In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. When he made his directorial debut in 1970, Nicolas Roeg was already a 23-year veteran of the British film industry, starting out in 1947 as an editing apprentice and working his way up to cinematographer twelve years later. He first came to attention as part of the second unit on David Lean's ... Director | Certainly not! His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ... Born in Bialystok, Poland, studied music and enrolled in St. Petersburg Neurological Institute in 1916. Forced by poverty to drop ... Claude Lanzmann was born on November 27, 1925 in Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France. A powerful frontline cast - including Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson and George Clooney - explodes into action in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II. You may remember in January I set myself to complete the #52FilmsByWomen challenge. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away. In 1897 ... Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter.

series, The Best Intentions (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The top 10 movies that shaped my childhood and teenage years, in alphabetical order: My job can be soul destroying so escapism forms a big part of my life and watching movies constitutes a big chunk of that. The now starting creative process changes life for everyone. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. From then, I’ve expanded to movies seen in any format and any ones that I have a distinct memory of seeing. The master filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, as one of the creators of neo-realism, is one of the most influential directors of all time. He began his career as a stage actor and director in the golden twenties.

He was a director and writer, known for 12 Monkeys (1995), Sans Soleil (1983) and Third Side of the Coin (1960). Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922. The return from a trip, before the freeze that broke also Fuyumi, Miyoko appeared.

Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater... Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. So begins The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah's bloody, high-body-count eulogy to the mythologized Old West. The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "The train". (an insurance salesman) and Helen Altman. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years ... From Ernst Lubitsch's experiences in Sophien Gymnasium (high school) theater, he decided to leave school at the age of 16 and pursue a career on the stage. His prosperous brother introduces him to Gwen French... Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard.