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Examine how to direct a film adaption of Walter van Tilburg Clark's short story “The Portable Phonograph”

Follow a director as he films a motion picture adaption of Eugène Ionesco's The New Tenant

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Dušan Makavejev

Yugoslavian film producer

Vittorio Taviani

Italian filmmaker

James Ivory

American director

Paolo Taviani

Italian filmmaker

Eugene Vakhtangov

Russian actor, director, and producer

Ethan Coen

American filmmaker

Harold Ramis

American actor, writer, and director

David Maysles

American documentary filmmaker

Jesse Lasky

American producer

Judith Malina

American theater director and actress

Karel Reisz

Czech-born British director

Joel Coen

American filmmaker

Michael Cimino

American director

Joy Batchelor

British director and animator

Emil Poulsen

Danish actor

Tony Scott

British film director

Dave Fleischer

American animator

Luc Dardenne

Belgian filmmaker

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Belgian filmmaker

Roy Ward Baker

British director

Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, with her dog, Toto, from the motion picture film The Wizard of Oz (1939); directed by Mervyn LeRay. (cinema, movies)

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