Great Directors
Artavazd Pelechian
b. Feb 22, 1938, Leninakin (now Gyumri), Armenia. 1. In film festivals, cinémathèques, galleries and conferences around the world, the same scene plays itself over
Michel Khleifi
b. November 3, 1950 – Nazareth, Israel From his first film, Al Dhakira al Khasba (Fertile Memory, 1980), Michel Khleifi displays the narrative-documentary style –
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
b. October, 22, 1928 — São Paulo, Brazil Nelson Pereira dos Santos, considered the initiator of modern Brazilian cinema in the 1950s, is also its
Marcel Carné
b. 18 August 1906, Paris, France d. 31 October 1996, Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, France Cinema is the art of forming a team. –Jean Cocteau Carné’s films
Jean Epstein
b. 25 March 1897, Warsaw, Poland d. 2 April 1953, Paris, France I. Jean Epstein was an important figure in the school of filmmaking variously
Jean Rouch
b. 31 May, 1917, Paris, France d. 18 February, 2004, Birni N’Konni, Niger When Jean Rouch travelled to Niger in 1954 to screen Bataille sur
Michael Haneke
This article is an updated and substantially revised version of his original essay from 2003. b. March 23, 1942, Munich, Germany A cinema of disturbance:
