Milan Luthria is the director of films like Taxi No 9211 and Once Upon A Time In Mumbaitalks about his five favourite filmmakers.
Alfred Hitchcock
The first ‘star director’, Hitchcock created an identity as a filmmaker unlike any other. He directed masterpieces for an incredible 51 years. His is a name that evokes a strange response. Your mind thinks suspense… horror… murder! And yet there’s a smile on your lips. That’s the genius of the man — he turned suspense, horror and murder into an entertaining art form. The masterpieces that leap to mind, many of which are textbooks in crisp, clever filmmaking, with tremendous repeat value are: The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Thirty Nine Steps, Birds, North By Northwest, Dial M For Murder and of course… Psycho! But my personal favourite is Spellbound, starring the dashing Gregory Peck and the ethereal Ingrid Bergman. He believed in letting the audience stay “a half step ahead” to fully enjoy the suspense.
The first ‘star director’, Hitchcock created an identity as a filmmaker unlike any other. He directed masterpieces for an incredible 51 years. His is a name that evokes a strange response. Your mind thinks suspense… horror… murder! And yet there’s a smile on your lips. That’s the genius of the man — he turned suspense, horror and murder into an entertaining art form. The masterpieces that leap to mind, many of which are textbooks in crisp, clever filmmaking, with tremendous repeat value are: The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Thirty Nine Steps, Birds, North By Northwest, Dial M For Murder and of course… Psycho! But my personal favourite is Spellbound, starring the dashing Gregory Peck and the ethereal Ingrid Bergman. He believed in letting the audience stay “a half step ahead” to fully enjoy the suspense.
Clint Eastwood
Did you know that this legendary cowboy has directed 35 films, the first of which was in 1971? When he turned to making Spaghetti westerns like A Fistful Of Dollars for his bread and butter, everyone thought he was making the biggest mistake of his life. In Italy, he asked for the Italian word for mistake, and was told the word was malpaso. On returning home, he named his production company ‘Malpaso’. Among my favorite of his many superbly-directed films are Play Misty For Me, The Eiger Sanction,
Did you know that this legendary cowboy has directed 35 films, the first of which was in 1971? When he turned to making Spaghetti westerns like A Fistful Of Dollars for his bread and butter, everyone thought he was making the biggest mistake of his life. In Italy, he asked for the Italian word for mistake, and was told the word was malpaso. On returning home, he named his production company ‘Malpaso’. Among my favorite of his many superbly-directed films are Play Misty For Me, The Eiger Sanction,
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