A celebration/tribute to the filmmakers of the past whom although are no longer with us, without a doubt have left an unforgettable mark in the history of cinema. Looking back to the directors that impacted the cinema goers and future filmmakers, changed the film landscape forever. Sadly not all film directors were able to make the cut or else this would be a never ending video.
The films included:
Cecil B. Demille- The Greatest Show on Earth, The Ten Commandments
Michael Curtiz- Casablanca, Adventures of Robin Hood
Victor Fleming- Gone With The Wind, Wizard of Oz
Carl Theodor Dreyer- The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr
Charlie Chaplin- The great dictator, Modern Times
Fritz Lang- Metropolis
John Ford- Stagecoach, The Searchers
Jean Renoir- The rules of the game, The grand illusion
Buster Keaton- Sherlock Jr., General
Howard Hawks- The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo
Frank Capra- It Happened one night, It's a wonderful life
Sergei Eisenstein- Alexander Nevsky, Battleship Potemkin
Alfred Hitchcock- Psycho, North By Northwest
Luis Bunuel- Belle de jour un chien andalou
Vittorio De Sica- Bicycle Thieves, Shoeshine
Robert Bresson- A man escaped, pickpocket
William Wyler- Ben Hur, The best years of our lives
Yasujiro Ozu - Late Spring, Tokyo Story
Michael Powell- The red Shoes, Peeping Tom
John Huston- The Maltese Falcon, The treasure of seirra madre
Billy Wilder- Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment
David Lean- Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge over River Kwai
Elia Kazan- East of Eden, On the Waterfront
Akira Kurosawa- Yojimbo, Seven Samurai
Orson Welles- Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane
Ingmar Bergman- Persona, The Seventh Seal
Federico Fellini- 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita
Satyajit Ray- Pather Panchali, Apur Sansar
Sidney Lumet- 12 Angry Men, Serpico
Robert Altman- Nashville, The player
John Schlesinger- Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man
Stanley Kubrick- 2001: A space odyssey, the shining
John Casavettes- A woman under influence, Gloria
Sergio Leone- Once Upon a time in America, The good, the bad and the ugly
Mike Nichols- The graduate, who's afraid of virginia woolf
Francois Truffaut- Day for Night, 400 Blows
Andrei Tarkovsky- Solaris, Ivan's Childhood
Krzystof Kieslowski- Three Colours: Blue, The double life of veronique
Music: Ludvico Einaudi- Experience
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