Curated category
Film theorists
- Martin ScorseseMartin Scorsese was born on the 17th of November 1942 in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. He grew up in the Little Italy section of Manhattan where his…
- Steven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg was born on the 18th of December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother Leah Adler ran a kosher dairy restaurant and played concert…
- Roger EbertRoger Joseph Ebert was born on the 18th of June 1942 in Urbana, Illinois. He grew up as the only child of Annabel and Walter Harry Ebert.
- François TruffautOn the 6th of February 1932, François Roland Truffaut was born in Paris to a mother named Janine de Montferrand. His biological father remained unknown for…
- Jean-Luc GodardJean-Luc Godard was born on the 3rd of December 1930 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. His father Paul Godard worked as a Swiss physician while his mother…
- Dziga VertovDavid Abelevich Kaufman entered the world in Białystok, Poland, during 1896. His family belonged to a Jewish community within the Russian Empire.
- Lev KuleshovLev Kuleshov was born in 1899 into an intellectual Russian family. His father Vladimir Sergeyevich Kuleshov studied art at the Moscow School of Painting…
- Peter BiskindPeter Biskind was born in 1940 and grew up to become a central figure in American film criticism. He attended Swarthmore College, where he began his academic…
- Sergei EisensteinSergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was born on the 11th of February 1898 in Riga, within the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire.