Actors’ Director — Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison directed Rod Steiger, Cher, and Olympia Dukakis to Oscar glory. Continue reading Actors’ Director — Norman Jewison
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Actors’ Director — Anthony Minghella
In retrospect, The English Patient looks like such a natural awards magnet, a quintessential prestige picture of the highest magnitude. In the moment, though, it seemed utterly improbable. It is based on a novel, by Michael Ondaatje, that was revered … Continue reading Actors’ Director — Anthony Minghella
Actors’ Director — Peter Bogdanovich
Before Peter Bogdanovich made movies, he loved movies. That doesn’t seem all that unique, but it was still a relatively new trajectory into the artform in the late nineteen-sixties, when the grand old men of Hollywood’s Golden Age (and it … Continue reading Actors’ Director — Peter Bogdanovich
Actors’ Director — Clint Eastwood
For a long time, Clint Eastwood’s directorial career was seen as a lark, an indulgence to keep a movie star happy so he’d occasionally acquiesce to playing Harry Callahan again. Across his first twelve films as a director, Eastwood’s films … Continue reading Actors’ Director — Clint Eastwood
Actors’ Director — Miloš Forman
Looking to start a producing career, Douglas wheedled the film rights to Ken Kesey’s book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest from his father, Kirk, who had them for years, actively certain that playing the story’s lead character was a … Continue reading Actors’ Director — Miloš Forman
Actors’ Director — Bruce Beresford
Born in Sydney, Australia, Bruce Beresford launched his film career far from home. Though he’d made a few short films while attending university, Beresford found paying work in the entertainment industry hard to come by when he graduated in the … Continue reading Actors’ Director — Bruce Beresford
Actors’ Director — An Introduction
Robert Altman was considered to be one of the best friends an actor could have. In addition to stacking his casts with craft, unorthodox players, he was known for his generosity with the assembled thespians, giving them room to explore and build characters. Especially after his Player-fueled resurgence in the early nineteen-nineties, actors flocked to him. Tthe posters for his films — whether the finished product was great or dismal — roughly equivalent to stream-of-consciousness lists generated by someone who’d been prompted to name every interesting actor they could think of in thirty seconds. Despite all that, Altman never directed … Continue reading Actors’ Director — An Introduction
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