Who has been described by "The Guardian" as "the most important director of this era" and who directed the film about Joseph Merrick?
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The Elephant Man (film) The Elephant Man is a 1980 American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick (whom the script calls John Merrick), a severely deformed man in late 19th century London. The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon and Freddie Jones. It was produced by Jonathan Sanger and Mel Brooks, the latter of whom was intentionally left uncredited to avoid confusion from audiences who possibly would have expected a comedy.
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David Lynch David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, actor, and photographer. He has been described by "The Guardian" as "the most important director of this era". AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking", while the success of his films has led to him being labelled "the first popular Surrealist".
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Joseph: King of Dreams Joseph: King of Dreams is a 2000 American animated biblical musical drama film and the only direct-to-video release from DreamWorks Animation. The film is an adaptation of the story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis in the Bible and serves as a prequel to the 1998 film "The Prince of Egypt". Composer Daniel Pelfrey said "the film was designed as a companion piece to "Prince of Egypt"...Of course, Joseph turned out to be very different than "Prince of Egypt", [nevertheless] very challenging and rewarding".
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Alfred Rolfe (director) Alfred Rolfe, real name Alfred Roker (1862– 9 September 1943), was an Australian film director and actor, best known for being the son-in-law of the celebrated actor-manager Alfred Dampier, with whom he appeared frequently on stage, and for his prolific output as a director during Australia's silent era, including "Captain Midnight, the Bush King" (1911), "Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road" (1911) and "The Hero of the Dardanelles" (1915). Only one of his films as director survives today.
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Mother Knows Best (film) Mother Knows Best is a 1928 American film directed by John G. Blystone, based on a novel by Edna Ferber, fictionalizing the life of vaudevillian Elsie Janis. The film was Fox's first real talkie, using the Movietone sound system which had been used for sound effects in "Sunrise", although it still contained silent sections. The sound sections were directed by actor Charles Judels. The film starred Madge Bellamy, with Louise Dresser as her domineering mother, Barry Norton, and Albert Gran.
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Roy Lockwood Roy Lockwood, (8 June 1907 to 25 April 2002) was a pioneering British film, television and radio director. His work included directing the radio soap opera "Valiant Lady".
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Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde is a 1971 British film directed by Roy Ward Baker based on the novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and was their third adaptation of the story after "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll". The film is notable for showing Jekyll transform into a female Hyde; it also incorporates into the plot aspects of the historical Jack the Ripper and Burke and Hare cases. The two characters were played by the film's stars, Ralph Bates and Martine Beswick.
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Four Horsemen (film) Four Horsemen is a 2012 British documentary film directed by Ross Ashcroft. The film criticises the system of fractional reserve banking, debt-based economy and political lobbying by banks, which it regards as a serious threat to Western civilisation. It criticises the War on Terror, which it maintains is not fought to eliminate al-Qaeda and other militant organizations, but to create larger debt to the banks. As an alternative, the film promotes a return to classical economics and the gold standard. Among those interviewed are Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist at the World Bank; Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor; John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"; ecological economist and steady-state theorist Herman Daly, formerly at the World Bank; and Max Keiser, TV host and former trader. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 14 March 2012. A book based on the film has been published.
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G. B. Samuelson Productions G. B. Samuelson Productions was a British film production company which operated in the silent film and early sound film era of films during the period 1914 to 1933, during which time the company produced around 70 films. The company was run by G.B. Samuelson, who also directed a number of films.
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James Williamson (film pioneer) James A. Williamson (8 November 1855 – 18 August 1933) was a Scottish photographer and a key member of the loose association of early film pioneers dubbed the Brighton School by French film historian Georges Sadoul. He is best known for "The Big Swallow" (1901), a trick film with innovative use of extreme close-up, as well as "Fire!" and "Stop Thief!" (both 1901), dramas with continuity established across multiple shots.
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Stephen Frears Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English film director. Frears has directed British films since the 1980s including "My Beautiful Laundrette", "Dangerous Liaisons", "High Fidelity", "The Queen", "Philomena" and "Florence Foster Jenkins". He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director for "The Grifters" and "The Queen". In 2008 "The Telegraph" named him among the most influential people in British culture.
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Paul Mercier (film director and playwright) Paul Mercier is an Irish playwright screenwriter, film and theatre director. Born in Dublin and living in An Cheathru Rua he was the founder member and Artistic Director of the Passion Machine Theatre Company and of film production company An Pointe Productions. His work is famous for its gritty poetic realism and examination of ordinary, contemporary Irish life.
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Philip Goring Philip Kenneth Alfred Goring (born 1966) is an English film director, known for his pioneering subversive, experimental and controversial style. He has attracted criticism for being obsessed with sexuality and the church. His narrative films in the main are adaptations of existing texts and biographies, although, the majority of his video and film works are what would be considered Avant-garde or experimental.
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The Death of Poor Joe The Death of Poor Joe is a 1901 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, which features the director's wife Laura Bayley as Joe, a child street-sweeper who dies of disease on the street in the arms of a policeman. The film, which went on release in March 1901, takes its name from a famous photograph posed by Oscar Rejlander after an episode in Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" and is the oldest known surviving film featuring a Dickens character. The film was discovered in 2012 by British Film Institute curator Bryony Dixon, after it was believed to have been lost since 1954. Until the discovery, the previous oldest known Dickens film was "Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost", released in November 1901.
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Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. A five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a highly naturalistic but stylized and satirical aesthetic, unlike most Hollywood films. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in American cinema.
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The Fourth Angel The Fourth Angel is a 2001 British-Canadian thriller film directed by John Irvin and starring Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Jason Priestley and Charlotte Rampling. It was written by Allan Scott, from a homonymous novel by Robin Neillands (writing under the name Robin Hunter). Irons portrays a man who seeks justice after a terrorist attack on the plane in which his family was travelling. The film takes its title from Revelation 16:8: "The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire".
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period.
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The Great McGonagall (film) The Great McGonagall is a 1974 British comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Spike Milligan in the title role, Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria and Julia Foster as Mrs McGonagall. It is a humorous biopic of the Scottish poet William McGonagall that includes several of McGonagall's actual poems, his appearing in the title role of "Macbeth" and his "improvement" of the Bard's plot, his pilgrimage to Balmoral Castle, the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria by Roderick McLean and a tribute to McGonagall from Lt Frederick Rollo of the Royal Scots in Zululand.
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Joan the Woman Joan the Woman is a 1916 American epic silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Geraldine Farrar as Joan of Arc. The film premiered on Christmas Day in 1916. This was DeMille's first historical drama. The screenplay is based on Friedrich Schiller's 1801 play "Die Jungfrau von Orelans" ("The Maid of Orleans"). This film was considered to be the "first cinematic spectacle about Joan of Arc."
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J. A. Baker John Alec Baker was an English author best known for "The Peregrine," which won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1967. Robert Macfarlane deemed it to be "a masterpiece of twentieth-century non-fiction" in his introduction to the New York Review Books edition of the book. On the back jacket cover of the same edition, James Dickey states that the book "transcends any 'nature writing' of our time," while Barry Lopez declares the book to be "one of the most beautifully written, carefully observed and evocative wildlife accounts I have ever read." Werner Herzog called it the "one book I would ask you to read if you want to make films," and said elsewhere "... it has prose of the caliber that we have not seen since Joseph Conrad."
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The Truants (film) The Truants is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Joan Morgan, George Bellamy and Lewis Gilbert. It is an adaptation of the 1904 novel "The Truants" by A.E.W. Mason. It was made by Britain's largest film company of the era Stoll Pictures, The film's sets were designed by art director Walter Murton.
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Alan Goodrick Alan David Goodrick (born April 1962 in Manchester), better known under the pseudonym Gimpo, is an English film director and former roadie, best known as an associate and collaborator of The KLF and the K Foundation.