World Cinema 101

When it comes to World Cinema, one thing that confuses us is how to pronounce directors’ names because of the complexity of certain languages. So, with the help of artificial intelligence, I had the names of my favorite directors pronounced. They may not be perfectly accurate, but they would certainly help people understand who you are referring to.

Tsai Ming-liang

Abbas Kiarostami

Roy Andersson

John Cassavetes

Robert Bresson

James Benning

Eric Rohmer

Yasujiro Ozu

Cristi Puiu

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Teodoros Angelopoulos

Robert Altman

Bela Tarr

Woody Allen

Terrence Malick

Ingmar Bergman

Jean-Luc Godard

Quentin Tarantino

Federico Fellini

Michelangelo Antonioni

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Luis Bunuel

Kelly Reichardt

Francois Truffaut

Michael Haneke

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Luchino Visconti

Andrei Tarkovsky

Krzysztof Kieslowski

And, here is a bonus for you (who knows, perhaps it might come up in a conversation).