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1. João César Monteiro Tell Your Friends

Actor |
Recordações da Casa Amarela
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Born in Figueira da Foz, a cosmopolitan beach resort, moved to

Lisbon at the age of 15. In 1963 studies cinema at London School
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five years later. "Silvestre" from Portuguese short stories was

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2. Raúl Ruiz
 
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Director |
Les trois couronnes du matelot
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Chilean director Raúl, or Raoul, Ruiz (1941-2011) was one of the
most exciting and innovative filmmakers to emerge from 1960s
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Luc Godard. A guerrilla who uncompromisingly ...
3. Glauber Rocha
Director |
Terra em Transe

He studied Law. He also directed theatre pieces, wrote movie

criticisms and took part in the creation and development of the
'cinema novo' movement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, becoming its
theoretical leader and first embassador in Europe. After

"Barravento (1962)", a trilogy of films and "Antonio ...

4. Theodoros Angelopoulos
Director |
Mia aioniotita kai mia mera

Theo Angelopoulos began to study law in Athens but broke up his

studies to go to the Sorbonne in Paris in order to study literature.
When he had finished his studies, he wanted to attend the School
of Cinema at Paris but decided instead to go back to Greece.

There he worked as a journalist and ...

5. John Ford
Director |
The Quiet Man

John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an

actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "The
train". He became one of the most respected directors in the
business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were

not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, ...

6. Maurice Pialat
Director |
À nos amours

Maurice Pialat was a French film director. Film critics have noted
the naturalist style of his films, and their autobiographical
elements.

Pialat obtained his first camera when only 16-years-old, but his
early career involved creating documentary short films. His

ambition was to become a painter and...

7. Jean-Luc Godard
Director |
Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux

Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the

second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His
father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother
came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World

War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of ...

8. Chris Marker
Writer |
Twelve Monkeys

Chris Marker was born on July 29, 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine,

Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a director and writer, known for
12 Monkeys (1995), Sans Soleil (1983) and Third Side of the

Coin (1960). He died on July 29, 2012 in Paris, France.

9. Alain Resnais
Director |
Hiroshima mon amour

Alain Resnais was born on June 3, 1922 in Vannes, Morbihan,

France. He was a director and editor, known for Hiroshima Mon
Amour (1959), Same Old Song (1997) and My American Uncle
(1980). He was married to Sabine Azéma and Florence Malraux.

He died on March 1, 2014 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, ...

10. Jean-Marie Straub

Director |
Klassenverhältnisse

Jean-Marie Straub was born on January 8, 1933 in Metz, Moselle,

Lorraine, France. He is a director and editor, known for Class
Relations (1984), The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)

and Sicily! (1999). He was previously married to Danièle Huillet.

11. Danièle Huillet
Director |
Klassenverhältnisse

Danièle Huillet was born on May 1, 1936 in Paris, France. She

was a director and editor, known for Class Relations (1984),
Sicily! (1999) and The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968).
She was married to Jean-Marie Straub. She died on October 9,

2006 in Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, France.

12. Nikos Nikolaidis

Writer |
Ta kourelia tragoudane akoma...

Nikos Nikolaidis was born on October 25, 1939 in Athens, Greece.

He was a writer and director, known for The Wretches Are Still
Singing (1979), Morning Patrol (1987) and Singapore Sling

(1990). He died on September 5, 2007 in Athens.

13. Yasujirô Ozu

Director |
Tôkyô monogatari

Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often

playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in
his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant
at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an

assistant director and directed his first ...

14. Sergei Parajanov
Director |
Tini zabutykh predkiv

One of the 20th century's greatest masters of cinema Sergei

Parajanov was born in Georgia to Armenian parents and it was
always unlikely that his work would conform to the strict socialist
realism that Soviet authorities preferred. After studying film and

music, Parajanov became an assistant ...

15. Andrei Tarkovsky

Writer |
Solyaris

The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein,

Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky)
studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet
film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first

feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the...

16. Robert Bresson

Writer |
Journal d'un curé de campagne

Robert Bresson trained as a painter before moving into films as a

screenwriter, making a short film (atypically a comedy), Public
Affairs (1934) in 1934. After spending more than a year as a
German POW during World War II, he made his debut with

Angels of Sin (1943) in 1943. His next film, Les ...

17. Luis Buñuel
Writer |
Belle de jour

The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original

directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given
a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession
with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently

moved to Madrid to study at the ...

18. Abbas Kiarostami

Writer |
Ta'm e guilass

Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He

graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before
starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for
Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he

started a film section, and this started his career ...

19. Aleksandr Sokurov
Director |
Russkiy kovcheg

He was born with a disability because of an anatomic defect of

his leg, in 1951 in Podorvikha village in Siberian Russia. His
father was a Red Army veteran of WW2. One of most important
contemporary filmmakers, Sokurov worked extensively in

television and later graduated from the prestigious film ...

20. Béla Tarr

Producer |
Werckmeister harmóniák

Béla Tarr was born on July 21, 1955 in Pécs, Hungary. He is a

producer and director, known for Werckmeister Harmonies
(2000), The Turin Horse (2011) and Satantango (1994). He is

married to Ágnes Hranitzky.

21. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer |
Faustrecht der Freiheit

Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and
art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he
married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other
served as his editor. Accused variously by detractors of being

anticommunist, male chauvinist, antiSemitic and...

22. Pedro Costa
Director |
Cavalo Dinheiro

Pedro Costa was born on December 30, 1958 in Lisbon, Portugal.

He is a director and writer, known for Horse Money (2014),

Vitalina Varela (2019) and Colossal Youth (2006).

23. Manoel de Oliveira

Director |
Os Canibais

Manoel de Oliveira was born on December 11, 1908 in Oporto,

Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for Os Canibais
(1988), I'm Going Home (2001) and Gebo and the Shadow
(2012). He was married to Maria Isabel Brandão de Meneses de

Almeida Carvalhais. He died on April 2, 2015 in Oporto.

24. Jean Cocteau

Writer |
La belle et la bête

Jean Cocteau was one of the most multi-talented artists of the

20th century. In addition to being a director, he was a poet,
novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, and actor. He began
writing at 10 and was a published poet by age 16. He

collaborated with the "Russian Ballet" company of Sergei...

25. Bill Douglas
Writer |
My Childhood

Bill Douglas was born on April 17, 1934 in Newcraighall,

Scotland. He was a writer and actor, known for My Childhood
(1972), Comrades (1986) and My Way Home (1978). He died on

June 18, 1991 in Barnstaple, Devon, England.

26. F.W. Murnau

Director |
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

F.W. Murnau was a German film director. He was greatly

influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen
plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of
director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served as a
company commander at the eastern front and was in the German

air ...
27. Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Producer |
Ci ke Nie Yin Niang

Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and
1989, seven received best film or best director awards from
prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii,
and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes. In a 1988

worldwide critics' poll, Hou was championed ...

28. Jacques Rivette

Director |
La Belle Noiseuse

Although François Truffaut has written that the New Wave began
"thanks to Rivette," the films of this masterful French director are
not well known. Rivette, like his "Cahiers du Cinéma" colleagues
Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Éric Rohmer, did

graduate to filmmaking but, like Rohmer...

29. James Benning

Director |
RR

James Benning was born on December 28, 1942 in Milwaukee,

Wisconsin, USA. He is a director and editor, known for RR (2007),

13 Lakes (2004) and Casting a Glance (2007).

30. Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer |
L'avventura

Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo

Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet
Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy
categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to

their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...

31. Roberto Rossellini

Writer |
Roma città aperta

The master filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, as one of the creators

of neo-realism, is one of the most influential directors of all time.
His neo-realist films influenced France's nouvelle vague
movement in the 1950s and '60s that changed the face of

international cinema. He also influenced American ...

32. Jean Epstein

Director |
La chute de la maison Usher

Jean Epstein was born on March 25, 1897 in Warsaw, Poland,

Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was a
director and writer, known for The Fall of the House of Usher
(1928), The Three-Sided Mirror (1927) and The Lion of the

Moguls (1924). He died on April 2, 1953 in Paris, France.

33. Chantal Akerman
Director |
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman was born on June 6, 1950 in Brussels, Belgium.

She was a director and writer, known for Jeanne Dielman, 23,
quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Je Tu Il Elle (1974)
and The Meetings of Anna (1978). She was married to Sonia

Wieder-Atherton. She died on October 5, 2015 in Paris, ...

34. Jacques Tourneur

Director |
Out of the Past

Born in Paris in 1904, Tourneur went to Hollywood with his father,

director Maurice Tourneur around 1913. He started out as a script
clerk and editor for his father, then graduated to such jobs as
directing shorts (often with the pseudonym Jack Turner), both in

France and America. He was hired to ...

35. Andy Warhol
Director |
Chelsea Girls

Andrew Warhol's father, Ondrej, came from the Austria-Hungary

Empire (now Slovakia) in 1912, and sent for his mother, Julia
Zavackyová Warholová, in 1921. His father worked as a
construction worker and later as a coal miner. Around some time,

the family moved to Pittsburgh. During his teenage years...

36. John Cassavetes

Actor |
Love Streams

John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and

screenwriter. He is considered a pioneer of American independent
film, as he often financed his own films.

Cassavetes was born in New York City in 1929 to Nicholas John

Cassavetes (1893-1979) and his wife, Katherine Demetre (1906-

1983). ...

37. Ingmar Bergman

Writer |
Persona

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, 1918, the son of a
priest. The film and T.V. series, The Best Intentions (1992) is
biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The
film Sunday's Children (1992) depicts a bicycle journey with his

father. In the miniseries Private Confessions (...

38. Jesús Franco
Writer |
Der Teufel kam aus Akasava

He was only six years old when he started composing music

under the protection of his brother Enrique. After the Spanish
Civil War he was able to continue his studies at the Real
Conservatorio de Madrid, where he finished piano and harmony.

Being a Bachelor of Law and an easy-read novel writer (...

39. Krzysztof Kieslowski

Writer |
Trois couleurs: Bleu

Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969,

and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and
scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie
podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a

number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (...

40. Werner Schroeter

Director |
Nel regno di Napoli

The key person of the New German Cinema of the '70s. His
works, mostly shot in 16mm, combine an intense interest and
knowledge of German history and personal dramatic and
emotional investigations. Malina (1991) which stars Isabelle
Huppert is one of the great classics of modern cinema and deals

...
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