Yasujirō Ozu (1903 –1963) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s. The most prominent themes of …
Howard Hawks (1896 – 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. A versatile film director, he explored many genres such as comedies, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, war films and westerns. His most popular films include Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings …
David Wark Griffith (1875 Crestwood – 1948 Hollywood), better known as D. W. Griffith, was an American film director. A prolific director, he made about four hundred short films in five years, from 1908 to 1913, and had made the first American blockbusters from 1914. He developed scriptwriting to allow for increasingly longer films. In …
The Dziga Vertov Group is a film collective founded in 1968 by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin to produce militant films with a Maoist orientation. The name of the collective refers to the Soviet director Dziga Vertov (1896-1954), but it is also influenced by the ideas of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). All the films are signed …