FilmDirectorsSite.com Launches Celebratory Site Honoring the Most Significant Film Directors of all Time

Visible Ink Press, the publisher dedicated to popular culture, movies, television and more, announces the launch of www.filmdirectorssite.com a new website providing an insightful study of our greatest film directors. Selected from the worthiest careers from the motion picture industries of five continents, noted film historians, critics and scholars provide unique insights and offer a fresh perspective into the works of the greatest film directors ever.

Film buffs and aspiring auteurs will find in-depth and hard-to-find biographical information on leading directors from Burton to Bergman, Sayles to Spielberg, Tarantino to Truffaut. Along with the detailed director profiles, FilmDirectorsSite.com includes information on career highlights, awards, filmography, education, family, and more.

These are the best of times, technologically speaking, to catch up with old movie classics, and the site satisfies by revisiting and exploring the masters from Capra to Kurosawa to Wilder. The Film History Timeline captures the roots of all filmmaking and the influences on the creative minds behind the camera, documenting over a hundred years of film history.

Essays contributed to the site come from dozens of distinguished critics and film historians, including Roy Armes, Emeritus Professor of Film at Middlesex University; DeWitt Bodeen, screenwriter and film critic; R. Barton Palmer, Professor of English, Clemson University; Liam O'Leary, one of the founding members of the Irish Film Society...Read more here or see the site now

Presidential Video Biographies Lend Insight To 2008 Election at PBS American Experience Site

URL: http://www.pbs.org/presidents/2008
PBS’ American Experience has launched The Presidents Online at http://www.pbs.org/presidents/2008, as the online component of an unprecedented public television initiative that, for the first time, will make available more than 25 hours of presidential programming online, on TV, and on the go. The project comes at a critical moment in American politics: this year, American voters will take part in a landmark election, where for the first time in over a half-century, neither the sitting President nor vice president is a contender for the Oval Office. In the coming months, voters will wrestle with tough questions and campaign issues: Who should we trust? How do we end a war? Who is best suited to lead the nation in a volatile world? With The Presidents, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE provides an invaluable historical roadmap — helping viewers to understand where we have been, so that they may better decide where we are going. Visitors to the Campaign ’08 Web site will select provocative questions that connect today’s domestic and international issues and candidate platforms with yesterday’s leaders. For example, by selecting “How do you end a war?” users will be able to scan video segments about the resolutions of World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War. The site currently features five such questions, which will be updated to reflect hot button election issues leading up to November 2008. Seven films – more than twenty-five hours in all- will be streamed for online viewing, and available for download, beginning with FDR, Truman, and Reagan in February. In the coming months, programs examining Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter will follow. Finally, after a premiere television broadcast on PBS, a new profile of the 41st President, George H.W. Bush, will launch on May 6...click to read more.

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