Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet has been exploring the moral contradictions of life, mostly in New York, for more than 50 years. At 83, he adds to his astonishing body of work with Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

Fitzcarraldo

Ever wonder how Werner Herzog dragged a steamboat over a mountain in Fitzcarraldo? The director tells all.

Noah Baumbach

After The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach takes an even darker turn with Margot at the Wedding.

Paul Thomas Anderson

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is the kind of straight-ahead film Paul Thomas Anderson would love to make. He explains what makes it great.

Legends of the Guild

Our celebration of the Guild’s 70th anniversary continues with one of the first African-American stage managers in television.

Directors/Producers

With the demand for higher quality programming, more and more TV directors are becoming producer/directors. And the studios like what they see.

Directing Action Films

Directors of action films create some of the most spectacular-and innovative-footage on screen. All it takes is preparation, imagination and nerves of steel.

Bergman & Antonioni

Two masters of the screen, Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni, died on the same day last summer. Their introspection opened the way to a cinema of questioning and ambiguity.

Independent Directors and New Media

The Think Tank of the Independent Directors Committee is asking big questions about how indie directors can reach an audience in the Web 2.0 era.
The director of Hairspray wonders why all directors don't want to make musicals.

War Movies

Directors have been drawn to the battlefield since the early days of silent films. In a series of shots, we look at the view from the cinematic front lines.

Film and TV on the Internet

Content is booming on the Internet almost daily. In our ongoing look at developments in new technology, we sort out some of the ways film and TV are reaching a new audience.

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The Films of Robert Wise

Richard C. Keenan

A thoroughly researched critical survey of the former DGA President's five-decade career in Hollywood, Keenan's book contains clear and persuasive analyses of Wise's techniques, revealing an artist determined to let his material live and breathe.

Spanning 35 years' worth of interview between author and filmmaker, Lax's easy, familiar rapport with Allen translates into unexpected detail regarding Allen's influences and body of work.

Though he never directed a millimeter of film footage, Joseph Breen left an indelible mark on every movie made from 1934 to 1954, essentially functioning as chief enforcer of the Hays Code.

Pulp Fiction

Samuel Fuller

Newspaperman-turned-director Samuel Fuller used lurid, over-the-top plots and expressionistic filmmaking to create a body of work that still stings today.

Renee Hill-Sweet

Second Nature

Though she might deem herself a "hall monitor," Renee admits the best tools she brings to her job as a 2nd 2nd AD are abundant humor and a knack for extreme multitasking.

Michael Hausman

Home on the Range

A former stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, Hausman calls himself a "repeat customer" for directors such as Milos Forman, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, and Sydney Pollack.

Head Shot

Harold and Maude

Hal Ashby serves up Bud Cort on a silver platter in Harold and Maude - literally.

The Next Wave

Terry Denson

Terry Denson, vice president of content strategy and acquisitions for Verizon's FiOS TV, heralds the arrival of telcos and fiber optics in the home.

The director of Sicko says filmmakers should worry more about the creation and exhibition of their movies and less about piracy.

Despite Preminger's difficult reputation, author Foster Hirsch provides a judiciously balanced, three-dimensional biography of the director who helmed Laura and Anatomy of a Murder.

Christine Larson-Nitzsche

Crunching Numbers

A former 1st AD turned UPM, Larson-Nitzsche compares her job at CBS/Paramount's Numb3rs to working in the banking industry.

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