The contrast between these filmmakers and -- to cite just one golden age of American movie making -- the supple, emotionally complex narrative style of directors like John Ford, Howard Hawks and Billy Wilder is a bleak one.
In the sidebar, "Three Directors' Approaches to Film Making," we describe major differences between the work styles of directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, and Arthur Penn.
"The 16th Man" is a part of ESPN's "30 for 30" series of documentaries, which has employed the styles of directors unaffiliated with the network to create a high-quality film festival.
The style of shooting and editing would bridge the gap between the styles of directors Edwin Stanton Porter and D. W. Griffith, and prints have been preserved in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
"I want to introduce more outside directors so that the Komische Oper isn't stuck with the style of one director.
The answer might lie in the smooth, ingratiating style of the director, Donald Petrie, who also did "Miss Congeniality" and "Mystic Pizza".
Having wired up a vicious comedy in the style of Martin McDonagh, director Serge Bozon sets forth to wallowing in the peccadillos of his crime-fighting duo.
"It was a singular vision," Mr. Daniels said of "Something Wild," adding that he saw a similarity in the deliberate but unencumbered style of the director Noah Baumbach, who directed him in "The Squid and the Whale" (2005).
He and Burns jump all over the world in the fast-moving, everything-happening-at-once style of the director's earlier triumph "Traffic" (though without the dirty excitement of that drug-trade movie).
But Fisher's faith in the visual style of "Justice League" director Zack Snyder, which he came to admire in Snyder's previous works such as "300," "Man of Steel" and "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," kept him confident.
