of a film for an undeniably talented filmmaker who works with great collaborators.

Beautifully lensed by Darius Khondji, masterfully directed by Haneke, boasting two great performances and a commitment to the narrative that might be too much for some, «Amour» is nevertheless the work of a filmmaker who isn't afraid to ask the big questions about human nature, and coming out of «Amour» it seems the director has hope for us yet.

Synecdoche, New York is a work of soul - searching genius and his latest Anomalisa continues to cement Charlie Kaufman's reputation as one of the greatest filmmakers working today.

Filmmaker Tony Zierra worked closely with his subject on this new documentary chronicling his extraordinary time spent with the late great filmmaker, featuring a treasure trove of private photographs, footage and never - before - seen dFilmmaker Tony Zierra worked closely with his subject on this new documentary chronicling his extraordinary time spent with the late great filmmaker, featuring a treasure trove of private photographs, footage and never - before - seen dfilmmaker, featuring a treasure trove of private photographs, footage and never - before - seen documents.

The veteran actor shares lessons she's learned from working with some of the world's greatest filmmakers.

Yorgos Lanthimos («Dogtooth», «The Lobster») is a surgical filmmaker of great opacity; his film a bright and coldly lit Gothic work in the mode of Stanley Kubrick.

We are thrilled to be working with such a talented group of filmmakers and actors, and feel that Wolves is a great addition to the Ketchup slate.»

New additions to our Great Directors database include Christian Long on Albert Brooks and Steve Rybin on Alan Rudolph, and we also have reviews of recent books on filmmakers as diverse as Jim Jarmusch, Straub / Huillet and Jess Franco, as well as new work on contemporary Eastern European cinema and André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion's recent polemical title

New additions to our Great Directors database include Christian Long on Albert Brooks and Steve Rybin on Alan Rudolph, and we also have reviews of recent books on filmmakers as diverse as Jim Jarmusch, Straub / Huillet and Jess Franco, as well as new work on contemporary Eastern European cinema and André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion's recent polemical title The End of Cinema?.

Black Panther marks this as being one of the greatest superhero films I've seen since it not only does the movie offer some tour - de-force performances by Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, and Lupita Nyong» o, but this is also one of the most mesmerizing, entertaining, and exhilarating experiences I've had at the movies this year so far, and it also proves that Ryan Coogler is one of the best filmmakers working today.

The vast technical background necessary for creating cinematic stories, illuminating interviews with the greatest living filmmakers, in - depth analyses of high quality movies... The material provided by Cahiers du Cinéma, Sight & Sound, Cinemagic, Cinefantastique and many others has inspired thousands of people to dedicate their lives to filmmaking, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology, these priceless cultural beams of historic value and prime educational significance continue to inspire, astonish and enlighten us, bringing up a new generation of artists who might persevere and thrive to one day fill the shoes of the likes of Orson Welles, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jean - Pierre Melville, Agnes Varda, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher and dozens of others whose work continually delight and move us in every way possible.

Many great filmmakers have been nominated for their work outside of directing, including Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Sam Peckinpah, and Rob Reiner, but have never been invited to the Best Director party at all.

Zootopia definitely works best when the filmmakers are only halfway stepping their feet into the detective aspect, so that they could remain consistently exploring the world that they've created and just how animals coexist, which is one of the film's greatest strengths.

The 85 year old filmmaker is probably more well - known for his examinations of public institutions in films like Welfare (1975), Titicut Follies (1967), At Berkeley (2013) or High School (1968, followed by a sequel in 1994), but he's also one of cinema's great chroniclers of art as work.

Juliette Binoche turns in one of the greatest performances of her career while filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami uses artistry and terrific camera work by Luca Bigazzi to illustrate one of the more even tempered films of the year.

Satyajit Ray was ailing when he made them, but these three works from the great filmmaker's final years show an artist at the height of his powers.

The Shape of Water is that, certainly, a monstrous and modest example of Man - Child wish fulfillment but moreso is it something truly greater, the dazzling level of love of craft poured into each shot displaying a filmmaker working at his absolute peak, toiling from a place of pure, unchecked passion without much thought to the fact that his central conceit is wildly off - color and potentially repulsive to some, no matter how rose - colored the glasses you're looking at it through.

From the dichotomous twin poles of the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès to the perceived new nouvelles vagues of Olivier Assayas and Christophe Honoré, a majority of the country's greatest films and filmmakers have belonged (however broadly) to one school or another; or, at the very least (as in the case of, say, Jean - Pierre Melville or, more recently, Danièle Thompson, Mathieu Kassovitz or Pierre Salvadori), they have worked within a genre that has had contemporary currency and visibility.

«Having nine nominations is really fantastic for a film like «Carol,» and to see Todd's work and Todd recognized in this way, which hasn't fully happened until this point, is incredibly gratifying because he is one of the great contemporary American filmmakers, and his films and «Carol» will be here long after we are all gone,» she said, although she added that she would have liked to have seen the contribution of Carter Burwell and Affonso Goncalves recognized as well, for music and editing respectively.

Shot by Academy Award - winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, who has worked with Anderson ever since Hard Eight, scored by singer - songwriter Michael Penn, edited by the great Dylan Tichenor, who started as an apprentice on Robert Altman's movies and went on to do great films such as Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Brokeback Mountain and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic drama went on to garner three Academy Award nominations, did reasonably well at the box office by tripling its initial investment and, more importantly, showcased the surprising talent and determination of one of the few brilliant filmmakers of American contemporary cinema.

Now at 21, she's worked with many of the greatest filmmakers, including Wes Anderson, Peter Jackson and Peter Weir, shared the screen with Cate Blanchett and Bill Murray, and continues to grow as an international box office draw.

Even for great filmmakers working outside of the boundaries a family friendly filmmaking, pulling that off has to be a difficult task.

The result, Mystic River, is yet another great film from one of the half - dozen greatest American filmmakers working today.

Not just any ordinary director either but the one and only David Lynch, who is one of the world's great filmmakers and who himself has worked with Stanton a number of times in the past.

This weekend's release of stop - motion treat Isle of Dogs marks the return of one of the greatest filmmakers working today, in my opinion: the...

Minor or no, this is still a work by one of the all - time great (yet still misunderstood) American filmmakers, and its unavailability on other platforms makes this a must - watch.

Haneke's dissections of human behaviour yield mixed rewards, although I believe he is one of the greatest filmmakers currently working, and it's hard to imagine contemporary world cinema without him.

Beyond the buzzed about Centerpiece screenings (which includes The Good Lie, St. Vincent, Laggies, and the Toronto International Film Festival Audience Award winner The Imitation Game), Philly's screenings includes programs like «Greater Filmadelphia» (with work from Philadelphia's home grown talent), «Masters of Cinema» (movies from world - renowned filmmakers), and «The Graveyard Shift» (horror, action, and anything weird), providing a variety of options for audiences of all tastes.

Greater Filmadelphia Presented by Philadelphia Gas Works: Featuring work from some of our finest homegrown filmmakers, this category brings our city and its talent to the big screen.

Baumbach's grounded human priorities have made him a filmmaker of greater interest to critics than moviegoers and have largely relegated his work to art house designation, with limited releases that slowly roll out to 100 or so metropolitan theaters.

Lucrecia Martel is one of the most exciting and unique filmmakers working today, but because her output has been so infrequent — «Zama» is her first narrative feature in nine years — she is often left out of the conversation of great international auteurs.

My take: I've written many times about my love of Mexican writer / director Guillermo del Toro, who I consider one of the greatest genre filmmakers working today.

by Bill Chambers Sanity and fatigue are ineluctable corrupting influences on an aging filmmaker, but it brings me great pleasure and no small relief to be able to report that while Mother of Tears: The Third Mother — Dario Argento's long - gestating conclusion to his «Three Sisters» trilogy — is neither as artful as Suspiria nor as dreamlike as Inferno, it nevertheless surpasses expectations fostered by Argento's recent work to emerge as his best movie in decades.

No one is more excited than us here at The Cinematologists as it gives us a long - awaited chance to go deep on one of our favourite filmmakers and someone we believe to be one of, if not the greatest American filmmakers currently working.

2013 saw no shortage of great work being done in the realm of the music video, and while the mode itself continues to be a somewhat marginalized art form in general culture, filmmakers are harnessing the opportunities offered by music video projects to craft stunning works of short - form cinema.

The upcoming Inherent Vice finds one of America's most respected filmmakers, Paul Thomas Anderson, re-teaming with one of its greatest actors, Joaquin Phoenix, to adapt a work by one of the country's greatest living writers, Thomas Pynchon.

Think of performers like Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock, who have done some of their best acting later in their careers without the benefit of total transformation — often because of great filmmakers working with them, not around them.

This one is titled The Ranger, and it's the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Jenn Wexler, who has worked as a producer on a bunch of great indie films before this.

Like many of the great filmmakers, there are certain hallmarks in Anderson's work and obsessions that the filmmaker can be seen returning to again and again, perhaps without even realizing it.

I think Farhadi is one of the greatest working filmmakers and About Elly shows it.

Following the disastrous knock - on effects when a middle - class couple, who still love each other deeply, but are cripplingly divided on the future (Simin sees no future in the restrictive nation, Nader has to stay to care for his Alzheimers afflicted father), seek a divorce, it displays Asghar Farhadi as one of the great humanist filmmakers working today; he has empathy for everyone the camera points its lens at, from the couple's daughter to the brutish husband of their new employee, even as they do terrible things.

As with any great auteur, Jeff Nichols finds away to reinvent himself as a filmmaker with Mud: a wistful coming - of - age tale discernibly influenced by Huckelberry Finn and the early works of Terrence Malick.

Jarmusch has also cleverly helped himself to actors who have become closely, even crucially identified with the work of other filmmakers, including Gena Rowlands from John Cassavetes «films, Giancarlo Esposito and Rosie Perez from Spike Lee, Armin Mueller - Stahl from Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Beatrice Dalle from Jean - Jacques Beineix «s «Betty Blue, «and the great deadpan comic, Matti Pellonpaa, from the Finnish films of Aki Kaurismaki.

Working with some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers in both independent and studio films, Gyllenhaal starred in Ang Lee's classic «Brokeback Mountain,» for which he received an Oscar ® nomination and won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor; Bong Joon - ho's «Okja;» David Ayer's «End of Watch;» Antoine Fuqua's boxing drama «Southpaw;» Dennis Villeneuve's highly acclaimed films «Prisoners» and «Enemy;» Richard Kelly's cult hit «Donnie Darko;» David Fincher's «Zodiac;» Sam Mendes» «Jarhead;» Nicole Holofcener's «Lovely and Amazing;» Ed Zwick's «Love and Other Drugs,» for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, and Tom Ford's «Nocturnal Animals,» for which he earned a BAFTA nomination.