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5 Film Directors With Bipolar Disorder or Depression

3/10/2017

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#1 Paul Dalio

Director and screenwriter Paul Dalio struggled to understand what his bipolar diagnosis meant; he then channeled those emotions into his first feature film, Touched With Fire (2016), starring Katie Holmes and Luke Kirby. The film takes an honest look at love, mania, creativity and making peace with bipolar. Dalio has said he wanted the movie to be a conversation-starter “something that will get the average moviegoer to rethink stereotypes—to see beauty in bipolar.”

 

 

#2 Tim Burton

Tim Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer and animator. He is known for his dark, eccentric and quirky fantasy films such as Beetlejuice; Edward Scissorhands; the biographical film Ed Wood; the horror fantasy Sleepy Hollow; the superhero films Batman and Batman Returns; Planet of the Apes; and the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland. Burton is said to struggle with depression, and some have said bipolar disorder. “Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”

 

 

#3 Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for his award-winning and critically acclaimed movies: The Godfather film series; Apolcalypse Now; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In a biography of the director, Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola: it stated that in the fall of 1977, “Coppola was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as having manic-depressive tendencies, for which lithium was prescribed.”

 

 

#4 Woody Allen

Woody Allen is a filmmaker, actor, comedian, playwright, author and musician whose career spans more than six decades. His multi-faceted skills were demonstrated in the 1970s when he wrote, directed and starred in numerous films. His more celebrated films include: Bananas; Love and Death; Annie Hall; Hannah and Her Sisters; and Match Point. Talking at a press launch at Cannes, Allen said: “I make films because if I don’t make them then I don’t have anything to distract me. My whole life I am constantly fighting all kinds of depression and terror and anxiety.”

 

 

#5 Lars Von Trier

Lars Von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He has a prolific and controversial movie career of almost forty years and is known for his “genre and technical innovation, confrontational examination of existential, social, and political issues, and treatment of subjects like mercy, sacrifice and mental health.” His more notable films: The Element of Crime; Breaking the Waves; Dogville; Dancer in the Dark; Melancholia and Nymphomaniac. He is a noted “phobic” with a long list of fears and, in 2007, Trier announced that he would “not direct further films due to intensifying depression.”

 

 

#6 Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog is a German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director and is considered one of the greatest figures of the “New German Cinema” and was named one of the 100 most influential people on the planet by Time magazine in 2009. Herzog’s films often feature heroes with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.

 

 

 



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