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Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, born Atom Yeghoyan on July 20th, 1960 in Cairo, is a Canadian film maker of Armenian descent. His parents, Joseph and Shushan, emigrated from Armenia to Egypt before he was born.
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Lars von Trier - dark prince of European cinema
Lars von Trier, the director, was born in Copenhagen on April 30th, 1956. Von Trier is in fact the artistic alias of the Danish director. Indeed Lars does not have „von” before his name and the habit of undersigning his films as „von Trier” he took after the fashion of artists posing as aristocrats. Like Erich von Stroheim, for instance.
Jean Pierre Jeunet - fairy visionary
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Jean Pierre Jeunet, one of the most renowned French directors these days, is an autodidact. He never attended any film schools, and he learned his craft making short films, commercials and video clips.
He was born on the 3rd of September, 1953 in Roanne, France. He has been interested in cinema since childhood. His favourite (directors) were Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert. Except for directing films, Jeunet also worked as a film critic for two magazines: ‘Fantasmagorie’ and ‘A Suivre’.
The First Film
It was a cold December night three days after Christmas in 1895 when guests filed curiously into the dimly lit basement at the Grand Café on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris. It was the age of marvels, of new inventions, and what the people had come that night to see was a magic show performed by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
Peter Weir - the mood master
The name of Peter Weir is known to almost every film fan. Who hasn’t raved about and been frightened to death watching his most famous film Picnic at Hanging Rock? With this film, already at the very beginning of his career, Weir ensured himself a honorable spot in the history of film and ensured the world paid attention to the cinematography of Antipodes.
Abbas Kiarostami - a versatile artist
Abbas Kiarostami is one of the leaders amongst the Iranian directors. He is widely considered as the most prominent representative of this exotic cinematography which has celebrated a lot of successes at different film festivals over the last few years. This is due to the Iranian New Wave, who brought to the world many outstanding filmmakers and made Iran a significant force in cinema world.
Krzysztof Kieslowski - morally concerned
Krzysztof Kieślowski was, and still is regarded as, one of the most renown Polish directors in the world. He was born on the June 27th, 1941 and died, a sudden death, on March 13th, 1996. His output is composed of numerous narrative and documentary films made for both theatrical release and TV as well as many scripts, most of which were screened but some left only as the typescripts.
Jane Campion - women's cinema at its best
”Women's cinema” is a pretty new invention. Elevated by feminist orientated critics and theorists to the distinction of a film style it became a buzzword, applied without restraint to analyze all movie products made by women.
Fernando Meirelles – concerned moralist from Sao Paulo
Since the mid 1990’s the Brazilian cinema has been considered as one of the most interesting cinematographies in the world. Retomada, the revival of the Brazilian cinema was possible thanks to Jose Carlos Avellar, who in 1992, founded RioFilme, a company that financed and distributed new films.
Wong Kar Wai - Wiz of the Image
Wong Kar Wai belongs to an outstanding generation of Asian filmmakers who have created new trends in the 1990’s and made Asian cinema renowned, making ambitious movies. They moved away from the ever present, and highly dominant, Far East action cinema, by creating artistic movies that were exotic in their idiosyncracy that have gone on to win both, the audience’s and the critics’ hearts the world over.
Mike Leigh - kind-hearted observer
Mike Leigh is the head representative of British social realism, within the film industry, and his filmography is a showcase of British cinema in the world. He is often mentioned in the same breath as Ken Loach, with whom he shares an interest in social matters. Leigh is called a “tragi-comedian of everyday life” and a “film humanist” amongst modern directors.
Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, born Atom Yeghoyan on July 20th, 1960 in Cairo, is a Canadian film maker of Armenian descent. His parents, Joseph and Shushan, emigrated from Armenia to Egypt before he was born.
