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...cunning, late--20th century brute in classical style. Though he's earned his renown with these movies, he's equally adept directing documentaries. Making films like Shine a Light is a vacation from his vocation--an escape from the straitjacket of narrative and from the rigidities of the Hollywood system...
Scorsese is just one of many top directors who have found release in reality. In World War II, virtually all of Hollywood was mobilized to churn out propaganda films, and directors such as John Ford, Frank Capra, John Huston, William Wyler and George Stevens (all, eventually, Academy Award winners) enlisted in the armed forces and made tough, smart, often inspiring films of fighting men. More recent directors, like Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee and Michael Apted, have alternated studio movies and important nonfiction projects. For a decade after Titanic, James Cameron gave up Hollywood to make deep-sea documentaries...
That's where Scorsese is king. His Hollywood films may be sprawling, but his best docs feel both organic and perfectly condensed. No Direction Home, even at 31/2 hr., seems the ideal length to capture the gentle, questing mood of early-'60s folk and Dylan's rapid rise to eminence...
...directed nothing but the 1955 French jewel-heist flick Rififi, his cinematic reputation would have been secure. But in addition to taut capers like Rififi and 1964's Topkapi, American director and screenwriter Jules Dassin, who was blacklisted from Hollywood after being identified before Congress as a former communist, was also a master of film noir--exemplified in movies such as 1948's police thriller The Naked City and 1950's Night and the City. Among all his solid works, though, it was Rififi--with its masterly 30-min. dialogue- and music-free robbery sequence as a centerpiece--that remained...
...according to Nielsen Media Research, with a 19% increase in third-season viewership from the previous season. Equally chest-inflating are the first-run numbers for “Californication,” the largest ever for a comedy on the network, not to mention another honor from the Hollywood Foreign Press for Duchovny last year. So what exactly accounts for the popularity of these shows?A 2007 press release by Robert Greenblatt, the premium channel’s president of entertainment, focuses in part on just this question. In describing the character of Hank Moody, he notes that...