Lots of replies on this, so won't bore with lists, but will say that
most directors start in TV before moving to cinema (if they get to the
cinema at all). So you're really talking about practically every
filmmaker... Would it be fair to say it's perceived as a sort of
training ground - Spielberg taking Columbo job, etc...?
Few, though, 'author' specific TV projects having established
themselves in cinema. Von Trier's Kingdom is an exception, as was the
dogme New Year project for the Millennium, D-Dag. Lynch's Twin Peaks.
Haneke's TV work is considered noteworthy, apparently. Fanny and
Alexander was originally a TV series, no? And Das Boot?
Transition to film is perhaps achieved more successfully in the sense
of 'authorship' by writers and producers. Whedon has already been
mentioned. JJ Abrams also comes to mind.
Some films get transition from TV to cinema - Stephen Frears' Queen
and My Beautiful Laundrette were both intended as TV films. The
various Heimat series. Planet Earth. (The generally very high
standard of documentaries on British television; for example, there
were calls to put Adam Curtis' The Trap in for competition at Cannes.)
That cinema films can be commissioned by TV companies makes for an odd
marriage of the two (BBC Films, Channel 4, Canal +, Rai Uno, etc).
That home viewing is now the main venue for exhibition (DVD and TV,
cable, etc) has, in the eyes of some, meant that film has a more 'TV'
aesthetic across the board...
Graham Roberts and Dorota Ostrowska's European Cinemas in the
Television Age might be worth checking out for some pointers on this
score.
w
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