Documentaries About Directors?

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MortSahlFan — 5 years ago(July 21, 2020 07:00 PM)

Vittorio D - 10/10
I just saw a perfect example of how a documentary should be… And it's a documentary on my very favorite director - Vittorio De Sica. I was watching this with pride as if I were his son. I've searched for one in the past, but somehow I ran into this while browsing Amazon Prime, which I know many have, and should check out. I never heard De Sica speaking English, so there are limitations on knowing everything you can about the man, but his movies speak on his poetic yet realistic humanity…. I liked how it divided into segment… You had "The Director", "The Actor", "The Man", "The Gambler", "The Father", etc.
You don't see any young "flavor of the month" directors or actors, not because they don't know him, but because whoever produced it made sure he got the best of the best..
Featured in this documentary
-Clint Eastwood
-Woody Allen
-Sophia Loren
-Federic Fellini
-Ken Loach
-Mike Leigh
-Shirley MacLaine
-Ettore Scola (great Italian director)
-Mario Monicello
-Paul Mazursky (who told De Sica that he was stealing "Umberto D" to make (my favorite movie), "Harry and Tonto"
-Dino DeLaurentis (great producer)
and many others, including his friends.
https://www.patreon.com/LoyalOpposition

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MortSahlFan — 5 years ago(July 23, 2020 04:02 PM)

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MortSahlFan — 5 years ago(July 30, 2020 08:42 PM)

"The Road To Bresson" (I see its online, just not sure if I can include the link).. If you type it on Google, it should come up.
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spiderwort — 5 years ago(August 11, 2020 02:04 AM)

You've got some great ones here, Mort.
I'd add a couple that were produced for and shown on the PBS series, "American Masters": Sidney Lumet and Mike Nichols, though I'm not sure they are easy to find. Both are very much worth seeing, however, if you can find them.
Also this:
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
(2018). I saw it recently and even though I knew a lot about Alice Guy, the first female director and one of the first and most important film directors period, I found it revelatory.