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Directors Flashcards

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Notable Female Directors (7)

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  • Andrea Arnold
  • Greta Gerwig
  • Agnès Varda - Faces, Plaes (2017), Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
  • Ava DuVernay - This is Life, Selma, 13th
  • Kathryn Bigelow - Point Break, Strange Days, Zero Dark Thirty
  • Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady - Jesus Camp, 12th and Delaware
  • Wachowski Sisters
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List of Influential Directors (15)

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  • PTA
  • Coen Brothers
  • Kubrick
  • Nolan
  • Scorsese
  • Tarantino
  • Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Martin McDonagh
  • Coppola
  • Hitchcock
  • Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman
  • Edgar Wright’s earlier movies
  • Armando Iannuci
  • Taika Waititi
  • Andrea Arnold
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Who Directed Two Arabian Nights (1927)

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Lewis Milestone

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Black Directors

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  • Jordan Peele
  • Spike Lee
  • Barry Jenkijns
  • Antoine Fuqua
  • Ava Duvernay
  • Antoine Fuqua - Training Day, Magnificent Seven, Tears of The Sun,
  • Ryan Coogler - Black Panther 1,2, Fruitvale Station
  • John Singleton - Baby Boy, Boyz n the Hood, Four Brothers
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What else did Barry Jenkins direct

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  • Medicine for Melancholy (2008)
  • Moonlight (2016)
  • If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
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Who Directed Moonlight

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Barry Jenkins

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What else did Lewis Milestone direct? (3-5)

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  • Two Arabian Knights (1927)
  • Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - Marlon Brando
  • Of Mice and Men (1939)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  • Edge of Darkness (1943)
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Who Directed Blue is The Warmest Color

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Abdellatif Kechiche

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What has Alejanro G Inarritu directed (mexican) (2-5)

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  • The revenant
  • Birdman
  • Biutiful
  • Babel
  • 21 grams
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What has Guillermo Del Toro directed (mexican) (3)

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  • Pan’s labyrinth
  • Hell boy
  • Shape of water
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What has Paul Thomas Anderson directed (4-7)

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  • Hard Eight
  • Boogie Nights
  • Magnolia
  • Punch Drunk
  • There Will Be Blood
  • The Master
  • Inherent Vice
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Who Directed The Revenant and Birdman

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Alejanro G Inarritu

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Who Directed Pan’s Labyrinth

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Guillermo Del Toro

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Who Directed Erin Brockovich and The Informant

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Steven Soderbergh

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Who Directed Blue Velvet

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David Lynch

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What has Steven Soderbergh direted (3-5)

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  • Oceans 11
  • Logan Lucky
  • Erin Brockovich
  • Kafka
  • The Informant
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What has David Lynch directed (2-6)

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  • Eraserhead
  • Wild at Heart
  • Blue Velvet
  • Mullohand Drive
  • Elephant Man
  • Dune
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Who Directed Howl’s Moving Castle

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Hayao Miyazaki

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4 Iconic movies Hayao Miyazaki directed?

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  • My neighbor Totoro (1988)
  • Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
  • Spirited Away (2001)
  • Howls Moving Castle (2004)
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Who Directed The Pianist

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Roman Polanski

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4 Iconic Movies Roman Polanski has directed

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  • The Pianist
  • Chinatown
  • Rosemarys Baby
  • The Tenant
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Who Directed Trainspotting

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Danny Boyle

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3-5 movies Danny Boyle Directed

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  • Slumdog millionaire
  • Trainspotting
  • 28 Days later
  • Sunshine
  • * Shallow Grave *
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Who Directed Lost in Translation

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Sofia Copolla

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Movies Directed by Sofia Copolla (2-6)

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  • Virgin Suicides (1999)
  • Lost in translation (2003)
  • * Virgin Suicides *
  • Marie Antoinette (2006)
  • The Bling Ring (2013)
  • The Beguiled (2017)
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Who Directed The Favourite

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Yorgos Lanthimos

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movies directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (3-6)

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  • Killing of a sacred deer (2018)
  • The favourite (2017)
  • The lobster (2015)
  • Alps (Greece) (2011)
  • Dogtooth (Greece) (2009) (won Cannes + Oscar nom)
  • Kinetta . (Greece) (2005)
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Who Directed 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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Martin McDonagh

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3 Martin Mcdonagh Movies

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  • In Bruges
  • 7 psychopaths
  • 3 Billboards
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Hitchcock Movies (7-11)

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  • “Suspicion” (1941)
  • Spellbound (1945)
  • Notorious (1946)
  • Strangers on a Train (1951)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • To Catch A Theif (1955)
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much”(1956)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • “North by Northwest” (1959)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • The Birds (1963)
31
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Who Directed Death of Stalin

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Armando Iannucci

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What has Armando Iannucci directed?

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Death of Stalin In the loop * Tube tales*

33
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What has Mike Judge Created (4)

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  • Office Space
  • Idiocracy
  • King of The Hill
  • Silicon Valley
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Who Directed City of God

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Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles

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What has Fernando Meirelles directed

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  • City of God (2002)
  • The Constant Gardner (2005)
  • Blindness (2008)
  • Two Popes (2019)
36
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Who Directed Road To Perdition

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Sam Mendes

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What has Sam Mendes directed (4-7)

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  • 1917
  • Spectre
  • Skyfall
  • Revolutionary Road
  • Jarhead
  • Road to Perdition
  • American Beauty
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Who wrote and directed Manchester By The Sea

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Kenneth Lonergan

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Who Directed Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

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Michael Gondry

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Directed by Michael Gondry (4)

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  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • “The Science of Sleep” (2006)
  • “Is The Man Who is Tall Happy?” (2013)
  • “The We and the I” (2012)
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Who Directed Parasite

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Bong Joon Ho

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What has Bong Joon Ho Directed

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Parasite Okja Snowpiercer Mother

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Directed by Spike Jonze?

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  • Three Kings
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Adaptation
  • Where the Wild Things Are
  • Her
  • Synecdoche New York
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Who Directed Old Boy

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Park-Chan Wook

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4 films by Park-Chan Wook

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  • Old Boy “Joint Security Area” (2000) ‘
  • “The Handmaiden” (2016)
  • “Lady Vengeance” (2005)
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What has Charlie Kaufman Directed?

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  • Anomalisa (2015)
  • Synechdoche, New York (co director)
47
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Best of Francis Ford Copolla

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  • The Outsiders (1983
  • “The Rain People” (1969)
  • Godfather Part 1 Godfather Part 2
  • The Conversation” (1974)
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Who Directed Lady Bird

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Greta Girwig

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What else has Greta Gerwig directed

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Nights and Weekends (2008) Lady Bird (2017) Little Women (2019)

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Who Directed Selma

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Ava Duvernay

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What else has Ava Duvernay directed?

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  • Selma
  • This is Life
  • A wrinkle in Time
  • 13th (prison doc)
52
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Who directed Point Break (1991)

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Kathryn Bigelow

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What else has Kathryn Bigelow directed?

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  • Zero Dark Thirty
  • Strange Days (1995)
  • Point Break
  • Detroit (2017)
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What has Andrea Arnold directed?

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  • American Honey
  • Fish Tank
  • Red Road
  • Wuthering Heights
55
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Who Directed One of Us

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Heidi Ewing

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What else has Heidi Ewing directed?

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  • One of Us (co-director)
  • Jesus Camp (co-director)
  • 12th and Delaware
  • Freakanomics (co-director)
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Preston Sturges great films (4)

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  • Unfaithfully Yours (‘48)
  • Sullivan’s Travels (‘41)
  • Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
  • (‘43) Christmas in July (‘40)
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John Huston (5) greats

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  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  • The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
  • The African Queen (1951)
  • The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
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Orson Welles

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  • Touch of Evil (1958)
  • The Lady from Shanghai (1947),
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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Top 5 IMDB movies of Billy Wilder

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  • Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  • Some Like It Hot (1959)
  • Ace in the Hole (1951)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • The Apartment (1960)
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Who Directed Shaun of The and Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim

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Edgar Wright

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What has Noah Baumbach directed (2-13)

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  • (1995) Kicking and Screaming
  • (1997) Highball
  • (1997) Mr. Jealousy
  • (2000) Conrad & Butler Take a Vacation
  • (2005) The Squid and the Whale
  • (2007) Margot at the Wedding
  • (2010) Greenberg
  • (2013) Frances Ha
  • (2014) While We’re Young
  • ( 2015) Mistress America
  • (2015) De Palma (Documentary)
  • (2017) The Meyerowitz Stories
  • (2019)Marriage Story
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Who Directed Kramer vs. Kramer

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Robert Benton

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Notable Projects of Robert Benton (2-7)

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  • Kramer vs. Kramer (Screenwriter /Director) —1979
  • Superman (Screenwriter)—1978
  • The Late Show (Director /Screenwriter_—1977
  • Bad Company (Director / Screenwriter)—1972
  • What’s Up, Doc? (Screenwriter)—1972
  • There Was a Crooked ManScreenwriter—1970
  • Bonnie and Clyde (writer) - 1967
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Who Directed The Drop

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Michaël R. Roskam

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Notable projects directed by Taika Waititi (3-5)

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  • Flight of The Conchords
  • What We Do In The Shadows
  • Hunt For The Wilderpeople
  • Thor Ragnorak
  • JoJo Rabbit

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