This revised and updated edition of the Wallflower Critical Guide encompasses the careers of up to 600 directors that have worked within the North American film industry, including Canada, since the early 1990s. This edition features new or revised material on 150 directors, and includes coverage of mainstream luminaries such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Robert Altman, independent mavericks like Hal Hartley and Jim Jarmusch, and innovative emerging talents including Todd Field (In the Bedroom), David Gordon Green (George Washington) and Marc Forster (Monster's Ball). This volume thus continues to be a unique reference to the changing dynamics of the world's most consumed cinema.