Six directors whose risks changed cinema.
Orson Welles
"This was a force of nature that came in, a creation that wiped the slate clean from the type of films that preceded him."
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ROBERTO ROSSELLINI
"He changed cinema three times. First, he and Vittorio De Sica started what was called 'neo-realism.'"
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MICHAEL POWELL AND emeric PRESSBURGER
"I first saw
The Red Shoes when I was 9 or 10. The powerful story, the richness of the color affected me very much."
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JOHN CASSAVETES
"Cassavetes wiped away the old vocabulary of doing films."
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ROBERT ALTMAN
"I saw
M*A*S*H at a press screening. And not knowing any sports stuff, this was the first football game I kind of got."
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Five characters who laid it all on the line.
John Lloyd Sullivan
"It was a different kind of world then, in the studios making three pictures a year. The risk he takes is huge."
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boris lermontov
"He was oddly appealing to me when I was younger, for these risks he took that led to his self-destruction."
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William Friese-Greene
"He had this obsession with movement and color, and risked his health and two families for his dream."
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Chuck Tatum
"Chuck Tatum is a very modern kind of reporter."
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Tony Hunter
"It's my favorite Minnelli musical."
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