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In a career spanning almost 50 years, Woody Allen’s style has become synonymous with and perhaps helped define the cultural stereotype of the self-deprecating, anxious intellectual in New York City. Full of...

With Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla reboot roaring its way to cinema screens, ORWAV takes you on a rampage through 60 years of history and 29 films featuring the King of the Monsters. Godzilla. He may be known as...

Wes Anderson is the creator of a string of classic American independent films that infuse a quirky filming style with wry humour and eccentric characterisations, including The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore,...

Controversial American director Sam Peckinpah was at the vanguard of the Hollywood revolution in the 1960s, although he is most commonly remembered for his graphic depictions of violence in his Westerns...

In a career spanning five decades, Hayao Miyazaki has transformed the genre of animation.  His ability to incorporate thematic depth and visual excellence into his features has inspired generations of...

When it comes to directors in Western cinema over the last twenty years, Paul Thomas Anderson is without equal. Coming from a long line of American filmmakers who burst suddenly onto the scene and went from...

Controversial American filmmaker Oliver Stone has regularly impressed audiences and critiqued American history in such powerful films as Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and...

The younger brother of Ridley, Tony Scott was one of the most successful action directors in Hollywood, consistently producing top-quality entertainment over a thirty year career which included Top...

A household name, Steven Spielberg is perhaps the most well-known and beloved filmmaker in the history of film with works such as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial, Saving Private Ryan,...

Acclaimed American director Martin Scorsese is perhaps best known for his crime dramas, including Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and the Oscar-winning The Departed, but over a forty year career he has...

Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa has produced some of the most iconic films of the 1950s and 1960s, including Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood, as well as influencing countless...

An unabashed and unique talent with pen and camera, Quentin Tarantino has written and directed innovative modern classics like Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. If one letter defines...

One of Hollywood’s most financially successful filmmakers yet often critically derided, Bay has directed films such as Bad Boys, The Rock, Pearl Harbor and the Transformers trilogy. During the 1980s, two...

Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have created critically-acclaimed films in a range of genres for the past thirty years, including The Big Lebowski, Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and No Country for Old...

Ridley Scott is one of Britain’s finest filmmakers, with a career spanning almost forty years and including such iconic films as Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise and Gladiator. Born in North-East...