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Because of the occupational hazards of the job, or because of the Type-A personality required, film directors tend to have famously large egos. Because of this, it’s somewhat surprising that the main creative force behind a film would choose to cast themselves in anything but the title role. Here are examples of directors who cast [...]
Posted by Orrin Konheim on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 4:30 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged alfred hitchcock, Denzel Washington, directors, Kevin Smith, M. Night Shyamalan, Orrin Konheim, Roman Polanski, Spike Lee, woody allen
Whether it was Marty McFly, Gordon Gekko, the Terminator, Jake La Motta, the working girl (Melanie Griffith), or sharp-shooter Jimmy Chitwood, the 1980’s was a memorable decade of iconic heroes, novel advances in technology, and the cementation of blockbuster culture at the movies. Hollywood has always been a fast-moving town with new sets of winners [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies, People · Tagged American film directors, Back to the Future, Barry Levinson, Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, brazil, Crimes and Misdemeanors, David Lynch, Dead Poets’ Society, Do the Right Thing, film, gandhi, Gordon Gekko, Jake La Motta, James Cameron, Jimmy Chitwood, Martin Scorsese, Marty McFly, Mel Brooks, Melanie Griffith, Monty Python, Oliver Stone, Peter Weir, Platoon, Richard Attenborough, Ridley Scott, Robert Zemeckis, Roger Ebert, Romancing the Stone, Spike Lee, Stephen Spielberg, Steven Spielberg, Terry Gilliam, The Abyss, The color Purple, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Time Bandits, Twin Peaks, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, woody allen
