Great Directors

Name: Great Directors
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 2, 2010
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 49
Cast: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, David Lynch

2010

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Paladin (II) | Release Date: July 2, 2010

Starring: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, David Lynch

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)

Director: Angela Ismailos

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 90 min

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Joe Neumaier

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. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Movie actors are notoriously inarticulate about their craft, but what about movie directors? If the documentary Great Directors is any indication, the returns are a bit more promising. Read full review

Natasha Senjanovic

What is most interesting is hearing the directors speak of their work in general, rather than any film in particular. Read full review

Carrie Rickey

Her (Angela Ismailos) generic questions about the politics, economics, and aesthetics of film yield predictably generic responses from her subjects. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

As an interrogator Ms. Ismailos is no Torquemada; she lobs softballs that her subjects genially accept. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

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. Read full review

Nick Pinkerton

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. Read full review

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