Lois Weber is considered to be the preeminent female director working in and outside the studio system.

Film noir isn’t defined simply by the elements of crime or the atmosphere, it’s also defined by the actors who bring it to life, many of whom were staples in the genre throughout the 1940s and 1950s.

Few filmmakers facilitate the transportation into another world and experiencing it in immersive mode more than Mexican-born Guillermo del Toro.

Gilliam is a director blessed (or cursed) by an unhinged imagination, making movies about unhinged characters.