Cookie's Fortune
Cookie's Fortune is a 1999 crime film/ comedy directed by Robert Altman and starring an ensemble cast, including Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Patricia Neal, Charles S. Dutton and Chris O'Donnell.
It portrays small- town Southern life in Holly Springs, Mississippi, where the film was mostly shot.
It was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival, held in February 1999.
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein( tr.; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.
He is noted in particular for his silent films" Strike"( 1925)," Battleship Potemkin"( 1925) and( 1928), as well as the historical epics" Alexander Nevsky"( 1938) and" Ivan the Terrible"( 1944, 1958).
In its 2019 decennial poll, the magazine" Sight& Sound" named his" Battleship Potemkin" the 11th greatest movie of all time.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
A five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a highly naturalistic but stylized and satirical aesthetic, unlike most Hollywood films.
He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in American cinema.
His style of filmmaking covered many genres, but usually with a "subversive" twist which typically relied on satire and humor to express his personal views.
Altman developed a reputation for being "anti-Hollywood" and non-conformist in both his themes and directing style.
However, actors especially enjoyed working under his direction because he encouraged them to improvise, thereby inspiring their own creativity.
He preferred large ensemble casts for his films, and developed a multitrack recording technique which produced overlapping dialogue from multiple actors.
This produced a more natural, more dynamic, and more complex experience for the viewer.
He also used highly mobile camera work and zoom lenses to enhance the activity taking place on the screen.
Critic Pauline Kael, writing about his directing style, said that Altman could "make film fireworks out of next to nothing."
In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Altman's body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.
He never won a competitive Oscar despite seven nominations.
His films "MASH" (1970), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971), and "Nashville" (1975) have been selected for the United States National Film Registry.
Altman is one of the few filmmakers whose films have won the Golden Bear at Berlin, the Golden Lion at Venice, and the Golden Palm at Cannes.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
The General Line
The General Line, also known as Old and New, is a 1929 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov.
" The General Line" was begun in 1927 as a celebration of the collectivization of agriculture, as championed by old- line Bolshevik Leon Trotsky.
Hoping to reach a wide audience, the director forsook his usual practice of emphasizing groups by concentrating on a single rural heroine.
Eisenstein briefly abandoned this project to film, in honour of the 10th anniversary of the Revolution.
By the time he was able to return to this film, the Party's attitudes had changed and Trotsky had fallen from grace.
As a result, the film was hastily re-edited and sent out in 1929 under a new title," The Old and the New".
In later years, archivists restored" The General Line" to an approximation of Eisenstein's original concept.
Much of the director's montage- like imagery —such as using simple props to trace the progress from the agrarian customs of the 19th- century to the more mechanized procedures of the 20th—was common to both versions of the film.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
Anne Rapp
Anne Rapp is a script supervisor and screenwriter in the American film industry.
She has worked on more than 50 feature films since 1981.
Her work with Robert Altman in 1999 on the film" Cookie's Fortune" led to her nomination for an Independent Spirit Award and an Edgar Allan Poe Award.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.

Question: Do director of film The General Line and director of film Cookie'S Fortune have the same nationality?
Answer: no