The directors who influenced Roger Corman
He liked the “commonly accepted great directors.”
Akira Kurosawa
“They used a nice trick, a little quirk”: Ridley Scott names the directors who influenced him the most
Having spent almost a decade working behind the camera before he’d even helmed his first feature, directing thousands upon thousands of commercials and advertisements in…
The director Steven Spielberg told Denzel Washington to steal from: “There are no new shots”
It wasn’t him, either.
Federico Fellini once named “the greatest living example” of what cinema should be
The definition of celluloid.
Why Akira Kurosawa disliked contemporary American movies: “They are not cinema”
“Violence and car crashes…”
Is ‘Seven Samurai’ the single most influential movie ever made?
Cinema still hasn’t escaped its shadow.
Akira Kurosawa’s love of Iranian cinema: “A film must be made with the heart, not the mind”
The maestro appreciated the nation’s resurgence.
“Not a lot of laughs!”: Martin Scorsese recalls being directed by Akira Kurosawa
When legend meets legend.