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David Lynch (USA, b. 1946) is perhaps the best known of all cult directors, whose Mulholland Drive marks cinema's arrival to the 21st century. His career began more than 30 years ago, with the groundbreaking, mystifying Eraserhead (1977). With Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) and Lost Highway (1997) Lynch breathed new life into the sensory experiences of film audiences and disrupted narrative...

Martin Scorsese (USA, b. 1942) is among the most prolific of American directors, having made more than 25 features in a 40-year career that has seen him garner all the highest honours the film world can bestow. Since the success of Taxi Driver in 1976, which also marked the start of his long collaboration with Robert De Niro, he has continued to draw endless inspiration from his Italian- American roots...

Steven Spielberg (USA, b. 1946) was the boy wonder of the new Hollywood of the 1970s. Taking Orson Welles as his model, he made Duel aged only 25, following it up with a string of successes that brought him the adulation of the studios. As a fan of special effects, and entirely attuned to the shift towards younger film audiences, he took entertainment to new heights with films such as Jaws (1975)...

An indepth look at Clint Eastwood's career as an actor and director in Clint Eastwood's own words. Micheal Henry Wilson uses his interviews with Eastwood to frame his career. Includes over 340 colour photographs, including previously unpublished photographs from Eastwood's personal collection, a biography and a complete filmography. This is a must have for any Eastwood fan or anyone curious about...

Masters of Cinema are lively and accessible introductions to the life and work of the world's greatest film directors. Each book provides the keys to understanding a director's career, from their earliest projects to their most recent films, alongside a complete filmography, film stills, on set pictures and film posters. Written by experts in the field, Masters of Cinema are an essential resource for...

Masters of Cinema are lively and accessible introductions to the life and work of the world's greatest film directors. Each book provides the keys to understanding a director's career, from their earliest projects to their most recent films, alongside a complete filmography, film stills, on set pictures and film posters. Written by experts in the field, Masters of Cinema are an essential resource for...

Masters of Cinema are lively and accessible introductions to the life and work of the world's greatest film directors. Each book provides the keys to understanding a director's career, from their earliest projects to their most recent films, alongside a complete filmography, film stills, on set pictures and film posters. Written by experts in the field, Masters of Cinema are an essential resource for...

Masters of Cinema are lively and accessible introductions to the life and work of the world's greatest film directors. Each book provides the keys to understanding a director's career, from their earliest projects to their most recent films, alongside a complete filmography, film stills, on set pictures and film posters. Written by experts in the field, Masters of Cinema are an essential resource for...

Masters of Cinema are lively and accessible introductions to the life and work of the world's greatest film directors. Each book provides the keys to understanding a director's career, from their earliest projects to their most recent films, alongside a complete filmography, film stills, on set pictures and film posters. Written by experts in the field, Masters of Cinema are an essential resource for...

A unique insight into the creative processes of one of the world's greatest film-makers.

Cannes Cinema is an extraordinary family photo album of the greatest international film gala: the Festival de Cannes.

From the very first Cannes Film Festival in 1939 right up to the present day, three generations of photographers from the Traverso family have immortalized the world's most beautiful film stars – from Grace Kelly to Penélope Cruz – and greatest film directors –...

Quentin Tarantino (born 1963) is considered the enfant terrible of contemporary cinema. From his outstanding debut at the Sundance Film Festival with 'Reservoir Dogs' (1992) to his most recent controversial war film 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009), Tarantino has created a fascinating, violent, and highly personal body of work. A self-taught and crazy director who is a complete cinema buff, Tarantino...

Michael Mann (born 1943) is one of the most interesting directors of our time, whose work lies at the intersection of the mainstream cinema and the avant-garde, of public entertainment and private obsession. Throughout his career, Mann has moved freely between television and cinema: he produced 'Miami Vice' and 'Crime Story' - two of the most successful TV series of the 1980's - in addition to directing...

George Lucas (born 1944) is a producer, screenwriter and director, who played a major role in the anti-establishment New Hollywood movement of the 1970s and helped define the blockbuster era of the 1980s.

He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars space opera and the producer of the iconic Indiana Jones adventure film series.

Lucas had directed THX 1138 (1971) and American Graffiti (1973)...

Roman Polanski (born 1933) is a French–Polish film director, producer, writer and actor, who stands as one of the most influential directors living today.

A truly international filmmaker, Polanski has received numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and five Oscar nominations.

Ethan Coen (b. 1957) and Joel Coen (b. 1954), known as the Coen brothers, are among the most creative of contemporary American directors.

From their very first feature, Blood Simple (1984), to their most recent film, True Grit (2010), they have written, directed and produced their films jointly.

Their style is unique, somewhere between film noir ( Fargo , 1996; No Country for Old Men , 2007) and...

Woody Allen (USA, b. 1935) has been a major comic director since the 1970s. Writer, director and actor, his self-portrayal as a neurotic, intellectual, sex-obsessed, Jewish New Yorker seeking comfort in psychoanalysis brought him immense popular success and acknowledged status as a writer ( Manhattan , 1979; Deconstructing Harry , 1997). In the 2000s he left New York to work in Europe, winning over...

Pedro Almodóvar (Spain, b. 1951) single-handedly represents the revival of Spanish cinema  as part of the cultural flowering of the Movida Madrileña in the 1980s. New York was first to hail the unbridled imagination of this provocative director, whose films are filled with  transsexuals, neurotics Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown , 1988) and even drug-addicted nuns ( The...

Tim Burton (USA, b. 1958) is the youngest of Hollywood's most successful directors. He has the knack of making films with a very broad appeal, taking the silliness out of the  representation of children, while remaining in touch with the child within himself and his audiences. Burton emerged as a director and storyteller after working as an animator for Disney.