Research into a Director

Alfred Hitchcock
Was nick named the guy of
suspense this was employing a
kind of psychological suspense in
his films producing a distinct
viewer experience.
Entered the film industry in 1920;
he left for Hollywood in 1939 and
created his first American film
called Rebecca which won an
Academy Award for best picture.
He created more than 50 films;
including the classics Rear
Windows(1954) and the 39
steps(1935) and Psycho(1960).
He received the AFIs life
achievement award in 1979
He died in 1980
Quentin Tarantino
In January of 1992, first-time writer-
director Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs
(1992) appeared at the Sundance Film
Festival. The film garnered critical
acclaim and the director became a
legend immediately. Two years later, he
followed up Dogs success with Pulp
Fiction (1994) which premiered at the
Cannes film festival, winning the coveted
Palme D'Or Award. At the 1995 Academy
Awards, it was nominated for the best
picture, best director and best original
screenplay. Tarantino and writing partner
Roger Avary came away with the award
only for best original screenplay. In 1995,
Tarantino directed one fourth of the
anthology Four Rooms (1995) The film
opened on December 25th in the United
States to very weak reviews. Tarantino's
next film was From Dusk Till Dawn
(1996), a vampire/crime story which he
wrote and co-starred with George
Clooney. The film did fairly well
theatrically.


Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942,
in New York City, to Italian-American parents Catherine
(Cappa) and Charles Scorsese. He was raised in the
neighbourhood of Little Italy, which later provided the
inspiration for several of his films. Scorsese earned a B.S.
degree in film communications in 1964, followed by an M.A.
in the same field in 1966 at New York University's School of
Film. During this time, he made numerous prize-winning
short films including The Big Shave (1968), and directed his
first feature film, _Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967).
His long-cherished project, Gangs of New York (2002),
earned numerous critical honours, including a Golden Globe
Award for Best Director; the Howard Hughes biopic The
Aviator (2004) won five Academy Awards, in addition to the
Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for Best Picture. Scorsese
won his first Academy Award for Best Director for The
Departed (2006), which was also honoured with the
Director's Guild of America, Golden Globe, New York Film
Critics, National Board of Review and Critic's Choice awards
for Best Director, in addition to four Academy Awards,
including Best Picture.
Style as a Director
Has made several films that had landed a place in the
360 great films selected by sight and sound and the
British institute. Mean streets (1973) , Taxi driver (1976)
and Raging bull (1980).
Scorseses first major critical success comes with his
next film, Mean Streets, and in my opinion, this remains
his best film. Unfortunately, most critics have reduced its
complexity by imposing an ethnic/religious approach that
only focuses on the films (and Scorseses) Italian
Catholicism. And while these elements are certainly
present, it diminishes the social dimension of the film to
only consider it from a religious and/or ethnic point of
view. Mean Streets is a major part of early 1970s
American film.
Scorsese began his filmmaking career at New York
University, where he received his M.A. in Film in 1966.
His first feature, Whos That Knocking at My
Door? (1969), was a student film that eventually received
a limited release and some favourable critical notices,
most notably by a young film critic named Roger Ebert.
Creates a sense of religious
violence.
Facial expressions shows
aggression and anger
between the characters
The use of symbolising
women as seductive
objects in the view of men
Showing a unequal
relationship between man
and woman
GoodFellas (1990) is his only film of the past
20 years to garner much critical attention. It is
certainly one of the most interesting and
subversive of all gangster films, combining
elements of the musical and black comedy in
its story of the rise and fall of an unrepentant
mob henchman. The film combines
Scorseses typically ambivalent view of
violence, displaying it in all its nastiness while
at the same time positioning the viewer
(through editing, camera angle, and music) to
identify with it.
Expressing a fatherly
comfort in this image as a
sign of protection
This scene highlights the aggression and
violence between the characters
Angle has put the man in a head lock at a
lower level to express his weakness between
the two characters.