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James Whale. Director | Bride of Frankenstein. James Whale was an English film director, theatre director and actor. He is best remembered for his four classic horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
Wyler won his first Oscar as Best Director with "Mrs. Miniver" for MGM, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture, the first of three Wyler films that would be so honored.
16 nov 2015 · Notwithstanding their differences, all 30 directors of this list contributed with their particular talents to Hollywood History, helping to make The Golden Age the most iconic period of American Film.
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Orson Welles
- John Ford
- Howard Hawks
- Martin Scorsese
- Akira Kurosawa
- Buster Keaton
- Ingmar Bergman
- Frank Capra
- Federico Fellini
Like the nettlesome corpse in The Trouble With Harry, he keeps popping up: in reruns of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, in the pages of the long-running Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, wielded like a billy club by critics whenever a filmmaker apes his style. Hitchcockremains the quintessential brand-name director — a testimony to both his silent-to-s...
He changed the movies. With one genius stroke, his first film, Citizen Kane, inaugurated a new depth — both visually (Gregg Toland's deep-focus camera work made previous movies look 2-D) and emotionally (Charles Foster Kane was the most complex hero-villain in American cinema). Washed up at 27, Welles had one incontrovertible masterpiece left in hi...
For all the hardass on-set stories ("If an actor started to ask questions," recalled Henry Fonda, "[Ford would] either take those pages and tear them out of the script or insult him in an awful way"), Ford was the great sentimentalist of Hollywood's classic era. Themes of honor, duty, and patriotism percolate through his war films, dramas, and Linc...
You know how it is when you're halfway through an entertaining book, and you realize it's a work of art, too? That's how it is with a film by Hawks. His hallmarks are more thematic than visual: men who adhere to an understated code of manliness; women who like to yank the rug from under those men's feet; a mistrust of pomposity; a love of sly, leg-...
He was a sickly kid, living in New York City's Little Italy, who threw himself into old movies, creating storyboards for the films he saw in his head. And the greatness of Scorsese is that alone among his peers, his movies still feel hot-wired into his own id. Scorsese may seem to have reached an impasse of late, but who can deny the feverish power...
As tough to pin down as the elusive truth in his masterpiece Rashomon, the Tokyo-born director has moved from genre to genre. Rashomon, a 12th-century crime story told from four viewpoints, established him as an artist, opening up the West for other Asian directors like Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi. Kurosawa, who grew up watching American films...
Keaton was a great silent comedian, yes — and, until his sad, boozy decline in the '30s, a great director. "He always put his camera in the right place," said filmmaker Richard Lester. "Take THE GENERAL... You can't take a shot away. They're all necessary." More than Chaplin, Keaton understood movies: He knew they consisted of a four-sided frame in...
"I take the images from my childhood, put them into the 'projector' [to get] new ways of evaluating them," Bergman once said. He had much to evaluate. Born in Sweden, he was raised in a Lutheran home, and the pessimism and introspection in his work have a deeply religious sobriety. In his prolific career — over 40 films — Bergman used surreal dream...
A biography painted him as more Mr. Potter than George Bailey, yet it's a testament to Capra's economy and skill that his films stand as tributes to the American spirit. The Italian immigrant began in comedies (1934's It Happened One Night was the first to sweep the top Oscars), then made relevant films about humble men facing venal capitalists: Mr...
At first, Fellini's characters used spectacle to hide from loneliness; why else is La Dolce Vita's hero a tabloid reporter but to avoid himself? Later, Fellini fell in love with spectacle for its own sake, with consequences wonderful (Amarcord) and dire (Casanova); still, in the '60s, he primed Americans for other Italian directors. The turning poi...
1 apr 2022 · Under the studio system, certain directors achieved a distinctive style or genre pattern. MGM's directors (George Cukor, King Vidor, Jack Conway, Sidney Franklin, Fritz Lang, Clarence Brown, Sam Wood, and Victor Fleming) were the best filmmakers in the 1930s.
8 nov 2020 · Best Directors of All Time • Ida Lupino. Ida Lupino had a fascinating career. She began as a child actress in the '30s before co-founding an independent production company where you wrote, directed and produced her own films. Needless to say, this was basically unheard of in 1950s Hollywood.
21 mar 2024 · In the pantheon of cinema, the best directors of all time have left an indelible mark on the art form, elevating storytelling and visual expression to new heights. These visionary filmmakers have transcended boundaries, pushed the limits of the medium, and inspired generations.
