THE DIRECTORS: SYDNEY POLLACK

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• Release Year: 1997
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: Great Directors, directed by Angela Ismailos, features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismailos' voyage of discovering the creative personalities behind the camera. She explores the filmmakers' artistic evolution and personal identity, the role of politics and history on their work, and the agony and dilemmas in the creative process. It also examines the challenges of being an artist in an age of commercialism and globalization. The film traces the influence of cinematic movements and iconic directors on these directors' work-from the role of Neo-Realism in Bertolucci's evolution to the influence of Federico Fellini on David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman on Catherine Breillat and Rainer Werner Fassbinder on Todd Haynes.
• Cast: Harrison Ford; Dave Mann; Tom Hanks; Meryl Streep; Rod Steiger; Jon Voight; Anthony Hopkins; Jeff Neal; Dustin Hoffman; Jeff Goldblum; Brad Pitt; Kevin Kline; Woody Harrelson; Bill Pullman; Annette Bening; Morgan Freeman; Jeff Bridges; Andy Garcia; Steve Martin; Laura Dern; Jerry Bruckheimer; Sydney Pollack; Ed Begley Jr.; Danny Aiello; Shelley Duvall; Clint Eastwood; Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio; Madeleine Stowe; Meg Ryan; Sally Kellerman; Tom Berenger; Roger Corman; Carl Franklin; Jack Lemmon; Michael McKean; Willem Dafoe; Ossie Davis; Martin Scorsese; James Woods; Lauren Bacall; Kevin Bacon; Adrienne Barbeau; James Cameron; Jonathan Demme; Johnny Depp; Michael Douglas; Ron Howard; Michael Keaton; Martin Landau; Lena Olin; Rob Reiner; Anthony Zerbe; Eric Bogosian; James Belushi; Samuel L. Jackson; Joe Mantegna; Liam Neeson; Paul Newman; Roy Scheider; Jerry Weintraub; Robin Williams; Reese Witherspoon; Buck Henry; Garry Marshall; Penny Marshall; Kathleen Turner; Dennis Hopper; Kevin Smith; Jean Smart; Jim Carrey; Michael Clarke Duncan; Nora Ephron; Ed Harris; William H. Macy; Penelope Ann Miller; Matthew Modine; David Morse; Arnold Schwarzenegger; Norman Jewison; Terry Gilliam; Adrian Lyne; Diane Lane; Kevin Costner; Geena Davis; Anne Archer; Katherine Helmond; Jennifer Beals; Rene Russo; Seymour Cassel; Amanda Plummer; Mary McDonnell; Mercedes Ruehl; Gerald McRaney; Jeremy Irons; Jürgen Prochnow; David Warner; Wendy Crewson; Dennis Quaid; Frank Langella; Lawrence Kasdan; Sherry Lansing; Wolfgang Petersen; Tim Robbins; Alison Eastwood; Brooke Adams; Maya Angelou; David Arquette; Jacqueline Bisset; Pierce Brosnan; Tim Burton; James Caan; Neve Campbell; Dyan Cannon; Marilyn Chambers; Stockard Channing; Courteney Cox; Wes Craven; David Cronenberg; Billy Crystal; John Cusack; Bruce Dern; Cary Elwes; Robert Englund; Corey Feldman; Michael J. Fox; Whoopi Goldberg; Melanie Griffith; Christopher Guest; Marvin Hamlisch; Deborah Harry; Goldie Hawn; Arthur Hiller; Holly Hunter; Michael Ironside; Amy Irving; Diane Ladd; Ron Leibman; Jennifer Jason Leigh; Shelley Long; Sidney Lumet; Alfred Molina; Craig T. Nelson; Nick Nolte; Edward Norton; Sarah Jessica Parker; Mandy Patinkin; Mitch Pileggi; Sidney Poitier; Sheryl Lee Ralph; Brett Ratner; Mimi Rogers; Howard E. Rollins Jr.; Nancy Sinatra; John Singleton; Sylvester Stallone; Barbra Streisand; Kristy Swanson; Brenda Vaccaro; Christopher Walken; Peter Weller; Wil Wheaton; Ray Wise; Debbie Allen; Nancy Allen; Ann-Margret; Powers Boothe; Bob Cooper; Tom Cruise; Barbara De Fina; Ruby Dee; Kirk Douglas; Griffin Dunne; Charles Durning; Evans Evans; Sally Field; Frederic Forrest; Jodie Foster; John Frankenheimer; Michael Z. Hanan; Anne Heche; Salome Jens; Tommy Lee Jones; Ben Kingsley; Angela Lansbury; Spike Lee; John R. Leonetti; Barry Levinson; Edward Lewis; Delroy Lindo; Ray Liotta; Martin Manulis; Julia Ormond; Joe Pesci; Kevin Pollak; Paul Reiser; Cliff Robertson; Frank Sinatra; Wesley Snipes; Steven Spielberg; Oliver Stone; Clarence Williams III; Alfre Woodard; Robert Altman; Rene Auberjonois; Kate Bosworth; Glenn Close; Tim Conway; Hector Elizondo; Dennis Farina; Elliott Gould; Robert Luketic; Michael Mann; William Petersen; Christopher Plummer; Tom Sizemore; Wes Studi; Joan Tewkesbury; Diane Venora; Richard Gere; Gretchen Mol; Natasha Richardson; Paul Schrader; Mel Brooks; Brad Dourif; Laura Harring; Sheryl Lee; David Lynch; Kyle MacLachlan; Sissy Spacek; Paige Turco; Joey Lauren Adams; Ben Affleck; Dean Cain; George Carlin; Julie Corman; David Klein; Sanaa Lathan; Jason Lee; Alanis Morissette; Scott Mosier; Jennifer Schwalbach Smith; Jan De Bont; Spencer Breslin; Sandra Bullock; Nicolas Cage; Jeff Daniels; Josh Lucas; Eva Mendes; David O. Russell; Lili Taylor; Andy Tennant; Lily Tomlin; Jon Turteltaub; Naomi Watts; F. Murray Abraham; Jim Abrahams; Patricia Arquette; Bob Balaban; Alec Baldwin; Antonio Banderas; Michael Bay; Harold Becker; Michael Biehn; James Brolin; Keith Carradine; Veronica Cartwright; David Caruso; Michael Caton-Jones; Martha Coolidge; James Cromwell; Cameron Crowe; Russell Crowe; Jamie Lee Curtis; Frank Darabont; Andrew Davis; Hope Davis; Julie Delpy; Dean Devlin; Leonardo DiCaprio; Richard Donner; Atom Egoyan; Roland Emmerich; Ralph Fiennes; Linda Fiorentino; Carrie Fisher; Peter Fonda; Milos Forman; William Friedkin; Allen Garfield; Scott Glenn; Brian Grazer; Bruce Greenwood; Gene Hackman; Julie Hagerty; Lasse Hallström; Daryl Hannah; Michael Hausman; Ethan Hawke; Barbara Hershey; Scott Hicks; Pat Hingle; Philip Seymour Hoffman; Hal Holbrook; Ian Holm; Clint Howard; Ernie Hudson; Kate Hudson; Peter Hyams; James Ivory; Michael Jeter; Philip Kaufman; Arsinée Khanjian; Elias Koteas; Martin Lawrence; Paul Le Mat; Sheldon Leonard; Geoffrey Lewis; Richard Linklater; George Lucas; Andie MacDowell; Amy Madigan; David Mamet; Donna Mills; Anthony Minghella; Thandiwe Newton; Chazz Palminteri; Alan Parker; Rebecca Pidgeon; Anthony Quinn; Pamela Reed; Christopher Reeve; Ivan Reitman; Alan Rickman; George A. Romero; Gary Ross; Jay Russell; Kristin Scott Thomas; Ridley Scott; Tony Scott; Will Smith; Robert Stack; Patrick Swayze; Stanley Tucci; Julie Warner; Alan Waters; Sam Waterston; James Whitmore; Treat Williams; Irwin Winkler; Robert Wise; Joanne Woodward; Richard D. Zanuck; Robert Zemeckis; David Zucker; Jerry Zucker; Louis Farrakhan; Malcolm X; Kenny Baker; Jim Broadbent; Graham Chapman; John Cleese; Sean Connery; Robert de Niro; Benicio Del Toro; Malcolm Dixon; Mike Edmonds; Eric Idle; Terry Jones; John Le Mesurier; John Neville; Michael Palin; Jonathan Pryce; Jack Purvis; David Rappaport; Tiny Ross; Peter Vaughan; Max Wall; Bruce Willis; Robert J. Emery
• Director: Robert J. Emery
• Runtime: 0:55
• Media Format: Other