Returning: The Directors

Hollywood film buffs may want to check out The Directors on Foxtel Arts next month.

The 10 part series begins by profiling Alfred Hitchcock.

Episodes on Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang & Howard Hawks will follow in December.

This new series looks at the 20th century’s iconic film directors; the real innovators whose breakthrough direction made film into the movies. Their early lives, often escaping war or poverty found expression in theatre, then film, forming the fundamental art that is cinema. Each episode brought to life by Derek Malcolm, Neil Norman, Stephen Armstrong, Dr. Bonnie Greer OBE and Ian Nathan along with classic moments from each film career. The Directors include Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, William Wyler, Sam Peckinpah and many more.

Wednesday December 5 at 8pm:
Alfred Hitchcock- Who defined his own unique style of filmmaking from the early days of the 39 Steps and the Lodger to the Hollywood glamour of North by Northwest and Rear Window to the terrifying Psycho and the Birds