Like other East European emigres, Agnieszka Holland lives in Paris, but with the success of “Secret Garden,” her first American movie, I have no doubt she will be back in Hollywood very soon.

August 1997–It's most fitting that Neil Jordan, the distinguished Irish filmmaker, should receive a career tribute this year at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival. The Butcher Boy, his tenth feature, is without a doubt his most startlingly original and accomplished film to date.

Robert Rodriguez is the writer-director-producer-cinematographer-editor of the film “Planet Terror” in GRINDHOUSE, the double-feature that he and Tarantino made as a tribute to 1970s exploitation movies.

Paul Verhoeven has directed over 20 films throughout his career. After finishing The Fourth Man (1983), the acclaimed and controversial director made his way to Hollywood where he found success with films like RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990), Basic Instinct (1992) and Starship Troopers (1997). Twenty years after leaving for the U.S., he returned to the Netherlands to film Black Book.