The work of this master Iranian filmmaker and photographer has "a sense of open air, of human activity, of the world as an infinite series of pictures to be discovered," says A. O. Scott.

While long considered a master filmmaker in his native Japan, interest in Yamanaka's work redeveloped after the restoration and Japanese DVD release of the three surviving films.

Ingmar Bergman, 89, master filmmaker.

Variety has deemed him "a master filmmaker."

He uses cinematic techniques of master filmmakers in his fiction.

Rather, it is an example of a master filmmaker using a blatant, bravely drawn alter-ego to look back unblinkingly and try to bring the various provinces of his own career into closer alignment.

However, as a child, he came in close contact with Satyajit Ray, the master Indian filmmaker, while writing for Sandesh, a children's magazine which the maestro edited.

A fine directorial effort by spaghetti western master filmmaker Sergio Corbucci.

With this first SM film, Ohara had already revealed himself to be a master filmmaker as well as a master pervert.

During the 1950s, Hayasaka also created the scores for some of the final works of another Japanese master filmmaker, Kenji Mizoguchi.