2017
by trapeziumalty | created - 03 Jan 2017 | updated - 05 Jan 2017 | Public
1. Isao Takahata
Director | Hotaru no haka
Isao Takahata was born on October 29, 1935 in Ise, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Pom Poko (1994) and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013). He died on April 5, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.
The Little Norse Prince 1968 Panda! Go Panda! 1972 Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus 1973 Chie the Brat 1981 ✔ Gauche the Cellist 1982 ✔ The Story of Yanagawa’s Canals 1987 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 ✔ Only Yesterday 1991 ✔ Pom Poko 1994 ✔ My Neighbors the Yamadas 1999 Anne of Green Gables: Road to Green Gables 2010 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 2013 ✔
2. Shunji Iwai
Writer | Love Letter
Having received his education at Yokohama National University, Shunji Iwai started out in the entertainment industry by directing music videos and television dramas, including the likes of Maria, Lunatic Love and Fireworks, for which he received the award for Best Newcomer from the Japanese ...
Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? 1993 Undo 1994 ✔ Picnic 1996 April Story 1998 ✔ All About Lily Chou-Chou 2001 Hana and Alice 2004 The Murder Case of Hana & Alice 2015 A Bride for Rip Van Winkle 2016
3. Shinji Sômai
Director | Taifû kurabu
Shinji Sômai was born on January 13, 1948 in Morioka, Iwate, Japan. He was a director and assistant director, known for Typhoon Club (1985), Ah haru (1998) and Moving (1993). He died on September 9, 2001 in Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan.
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun 1981 Love Hotel 1985 Typhoon Club 1985 Moving 1993
4. Jacques Rivette
Director | La Belle Noiseuse
Although François Truffaut has written that the New Wave began "thanks to Rivette," the films of this masterful French director are not well known. Rivette, like his "Cahiers du Cinéma" colleagues Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Éric Rohmer, did graduate to filmmaking but, like Rohmer...
Le coup du berger (Short) (1956) Paris nous appartient (1961) La religieuse (1966) L'Amour Fou (1969) Out 1 (1971) Out 1: Spectre (1972) Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976) ✔ Noroît (une vengeance) (1976) Paris s’en va (1981) ✔ Le Pont du Nord (1981) Merry-Go-Round (1981) La Belle Noiseuse (1991) Divertimento (1992) Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les batailles (1994) Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons (1994) Haut bas fragile (1995) Lumière and Company (Documentary) (segment "Jacques Rivette/Paris") (1995) ✔ Secret Defense (1998) Va Savoir (2001) Around a Small Mountain (2009)
5. Marguerite Duras
Writer | Le camion
Ms. Duras was born in southern Vietnam and lost her father at age 4. The family savings of 20 years bought the family a small plot in Cambodia, but everything was lost in a single season's flooding. The disaster killed her mother as a result. After high school in Saigon, Ms. Duras left Indochina to...
La musica 1967 Destroy, She Said 1969 Nathalie Granger 1972 ✔ Woman of the Ganges 1974 India Song 1975 Baxter, Vera Baxter 1977 Agatha and the Limitless Readings 1981 L’homme atlantique 1981 ✔
6. Mark Rappaport
Director | From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Mark Rappaport is known for From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995), The Scenic Route (1978) and Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992).
Mur 19 1966 Local Color 1977 The Scenic Route 1978 Imposters 1979 Postcards 1990 ✔ Rock Hudson’s Home Movies 1992 Exterior Night 1993 ✔ From the Journals of Jean Seberg 1995 The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender 1997 The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk 2015
7. Raúl Ruiz
Director | La Telenovela Errante
Chilean director Raúl, or Raoul, Ruiz (1941-2011) was one of the most exciting and innovative filmmakers to emerge from 1960s World Cinema, providing more intellectual fun and artistic experimentation, shot for shot, than any filmmaker since Jean-Luc Godard. A guerrilla who uncompromisingly ...
Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano 1971 Utopia: The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down 1976 Dog’s Dialogue 1977 ✔ Three Crowns of the Sailor 1983 Manoel's Destinies 1984 City of Pirates 1984 The Blind Owl 1987 A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) 1991 The Film to Come 1997 ✔ Mysteries of Lisbon 2010
8. Yasuzô Masumura
Director | Daichi no komoriuta
Born in Yamanashi, Japan, Yasuzô Masumura would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He earned a law degree towards the end of World War II from Tokyo University, yet joined ...
9. Abel Ferrara
Director | Bad Lieutenant
Born in the Bronx, Ferrara started making amateur films on Super 8 in his teens before making his debut with violent exploitation films such as 'Driller Killer' and 'Ms.45'. Good reviews for the latter helped create his cult reputation, leading to larger budgets, studio funding and 'name' actors (...
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