Interviews with the film maestros come along once or twice ayear, helping us get to know the perspective of film brainiacs whenotherwise we would have limited access. The filmmaker Angela Ismailos has ...

Talk about a labour of love. Angela Ismailos, a first-time documentary film-maker, had the idea of interviewing some of the world’s greatest directors on camera, and getting them to talk about their ...

First-timer Angela Ismailos traveled the world to interview her favorite filmmakers in the documentary "Great Directors." By Natasha Senjanovic, The Associated Press Venice Film Festival, Out of ...

New York-based independent film company Paladin, formed last fall by distribution veteran Mark Urman, announced today that it will release Angela Ismailos’ doc “Great Directors,” which celebrates ...

Depending on who’s watching, a better title for “Great Directors” might be “A Few Great Directors and Some Highly Competent Ones.” Truth in advertising aside, this spasmodically entertaining ...

‘Great Directors” isn’t, alas, made by one. But it is about quite a few, and that makes it often fascinating, and ultimately valuable. In this long-in-progress project, filmmaker Angela Ismailos takes ...

Documentary. Featuring Agnes Varda, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch and Catherine Breillat. Directed by Angela Ismailos. (Not rated. 90 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Successful film directors are ...

A curious celebration of cinema and the mix of craft, history and ideology that goes into its making, Angela Ismailos’ Great Directors provides a chance to travel into the minds of ten of the world’s ...

ANGELA ISMAILOS, wearing fitted jeans and a black jersey top, made her entrance through a doorway flanked by extravagant arrangements of Casablanca lilies. The afternoon sunlight streaming through the ...

These days, it seems like everyone and their mother has become the subject of a documentary film: Valentino, Joan Rivers, Anna Wintour, Vidal Sassoon, Bill Cunningham and soon Diana Vreeland­, to name ...

This must be the season for vanity documentaries. First Oliver Stone rounded up seven Latin American leaders for his misconceived “South of the Border” and now Angela Ismailos corrals 10 of her ...