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A telly-familiar face from the production crew of the Simpsons series, James L. Brooks, directs a 5-year old screenplay and rakes up a pretentious cast of actors.
Zhang Yimou directs this film about a forbidden love that is kept secret for fear of public retaliation.
It's amusing, but his sense of humor comes across better in movies he directs.
The famed Otto Preminger produces and directs this melodrama written by Ben Hect and Andrew Solt.
Daniel Haller directs this adaption of a H.P. Lovecraft story.
Henry King directs it all with some intensity, especially a harrowing and spectacular Zulu attack, and uses the wide screen well to capture the spaciousness of the land.
The usual plot devices of a found phone number, or random run in with character directs the story.
Buscemi also directs actors well; this is the film which convinced me Chloe Sevigny was for real.
Tom Savini was the makeup master of Romero's original Dawn of the Dead and he directs this remake which, by the way, is a better zombie movie than the average one out there on the video shelf.
This one of John Ford's least self-conscious movies, there's no heavy Americana to deal with and he directs you to the heart of the story and the often drunken emotions of the sailors.
Jean-Claude La Marre writes, directs and stars in a version of the last days of Jesus that posits that Jesus was killed in large part because he was dark skinned.
Even though she is dying to have a baby herself, she supports Jacey, directs her to a support group for teen-age mothers, and you see Jacey becoming stronger, even bringing the support group to her school to talk about the consequences of teen-age pregnancy and motherhood, and admitting to her classmates that little Charlie is really her son.
The director, who did Das Boat, directs this film mechanically, and it is a pleasure to watch the mechanics of this film unravel.
Jack Bender directs a battle of wits between Ben Linus and John Locke.
Chekravarthy directs this movie and considering his previous ventures (anyone unfortunate enough to view Durga would agree) and the star cast of this one, the expectations were zilch.
Steve Carr directs and does a decent job, nothing special.
Ted Post proves to be a very talented director especially in the way he directs his actors.
Jon Amiel directs and he does a poor job of doing so.
She directs.
Archie Mayo directs splendidly this story of a poet-drifter who (literally) walks into an eatery in the Arizona desert, where he runs into a desperate, Dillingeresque bad guy who holds him hostage, and in the course of his captivity falls in love with a very naive young woman.
The capable Raoul Walsh directs this wilderness drama with his usual aplomb and crafts a perplexing plot packed with puzzling twists and shadowy mysteries.
He directs his attention toward a young woman who defies him and gets people to believe that she is sort of an angel of death.
John Travolta the star of Grease and Pulp Fiction plays the bad guy, Christian Slater is the good guy and John Woo directs.
The story is solid, the performances are consistently good, and as usual, Bernard Rose directs with great visual flair.
A good example of what you get when a successful actor directs his own movie with himself as the star.
Etheredge-Ouzts, who I met at the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, directs the first gay slasher movie ever, a fun and scary film that has nothing (other than the gay angle) original about it, but also doesn't pretend to be original.
Martin Scorsese directs this highly acclaimed bore fest.
Hollywood great Michael Curtiz directs Boris Karloff in this middling thriller about an ex-con, just out prison, who is framed for a judge's murder by racketeers; after he's convicted and killed in the electric chair, a team of scientists revive him.
Robert Scheerer directs as if he were working for television, with a cramped budget that makes the whole thing look junky.
How ironic that the man who directs these sorts of movies gave a debut to a back-to-back Oscar-winning actor.
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