Film

The concept of film as an art-form began in 1911 with Ricciotto Canudo's manifest The Birth of the Sixth Art.

Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder, Charles Brackett, and D. M. Marshman Jr.

is an American filmmaker

M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children, in his third screen role. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a proce

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke. Its plot was inspired by several short stories optioned from Clarke, primarily

Andy Warhol ( ; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, Warhol's practice spanned various media, including painting, filmmaking, photography, publishing, and performance art.

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s-particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans-and in glamour photography.

Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi (4 May 1904 - 3 February 1975), known by her stage name Umm Kulthum, was an Egyptian singer and film actress. She was given the honorific title Kawkab el-Sharq (Egyptian Arabic: كوكب الشرق, lit. 'Planet of the East').

Robert Frank (Swiss Standard German: [fraŋk]; November 9, 1924 - September 9, 2019) was a Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society.

(June 17, 1907 - August 21, 1978) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker. In professional partnership with his wife Ray-Bernice Kaiser Eames, he made groundbreaking contributions in the fields of architecture, furniture design, industrial design, manufacturing and the photographic arts.

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898 - 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, he was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 - 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of cinema.

Federico Fellini (Italian: [fedeˈriːko felˈliːni]; 20 January 1920 - 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness.

Niki de Saint Phalle (French: [niki d(ə) sɛ̃ fal]; born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 1930 - 21 May 2002) was a French American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books.

Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 - March 27, 2002) was an Austrian and American film director and screenwriter. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of America's most versatile filmmakers.

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, pronounced [ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj] ; 4 April 1932 - 29 December 1986) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin. He is widely considered one of the greatest directors in cinema history.

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈhɛʁtsoːk]; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, author, and documentarian. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious

Sir David Lean (25 March 1908 - 16 April 1991) was an English filmmaker and editor, widely considered one of the most important figures of British cinema. He directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and A Passage to India (1984).

Deep focus is a photographic and cinematographic technique using a large depth of field. Depth of field is the front-to-back range of focus in an image, or how much of it appears sharp and clear. In deep focus, the foreground, mid

A jump cut is a cut in film editing that breaks a single continuous sequential shot of a subject into two parts, with a piece of footage removed to create the effect of jumping forward in time. Camera positioning on the subject ac

A montage ( mon-TAHZH) is a film editing technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced to condense space, time, and information. Montages enable filmmakers to communicate a large amount of information to an audience ove

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 - March 7, 1999) was an American filmmaker and photographer. A prominent figure of the New Hollywood era, Kubrick is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers.

At Avoth Yeshurun's suggestion, he turned his last name into a phonetic rendering of quatre mortes, French for "four deaths." His apartment on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, where his only film was shot, was a hub of city life during that time.

Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby pictures are created or manipulated and then played in sequence to create the illusion of moving images.

street artist, political activist, and film director

was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer

was a Japanese filmmaker

was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic

was an Indian playwright, actor, film director, writer, and a Jnanpith awardee

was an American photographer and filmmaker

was a Hungarian-French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker

was an Indian painter and film director

she became recognized for her dynamic and forceful portrayals of

Rossellini, Roberto (Italian film director, 1906-1977)

De Sica, Vittorio (Italian film director, 1901-1974)

Dreyer, Carl Theodor (Danish film director, 1889-1968)

Murnau, F. W. (German filmmaker, 1888-1931)

Bergman, Ingmar (Swedish filmmaker, 1918-2007)

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