Masters of Cinema is an organic, international initiative founded in 2001 by four friends with a mutual interest in a particular type of filmmaker. Now five-strong, and living thousands of miles apart from each other in three different countries, we aim to bring pertinent information together in one place for aficionados of World Cinema. In early 2004, Masters of Cinema began working with Eureka (UK) on a Masters of Cinema Series of DVDs.
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Jan Bielawski is a mathematician (differential geometry,
gravitation) with two permanent distractions — computers and
film. He saw Solaris in 1973 and it didn't impress him too
much. But The Mirror six years later was a revelation. He is
also especially fond of Luis Buñuel, both as a filmmaker and
as a person.
Email Jan
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Doug Cummings received a film degree from the University of Arizona, works as a graphic artist and freelance critic in Los Angeles, and blogs at filmjourney.org. Although the MoC microsites (Bresson, Dreyer, Ozu, Tarkovsky) represent his favorite filmmakers, he attends a variety of film festivals year-round, has a special love for documentaries and animation, and is currently thrilled by the Dardennes. Email Doug
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R. Dixon Smith is the author of Ronald Colman, Gentleman of the Cinema: A Biography and Filmography (1991) and several other books. He has written documentaries for numerous DVD releases, including The Golem, The Thief of Bagdad, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunrise, M, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, and Münchhausen. His areas of specialisation are the silent and early-talkie eras; his favourite directors include Abel Gance, Buster Keaton, Sergei Eisenstein, Josef von Sternberg, Leni Riefenstahl, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, and Akira Kurosawa; and his favourite films include Napoleon, Sunrise, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, The Passion of Joan of Arc, White Hell of Pitz Palu, M, The Blue Light, and Olympia. An American, he lives in Cambridge, England. Email Dixon
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Trond S. Trondsen holds a PhD in Cosmic Geophysics and is currently
employed as an Imaging Specialist at the Institute for Space Research,
Calgary, Canada while also running his own scientific optics company.
His favorite filmmakers may very well be Andrei Tarkovsky
and Robert Bresson, but he has a special affinity for Japanese cinema,
both classic (Mizoguchi, Naruse) and contemporary (Kore-eda, Aoyama).
The works of young emerging filmmakers, such as Shiho Kano, Miwa Nishikawa, and Naomi Kawase
have given Trond a new hope for the future of Japanese cinema. When time permits, he can be
spotted flyfishing on the Livingstone River.
Email: trond (at) mastersofcinema (dot) org
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Nick Wrigley is a musician with a degree in Film & Philosophy from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He was born in England. His favourite filmmakers are still Bresson, Dreyer, Dumont, Hou, Kubrick, Mizoguchi, Ozu, Renoir, Tarkovsky, etc. He, unfortunately, rarely gets excited by new films and hardly ever enters a 'multiperplex'. Email: nick (at) mastersofcinema (dot) org
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