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Sidney LumetOctober 5, 2005
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Glenn CloseSeptember 22, 2005
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Francois OzonJune 5, 2005
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Brad BirdJanuary 9, 2005
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Mira NairAugust 29, 2004
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Melvin + Mario Van PeeblesMay 8, 2004
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Tim BurtonNovember 19, 2003
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Francis Ford CoppolaOctober 21, 2003
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Ang Lee + James SchamusJune 7, 2003
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Tim RobbinsMay 19, 2003
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Neil JordanMarch 7, 2003
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David CronenbergFebruary 10, 2003
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Thelma SchoonmakerNovember 24, 2002
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Martin ScorseseNovember 9, 2002
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Todd HaynesNovember 3, 2002
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Mike LeighSeptember 25, 2002
Ken Jacobs November 12, 1989
Ken Jacobs is a master of avant-garde cinema. For more than 50 years he has inventively probed the nature of the moving image. "Ghosts! Cine-recordings of the vivacious doings of persons long dead," he wrote, fascinated by the power of cinema to coax reality from the flatness of the screen. Finding new ways to delve into filmed images, Jacobs created the Nervous System, a live two-projector system with which he "plays" film, in the spirit of jazz improvisation. During a major month-long retrospective, Jacobs premiered the Nervous System piece Two Wrenching Departures, to mark the deaths of Jack Smith and Bob Fleischner.
