The DGA vs. the Academy: 1970s

Martin Balsam, Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express (top); Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence (bottom)

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1960s
1970
DGA: David Lean for Ryan’s Daughter and Bob Rafelson for Five Easy Pieces
AMPAS: Federico Fellini for Satyricon and Ken Russell for Women in Love
 
1971
DGA: Robert Mulligan for Summer of ‘42
AMPAS: Norman Jewison for Fiddler on the Roof
 
1972
DGA: George Roy Hill for Slaughterhouse-Five and Martin Ritt for Sounder
AMPAS: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Sleuth and Jan Troell for The Emigrants
 
1973
DGA: Sidney Lumet for Serpico
AMPAS: Ingmar Bergman for Cries and Whispers
 
1974
DGA: Sidney Lumet for Murder on the Orient Express and Francis Ford Coppola for The Conversation
AMPAS: John Cassavetes for A [...]

by Andre Soares | December 30, 2006   
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A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE d: John Cassavetes

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Direction and screenplay: John Cassavetes
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes, Eddie Shaw
 

Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence

 
IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WIFE
Steven Spielberg is a respected film director. Many will even call him an auteur. When you watch a Spielberg film, you know it’s a Spielberg film — or at least one made by his myriad imitators. John Cassavetes is a respected film director. No one will deny the fact that Cassavetes is a film auteur. When you watch a Cassavetes film, you know it’s a Cassavetes film — or at least a Henry Jaglom imitation of a Cassavetes film.
Now, apart from self-important works [...]

by Andre Soares | October 15, 2004   
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