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Robert Bresson

Primary Theme: The Power of Transcedence in a flawed and often cruel world

Movies: “Diary of a country Priest”, “Pickpocket, "Au Hasard Balthazar".

Jacques Tati/ Monsiuer Hulot

Primary Theme: Sterility and alienation of the modern life

Movies: “Playtime”

Federico Fellini

Primary Theme: Combining two central tendencies of italian cinema, the epic tradition and humanist tradition

Movies: variety lights, the white sheik, I Vitelloni, la dolce vita, 8½.

Michaelangelo Antonioni

Primary theme: role of humanity in the modern world

Movies: L’avventura, The alienation trilogy, Blow-up

Ingmar Bergman

Themes: man’s relationship with God, mortality, and the psychology of women

Movies: The seventh seal, Persona

Luis Bunenuel

Movies: Un chien andalou, The phantom of liberty, Viridiana

Alfred Hitchcock

directed 24 feature films in Britain from 1925–1939

• Blackmail (1929),The 39 Steps (1935), Sabotage (1936), The Lady Vanishes (1938)

• Moved to the U.S. at the behest of producer David O. Selznick in 1939

Alexander Korda

Known for large, epic productions with innovative design and special effects

▪ Things to Come (1936)

▪ The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

David Lean

Adapted several plays by Noel Coward:

Blithe Spirit (1944) and Brief Encounter (1945)

• Adapted two of Charles Dickens’s novels: 

Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1947)

Carol Reed

Adapted Graham Greene stories

• the fallen idol and the third man