"tells the story of an older Bill Rohan as a soldier during the Korean War. The film was selected to be screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. It was released generally in 2015. Hope and Glory (film) Hope and Glory is a 1987 British comedy-drama-war film, written, produced and directed by John Boorman and based on his own experiences of growing up in the Blitz in London during the Second World War. The title is derived from the traditional British patriotic song ""Land of Hope and Glory"". The film was distributed by"
"Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro Gómez (; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, author, actor and former special effects makeup artist. He is best known for the Academy Award-winning fantasy films ""Pan's Labyrinth"" (2006) and ""The Shape of Water"" (2017), winning the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Picture for the latter. Throughout his career, del Toro has shifted between Spanish-language horror-fantasy films, such as ""Cronos"" (1993) and ""The Devil's Backbone"" (2001), and more mainstream American sci-fi-action films, including ""Mimic"" (1997), ""Blade II"" (2002), ""Hellboy"" (2004), """" (2008), and"
"Jonathan Demme Robert Jonathan Demme ( ; February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the psychological horror ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed ""Melvin and Howard"" (1980), ""Swing Shift"" (1984), ""Something Wild"" (1986), ""Married to the Mob"" (1988), the concert film ""Stop Making Sense"" (1984), ""Philadelphia"" (1993) and ""Rachel Getting Married"" (2008). Demme was born on February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, New York, the son of Dorothy Louise (""née"" Rogers) and Robert Eugene Demme,"
"morning of April 26, 2017, Demme died at the age of 73 in Manhattan, New York due to complications from esophageal cancer and heart disease. Jonathan Demme Robert Jonathan Demme ( ; February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the psychological horror ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed ""Melvin and Howard"" (1980), ""Swing Shift"" (1984), ""Something Wild"" (1986), ""Married to the Mob"" (1988), the concert film ""Stop Making Sense"" (1984), ""Philadelphia"" (1993) and ""Rachel"
"is going to happen to them?"" David Thomson wrote in his entry for De Palma, ""There is a self-conscious cunning in De Palma's work, ready to control everything except his own cruelty and indifference."" Brian De Palma Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter. In a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for his work in genres such as suspense, psychological thriller, and crime drama. His prominent films include mainstream box office hits such as ""Carrie"" (1976), ""Dressed to Kill"" (1980), ""Scarface"" (1983), ""The Untouchables"" (1987), and """" (1996),"
"director of Christel Films and John Boorman Productions Limited. This relationship saw him working on a number of productions with Boorman. In 1971, Orme began working as associate producer on ""Deliverance"" (adapted from James Dickey's novel), directed by John Boorman, edited by Tom Priestley and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox. ""Deliverance"" was a box office success in the United States, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 1972 after grossing a domestic total of over $46 million with only a $2 million budget. ""Deliverance"" was nominated for three Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best"
"Denzel Washington Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has received three Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film ""Glory"" (1989) and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller ""Training Day"" (2001). Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1980s, including his portrayals of real-life figures, such as South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in ""Cry Freedom"" (1987), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in ""Malcolm"
"Norman Panama Norman Kaye Panama (April 21, 1914 – January 13, 2003) was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Melvin Frank, to form a writing partnership which endured for three decades. He also wrote gags for comedians such as Bob Hope's radio program and for Groucho Marx. The most famous films he directed were ""Li'l Abner"" (1959), the Danny Kaye film ""The Court Jester"" (1956), and the Bob Hope film ""How to Commit Marriage"" (1969). He wrote ""Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House"" (1948), ""Road to Utopia"" (1946), and ""The"
"Garth Jennings Garth Jennings (born March 4, 1972) is a British film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is best known for directing the films ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", ""Son of Rambow"" and ""Sing"". Jennings co-founded the production company Hammer & Tongs. In 1993, Jennings co-founded the production company Hammer & Tongs alongside Dominic Leung and Nick Goldsmith. The production company was primarily responsible for directing and writing music videos. Their music video for Radiohead's song ""Lotus Flower"" earned Jennings a nomination at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. As a member of Hammer & Tongs, Jennings directed a"
"Brian De Palma Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter. In a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for his work in genres such as suspense, psychological thriller, and crime drama. His prominent films include mainstream box office hits such as ""Carrie"" (1976), ""Dressed to Kill"" (1980), ""Scarface"" (1983), ""The Untouchables"" (1987), and """" (1996), as well as cult favorites such as ""Sisters"" (1973), ""Blow Out"" (1981), ""Body Double"" (1984), ""Carlito's Way"" (1993), and ""Femme Fatale"" (2002). De Palma is often cited as a leading member of the New"
"Trippe in ""Deliverance"" (1972), starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds, and set in northern Georgia. Beatty's character is forced to strip at gunpoint by two mountain men who humiliate and rape him, a scene so unprecedented, horrifying and shocking that it is still referenced as a screen milestone. In 1972, he also appeared in ""The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean"", a western with Paul Newman. In 1973, Beatty made ""The Thief Who Came to Dinner"", ""The Last American Hero"" and ""White Lightning"". The latter film reunited Beatty with his ""Deliverance"" co-star, Burt Reynolds. He also appeared in an"
"Tamar Simon Hoffs Tamar Simon Hoffs (""nee"" Tamar Ruth Simon; October 23, 1934) is an American film director, writer, and producer, best known for directing the indie films ""Red Roses and Petrol"" (2003) and ""Pound of Flesh"" (2009), both starring Malcolm McDowell. Hoffs was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Kelsey H. and Rabbi Ralph Simon. She grew up in Chicago and received a BA from the University of Chicago, followed by Graduate Studies at Yale University School of Fine Arts and the Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design. After moving to Los Angeles, Hoffs entered the filmmaking"
"of the Messianic Jews' congregation in Haifa. In April 2014, Washington presented at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition with Bryan Cranston, Idina Menzel and Fran Drescher, after raising donations at his Broadway show ""A Raisin in the Sun"". Denzel Washington Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has received three Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film ""Glory"" (1989) and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller ""Training Day"" (2001). Washington"
"Burt Reynolds Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor, director and producer. He first rose to prominence starring in television series such as ""Gunsmoke"" (1962–1965), ""Hawk"" (1966), and ""Dan August"" (1970–1971). His breakout film role was as Lewis Medlock in ""Deliverance"" (1972). Reynolds played the leading role in a number of subsequent box office hits, such as ""The Longest Yard"" (1974), ""Smokey and the Bandit"" (1977), ""Semi-Tough"" (1977), ""Hooper"" (1978), ""Smokey and the Bandit II"" (1980), ""The Cannonball Run"" (1981) and ""The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"" (1982). After a number of"
"James Wan James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian film director, screenwriter and producer known for directing the horror film ""Saw"" (2004) and creating Billy the Puppet. He also directed ""Dead Silence"" and ""Death Sentence"" (both 2007), ""Insidious"" (2011), ""The Conjuring"" and """" (both 2013), ""Furious 7"" (2015), ""The Conjuring 2"" (2016), and ""Aquaman"" (2018). Wan was born in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia and is of Malaysian Chinese descent. Wan and his family moved to Perth, Australia when he was seven. He attended Lake Tuggeranong College in Canberra, before moving to Perth as an adult. Wan relocated from Perth"
"CERTV. His book ""Launching of Glory"" -Desembarco de la Gloria-about guerrillas expeditions that in 1959 intended to overthrew Rafael Trujillo dictatorship, is one of the main sources for dominican scholars who studies that historical period. Juan Delancer Juan Delancer is a Dominican writer, journalist, screenwriter and film director. Delancer got his start as a writer, researcher, journalist, documentarian and television producer in the Dominican Republic throughout the 1980s and 1990s before beginning work on his first feature film debut, ""Trópico de Sangre"", which tells the story of the Mirabal sisters in times of Rafael Trujillo dictatorship, and is co-produced by"
"Jerzy Hoffman Jerzy Hoffman (; born 15 March 1932) is a retired Polish director, screenwriter, and occasional producer. He received the Polish Academy Life Achievement Award in February 2006. Hoffman is best known for his works in ""The Deluge"" (1974) and ""With Fire and Sword"" (1999), the former of which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His other notable credits were in ""Three Steps on Earth"" (1965) and ""Colonel Wolodyjowski"" (1969). His 1965 film ""Three Steps on Earth"" was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize. His 1969"
"body was cremated at the Gold Coast Crematory in Florida. Burt Reynolds Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor, director and producer. He first rose to prominence starring in television series such as ""Gunsmoke"" (1962–1965), ""Hawk"" (1966), and ""Dan August"" (1970–1971). His breakout film role was as Lewis Medlock in ""Deliverance"" (1972). Reynolds played the leading role in a number of subsequent box office hits, such as ""The Longest Yard"" (1974), ""Smokey and the Bandit"" (1977), ""Semi-Tough"" (1977), ""Hooper"" (1978), ""Smokey and the Bandit II"" (1980), ""The Cannonball Run"" (1981) and ""The"
"Juan Delancer Juan Delancer is a Dominican writer, journalist, screenwriter and film director. Delancer got his start as a writer, researcher, journalist, documentarian and television producer in the Dominican Republic throughout the 1980s and 1990s before beginning work on his first feature film debut, ""Trópico de Sangre"", which tells the story of the Mirabal sisters in times of Rafael Trujillo dictatorship, and is co-produced by and starring actress Michelle Rodriguez. He has served en public administration as ambassador to Uruguay and private secretary of Dr.Leonel Fernández, current Presidente of Dominican Republic as well as director of the State Public Television"
"prolific producer, his producing works including acclaimed and successful films such as ""The Orphanage"" (2007), ""Julia's Eyes"" (2010), ""Biutiful"" (2010), ""Kung Fu Panda 2"" (2011), ""Puss in Boots"" (2011), and ""Mama"" (2013). He was originally chosen by Peter Jackson to direct the Hobbit films; he left the project due to production problems but was still credited as co-writer for his numerous contributions to the script. In 2018, Del Toro won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for ""The Shape of Water"". Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto started his career with small Mexican short and feature-length films. His big break"
"Terrence Malick Terrence Frederick Malick (; born November 30, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood film-making wave with the films ""Badlands"" (1973), about a murderous couple on the run in the American badlands, and ""Days of Heaven"" (1978), which detailed the love-triangle between two labourers and a wealthy farmer, before a lengthy hiatus. He returned to directing with films such as ""The Thin Red Line"" (1998), ""The New World"" (2005), and ""The Tree of Life"" (2011), being awarded the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film"
"The Power and The Passion"", ""Pride & Prejudice"", ""Atonement"" and ""Hanna"" all have long tracking shots in them. ""Atonement"" has a continuous 5 minute and 5 second shot of the Dunkirk evacuation. ""Basically, I just like showing off"", Wright told the audience at the Hay Festival. Joe Wright Joseph Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director. His motion pictures include the romance film ""Pride & Prejudice"" (2005), the romantic war drama ""Atonement"" (2007), the action thriller ""Hanna"" (2011), his adaptation of ""Anna Karenina"" (2012), Peter Pan origin story ""Pan"" (2015), and World War II political drama ""Darkest"
"Rob Epstein Rob Epstein, also credited as Robert P. Epstein, is an American director, producer, writer, and editor. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature, for the films ""The Times of Harvey Milk"" and """". In 1987, Epstein and his filmmaking partner, Jeffrey Friedman, founded Telling Pictures, a production company and team known for ""groundbreaking feature documentaries."" Epstein has transitioned from nonfiction documentaries into scripted narratives, producing such biopics as ""HOWL"", his award-winning film about Allen Ginsberg's controversial poem by the same name (starring James Franco), and ""Lovelace"", the story about the life and trials of pornographic"
"on Lake Michigan: 100 Years of Chicago and the Movies"". George Tillman Jr. George Tillman Jr. (born January 26, 1969) is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director. Tillman is most notable for directing the films ""Soul Food"" (1997) and ""Men of Honor"" (2000). He is also the producer of the """" on television and the three films in the ""Barbershop"" series: ""Barbershop"", """", and ""Beauty Shop"". He directed and produced The Hate U Give(2018). He also directed the 2009 biopic ""Notorious"" about the late Brooklyn-born rapper The Notorious B.I.G.. Tillman was nominated for the Black Film Award for Best"
"Sam Irvin Sam Irvin (born June 14, 1956) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, actor, author and film teacher. Irvin's directing credits include ""Guilty as Charged"", ""Oblivion"", ""Elvira's Haunted Hills"", and all the episodes of two television series: ""Dante's Cove"" and ""From Here on OUT"". His other credits include co-executive producer of Bill Condon's Academy Award-winner ""Gods and Monsters""; associate producer of Brian De Palma's ""Home Movies""; and historical consultant on the Tony Award-winner ""Liza's at the Palace"". Irvin also wrote the biography """" (Simon & Schuster). Between projects, Irvin teaches graduate courses on directing at the"
"near the beginning, with one of the city men playing ""Dueling Banjos"" on guitar with a banjo-strumming country boy, and for its visceral and notorious male rape scene. In 2008, ""Deliverance"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."" Four Atlanta men—Lewis Medlock, Ed Gentry, Bobby Trippe, and Drew Ballinger—decide to canoe down a river in the remote northern Georgia wilderness, expecting to have fun and witness the area's unspoiled nature before the fictional Cahulawassee River valley is flooded by construction of a dam. Lewis"
"Anthony Quinn Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican actor, painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including ""La Strada"", ""The Guns of Navarone"", ""Zorba the Greek"", ""Guns for San Sebastian"", ""Lawrence of Arabia"", ""The Shoes of the Fisherman"", ""The Message"", ""Lion of the Desert"", ""Last Action Hero"" and ""A Walk in the Clouds"". He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice: for ""Viva Zapata!"" in 1952 and ""Lust for Life"" in 1956. Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn"
"Michael Punke Michael W. Punke (born December 7, 1964) is an American writer, novelist, professor, policy analyst, policy consultant, attorney, and former Deputy United States Trade Representative and US Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He is currently the Vice President of Public Policy for Amazon Web Services. He is best known for writing ""The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge"" (2002), which was adapted into film as ""The Revenant"" (2015), directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, with a screenplay by Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Punke was born and raised in"
"Guillermo Navarro Guillermo Navarro, ASC (born 1955) is a Mexican cinematographer and television director. He has worked in Hollywood since 1993 and is a frequent collaborator of Guillermo del Toro and Robert Rodriguez. In 2006 he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for the film ""Pan's Labyrinth"". His filmography runs the gamut from small arthouse films to big-budget action films. Navarro's directing debut is a 2012 music video for musician Mia Maestro titled ""Blue Eyed Sailor"", co-directed with media artist Juan Azulay, also featuring son Alvaro Navarro's cinematography. His work often features very vivid blues and yellows which often"
"Ramón Menéndez Ramón Menéndez is a Cuban–American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing the 1988 film ""Stand and Deliver"". His other film directing credits include ""Money for Nothing"" (1993) starring John Cusack and the Disney Channel original film ""Gotta Kick It Up!"" (2002). He also served as a screenwriter for all of the films he directed. His only film as a screenwriter and not as a director was the 2001 film ""Tortilla Soup"". He has also worked in episodic television, directing episodes ""Tales from the Crypt"" and ""Perversions of Science"", in 1994 and 1997,"
"John Milius John Frederick Milius (; born April 11, 1944) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures. He was a writer for the first two ""Dirty Harry"" films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of ""Apocalypse Now,"" and wrote and directed ""The Wind and the Lion"", ""Conan the Barbarian"" and ""Red Dawn."" He later served as the co-creator of the Primetime Emmy Award-winning HBO series ""Rome"". Milius was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of three children to Elizabeth (née Roe) and William Styx Milius, who was a shoe manufacturer. When Milius was seven his"
"George Tillman Jr. George Tillman Jr. (born January 26, 1969) is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director. Tillman is most notable for directing the films ""Soul Food"" (1997) and ""Men of Honor"" (2000). He is also the producer of the """" on television and the three films in the ""Barbershop"" series: ""Barbershop"", """", and ""Beauty Shop"". He directed and produced The Hate U Give(2018). He also directed the 2009 biopic ""Notorious"" about the late Brooklyn-born rapper The Notorious B.I.G.. Tillman was nominated for the Black Film Award for Best Director for ""Soul Food"" (1997). Tillman was also nominated for"
"Jennifer DeLia Jennifer Renée DeLia (born September 30, 1979) is an American screenwriter, director, actress, artist, and humanitarian. She is currently based in lower Manhattan where she operates her production company Poverty Row Entertainment. Jennifer has worked for many years in the film industry in physical production on major feature films such as Oliver Stone’s ""World Trade Center"" (Nicolas Cage and Maggie Gyllenhaal) and internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar Wai’s ""My Blueberry Nights"" (Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman). Jennifer secured financing and was an Associate Producer on ""Explicit Ills"" directed by Mark Webber (Rosario Dawson, Lou Taylor Pucci, Paul"