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- 2010
- Not Rated
- Paladin
- 1 h 30 m
- 2010
- Not Rated
- Paladin
- 1 h 30 m
Summary Great Directors, a celebration of films and film making starring ten of the world's most acclaimed, individualistic and provocative living directors, is deeply personal and intimate look at the art of cinema and the artists who create it. (Anisma Films)
Directed By: Angela Ismailos
Written By: Angela Ismailos
- 2010
- Not Rated
- Paladin
- 1 h 30 m
- 2010
- Not Rated
- Paladin
- 1 h 30 m
Great Directors
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6.0
Summary Great Directors, a celebration of films and film making starring ten of the world's most acclaimed, individualistic and provocative living directors, is deeply personal and intimate look at the art of cinema and the artists who create it. (Anisma Films)
Directed By: Angela Ismailos
Written By: Angela Ismailos
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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5 Reviews
47% Mixed
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
49
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
47% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
20% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
To eavesdrop on Bernardo Bertolucci, Stephen Frears, Ken Loach and John Sayles, as they talk politics; David Lynch and Todd Haynes, discussing inspiration; and Catherine Breillat, Agnès Varda, Richard Linklater and Liliana Cavani as they riff on controversy and aspiration, even for a little while, is a real treat.
First time documentarian Angela Ismailos has interviewed ten noteworthy international directors about their art, and then cut them together by skipping back and forth between their voices like an iPod in shuffle mode.
Her (Angela Ismailos) generic questions about the politics, economics, and aesthetics of film yield predictably generic responses from her subjects.
It shouldn't be surprising, but some of these directors are more interesting than their work. French director Breillat, never a personal favorite, is an absolutely hypnotic speaker who holds the screen the way her films rarely have.
Rarely have clips from so many good and great movies been put to such dull use.
Ten interviews with 10 "name" American and European directors--including Todd Haynes, David Lynch, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Catherine Breillat--diced into a documentary as asinine and fawning as its title suggests.
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Production Company
Anisma Films
Release Date Jul 2, 2010
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
