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Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007)
Celebrated Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni died at age 94 on July 30, 2007, in Rome. He directed about 33 movies, one of which, L’avventura (1960), often appears on lists of the greatest films of all time.

Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
Famed Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman died on July 30, 2007. His greatest movies include The Seventh Seal (1956), Wild Strawberries (1957) and Fanny & Alexander. He directed over 50 movies, many of which explored man's search for meaning in life, given the inevitability of death. During the last four decades of his life, he lived much of the time on the small Baltic island of Faro, where he shot Persona (1966). He was at his home on the island when he passed away at the age of 89.

Director Robert Altman Dead at 81
Prolific, eclectic, maverick film director Robert Altman died on November 20, 2006, at age 81. He was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Director, and his best-known movies include M*A*S*H (1970), Nashville (1975) and The Player (1992). More recently, he directed Gosford Park (2001) and The Prairie Home Companion (2006). Other memorable Altman films include Short Cuts (1993), The Long Goodbye (1973) and McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971). All movies mentioned here are available on DVD.

Alex Gibney Interview
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking documentaries I've ever seen.I spoke with the filmmaker who made this fascinating movie.

Judd Apatow Interview
The hit comedy "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," which stars Steve Carell, is being released on DVD on December 13, 2005, and I spoke with director Judd Apatow about the movie. Apatow has probably been best known in the past as a writer and director on TV series, notably "The Larry Sanders Show" and "Freaks and Geeks." "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" marks Apatow's feature directorial debut, and it's been an extraordinarily successful one, both at the box office and with the critics.

Hitchcock's Feature-Length Films From 1934 (37 Movies)
This is a list of Hitchcock's feature-length films from 1934. The 14 films in Masterpiece Collection Box Set are in listed in boldface.

Louis Leterrier Q&A
Louis Leterrier is a young Paris-born director who is best known for The Transporter and Unleashed. In anticipation of the release of Unleashed on DVD, I asked Leterrier some questions about that movie, along with some related topics, such as DVD as a medium, and his favorite filmmakers.