Signature/Trademark | Director |
Nonlinear modern noirs | |
Vietnam and US presidents | |
Fast-paced witty dialogue | |
Revenge, brutality and precision | |
Puppets | |
The Mafia, De Niro and New York | |
3 interlocking circles | |
Perfectionism and classical music | |
Gallows humor and sardonic violence | |
A childlike sense of wonder | |
Light, elegant, sophisticated 'touch' | |
Heists w/ minimal dialogue | |
Arctic austerity | |
Love, Paris and Antoine Doinel | |
Rotoscoping and adult animation | |
Crudity and camp | |
Long takes, morality and Belgium | |
Trains, stunts and slapstick | |
Stop-motion mixed w/ live action | |
Road movies and rock music | |
Shadows, Expressionism and crime | |
Deadpan B/W meditations on boredom | |
Painted, scratched and glued film stock | |
Dolly 'rush-ins' and Bruce Campbell | |
Sweeping cinemascope epics | |
Sex, politics and history | |
American race relations | |
Neurotic Jewish intellectual leads | |
Slow-motion blood spurts | |
Dense, imaginative dark comedies | |
Improvisation, NYC and masculinity | |
Jump cuts, Marxism and Anna Karina | |
Anticlerical, anti-bourgeois surrealism | |
Montage and Soviet propaganda | |
| Signature/Trademark | Director |
Helicopters and sunsets | |
Twist endings | |
Marlene Dietrich in soft focus | |
Existential reveries on modern life | |
Split-screen and psychological thrills | |
Body horror | |
Blondes, Freud and McGuffins | |
Alternating indie and mainstream | |
Long takes, car rides and Iran | |
Long takes, tracking shots and Greece | |
Revisionist revenge westerns | |
Literary costume dramas | |
Deep focus B/W noirs | |
Flamboyant technicolor musicals | |
Italian horror and colored lighting | |
1138 | |
Ensemble casts | |
80's pop music, teens and Shermer, IL | |
Obsessive dreamers and madmen | |
Big-budget genre blockbusters | |
Sex, desire and family | |
Long takes, geisha and Japan | |
'Message' movies | |
Saturated colors and Gong Li | |
Oscar-winning comedies and noir | |
Terribleness | |
Metaphysics, memory and time | |
Doves and explosions | |
Style, mood and repeated music | |
Low budget double features and Poe | |
Gimmicks | |
Parodies and puns | |
Low, static camera w/ 50mm lens | |
Spaghetti westerns | |
| Signature/Trademark | Director |
Gore, shock and yakuza | |
Wry, stilted, deadpan delivery | |
Sex, alienation and discomfort | |
Giallo | |
DIY FX, synthesizers and Kurt Russell | |
Taiwan's troubled history | |
Zombies | |
Long takes, B/W and Hungary | |
Sex, composers and psychedelia | |
Jimmy Stewart w/ a dark past | |
Winnipeg and silent movie styles | |
Gothic art design | |
Sentimental feel-good wholesomeness | |
Rome, upperclass decadence and sex | |
Monument Valley | |
Shy vagrant with derby and mustache | |
Darkness, rain and grime | |
Moral dilemmas and long talks | |
Vermeer, Nyman, numbers and lists | |
Non-actors, realism and Ingrid Bergman | |
Emotional gauntlets and controversy | |
Opulence, crane shots and female leads | |
Suburbia, NJ and Silent Bob | |
French countryside and poetic realism | |
Quirky highbrow humor | |
Dream sequences and vintage music | |
Working class UK and social realism | |
Animation and environmentalism | |
Samurai | |
Cyborgs and basset hounds | |
Film references and ironic violence | |
Symbolic technicolor melodramas | |
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