In this documentary, which really should be called Great Directors a Certain Curvaceous Attractive Blond Woman with a Mysterious Accent Loves, these famous American and European moviemakers speak about their art: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Todd Haynes, Angela Ismailos, Richard Linklater, Ken Loach, David Lynch, John Sayles, Agnès Varda. Surprisingly, the movie is not a heap of garbage. Several of the interviews actually yield interesting information and ideas about the directors. The best interviews are with Bertolucci (a lovable, huggable commie), Breillat (a real spider-woman), Frears (“We all became small businessmen, which is exactly what [Margaret Thatcher] wanted”), Haynes (a truly great thinker of cinema and his heroes), Lynch (an inexhaustibly weird human being), and Sayles (I had no idea the old and crusty lefty helped write The Patriot and Shark Tale). The worst interviews are with Linklater (dull) and Varda (even more dull). The other directors are neither here nor there, and Ismailos, the doc’s director and interviewer, is also neither here nor there, but always seen wearing something sexy and supportive of her curves. 
Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory... More by Charles Mudede