Film Project: Day 7

Today, please continue to work on your film projects. At some point in class, please complete the following as well:

American New Wave & Contemporary Directors Project:

Please select one of the following directors. Research and take notes in your journal about the director. You can learn a lot about the director from imdb.com. After researching a bit, please watch some clips from any films by your chosen director(s) (search on youtube.com for example).

American New Wave Directors:

• Woody Allen
• Robert Altman
• Hal Ashby
• Peter Bogdanovich
• John Cassavetes
• Francis Ford Coppola
• Brian De Palma
• William Friedkin
• Dennis Hopper
• George Lucas
• Mike Nichols
• Bob Rafelson
• Martin Scorsese
• Steven Spielberg

Contemporary Film Directors:

• Pedro Amoldovar
• Kathryn Bigelow
• Danny Boyle
• Mel Brooks
• Charles Burnett
• Tim Burton
• Joel & Ethan Coen
• James Cameron
• Jane Campion
• Sofia Coppola
• David Cronenberg
• Cameron Crowe
• Julie Dash
• Guillermo Del Toro
• Claire Denis
• Clint Eastwood
• David Fincher
• Jean Luc Godard
• Terry Gilliam
• Mary Harron
• Werner Herzog
• Peter Jackson
• Spike Lee
• Kasi Lemmons
• David Lynch
• Terrence Malick
• Hayao Miyazaki 
• Errol Morris
• Christopher Nolan
• Gordon Parks
• Tyler Perry
• Sidney Poitier
• Gina Prince-Bythewood
• John Sayles
• Ridley Scott
• Jim Sheridan
• John Singleton
• Steven Soderbergh
• Quentin Tarantino
• Julie Taymor
• Paul Thomas Anderson
• Melvin Van Peebles
• Gus Van Sant
• Keenan Ivory Wayans