A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant, and a bastard. – Billy Wilder Billy Wilder:…
Classic Movie Directors
The signature of a great director shapes everything we see. Explore the craft of Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, and William Wyler. Watch their fingerprints in Notorious (1946), The Big Heat (1953), and The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946).
Browse related archives: Film Noir for style, War Movies for scope, and Actor Bios for casting insight. Each film tells its story twice — once on-screen, and once through its maker.
-
-
You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if…
-
Director Raoul Walsh: Foundational Director With an Image Problem Director Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh: Hollywood’s Eye Patch-Wearing Maestro When discussing…
-
Edmund Goulding: Actor, Director, Author Edmund Goulding Edmund Goulding was born March 20, 1891, in Feltham, Middlesex, England. He lived…
-
Howard Hawks: The Man Behind the Camera A Maverick of Hollywood’s Golden Age Howard Winchester Hawks, born on May 30,…
-
Director Samuel Fuller a man of many faces After fighting in Europe during World War II, he directed some minor…
-
The Life of Robert Wise Robert Wise was born to a working-class family in 1914 in Indiana. While attending Connersville…
-
Michael Curtiz was born in Hungarian in 1886 as Mihaly Kertesz. He graduated from the School for Dramatic Arts in…
-
Sturges always maintained that this was the single proudest moment of his life was when Akira Kurosawa told him that…
-
Director Cecil B. Demille started at the beginning of the American film industry. His great directing and draconian style made…
-
Director John Ford can be considered to be as mean as they come. John Wayne stated that no horses were…
-
Director John Huston White Hunter Black Heart Director John Huston Actor and director John Huston was born in Missouri in…