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In each issue, other contributors provided career histories/interviews with cult directors and actors such as Radley Metzger, Larry Cohen, Jack Hill, William Rotsler, David Carradine, Sid Haig, Karen Black, and Timothy Carey.

The Butcher Brothers

The Butcher Brothers are the filmmaking alter-egos of American film directors Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores.


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Alan Smith

Alan Smithee, pseudonym used since 1968 by film directors who wished to be dissociated from a film

Aliocha

Inspired by the film directors Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel and Andrei Tarkovsky, he studied filmmaking in Paris and New York City before directing his first short film La conduite de la Raison (The guidance of Reason) which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors Fortnight 2011.

Andratx

During the summer months there are many celebrities, such as the former model Claudia Schiffer, former Spanish Prime Ministers Felipe Gonzalez and Adolfo Suárez, film directors Guy Hamilton and Fernando Trueba and opera singer Regine Crespin, among others.

Angela Ismailos

She directed and produced Great Directors, a film that features interviews and archival footage of ten great living film directors of independent cinema.

Arben Bajraktaraj

He has worked throughout his career with numerous film directors such as Gérard Pirès, Xavier Ruiz, Tony Gatlif and Pierre Morel.

Cherd Songsri

It was also voted as one of the world's 360 classic movies by the Museum of the Moving Image in London, Sight & Sound magazine and film directors and critics worldwide in 1998.

Claus Bantzer

As a composer of music for more than 20 films, he has worked closely the film directors Peter Lilienthal, Doris Dörrie, Jan Schütte and Tevfik Başer.

Danilo Donati

Among the film directors with whom Donati had worked were Federico Fellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Davit Gogibedashvili

From 1995 to 2000, he collaborated with film directors Otar Ioseliani and Nana Jorjadze.

Digital versus film photography

There also are many film directors such as Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, and James Cameron who are adamant supporters of digital cinema and the potential for higher frame rates that it brings.

Enigmatic: Calling

According to the liner notes, Enigmatic : Calling was inspired by "a number of great thinkers, philosophers, scientists, writers, and film directors," including Erich von Däniken, Albert Einstein, and Steven Spielberg.

Gerardo Romano

He worked under the directorship of one of the leading Argentine film directors, Eduardo Mignogna and actors Ricardo Darin, Patricio Contreras and Miguel Angel Sola.

Guayabera

The safari shirt is confused herein with a safari jacket/bush jacket which is a single layer, long sleeved and long square tailed affair often made iconic by film directors and seen in photos of Ernest Hemingway.

Guido Chiesa

Born in Turin, Chiesa graduated in philosophy and letters with a thesis in cinema, then he moved in New York where he was the correspondent of several music magazines, but also the assistant of film directors such as Michael Cimino, Amos Poe and Jim Jarmusch, among others.

Jodie Markell

As an actress, she has worked with theater directors such as John Patrick Shanley, John Malkovich, and Gary Sinise; film directors such as Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, and Barry Levinson; starred at Lincoln Center, The Public and Steppenwolf Theatre Company; and won an Obie.

Kali Banerjee

Most known for his work with film directors like Satyajit Ray's Parash Pathar (1958) and Ritwik Ghatak's Nagarik (1952) and Ajantrik (1958).

Mark Mori

Raw Footage was the first original series on The Independent Film Channel (IFC) hosted Alec Baldwin featuring interviews with independent film directors.

Nafeh

In this magazine has been published interviews with many writers, poetss, film directors, composers and singers such as Victor Erofeyev, Ahmad Shamlou, Orhan Pamuk, Günter Grass, Mahmoud Dolatabadi, Abbas Kiarostami, Asghar Farhadi, Kamran Shirdel, Bahman Farmanara, Shahrdad Rohani, Alireza Assar and Mohammad-Reza Lotfi.

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival

Famous fantastic film directors have already honored the NIFFF with their presences, including George A. Romero, Joe Dante, John Landis, Terry Gilliam, Hideo Nakata.

Niko von Glasow

The founder and Artistic Director of Palladio Film, von Glasow began his training with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and then worked for a number of film directors including Georg Stefan Troller, Hellmuth Costard, Alexander Kluge, Peter Zadek and Jean-Jacques Annaud before going on to study film at New York University and at the National Film School in Łódź, Poland.

Nosrat Karimi

In Rome, where he spent the first months of his stay, he became acquainted with famous Italian film directors Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica.

Nurse.Fighter.Boy

It was the first feature film released through the Canadian Film Centre's training program for emerging film directors since David Weaver's Siblings in 2005.

Oleg Borisov

Eventually Oleg Borisov ascended to fame in the Soviet and Russin cinema, as he continued his film career in collaboration with such directors as Eldar Ryazanov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Muratov, Aleksei German, Viktor Tregubovich, Vladimir Bortko, Aleksandr Gordon, Vladimir Vengerov, and Vadim Abdrashitov, among other film directors.

Owen Roizman

Roizman is known for collaborating with film directors William Friedkin, Sydney Pollack and Lawrence Kasdan.

Serge Daney

In 1964, Daney joined the French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma with a series of interviews of American film directors (notably Howard Hawks, Leo McCarey, Josef von Sternberg and Jerry Lewis) conducted with Jean Louis Noames (aka Louis Skorecki) during a trip to Hollywood.

Shota Laperadze

At the same time Laperadze successfully worked with other outstanding film directors such as Otar Iosseliani, Georgiy Shengelaya and Temur Babluani.

Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution

Mousavi, a successful artist and architect, had been the head of the academy since it was founded in 1998 and even designed the building that houses it.Mousavi's removal from his post at the academy has provoked outrage from his colleagues, with 27 of 30 faculty members threatening to resign in solidarity, the faculty members who have sided with Mousavi include his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, celebrated miniaturist Mahmoud Farshchian and renowned film directors Majid Majidi and Dariush Mehrjui.

Susan Kohner

Her two sons, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, are both film directors, screenwriters and sometime actors.

Susi Graf

She worked as a television producer interviewing numerous film directors such as Quentin Tarantino, John Waters, Terry Gilliam and many more as well as actors like Demi Moore, Michael Douglas, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson.

Sylvano Bussotti

He was, or is, well acquainted with writers and film directors Aldo Palazzeschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Derek Jarman, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, Aldo Braibanti, Mario Zanzotto, Fabio Casadei Turroni, Dacia Maraini, Umberto Eco.

Timmy Yip

Tim has collaborated with film directors of international acclaim such as John Woo, Ang Lee, Tsai Ming Liang, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Li Shaohong, Stanley Kwan, Chen Guofu, Chen Kaige and Feng Xiaogang etc.

Tom Milne

His book length studies of film directors include monographs on Joseph Losey (1967) and Rouben Mamoulian (1969) in the Thames & Hudson Cinema One series, the former comprising a series of extended interviews with the director.

Varban Stamatov

When he was not at sea, he mostly lived and worked in Sofia, within a circle of Bulgarian intellectuals, dramatists, film directors, theatre producers, artists, composers, conductors, poets, literary editors, critics and authors.

Vincent Diderot

Influenced by the painters Jackson Pollock, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francis Bacon, as well as by the film directors David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, his first short films, Louise and Sirène, are experimental.

William Chang

In addition to Wong Kar Wai, William Chang also has collaborated with various Hong Kong film directors such as Stanley Kwan, Patrick Tam Kar Ming, Yim Ho and Tsui Hark.

Yoshitarō Nomura

During his years as an assistant director, he worked under the helm of such legendary film directors as Keisuke Sasaki, Yuzo Kawashima, and Akira Kurosawa, whom he worked with in 1951 on the filming of The Idiot, based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.