GREAT DIRECTORS
DIRECTOR: ANGELA ISMAILOS
US, 2009
Ismailos’ film features a treasure trove of film clips and conversations with ten of the world’s most interesting directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater, and John Sayles. Exploring the filmmakers’ artistic evolutions and personal identities, the role of politics and history in their work, and the agony and dilemmas in the creative process, GREAT DIRECTORS examines the challenges of being an artist in an age of commercialism and globalization in compelling fashion. (90 mins.)