Collage, Dense, Dissonant, Hallucinatory, Sublime, Surrealist film, Violent

Rowlands was born Virginia Cathryn Rowlands in Madison, Wisconsin,[1] and was raised in Cambria, Wisconsin. Her father, Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands, was a banker and a state legislator,[2] and her mother, Mary Allen (née Neal), was a painter and housewife originally from Arkansas.[3][4] The family moved t

Feminine, Gritty, Improvised, Open-ended, Pioneering, Quirky, Sensual, Sincere

Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker. He is best known for directing La Jettee (1962), Sans Soleil (1983) and AK (1985), a documentary about Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. He was born Christian Francois Bouche-Villeneuve, in Paris

Experimental, Pioneering

Another talented chip off the German Expressionist block, F. W. Murnau had a penchant for horror. With "Nosferatu" (1922) he brought the first of countless Count Dracula stories to cinematic light. Murnau made his Dracula as hideous, doomed, and gloomy as later incarnations are suave, elegant, and ta

Classic hollywood, Dark, Death, Elegant, Erotic, German expressionist film, Grotesque, Primal