Great Directors, directed by Angela Ismailos, features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismailos' voyage of discovering the creative personalities behind the camera. She explores the filmmakers' artistic evolution and personal identity, the role of politics and history o... (Full plot summary below)
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Great Directors, directed by Angela Ismailos, features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismailos' voyage of discovering the creative personalities behind the camera. She explores the filmmakers' artistic evolution and personal identity, the role of politics and history on their work, and the agony and dilemmas in the creative process. It also examines the challenges of being an artist in an age of commercialism and globalization. The film traces the influence of cinematic movements and iconic directors on these directors' work-from the role of Neo-Realism in Bertolucci's evolution to the influence of Federico Fellini on David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman on Catherine Breillat and Rainer Werner Fassbinder on Todd Haynes.
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| Denver PostLisa KennedyThe number of interviewees makes the film a signpost survey, more meaningful to film- study newbies than veterans. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyFilm lovers will feel like they're eating a banana split of cinematic ice cream when they watch Angela Ismailos's no-nonsense interview documentary. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. LevitThis documentary, full of interviews and clips, is not for the casual moviegoer but for the hard-core, often art-house crowd and the historian. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittA better title for Great Directors would be Good Directors Who Returned My Calls. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineDocumentary loaded with talking-head interviews with some of foreign and American indie cinema's more intriguing living directors is more superficially diverting than profoundly informative, but with a flurry of classic clips to break up the static, it's |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA documentary revealing the diversity of talent and subject matter in the wide world of films. |
| DVDTalk.comJason BaileyThe assemblage of clips is well-chosen and fast-paced. |
| Film-Forward.comKent TurnerAngela Ismailos's breezy Great Directors is like eavesdropping on the best bits of her candid and casual conversations with her personal favorite filmmakers |
| Boston PhoenixGerald PearyThe chore is to blank out Greek filmmaker Angela Ismailos's clueless, indulgent voiceover and moony on-camera presence... |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIf she dearly loves these filmmakers, or some of their films, it's too hard to tell. |
