Film Archive: D

Hayder Mousa Daffar

• The Dreams of Sparrows

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Director Hayder Mousa Daffar had a dream, to make a documentary about his Iraq. Not, he says, the Iraq that he sees 'on the internet, on the news... bombs and explosions', but a country where people lived, and survived, and aspired for more.

   

Olivier Dahan

• La Vie Promise
• La Vie En Rose (La Môme)
• News: Director drawn to French singer's story
• News: Marion Cotillard talks about becoming Edith Piaf
• La Vie En Rose (La Môme)

John Dahl

• The Great Raid: the Director's Cut
• The Great Raid
• You Kill Me
• You Kill Me

Sijie Dai

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Stephen Daldry

• Billy Elliot
• The Hours
• The Hours

Lutz Dammbeck

• The Net

Matt Damon [The Bourne Ultimatum]

• News: Lights, camera, ACTION: Matt Damon's back as Bourne

Claire Danes

• News: Claire Danes didn't miss her chance to meet Redgrave

Jeff Daniels

• News: Actor's witty, honest songs broaden his patchwork-quilt life

Lee Daniels

• Shadowboxer

Brian Dannelly

• Saved!
• Saved!

Joe Dante

• Looney Tunes: Back in Action
• Runaway Daughters

Frank Darabont

• The Green Mile
• The Green Mile
• The Majestic
• Stephen King's The Mist

Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne

• L'enfant

Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

• The Son

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

• The Son (Le fils)

Jules Dassin

• The Naked City

  PopMatters Pick

  

  This film's repetitive structures, meticulous legwork, and melting pot locations would become a staple of television crime-solvers.

   
• Brute Force

Delmer Daves

• 3:10 to Yuma (1957)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  What's right, what's wrong, and what's reasonable when good men are faced with bad men doing bad things?

   

• Feature: Film: Days 1 and 2

Terence Davies

• The House of Mirth

Andrew Davis

• The Guardian
• Collateral Damage

John A. Davis

• Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

Julie Davis

• All Over the Guy

Michael Davis

• Feature: Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007
• News: Q&A with 'Shoot 'Em Up' co-star Paul Giamatti
• Shoot 'Em Up

Tamra Davis

• Crossroads

Bennett Davlin

• Memory

Daniel Day-Lewis

• News: Pop culture Q&A: Day-Lewis returns to the big screen
• News: Daniel Day-Lewis blazes another trail in 'There Will Be Blood'
• News: To his latest director, Daniel Day-Lewis is 'the man'

Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris

• Little Miss Sunshine
• Feature: The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006
• Little Miss Sunshine

Kirk De Micco

• Feature: The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

Robert De Niro

• The Good Shepherd

Brian De Palma

• The Black Dahlia
• Murder à la Mod / The Moving Finger
• News: Brian De Palma sets his sights on Iraq with 'Redacted'
• Feature: Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007
• Redacted

Cecil B. DeMille

• The Greatest Show on Earth
• The Ten Commandments (50th Anniversary Edition)

Danny DeVito

• Death to Smoochy
• Duplex

Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats

• Winged Migration

Lieven Debrauwer

• Pauline and Paulette

Ed Dector

• The New Guy

Ellen Degeneres

• News: Oscars host Ellen Degeneres will 'do what I think is funny'

Paul Verhoeven, Irvin Kershner, Fred Dekker

• Robocop Trilogy

Roy Del Ruth

• Lost and Found: The Harry Langdon Collection

Benicio Del Toro

• News: A few words with 'Things We Lost in the Fire' star Benicio Del Toro

Guillermo Del Toro

• News: Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro 'Pan's' Hollywood system

Youssef Delara

• E.S.L - English As A Second Language

Miguel M. Delgado

• Fusion

Gaby Della

• On a Clear Day

Jasmine Dellal

• Column: Journeymen

Julie Delpy

• News: The making of actress-writer-director-producer Julie Delpy
• 2 Days in Paris
• Feature: All Around the World: The Best International/Indie Films of 2007
• 2 Days in Paris

Stig Bergqvist, Paul Demeyer

• Rugrats in Paris: the Movie

Jonathan Demme

• The Agronomist
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Manchurian Candidate
• Neil Young: Heart of Gold
• Something Wild
• The Truth About Charlie
• Jimmy Carter Man from Plains

  PopMatters Pick

  

  He's not like Bill Clinton, he's not a rock star. He is instead a politician and a diplomat, facing rejection and resentment as well as respect, absorbing all responses as part of an ongoing, crucial "conversation".

   
• Jimmy Carter Man from Plains

Richard LaGravenese and Ted Demme

• A Decade Under the Influence

Ted Demme

• Blow
• Blow

  PopMatters Pick

  

  'Blow' is all about how reality and money get mixed up.

   

Claire Denis

• Trouble Every Day

Jean-Pierre Denis

• Murderous Maids

Jacques Deray, Julien Duvivier, Pierre Granier-Deferre, José Giovanni, Bertrand Blier

• Alain Delon: Five Film Collection: The Widow Couderc / Diabolically Yours / La Piscine / Le Gitan / Notre Histoire

Scott Derrickson

• The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Dominique Deruddere

• Everybody's Famous! (iedereen Beroemd!)

Howard Deutch

• Some Kind of Wonderful: Special Collector's Edition
• The Replacements
• The Replacements

Michel Deville

• Almost Peaceful

Paul Devlin

• Power Trip
• Power Trip

  PopMatters Pick

  

  The real villain, as Power Trip portrays it, is the corrupt Georgian government, led at the time by Eduard Shevardnadze.

   

Tom Dey

• Showtime
• Shanghai Noon

Leonardo DiCaprio

• News: For Leonard DiCaprio, Scorsese's 'The Departed' was one film to kill for

Tom DiCillo

• Living in Oblivion

Saul Dibb

• Bullet Boy

Ernest Dickerson

• Bones
• Never Die Alone

Ernest R. Dickerson

• Never Die Alone

Katherine Dieckmann

• Diggers

Carlos Diegues

• Bye Bye Brazil

William Dieterle

• The Devil and Daniel Webster

Matt Dillon

• City of Ghosts

Paul Dinello

• Strangers with Candy

Michael Dinner

• The Crew

Ivan Dixon

• The Spook Who Sat By the Door

Jasmin Dizdar

• Beautiful People

Djinn

• Perth
• Feature: From the Inside, Looking Out

Edward Dmytryk

• The Carpetbaggers
• The Devil Commands
• Walk on the Wild Side

David Dobkin

• Shanghai Knights
• Wedding Crashers
• Wedding Crashers
• News: For rapper/actor Ludacris, giving back is a major role
• Fred Claus

Martin Doblmeier

• Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Pacifist, Nazi Resister

Bob Dolman

• How to Eat Fried Worms
• The Banger Sisters

Heather Rose Dominic

• The Shield Around the K

Andrew Dominik

• Chopper
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  PopMatters Pick

  

  By turns brutal and lyrical, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford considers Wild Western mythology and masculinity, violence and madness.

   
• News: The up-and-coming Affleck: younger brother Casey, in 2 new films
• Feature: A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007

Roger Donaldson

• The Recruit
• Thirteen Days
• The Bank Job

Stanley Donen

• Funny Face: 50th Anniversary Edition

Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly

• Feature: Part 1: Pure Classicism

Arthur Dong

• The Arthur Dong Collection: Stories from the War on Homosexuality

Richard Donner

• 16 Blocks
• The Omen: 2 Disc Collector's Edition
• The Omen: 2 Disc Collector's Edition
• Timeline
• Timeline

Martin Donovan

• Apartment Zero

Andrew Douglas

• The Amityville Horror
• Amityville Horror
• Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus

Michael Douglas [King of California]

• News: Michael Douglas goes crazy again in 'King of California'

Robert Downey Jr.

• News: It's Super Year for once-troubled actor Robert Downey Jr., starting with 'Iron Man'

Julie Drazen

• Rise: the Story of Rave Outlaw Disco Donny

Carl Theodor Dreyer

• Feature: Part 1: Pure Classicism
• Feature: La Passion de Jeanne D’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc)

Michael Drumm

• Wanda Sykes - Sick and Tired

Frederik Du Chau

• Feature: Monkey Business (Part 4: August)
• Underdog (2007)

Sandi Simcha DuBowski

• Trembling Before G-d

David Duchovny

• House of D

Mark Duffield

• Ghost of Mae Nak

Dennis Dugan

• The Benchwarmers
• Feature: Monkey Business (Part 3: July)
• Feature: Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
• National Security
• National Security
• Saving Silverman
• Feature: The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008

Christian Duguay

• The Art of War
• Extreme Ops
• Extreme Ops

John Duigan

• Head in the Clouds

Patty Duke

• News: Patty Duke settles happily into her own skin

Laurence Dunmore

• The Libertine
• The Libertine

Cheryl Dunye

• My Baby's Daddy

François Dupeyron

• Monsieur Ibrahim Et Les Fleurs Du Coran
• Monsieur Ibrahim Et Les Fleurs Du Coran

Jay Duplass

• The Puffy Chair

  Featured Article

  

  The road trip then becomes an occasion for an extended game of relationship chicken: is Josh going to grow up and commit or is Emily going to accept him and stop criticizing?

   

• Featured Article

  

  The road trip then becomes an occasion for an extended game of relationship chicken: is Josh going to grow up and commit or is Emily going to accept him and stop criticizing?"

   

Fred Durst

• Feature: The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

Charles S. Dutton

• Against the Ropes
• Against the Ropes

Robert Duvall

• Assassination Tango

Julien Duvivier

• Pépé le Moko

Jesse Dylan

• American Wedding
• How High
• Kicking & Screaming

Fernando de Fuentes

• Feature: Children of the Revolution

Marco de Gastyne

• Feature: La Passion de Jeanne D’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc)

Rolf de Heer

• Ten Canoes

Guillermo del Toro

• Pan's Labyrinth

  Featured Article

  

  As harsh as it is human, filmmaking doesn’t get any more enlightened than this. Like the Brothers Grimm before him, this is a filmmaker who wants to give fairytales back their teeth.

   
• Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  As her belief in herself comes full circle, as she discovers her crucial mythological role as it exists alongside her role alongside her mother, Ofelia becomes more real than her gorgeous allegory can bear.

   
• Feature: The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

• How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman: Como Era Gostoso O Meu Francês

  Featured Article

  

  Among other things, this film recasts “discovery” as colonization and questions the very strategies with which history is written.