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Sam MendesJuly 8, 2002
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Kimberly PeirceJune 9, 2002
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Willem DafoeJanuary 6, 2001
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Terence DaviesDecember 15, 2000
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Budd BoetticherOctober 1, 2000
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George A. RomeroJanuary 11, 2000
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Patricia RozemaNovember 8, 1999
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Paul SchraderJanuary 10, 1999
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Todd HaynesNovember 15, 1998
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John WatersOctober 25, 1998
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Richard LinklaterMarch 15, 1998
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Jim JarmuschOctober 5, 1997
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David LynchFebruary 16, 1997
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James TobackJune 23, 1996
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Buck HenryJune 22, 1996
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Terry GilliamJanuary 6, 1996
Charles Burnett January 7, 1995
The pioneering African-American director Charles Burnett was a film student at UCLA when he made Killer of Sheep (1977), a powerful independent film that combines blues-inspired lyricism and neo-realism in its drama of an inner-city slaughterhouse worker and his family. Killer of Sheep, now regarded as a landmark in American independent cinema, was part of a small group of films that became known as "The L.A. Rebellion." During a retrospective of his films at the Museum of the Moving Image, he introduced a screening of Killer of Sheep and then participated in a wide-ranging discussion moderated by culture critic Greg Tate.