On that count the 35th annual festival was a great success -- scores of fascinating features, documentaries and shorts, along with tributes to three people who richly deserve them: the actress Jean Simmons, the Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell and the American director David Fincher.
Co-writer and director Zack Godshall says the filmmaker's sense of urgency led them to work fast.
The director puts himself into the story as a longtime visitor to the city and a filmmaker on hand to present his work, and also introduces the acclaimed Burkinan director Idrissa Ouedraogo, who offers a trenchant view of the gap between market-centered popular movies and subsidized art films, and between official and street-level modes of distribution.
And as the film's title entered the international language, so did its director immediately establish himself as a filmmaker of the top rank.
Danger Mouse says he'd always wanted to work with the director, so he asked the filmmaker to make a book of surreal photos inspired by the music.
We don't usually think of "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee as an effects filmmaker, but he gave us the romantic swordplay above swaying bamboo forests in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and, less happily, "Hulk" bouncing across the desert like a rubber ball.
The director, Joseph Cedar, an Israeli filmmaker born in America, has a sardonic view of them both.
Filmmaker Amos Gitai may be Israel's best known director, but he has not always been its favorite.
Last year, Jafar Panahi, the fifty-one-year-old Iranian film director currently under house arrest in Tehran, invited a documentary-filmmaker friend, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, to come over.
In 1910, silent filmmaker Sidney Olcott, a Canadian-American of Irish descent, became the first Hollywood director to shoot an on-location movie when he travelled to County Kerry to make A Lad from Old Ireland.
The meteoric first film by the French director Leos Carax, from 1984, hurls Alex (Denis Lavant), an aspiring filmmaker his own age, out of one desperately romantic relationship and into another, through a permanently nocturnal Parisian atmosphere of poetic coincidences and crazy risks.
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