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michael moore
Author, filmmaker, and political activist Michael Moore has developed
a trademark style of tackling major issues with a sharp sense
of humor while maintaining a regular-guy attitude, an approach
that has helped him secure a reputation as both a razor-sharp
humorist and one of America's most fearless political commentators.
Michael Moore was born in 1954 in Davison, MI, a suburb of Flint.
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quentin tarantino
Director/screenwriter/actor/producer Quentin Tarantino was perhaps
the most distinctive and volatile talent to emerge in American
film in the early '90s. Unlike the previous generation of American
filmmakers, Tarantino learned his craft from his days as a video
clerk, rather than as a film school student. Consequently, he
developed an audacious fusion of pop culture and independent art
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peter jackson
Peter Jackson was born in New Zealand on Halloween 1961. He was
raised in Pukerua Bay, a little town west of Wellington by his
parents Bill and Joan Jackson. Being the only child, Peter was
forced to come up with games, ideas and things to keep himself
occupied. On Christmas 1969, Peter's parents got an 8mm camera
and his life was forever changed. It didn't take long for Peter
to get his hands on the camera. show
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tim burton
It should come as no shock to the fans of director Tim Burton
that he spent his formative years glued to the tube, watching
old cartoons and horror flicks. Such early influences no doubt
helped to form the deliciously ghoulish and artfully warped sensibility
of a director who was to become known for his forays into the
bizarre outer regions of mainstream celluloid. show
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john woo
The bread-and-butter of the film industry is the action movie.
Each summer, audiences can expect to see car chases, gunfights
and explosions, and studios can expect to see millions and millions
of dollars in return. Though most viewers and critics see these
movies as "fluff" entertainment (and rightfully so),
there is one director that puts as much heart and soul into his
"fluff" as any number of talented directors put into
their "serious" movies. His name is John Woo. show
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robert zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis began making home movies as a child in Chicago.
He eventually attended the University of Southern California's
School of Cinema-Television where he befriended budding filmmakers
like George Lucas and John Milius. Zemeckis directed a pair of
well received student films while at USC (The Lift and A Field
of Honor). He soon met a man who would change his life, a burgeoning
young star director named Steven Spielberg who was then based
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kevin smith
One of the most unique voices to emerge during the American independent
filmmaking renaissance of the 1990s, Kevin Smith was born in New
Jersey on August 2, 1970. Smith later attended the New School
for Social Research's creative writing program, dropping out after
administrators contacted his parents to report that their son
had been caught launching water balloons out of his dormitory
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stanley kubrick
Stanley Kubrick was born in New York, and was considered intelligent
despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery
would produce better academic performance, Kubrick's father Jack
(a physician) sent him in 1940 to Pasadena, California, to stay
with his uncle Martin Perveler. Returning to the Bronx in 1941
for his last year of grammar school, there seemed to be little
change in his attitude or his results. show
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spike lee
Spike Lee was born Shelton Lee in 1957, in Atlanta Georgia. At
a very young age he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn,
New York. Lee came from a proud and intelligent background. His
father was a jazz musician, and his mother a school teacher. His
mother dubbed him Spike, due to his tough nature. He attended
school in Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he developed his
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martin scorcese
The most renowned filmmaker of his era, Martin Scorsese virtually
defined the state of modern American cinema during the 1970s and
'80s. A consummate storyteller and visual stylist who lived and
breathed movies, he won fame translating his passion and energy
into a brand of filmmaking that crackled with kinetic excitement.
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