Category: American experimental filmmakers

The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work.

Category: American documentary filmmakers

The French New Wave filmmakers such as Jean Luc Godard and François Truffaut and their American counterparts such as Andy Warhol and John Cassavetes also pushed the limits of editing technique during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s.

Up to 1913, most American film production was still carried out around New York, but because of the monopoly of Thomas Edison's film patents, many filmmakers had moved to Southern California, hoping to escape the litany of lawsuits that the Edison Company had been bringing to protect its monopoly.

In the most recent years, while no longer and struggling with censorship, and with a large number of independent filmmakers of all genres, the Polish productions tend to be more inspired by the American film.

In American cinema, directors Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater and Todd Solondz have been called Generation X filmmakers.

The Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), directed by Giovanni Pastrone, was the first popular film to use dolly shots, which in fact were originally called " Cabiria movements " by contemporary filmmakers influenced by the film ; however, some smaller American and English films had used the technique prior to Cabiria, as well as Yevgeni Bauer's The Child of the Big City, released a month prior to Cabiria.

Category: American documentary filmmakers

Category: American experimental filmmakers

Category: American experimental filmmakers

Described by many as about " the meaning of life " or " gender identification " or " the hollow existence of the American suburbs ", the film has defied categorization by even the filmmakers.

With the filmmakers and cast in attendance, it screened at several American universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, New York University, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Texas at Austin, and Northwestern University.

In September 2008, Empire named American Beauty the 96th " Greatest Movie of All Time " after a poll of 10, 000 readers, 150 filmmakers and 50 film critics, the 3rd highest ranked movie from 1999 ( behind Fight Club and The Matrix ).

* Forum of Independents – more than just " independent " American filmmakers.

Category: American experimental filmmakers

He made Gershwin ( 1992 ), an innovative TV documentary in which the American composer's life and works were reviewed through the testimonies of performers and filmmakers, juxtaposed with commissioned paintings by Guy Peellaert.

Category: American experimental filmmakers

According to allmovie, it is " one of the most influential movies of the 1980s ", and cast " a wide shadow over the new generation of independent American filmmakers to come.

Category: American documentary filmmakers

When the film was released, film critic Roger Ebert discussed the style and methods the filmmakers used, writing, " The makers of The Atomic Cafe sifted through thousands of feet of Army films, newsreels, government propaganda films and old television broadcasts to come up with the material in their film, which is presented without any narration, as a record of some of the ways in which the bomb entered American folklore.

Elsaesser's alternative thesis is that the filmmakers adopted an Expressionist style as a method of product differentiation, establishing a distinct national product against the increasing importation of American films.

Category: American documentary filmmakers

A similar tone of underlying futility and despair pervades the spy thrillers of Eric Ambler and dominates the most famous of all American mystery stories, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

* 1973 – Eric Medlen, American drag racer ( d. 2007 )

* 1966 – Eric Esch, American boxer

* 1967 – Eric Angle, American wrestler

"), is the inspiration for the text of several pieces of choral music, usually entitled When David Heard ( such as those by Renaissance composers Thomas Tomkins and Thomas Weelkes, or American composers Eric Whitacre, Joshua Shank, and Norman Dinerstein ).

* 1974 – Eric Millegan, American actor

* 1956 – Eric Roberts, American actor

* 1949 – Eric Carmen, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Raspberries )

* 1999 – Eric Harris, American student who committed the Columbine High School massacre ( b. 1981 )

* 1971 – Eric Mabius, American actor

* 1987 – Eric Devendorf, American basketball player

* 1965 – Eric Avery, American musician and songwriter ( Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, and Polar Bear )

* 1953 – Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer

* 1973 – Eric Snow, American basketball player

* 1974 – Eric Kripke, American writer, director, and producer

* 1978 – Eric Balfour, American actor

* Eric Asimov ( born 1957 ), American wine critic

The title of the album was apparently inspired by historian Eric Lott's book Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class, which was published in 1993.

* 1969 – Eric Etebari, American actor, model and musician.

* 1944 – Eric Bloom, American musician ( Blue Öyster Cult )

* 1957 – Eric Coates, English-born American composer ( b. 1886 )

* 1972 – Eric Anderson, American musical theatre actor

* 1957 – Eric Marienthal, American saxophonist

* Eric S. Raymond ( born 1957 ), American computer programmer, author

Eric Steven Raymond ( born December 4, 1957 ), often referred to as ESR, is an American computer programmer, author and open source software advocate.