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John Huston
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John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature…
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John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1961), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Prizzi's Honor (1985). In his early years, Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris. He explored the visual aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting. While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, with little editing needed. Some of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting an "heroic quest," as in Moby Dick, or The Red Badge of Courage. In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming "destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension. Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, and war. Huston has been referred to as "a titan", "a rebel", and a "renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's Ernest Hemingway"—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on." During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice. He directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Huston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
100 Years of Marilyn Monroe
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2023
The Myth of Marilyn Monroe
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2023
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
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2022
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
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2021
John Huston: Adventures of a Free Soul
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2021
Morceaux de Cannes
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2020
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
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2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
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2018
The Other Side of the Wind
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2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
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2017
Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street
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2017
Arthur Miller: Writer
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2017
Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies
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2017
Five Came Back
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2017
Five Came Back
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2014
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
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2012
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
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2011
Marilyn at the Movies
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2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
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2010
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
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2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
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2004
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
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2004
Pelé Forever
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2003
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
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2002
Making 'The Misfits'
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2001
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
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2000
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
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1998
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
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1997
Bogart: The Untold Story
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1997
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
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1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
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1990
Welles' Language
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1988
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
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1988
Mr. North
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1987
Mister Corbett's Ghost
Movie Soul Collector
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1987
The Dead
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1986
Momo
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1986
Directed by William Wyler
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1985
The Black Cauldron
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