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Hollywood's Best Film Directors: Created by Mark Kaplan, Martin Saint Charles, David Freydt. With Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, William Friedkin, Chris Columbus. Looks at Hollywood's best or luckiest directors.
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May 20, 2020 · 12 Great TV Series by Film Directors. Before they tried their hands at TV, they had already developed signature styles as film directors. These are the best of the series currently...
- Susanne Bier
- Jane Campion
- Lisa Cholodenko
- Lena Dunham
- Mark and Jay Duplass
- Ava Duvernay
- David Fincher
- Cary Fukunaga
- Andrew Haigh
- Rian Johnson
Oscar winner Susanne Bier made her American television debut with the stylish and sexy John le Carré miniseries “The Night Manager.” Unlike Tomas Alfredson’s barren aesthetic for the Carré film “Tinker Tailor Solider Spy,” Bier opted instead to bring a golden-hued sensuality to nearly every frame of her Carré vision. As a result, she brought an ele...
Given the opportunity to stretch out her storytelling across multiple episodes, Campion has been able to move critics and audiences on a deeply profound level. “Top of the Lake” and its follow-up installment “China Girl” has given the filmmaker the sort of universal acclaim many could argue she’s deserved for years, and the moody drama has become a...
The most recent works of the director of “The Kids Are All Right” have all been television, and it’s impossible to understate how heartbreaking and affecting “Olive Kitteridge,” her Emmy-winning HBO miniseries, ended up being. Cholodenko has been relatively underground of late, but her small screen experience, which also included episodes of “Six F...
The chief girl of “Girls” would never have made the transition to television without her initial descent into indie film, most notably with the 2010 feature “Tiny Furniture,” which did a great job of capturing her aesthetic and voice while also showcasing why television might ultimately be a better home for her work — given an episodic structure an...
The Duplass brothers made their television debut with HBO’s “Togetherness,” which was canceled after two seasons but remains a small miracle of human storytelling, and have since moved on to the more ambitious “Room 104” anthology series for the network. In both series, the brothers have managed to preserve the mumblecore intimacy and humanism of t...
Ava DuVernay was already one of the most celebrated directors in Hollywood when she joined forces with OWN to create and direct the drama series “Queen Sugar.” While the filmmaker already had TV experience having directed an episode of “Scandal,” “Queen Sugar” gave her the opportunity to set the directorial voice of a TV drama from the very first e...
David Fincher‘s jump from film to television is so monumental because “House of Cards” more or less jumpstarted the era of binge-watching as we know it. Fincher launched Netflix’s first original drama series with the kind of cinematic precision he is widely celebrated for, making Washington D.C. look and feel like a sterile kingdom of corruption, l...
Indie movie lovers already knew who Cary Fukunaga was by the time HBO debuted “True Detective” Season 1. The director was coming off two acclaimed dramas, “Sin Nombre” and “Jane Eyre,” when he moved to television for the first time, but it would be his work on “True Detective” that would put Fukunaga on the radar of the masses. The director was beh...
English filmmaker Andrew Haigh firmly stayed in his wheelhouse when following-up his breakthrough indie film “Weekend” with the HBO comedy-drama series “Looking,” but in doing so he proved himself as one of the most empathetic and humanist directors working today. Like a descendant of Richard Linklater, Haigh excels at heightening his character’s c...
It’s a testament to Rian Johnson’s skills behind the camera that he can make this list having only directed four episodes of television to date, one for the short-lived FX series “Terriers” and three for AMC’s Emmy-winning “Breaking Bad.” Honestly, Johnson would still be included here if “Ozymandias” was the only television episode on his résumé. T...
Sep 23, 2015 · Seith Mann. One of the great discoveries of “The Wire” (the show’s late producer Robert F. Colesberry saw his short “ Five Deep Breaths ,” which also led them to Jamie Hector, i.e. Marlo ...
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Mar 30, 2020 · SHARE. ABOUT THE SERIES. TRANSCRIPT. STREAM HOLLYWOOD’S BEST FILM DIRECTORS ON. More Episodes (7) See More Episodes. Video Clips (1) In "Hollywood's Best Film Directors," we go behind-the-scenes with some of Hollywood's biggest names. They talk about their lives and work, explaining what makes them so successful.
Hollywood's Best Film Directors, which aired from 2009 until 2018, is a fascinating documentary series that plunges viewers into the artistic minds and creative processes of some of the most celebrated directors in Hollywood.
