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Jane Wyatt

Jane Wyatt was born on August 12, 1910 in Campgaw (now part of Mahwah, New Jersey), but was raised in
Tags: Domestic, Nostalgic
Oscar Micheaux

Oscar Micheaux (1884 - 1951) was one of 11 children of former slaves, and grew up in Metropolis, Ilin
Tags: Black filmmaking, Pioneering
Terrence Malick

Trained in philosophy at Harvard under Stanley Cavell before the cinema at AFI, Malick’s slim oeuvr
Tags: Atmospheric, Beautiful , Chance, Citational, Contemplative, Dreamy, Ebullient, Elegant, Event, Feminine, Figurative, Fleeting, Flux, Hypnotic, Illusive, Joyful, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mythic, Open-ended, Perceptual, Playful, Polychromatic, Primal, Quiet, Rhythmic, Self-reflection, Silence, Smart, Sprawling, Sublime, Tragic, Tranquil, Violent, Visceral
Lil Malinich

Tags: Bright, Candy, Classic hollywood, Dark, Eclectic, Ethereal, Organic, Sensual, Serene, Spiritual, Surrealist theater, Visceral, Women's literature
Al Pacino

Alfredo James “Al” Pacino is an American Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, Tony-, BAFTA-, Emmy- and
Tags: Drama, Fantastic, Masculine, Slick, Smart

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was born in New York, and was considered intelligent despite poor grades at school. H
Tags: Architectural, Catastrophe, Expansive, Monumental, Sprawling
Natalie Portman

Portman was born Natalie Hershlag (Hebrew: נטלי הרשלג‎) in Jerusalem, Israel. Her father,
Tags: Composed, Minimal, Smart
Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson is an actress and singer, of dual American and Danish citizenship. Johansson rose
Tags: Erotic, Hypnotic, Sensual, Sexy
Gary Cooper

Frank James “Gary” Cooper was an American film actor and iconic star. He was renowned for his qui
Tags: Classic hollywood, Sexy
Nina Menkes

“For me, cinema is sorcery, a creative way to interact with the world in order to rearrange percept
Tags: Dreamy, Experimental, Feminist, Hallucinatory, Hypnotic, Intense, Pioneering, Spiritual, Surreal

William Powell

William Powell was one of the great actors of the Golden Age, excelling in a wide range of genres inc
Tags: Classic hollywood, Composed, Cool
Police Squad

Police Squad! is a television comedy series first broadcast in 1982. It was a spoof of police dramas,
Tags: Clever, Funny, Sardonic, Whimsical
Naked Gun 2 1/2

Frank Drebin and his boss, Washington, D.C. police commissioner Annabelle Brumford (played by Jacquel
Tags: Absurd, Funny, Improvised, Sardonic, Whimsical
Cary Grant

Cary Grant once described his screen persona as "a combination of Jack Buchanan, Noel Coward and Rex
Tags: Charming, Classic hollywood, Funny
Robert Rodriguez

Robert Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA. At a very young age he showed an int
Tags: Eclectic, Gritty, Intense

Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer known for his stylish v
Tags: Dystopia and its discontents
Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters was born on February 28, 1948 in Ozone Park, New York. A born entertainer, she is c
Tags: Beautiful , Feminine, Funny, Sexy
Busby Berkeley

Picture cascading waterfalls of women, bedecked in identical glittering costumes and moving in eerie
Tags: Bombast, Bright, Classic hollywood, Grand, Joyful, Kinetic, Sexy
Dorothy Arzner

Dorothy Arzner claimed she didn't have to rely on directing to keep food on the table. She always ins
Tags: Corporate, Feminist, Pioneering, Political
Peter Sellers

Who was Peter Sellers? The ultimate impersonator, the most accomplished of mimics, he kept his identi
Tags: Chance, Comedies, Event, Excessive, Funny, Physical force, Playful

Michael Powell

Most artists, at one time or another, fall out of public favor. But few have fallen so completely, so
Tags: Distorted, Hyperrealism, Perverse, Pioneering, Quirky, Violent
John Huston

Director John Huston lit up the screen with riveting adaptations of genres ranging from modern epic (
Tags: Epic, Expansive, Film noir and neo-noir
D.W. Griffith

Both spiritual father and sustaining mother to an infant art, D. W. Griffith expanded the artistic ho
Tags: Classic hollywood, Epic, Grand, Mythic, Pioneering, Political, Silent film
Alfred Hitchcock

Master of the macabre, avatar of evil, intensifier of suspense, Hitchcock is the acknowledged king of
Tags: Classical, Elegant, Geometric, Hollywood gothic, Horror, Psychological, Tense
Joseph Losey

Losey's lofty artistic program was foiled by McCarthy and his anticommunist witch-hunters, who forced
Tags: Blacklistees, Contemplative, Deconstructive, Dense, Political, Psychological

Maya Deren

With the advent of 16mm equipment came the birth of film as personal artistic expression, and Maya De
Tags: Avant-garde film, Death, Feminine, Feminist, Primal, Spare, Surreal
Carmen Miranda

"The lady in the tutti-frutti hat" was an inspiration to wartime audiences long before she inspired C
Tags: Classic hollywood
Erich Von Stroheim

Vienna-born actor, writer, and director Erich Von Stroheim worked mainly in the silent film genre (on
Tags: Epic, Germans in hollywood, Perverse, Silent film, Tense
F.W. Murnau

Another talented chip off the German Expressionist block, F. W. Murnau had a penchant for horror. Wit
Tags: Classic hollywood, Dark, Death, Elegant, Erotic, German expressionist film, Grotesque, Primal
Fritz Lang

After Goebbels made him an offer he couldn't refuse without unpleasant repercussions, celebrated Germ
Tags: Dark, Dystopia and its discontents, Dystopic, Germans in hollywood, Machinistic, Mathematical, Urban

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