How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And Enjoy It) (2005), Uncle Howard (2016), Woody Allen: A Documentary (2012), Light Keeps Me Company (2000), S Is for Stanley (2015), This Filthy World (2006), Chaplin (1992), Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Filmmaker movies.
Storyline: Melvin Van Peebles was one of the first black directors to challenge the white establishment in his films, which include "Watermelon Man" and "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." In this documentary, the life of Van Peebles is discussed, including his work not only in film, but also as a novelist, actor, musician, stock trader and even Air Force pilot. Interview subjects include Gil Scott-Heron, Spike lee and Melvin's son and fellow filmmaker, Mario Van Peebles.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, musician, independent film, filmmaking, avant-garde, social commentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Director Howard Brookner's body of work is rediscovered 30 years after his death.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, new york, filmmaking, 1980s, archival footage, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Robert B. Weide chronicles the life of the actor, comedian and director and his creative processes.
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, director, filmmaking, comedy, new york, film history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Director Carl-Gustaf Nykvist visits colleagues and friends of his father, Swedish filmmaker Sven Nykvist.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, cinematography, film history, director, interviews, black and white photography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Emilio D'Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick's personal driver, helps the famed director create four cinematic masterpieces.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, film production, director, behind the scenes, film history, interviews ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the Harry DeJour Playhouse in New York in the mid-2000s, John Waters emerges from a confessional onto a stage littered with trash. He tells stories. After a few about his childhood and early influences, he roughly follows the chronology of his career as a film director, relating anecdotes about the making of each film and letting those stories lead him to riffs on other topics. Gay references and wry observations about people's foibles and limits are constants. Waters' looks, too, are the butt of his jokes.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, stand-up comedy, documentary, humor, satire, independent film, director ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The biography of Charlie Chaplin, filmmaker extraordinaire. From his formative years in England to his highest successes in America, Chaplin's life, work, and loves are followed. While his screen characters were extremely hilarious, the man behind "The Little Tramp" was constantly haunted by a sense of loss.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, history, comedy, hollywood, england, america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This film is a documentary about the filming of one of Buster Keaton's movies: The Railrodder (1965).
Plot Keywords: comedy, documentary, filmmaking, silent film, classic cinema, hollywood, director ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary captures the life story of legendary Hollywood producer and studio chief Robert Evans. The first actor to ever to run a film studio, Robert Evans' film career started in 1956, poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel. His good looks, charm and overwhelming confidence captured the eye of screen legend Norma Shearer, who offered him a film role. After a glamorous--but short-lived--career as a movie star, Evans tried out producing. At the age of 34, with no producing credits to his name, he landed a job as chief of production at Paramount Pictures. Evans ran the studio from 1966-1974. During his tenure, he was responsible for such revolutionary films as The Godfather, Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The Odd Couple, Harold and Maude and Chinatown. By the early '80s, the Golden Boy of Hollywood was losing his luster. After a failed marriage to Ali MacGraw, a cocaine bust and rumored involvement with the Cotton Club murder, he disappeared into near-obscurity. Only through tremendous will and uncanny luck did he once again rise as the kid who stays in the picture.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, hollywood, producer, film industry, celebrity, behind the scenes ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Mike Nichols sits down with theater director Jack O'Brien to discuss his personal life and professional work.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, director, filmmaking, hollywood, interview, behind the scenes ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary on director Kim Ki-Duk looking back at his film career.
Plot Keywords: documentary, korean cinema, independent film, autobiographical, experimental film, psychological exploration, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life of Robert Altman over the course of his career as a filmmaker is told in roughly chronological order. It is presented largely through archival footage, including of his interviews and of his and his longtime wife Kathryn Reed's home movies. It includes his rocky start in Hollywood as an aspiring screenwriter, which instead led to him working as a general filmmaker for an industrial film company. This work led to directing assignments for a number of television series back in Hollywood, where he butted heads with a number of studio executives and producers who did not appreciate his style of filmmaking in his desire to insert a sense a realism in whatever the project, that realism which includes hanging story-lines and overlapping dialogue, often in multiple equally important conversations in a single setting which forces the viewer to decide which conversation he/she wants to focus. This situation often led to him trying to achieve what he wanted either in not telling or flying beneath the radar of the studio executive and producers. Altman's cachet in Hollywood took a meteoric turn upward with the film M*A*S*H (1970) which all other directors approached had turned down, it which ended up being a box-office smash and critically acclaimed, including winning that year's coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Over the remaining course of his filmmaking life which included some highs and lows (including a string of box office and critical failures in the late 1970s and early 1980s), he tried to instill a sense of of family among the cast and crew of his sets. Beyond his marriage to Kathryn, the personal side to the story includes his being father to a number of children and step-children who would enter into the business, and some health issues, one which ended up in him having a heart transplant of which he did not tell the public until ten years after the fact. Interspersed with the archive footage is a number of celebrities - actors who have worked in his films and contemporaries influenced by his work - who give their definition of the adjective "Altmanesque".—Huggo
Plot Keywords: documentary, director, hollywood, film history, biography, filmmaking, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than two years, meet him at work, at home and at leisure.—Fredrik Klasson <fredrik.klasson@telia.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, director, biography, filmmaking, art, creativity, film history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1959, Sir Alfred Hitchcock (Sir Anthony Hopkins) and his wife, Alma Reville (Dame Helen Mirren), are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amidst disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youth's artistic daring, Sir Alfred decides his next movie will adapt the lurid horror novel, "Psycho", over everyone's misgivings. Unfortunately, as Sir Alfred self-finances and labors on this movie, Alma finally loses patience with his roving eye and controlling habits with his actresses. When an ambitious friend lures her to collaborate on a work of their own, the resulting marital tension colors Sir Alfred's work, even as the novel's inspiration haunts his dreams.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, mystery, thriller, psychological, director ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of legendary director and actor Orson Welles to reveal a portrait of the artist as he's never been seen before.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, film history, art, director, visual art, archival footage ...
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