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Whether or not you ascribe to the auteur theory of directing (Auteur? What is this, film school?), there’s no doubt America has produced some visionary filmmakers. They’re even branded – a Capra comedy, a Ford western, a Spielberg epic. The director says, “Action!” and memories are made.
Francis Ford Coppola, Director
What a decade Francis Ford Coppola had in the 1970s. Started by writing the screenplay for a little thing called Patton in 1970. He...
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John Ford, Director
He developed a brand: “A John Ford Western.” Not all of his films fell into this genre, but a lot of them did. John Wayne,...
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William Wyler, Director
I can read your mind. Yes, you. You’re out there thinking, William Who? Admit it. Well, it’s not often that a film director...
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Director: Billy Wilder
If you’re an actor, you love it when you get to work with a director who brings out your best work. A director like Billy Wilder, who...
Read MoreDirector: Rob Reiner
It’s kind of sad that after all he’s accomplished as a writer and director, my first thought of Rob Reiner is to call him...
Read MoreDirector: John Huston
With the ease of editing using today’s technologies, it’s not unusual for directors to shoot a lot of scenes, a lot of takes...
Read MoreDirector: Stanley Kubrick
Kubrick didn’t make all that many films during his lifetime – just 16 according to IMDb, and only 13 of those were...
Read MoreDirector: Orson Welles
I celebrate Welles here as a director, because that’s the area I consider his greatest strength. But he was also a writer, actor,...
Read MoreDirector: Frank Capra
Frank Capra saw himself as a member of the “gee whiz” school of filmmaking, and made no apologies for it. Capra’s movies...
Read MoreDirector: Ken Burns
It’s not as if Ken Burns invented the long-form, multi-part documentary. What he did was to bring a sense of style to archive...
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