The Arts - Reference by Credo: Modern Film

Film actor, writer, and director, concerned with mortality, sexual inadequacies, show-business nostalgia, psychoanalysis, and urban living.

He created complex, often loosely plotted movies marked by brilliant and often huge ensemble casting, sharply delineated characters, overlapping dialogue, and an edgy spontaneity.

Swedish director. Made films which are outstanding for their photographic artistry, haunting imagery, and subtle exploration of facial characteristics.

German filmmaker. One of the most highly regarded and prolific directors of the post–World War II generation.

Italian film director and screenwriter. His work has been a major influence on modern cinema.

German director, screenwriter, and producer. One of the leading filmmakers in contemporary German cinema, the prolific Herzog is known for his vivid and poetic films.

From The Crystal Reference Encyclopedia
Film director, born in Missoula, Montana, USA. He is probably best known for the cult television series Twin Peaks (1990–1), which he co-wrote.

Polish-French film director. Polanski has exhibited a taste for dramatic situations presented with a cool lack of sentimentality and marked by unexpected violence and a sense of irony, black humor, and isolation and dread.

US director, screenwriter, and producer. One of the most influential figures in modern US cinema, he has made such contemporary classics as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), GoodFellas (1990), and The Age of Innocence (1993).

French film director and scriptwriter, b. Paris. Godard is probably the most influential of the French New Wave directors.

From France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History
Major contemporary French director whose film career has oscillated between Europe and America.

From Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought
New Wave (nouvelle vague) was the name given to a large group of film directors who began working in French cinema in the late 1950s.

French film director, screenwriter, and critic. Part of the French New Wave, his films are often concerned with the psychology of self-deception.

French film director; leader of French New Wave cinema; films include Jules et Jim (1961) and Baisers volés (1968).

French film and theatre director, actor, and writer. Credited with bringing continental film into mainstream cinema, and leading the way for the New Wave of French film-makers influential in the 1950s and 1960s.

US actor, director, and producer. She became well known for her role in Steven Spielberg's classic feel-good film ET the Extraterrestrial (1982) when she was only seven years old

Film and stage actor, born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. A product of the New York Actors’ Studio, he made his debut in 1943, and appeared in several plays before achieving fame in A Streetcar Named Desire (1947).

Film actor, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. In 1963 he was cast in Dr No as Ian Fleming’s secret agent James Bond, a part he subsequently played on seven occasions.

Actor and director; his many films include Taxi Driver (1976), The Deerhunter (1978), Midnight Run (1988), Awakenings (1990), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), and Sleepers (1996).

Actor, born in San Diego, California, USA. He began as a stage actor and made his film debut in To Kill a Mockingbird (1963).

Film actor and director, born in San Francisco, California, USA.

Best known as a film star, Jane Fonda has also worked as a political activist and since the 1980s has made a name for herself as a fitness expert.

Film actor, born in San Bernardino, California, USA.

Actor, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. A student at the Pasadena Playhouse, he pursued a career on stage and television in New York City, making his Broadway debut in 1961.

Actor, born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, S England, UK.

Film actress and writer, born in Richmond, Virginia, USA, the sister of Warren Beatty.

English actor, director, and producer.

Actor, writer, producer, and director, born in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Actor and director, born in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Film actress, born in New York City, USA.

US actor. Known for his prolific output on stage, television, and film, he established his career in the early 1960s and went on to perform in a variety of roles in a career spanning nearly half a century.

Actress, born in Summit, New Jersey, USA. She studied at Vassar College and Yale Drama School, making her New York stage debut in 1969, and her film debut in 1977