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Director Study

Everything in the school that teaches Director Study, across 5 departments.

326 lessons · 150h 11m · Directing · Film Theory · Acting · Screenwriting · Sound & Music

Lessons on Director Study

Akira Kurosawa "My Life in Cinema" - 1993 — Luca De PALMA · 116m · Advanced
Joel & Ethan Coen - Shot | Reverse Shot — Every Frame a Painting · 5m · Intermediate
'Parasite' Director Bong Joon-ho Breaks Down the Opening Scene | Vanity Fair — Vanity Fair · 13m · Advanced
The Invisible Horror of The Shining — kaptainkristian · 18m · Advanced
Big Screen Symposium 2015 - In Conversation with Jane Campion (Moderated by Philippa Campbell) — Script to Screen · 70m · Advanced
Chloé Zhao Directing Masterclass | IFTA Skills in Focus — IFTA Academy · 89m · Advanced
How Studio Ghibli Makes Animation Feel Alive — kaptainkristian · 20m · Intermediate
Masterclass de Wes Anderson & Joel Coen (2019) — La Fémis · 91m · Advanced
Guillermo del Toro - Monsters and Magic — kaptainkristian · 19m · Intermediate
Lee Unkrich on the Two Versions of THE SHINING | THE COMPLETE KUBRICK — CRITERION · 11m · Advanced
In the Mood For Love: Crash Course Film Criticism #5 — CrashCourse · 11m · Intermediate
Why Do Wes Anderson Movies Look Like That? — Thomas Flight · 15m · Beginner
Bong Joon Ho on His Creative Process, Barking Dogs Never Bite, The Host & More | On Writing — BAFTA Guru · 13m · Advanced
Jane Campion & Sofia Coppola on The Power of the Dog and Filmmaking Process | NYFF59 — Film at Lincoln Center · 62m · Advanced
Making Barry Lyndon — Criterion Extras · 32m · Advanced
Making of The Shining: Vivian Kubrick's Behind The Scenes Documentary - 1978 VHS — Hifi Play · 36m · Intermediate
Martin Scorsese interviewed by Edgar Wright | BFI London Film Festival 2023 Screen Talk — BFI · 95m · Advanced
MASTER CLASS by DAVID FINCHER (Complete) (Subtitled in Spanish) — Escuela Universitaria de Artes TAI · 51m · Advanced
Marking a Story Beat with A Pan in Parasite — Seeing Through Our Screens - Thomas Flight · 9m · Intermediate
Pan's Labyrinth: Crash Course Film Criticism #9 — CrashCourse · 11m · Intermediate
Greta Gerwig interviewed by Jesse Armstrong | BFI London Film Festival 2023 Screen Talk — BFI · 61m · Advanced
Martin Scorsese on Mean Streets, Raging Bull and The Irishman and More | Film Lecture — BAFTA Guru · 40m · Advanced
The Hateful Eight DGA Q&A with Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan — Directors Guild of America · 31m · Advanced
The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey — Chicago Humanities · 61m · Advanced
The Making Of Psycho — More Horror Vault · 90m · Advanced
3 Brilliant Moments of Blocking (in Kurosawa's High and Low) — CineFix · 9m · Intermediate
Every Christopher Nolan Movie Ends the Same — Like Stories of Old · 19m · Intermediate
When Tarantino Learned To Shut Up — kaptainkristian · 16m · Intermediate
Denis Villeneuve interviewed by Brett Goldstein | BFI London Film Festival 2024 Screen Talk — BFI · 66m · Advanced
How Soderbergh Elevates A (Minor) Scene — Nerdwriter1 · 7m · Intermediate

Departments teaching this

Oscar winners for directing

Books on directing

The director’s monitor

PortKeys BM5 III WR — Monitor that can also run the camera
Hollyland Mars 4K — 4K wireless to four phones at once
Atomos Ninja V — The 5" recorder-monitor that made ProRes RAW normal
Atomos Ninja (5") — The current 5" recorder-monitor
Hollyland Pyro 7 — Wireless monitor and receiver in one
SmallHD Indie 7 — A bright 7" director’s monitor that takes LUTs

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