After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

" ( now more commonly " BASE ") was coined by filmmaker Carl Boenish, his wife Jean Boenish, Phil Smith, and Phil Mayfield.

Chaplin's years with the Fred Karno company had a formative effect on him as an actor and filmmaker ; Simon Louvish writes that the company was his " training ground ".

Carolyn Ann Mayer-Beug ( December 11, 1952 – September 11, 2001 ) was a filmmaker and video producer from Santa Monica, California.

Shark expert and underwater filmmaker Valerie Taylor was among the first to develop and test the mail suit in 1979 while diving with sharks.

Dennis Lee Hopper ( May 17, 1936May 29, 2010 ) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist.

On July 13, 2011 it was announced that The Evil Dead was being remade and it would be written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker, Fede Alvarez.

It was a tough and demanding shoot for the filmmaker as he recalls.

François Roland Truffaut ( 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984 ) was an influential filmmaker and film critic, one of the founders of the French New Wave.

Arguably the first Polish filmmaker was Kazimierz Prószyński, who filmed various short documentaries in Warsaw.

Takeshi Kitano emerged as a significant filmmaker with works such as Sonatine ( 1993 ), Kids Return ( 1996 ) and Hana-bi ( 1997 ), which was given the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Peter Jackson's 1995 film Forgotten Silver was billed and introduced as a serious documentary, purporting to tell the story of ' forgotten ' New Zealand filmmaker Colin McKenzie.

Friedrich Christian Anton " Fritz " Lang ( December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976 ) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.

According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker ( especially Metropolis ), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA.

In 1975, Hawks was awarded an Honorary Academy Award as " a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema " and, in 1942, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York.

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

Thought lost for decades, a print was found by filmmaker Curtis Harrington in the Universal vaults in 1968 and restored by George Eastman House.

Joris Ivens ( 18 November 1898, Nijmegen – 28 June 1989, Paris ) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.

Documentary filmmaker Carl Weston believed that " most people in Biggie's shoes would have wanted to at least hurt Tupac " in a Spin magazine interview.

Capp is also the subject of an upcoming WNET-TV American Masters documentary, The Life and Times of Al Capp, produced by his granddaughter, independent filmmaker Caitlin Manning.

Due to his complete independence as a filmmaker, Chaplin has been identified by Andrew Sarris as one of the first auteur filmmakers.

Except for one shot of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up, the film is composed entirely of photographs by Jean Chiabaud and stars Davos Hanich as the man, Hélène Chatelain as the woman and filmmaker William Klein as a man from the future.

* Dong ( film ) ( 东 ), a documentary film by filmmaker Jia Zhangke

All of the original colour clips were taken from a film capturing the event, Campbell at Coniston by John Lomax, a local amateur filmmaker from Wallasey, England.

The campaign is the subject of the 2005 documentary Gallipoli by Turkish filmmaker Tolga Örnek showing the bravery and the suffering on both sides through the use of surviving diaries and soldier's letters.

A few days afterwards, having been encouraged by Ray and New York underground filmmaker Amos Poe and using scholarship funds given by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation to pay for his school tuition, Jarmusch started work on a film for his final project.

The term has often been applied to documentary filmmaker Michael Moore over the years by both critics on the left and right due to his habit of traveling around New York City in a limousine.

These films, influenced by one of Anderson ' heroes, the French filmmaker Jean Vigo, and made in the tradition of the British documentaries of Humphrey Jennings, foreshadowed much of the social realism of British cinema that emerged in the next decade, with Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ), Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) and Anderson's own This Sporting Life ( 1963 ), produced by Reisz.

Flaherty defended his work by stating that a filmmaker must often distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

During this time Leni Riefenstahl, a filmmaker working in Nazi Germany, created one of the best-known propaganda movies, Triumph of the Will, a film commissioned by Hitler to chronicle the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg.

The Tractatus was the theme of a 1992 film by the Hungarian filmmaker Peter Forgacs.

After being discovered by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi for Vacanze col Gangster ( Holiday with the Gangster, 1951 ) at an early age of 12, he had, after 27 movies in Italy ( including Gli sbandati ), a major film role in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard ( Il Gattopardo, 1963 ).

His son, Raymond Bernard became an influential French filmmaker ( using as scripts a number of works authored by his father ) while his son Jean-Jacques Bernard published a memoir of his father in 1955 titled Mon père Tristan Bernard ( My Father, Tristan Bernard ).

The concert was recorded by Robertson's friend, filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

The single largest undertaking by a Japanese filmmaker at the time, Seven Samurai was a technical and creative watershed that became Japan's highest-grossing movie and set a new standard for the industry.

While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six-minute black-and-white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his ( and Burton's ) hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration.

The failure of his marriage, along with the loss of his independence as a filmmaker, led Keaton into a period of alcoholism.

After the commercial and critical failure of the film, Carpenter became very disillusioned with Hollywood and became an independent filmmaker.

In 1982, he attained his mature style with The Plains, a short novel about a young filmmaker who travels to a fictive country far within Australia, where his failure to make a film is perhaps his most profound achievement.

At 14, Herzog was inspired by an encyclopedia entry about filmmaking which he says provided him with " everything I needed to get myself started " as a filmmaker — that, and the 35 mm camera he stole from the Munich Film School.

In other shows, a cinéma vérité style is adopted, where the filmmaker is more than a passive observer — their presence and influence is greatly manifest.

Although Lichtenstein had planned on producing 15 short films, the three-screen installation — made with New York-based independent filmmaker Joel Freedman — turned out to be the artist's only venture into the medium.

1970 – 71, Australian musician and filmmaker Chris Lofven made ( monochrome ) promotional films for two of the biggest Australian hits of the period — Daddy Cool's " Eagle Rock " and Spectrum's " I'll Be Gone ".

* Scott Stuckey — a filmmaker and record producer in Washington, D. C ..

* Mary Harron — Canadian screenwriter and filmmaker, known for American Psycho

Despite this variety, filmmaker John Huston believed that, regardless of genre, a Buñuel film is so distinctive as to be instantly recognizable, or, as Ingmar Bergman put it — not entirely approvingly — " Buñuel nearly always made Buñuel films.

* Michael Moore — documentary filmmaker, director of Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 911, and Sicko

* Morgan Spurlock — American filmmaker ; exposed through example the dangers of McDonalds in his documentary Super Size Me

* Don Hertzfeldt — 1998, Academy Award nominated filmmaker

Oskar Fischinger ( 22 June 1900 — 31 January 1967 ) was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter.

Empire magazine also ranked Suspiria number 312 on their list of the 500 greatest films ever as well as number 45 on their list ' The 100 Best Films of World Cinema '.< ref > AllMovie called it " one of the most striking assaults on the senses ever to be committed to celluloid [...] this unrelenting tale of the supernatural was — and likely still is — the closest a filmmaker has come to capturing a nightmare on film.

In 1982, documentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage — himself born and sheltered in Le Chambon — returned there to film Weapons of the Spirit, which was released in 1989.

The film is about a filmmaker who recalls his life and his loves — the inspirations for his films — while attending a retrospective of his work.

( Motion blur has been added to the games themselves since the Orange Box version of the engine, though it was applied for camera movement only — not per-object, like the filmmaker.

Using a first-person narrative style in the form of a " letter " to Senator Jesse Helms ( R-NC ), the filmmaker explores the parallels and differences between himself — an openly gay man — and the staunchly anti-gay rights public servant.

Kees also continued to paint and write poems — and use his film camera to make experimental movies, as well as scoring a film, The Adventures of Jimmy ( 1951 ), directed by the poet and filmmaker James Broughton.