Directors+Research+Project

If you can't name the above directors, or if you don't know about them, it's time to find out what you're missing!!!!!
Read the following partial chapter from Robert Glatzer's __Beyond Popcorn__ to learn his perspective on directors: From the chapter: __The Greatest Film__

Below is a list of directors considered most important by 2-3 of my most respected film authorities. (Robert Glatzer, Lehman and Luhr, Joseph Leydon). Before every one of you tries to select Tim Burton for your director project, please see what you know about any of these, and consider learning something amazing and new!

Ingmar Bergman Robert Bresson Luis Bunuel Francis Ford Coppola Vittorio De Sica Rainer Werner Fassbinder Akira Kurosawa Louis Malle Kenji Mizoguchi Satyajit Ray Francois Truffaut Orson Welles John Ford Stanley Kubrick Milos Forman Alfred Hitchcock Woody Allen George Lucas Spike Lee Quentin Tarantino The Coen Brothers Stephen Speilberg George Kukor Howard Hawks Frank Capra Cecil B. DeMille William Wyler D.W. Griffith Walt Disney Elia Kazan Many more listed in the Director's section of Tim Dirk's website: www.filmsite.org

The Assignment: Step 1. After selecting a director that no one else has selected, post it in the discussion on this page. Only one person can research each director, and it's first come first serve. If someone has posted your first choice, you'll have to come up with another awesome director. There really are plenty to go around. Create a new page entitled: Director's Name by First Last. Insert the director's actual name where those words are, and your actual first and last name where those words are.

Step 2. Begin your research. Whatever you do, don't restrict yourself to the imdb website, or to wikipedia. You must collect information from a wide variety of sources, not just the internet. Check with me, I have begun to collect a small library of books on film. Also the IMC may have their own collection. Entertainment Weekly may have relevant information, and their are many film journals published online. Rolling Stone magazine does regular film reviews, and may have info on directors as well. Be intrepid and check everywhere!!! I want to see at least 5 well-used sources for this amazing research project. This means ** __cite your sources__ **: include a bibliography using MLA format and listing a minimum of 5 sources.

***Important requirement*** You must include original quotes from your director gleaned from his/her written or spoken record, i.e., an interview, video or book by your director!!!
** Let's be nosy and find out what they really think about making films. :~) **

Step 3. Your final product will be a presentation on your director. You will prepare a fabulous wiki page that you will share with the class during your presentation. Be sure you cover the following 5 points: biographical information, career information, most important films and awards, any recurring themes in their films (and/or lives), what is particularly appealing to you and therefore of probable interest to us. Make sure the page is well organized, full of interesting images, has a color scheme, is legible and is free of spelling or grammatical errors.

Step 4. Prepare an oral presentation to go along with the wiki when you share it with the class. Don't just read the wiki to us. Show us some great visuals while you briefly explain the most riveting information on your director.