Sunday, 29 November 2009

Commentary on Directors of Genre

Alfred Hitchcock (13th August 1899 - 29th April 1980) - Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning 60 years. He is still one of the most popular and most recognised filmmakers, with work still popular today. Often regarded as the greatest British filmmaker of all time, in 2007 Hitchcock was ranked #1 by film critics in The Telegraph's list of 21 greatest British directors. Hitchcock's films were said to have been so extensively storyboarded to the finest detail by a number of accounts; he was reported to not even bother looking through the viewfinder, since he didn't need to do! 'The Master of Suspence' directed films in his career credited in the top 100 thriller movies of all time such as: Physco (1960), Frenzy (1972), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959) and Notorious (1946).

David Fincher (28th August 1962) - Fincher is an Academy Award-nominated American filmmaker and music video director known for his dark and stylish movies. Theatrical films included: Alien (1992) which won an oscar for special effects, Seven (1995), The Game (1997), Fight Club (1999) which brought up huge publicity in its time and was put in the top 100 films of all time and Panic room (2002) which created $92 million in the U.S box office, despite not being as successful as The game, Fight Club and Seven.

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