Legends of the Guild

Television and screen directors joined forces to form the DGA in 1960. We celebrate one of the men who helped make it happen.

Commercial Directors and New Technology

Thanks to CGI and new technology, anything is possible for commercial directors, who are making the most exciting 30-second films around.

Jim Sheridan

Jim Sheridan, director of In America and My Left Foot, goes by intuition in searching for the emotional truth of a film. If he doesn't feel it, it's not real.

An interview with Spike Lee

Since breaking out with She's Gotta Have It in 1986, Spike Lee has tackled issues of race, class and sex in America perhaps more than any other director. But his films are not just challenging-they're also entertaining.

Joe Sargent

Joe Sargent has been making masterful movies for TV for over 40 years. But his latest film, Sweet Nothing in My Ear, about issues in the deaf community, took even him by surprise.

Andy Ackerman

Here's what happens if you pay too much attention to the trades.
James Mangold leads us through the mean streets of Times Square in Sweet Smell of Success, directed by his mentor and teacher, Alexander Mackendrick.

Production Designers

The relationship between directors and production designers is one of the most crucial on a film. No wonder once the collaboration clicks, they often stick together. Several longtime teams explain how it works.

John Huston

John Huston was a gambler, boxer, soldier, painter and actor in his 81 years. In photos from the set, here's a look at some of his cinematic adventures along the way.

Kimberly Peirce

It took Kimberly Peirce nine years to make her second film after Boys Don't Cry. For Stop-Loss she tapped into soldiers' homemade videos for her inspiration.
Bernardo Bertolucci revisits China's Forbidden City to explain how he filmed the coronation of the child ruler in the nine-time Academy Award winner, The Last Emperor.

More

With over 60 reviews of books about film, Film on Paper offers a rich survey not just of the books, but also of the Time magazine critic's capacious and splendidly contrarian mind.

Harris' deeply researched account of the diverging fortunes of the five Best Picture nominees from 1968 provides a fascinating insider history of Hollywood in transition.

Containing interviews conducted between 1960 and 1983, Interviews demonstrates that Antonioni was, then as now, always one step ahead of his critics and interrogators.

Legal Eagle

Ken Ziffren

Top entertainment attorney Ken Ziffren talks about his role in the DGA negotiations and where the industry may be headed.

For a film to be critically successful, the ending doesn't have to necessarily be realistic and downbeat. It just has to be right for the material.

David Fox

Staging the News

A stage manager at This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Fox has 25 years of experience stage managing news, including a gig where he counted down the president.

Carla Raij

Managing the Big Apple

A longtime 2nd AD/location manager in New York City, Raij has shut down bridges, taken on marathoners, and found a Big Apple-based substitute for Boston.

Jennifer Love

Football Gamer

Working at the NFL Network's Total Access, Love is the only female coordinating director in the sports broadcasting industry.

Touch of Genius

Ernst Lubitsch

Famous for his touch with sophisticated comedy, Ernst Lubitsch also laid the groundwork for the modern musical, as demonstrated in a new box set.

Newshound

All the President's Men

Director Alan Pakula watches Robert Redford as Bob Woodward filing a Watergate story in All the President's Men.

The Pixar Touch

David A. Price

David A. Price's well-researched history of Pixar is also a history of the long march of CGI, with stops along the way, including the war between Disney and Pixar, embodied here by Michael Eisner and Steve Jobs.

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