There is a host of directors — Sujoy Ghosh, Neeraj Pandey, Ashutosh Gowariker, Madhur Bhandarkar, Mani Ratnam and so on — who make some great cinema.
But that image reflects bad, old Ibsen stagings; today a whole host of directors have freed us from the tyranny of furniture and shown us that Ibsen can be spare, ironic, witty and sexy.
In an article about the rapid shift in Hollywood away from 35-millimeter film to digital production, LA Weekly begins with a scene that establishes the sides in this battle: Christopher Nolan, director of the new Batman film, "The Dark Knight Rises," in December invited a host of other directors to a screening and to make a pitch for the beauty of shooting in film.
Mr Weill's creation, backed by a host of executives, directors and investors ever since, has proved horribly flawed.
She has crammed 57 films into the decades since, working with Roman Polanski, Ang Lee and a host of other directors.
He isn't 30 yet, but Mr. Pereda has soaked up influences from a host of multinational directors, from the Dardenne brothers of Belgium to Apichatpong Weerasethakul of Thailand.
I stand by that, and would argue that the gradual transfer of power from actor-managers to directors has been good for our theatre: even if genuine visionaries like Joan Littlewood and Peter Brook eventually fled our shores, we have still nursed a host of talented directors.
Previews include a host of brilliant directors' new work – Soderbergh's highly anticipated The Informant!, starring Matt Damon as a reckless whistleblower, Jim Jarmusch's The Limits Of Control, a noirish crime thriller starring the usual Jarmusch suspects, and the Coens' A Serious Man.
The showrunners assembled a host of ace directors, including Mimi Leder and Craig Zobel.
He had met and befriended a host of authors, film directors, musicians, dancers, and artists, including Christopher Hitchens, Hanif Kureishi, Dave Eggers, Michael Ondaatje, Julian Barnes, Aurelia Chaplin, Ned Sublette, Tom Luddy, Walter Salles, Philip Gourevitch, Mark Danner, Francisco Goldman, Daniel Alarcón, Margaret Atwood, Werner Herzog, Fatima Bhutto, the late Eric Hobsbawm, and many more.
If France has looked a little low on innovation in recent years, Germany is currently raising a host of interesting new directors, among them Fatih Akin, Birgit Grosskopf, Valeska Grisebach and Stefan Krohmer.
