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Alfred Hitchcock
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an English film director and producer.[3] He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956, he became an American citizen while remaining a British subject.
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François Truffaut
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an influential film critic and filmmaker, one of the founders of the French New Wave.[1] In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five films.
After starting his own film club in 1948, Truffaut met André Bazin, who would have great effect on his professional and personal life. Bazin was a critic and the head of another film society at the time. He became a personal friend of Truffaut's and helped him out of various financial and criminal situations during his formative years |
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Stan Brakhage
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created a large and diverse body of work, exploring a variety of formats, approaches and techniques that included handheld camerawork, painting directly onto celluloid, fast cutting, in-camera editing, scratching on film, collage film and the use of multiple exposures.
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Spike Jonze
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developed the nonlinear narratives and inventive visuals of his commmercial and music video work in the feature film Being John Malkovich...made "The One second Film."
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Bruce Connor
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an American artist renowned for his work in assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography, among other disciplines.
created an entertaining and thought-provoking 12 minute film, that while non-narrative has things to say about the experience of watching a movie and the human condition. A MOVIE subsequently (in 1994) was selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. Conner subsequently made nearly two dozen mostly non-narrative experimental films. Direction "A movie" which is an avant-garde film |
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Michael Moore
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Roger and Me director
an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist.[3] He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time.[4] His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries.[4] In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, which documented his personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections.[5] He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth. Moore criticizes globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton[6] and George W. Bush, the Iraq War, the American health care system, and capitalism in his written and cinematic works. |
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Wong kar-Wai
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In the Mood for Love Director
a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild (1990), Ashes of Time (1994), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997) and 2046 (2004). His film In the Mood for Love (2000), starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, garnered widespread critical acclaim. Wong's films frequently feature protagonists who yearn for romance in the midst of a knowingly brief life and scenes that can often be described as sketchy, digressive, exhilarating, and containing vivid imagery.[1] Wong was listed at number three on the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound Top Ten Directors list of modern times.[2] |
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Christopher Doyle
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Cinematographer of In the mood for Love
a cinematographer. He has won the AFI Award for cinematography, the Cannes Technical Grand Prize, Golden Osella, the Golden Horse awards (four times), and Hong Kong Film Award (six times). Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers. |
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Plato
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Allegory of the cave
a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.[3] In the words of A. N. Whitehead: The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them.[4] Plato's sophistication as a writer is evident in his Socratic dialogues; thirty-six dialogues and thirteen letters have been ascribed to him. Plato's writings have been published in several fashions; this has led to several conventions regarding the naming and referencing of Plato's texts.[5] Plato's dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, and mathematics. |
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Sigmund Freud
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• Psychoanalysis offers
methodology for understanding film • How does film viewing call upon psychological processes such as “identification,” “regression”, “narcissism”, dreaming? • New metaphors for thinking about cinema: • Mirror • Dream • Freud describes dreams as “the royal road to the unconscious” • Dream “passes itself off as reality” • Dreams assume an immobile sleeper, separated from the outside world • Dream work allows regression to infantile wishes |
