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Stanley Kubrick
I'd be very surprised if the universe wasn't full of an intelligence of an order that to us would seem God-like. |
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Andrei Tarkovsky
Tarkovsky will forever be remembered as a individual who fought to maintain creative control. This is most evident during his fight to have Mirror released despite the severe criticism he knew would accompany such a films release |
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Abbas Kiarostami
Kiarostami has a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary style narrative films,[5] for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars |
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Luchino Visconti
Visconti was able to be exposed to art, music and theater, and meet some of the forerunners in each, such as the composer Giacomo Puccini, the conductor Arturo Toscanini, and the writer Gabriele D'Annunzio.
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Makhmalbaf focuses on several genres, from realist films to fantasy and surrealism, from minimalism to large frescos of everyday life, with a predilection (common to Iranian directors) for the themes of childhood and cinema |
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Martin Scorsese
Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian-American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption,[1] machismo, and the violence endemic in American society. |
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David Lynch
Lynch's films are known for their elements of surrealism, their nightmarish and dreamlike sequences, their stark and strange images, and their meticulously crafted audio |
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Oliver Stone
A veteran of the Vietnam war, Stone served with the United States Army from April 1967 to November 1968. |
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Quentin Tarantino
He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur indie filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines, edgy tough-guy dialogue, and stylized violence interwoven with often-obscure cinematic references |
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Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937 in South Shields, County Durham) is an influential Academy Award-nominated English film director, and producer |
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