From Capra to Coen, Burton to Bergman, Kazan to Kurosawa, Sayles to Spielberg, FilmDirectorsSite.Com provides an insightful study of our greatest directors, as originally selected by the often controversial and always enlightening Andrew Sarris and expanded for this site. The most important role in any film is arguably that of the director, the creative center whose inspiration, vision and control can make the difference between mediocre and masterful.
Although in the last resort I find his work more distinctive than distinguished, Tim Burton compels interest and attention by the way in which he has established within the Hollywood mainstream a cinema that is, to say the least, highly eccentric, idiosyncratic, and personal.
