David FrankelFilmography

The Devil Wears Prada

Crew: Director

Actors: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Adrian Grenier

Synopsis: Lauren Weisberger's best-selling novel about a young woman who stumbles into the hectic worlds of high fashion and publishing comes to the big screen in this comedy. Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is a bright young woman from the Midwest who has just graduated from college and wants to work Read More

Chain

Crew: Editor

Actors: Miho Nikaido, Mira Billotte

Synopsis: The man-made landscape of the post-millennium world is seen through two very different sets of eyes in this experimental feature from filmmaker Jem Cohen. Tamiko (Miho Nikaido) is a woman in her early thirties who works for a Japanese steel-manufacturing firm. Tamiko is involved in a major Read More

Rome: Pharsalus

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Patrick, Eliza Darby, Michele Pettini, Vincenzo Nicoli

Synopsis: This episode of Rome examines the events surrounding the historic battle of Pharsalus. Things look grim for Caesar (Ciarán Hinds) by the time Mark Antony (James Purefoy) joins him in Greece, and to make matters worse, he's lost thousands of men at sea in the journey over. Pompey (Kenneth Cranham) Read More

Entourage: Entourage

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After the premiere of Vince's latest movie, Eric (Kevin Connolly) clashes with Ari (Jeremy Piven) over the worthiness of a new script; Turtle invests in a canine-security system for Vince's house. Executive producer Mark Wahlberg has a cameo. ~ Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide Read More

Entourage: The Scene

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Eric is unnerved by the iconoclastic director (Rhys Coiro) of Vince's new film; Ari tries to mix business with pleasure. ~ Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide Read More

Fidel

Crew: Editor, Executive Producer

Actors: Vlasta Vrana

Synopsis: Fidel Castro is one of the world's best known and most recognizable political leaders, but he is also among the most mysterious. While Castro became a household name after overthrowing the rule of Fulgenico Batista and became the head of Cuba's new socialist government, little is known of his Read More

The Pennsylvania Miners' Story

Crew: Director

Actors: J.D. Souther, Graham Beckel, William Mapother, Dylan Bruno, Robert Knepper

Synopsis: In July of 2002, nine men were trapped 240 feet below the ground in a Somerset, PA, coal mine. For the next 77 hours, the attention of a war-beleaguered and economically strapped America was focused upon the rescue efforts, despairing along with the miners' families when the shaft began to fill up Read More

Widespread Panic: Live at Oak Mountain

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: The stage at Oak Mountain provides the setting for this live performance by the popular band Widespread Panic. The group establishes a groove with selections from their album {^Don't Tell the Band}. The program captures the magic of the group's interaction with its enthusiastic fans, joined in an Read More

Band of Brothers: The Breaking Point

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The seventh installment of HBO's fact-based WWII miniseries Band of Brothers depicts Easy Company pushing back the Germans after General Patton opened up Bastogne. The company suffers heavy casualties in their efforts to take the German-occupied town of Foy, Belgium. This episode, the most Read More

Band of Brothers: Why We Fight

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The men of Easy Company come face to face with the horrors of the Holocaust in "Why We Fight," the ninth installment of the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. The episode opens with the company in Germany, where they find no enemy resistance. In fact, they find warm beds and hot meals in the houses Read More

Down to You

Crew: Associate Editor

Actors: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Joanna Adler, Jennifer Albano, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair, Caroline Ambrose, Shawn Hatosy, Zak Orth, Jason Bailey

Synopsis: This Big Apple-based romantic comedy charts the tumultuous relationship between liberal arts student and budding chef Al (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and his first girlfriend, Imogen (Julia Stiles), a self-possessed freshman who wants to become an artist. After meeting in a bar, the pair jump into a Read More

Grapevine [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kristy Swanson, George Eads, Steven Eckholdt

Synopsis: After a brief stint in 1992, this series returns to CBS oozing with 21st century irony and youthful neuroses. The series focuses on busybody Susan (Kristy Swanson), who frets that she doesn't have a boyfriend and obsesses over her friends. She also regularly turns to the camera when asking for Read More

The Pornographer (a love story)

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: The border between professional and personal relationships comes under fire in this independent drama. Michael (Martin Donovan) is a filmmaker whose last project featured a beautiful actress named Anna (Irène Jacob). While Michael is trying to work on his next screenplay, he can't get Anna out of Read More

Instrument: Ten Years with the Band Fugazi

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Fugazi was arguably the most important and influential underground rock band of the 1990s. While their fierce indie punk ideals dictated that they deliberately stay under the mass media radar (the group declined to do interviews with the mainstream press and requested that critics buy their albums Read More

Souvenir

Crew: Editor

Actors: Stanton D. Miranda, Manon Blanc, Kristin Scott Thomas, Melvil Poupaud, Hugues Quester

Synopsis: Music video director Michael Shamberg debuts with this experimental drama about a woman who comes to terms with painful childhood memories. Orlando (Stanton D. Miranda) is an expatriate American sports journalist living in Paris. She is also slowly recovering from childhood sexual abuse from her Read More

From the Earth to the Moon, Part 4: 1968

Crew: Director

Synopsis: President John F. Kennedy issued the challenge to America in a speech to Congress in 1961: Land a man on the moon within the decade. This HBO mini-series, produced by Tom Hanks, chronicles the story of NASA's efforts to carry out the vision. Episode four looks at the space program in 1968. Robert Read More

From the Earth to the Moon, Part 8: We Interrupt This Program

Crew: Director

Synopsis: President John F. Kennedy issued the challenge to America in a speech to Congress in 1961: Land a man on the moon within the decade. This HBO mini-series, produced by Tom Hanks, chronicles the story of NASA's efforts to carry out the vision. Episode eight examines the short-lived trip of Apollo Read More

From the Earth to the Moon, Part 2: Apollo 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: President John F. Kennedy issued the challenge to America in a speech to Congress in 1961: Land a man on the moon within the decade. This HBO mini-series, produced by Tom Hanks, chronicles the story of NASA's efforts to carry out the vision. Episode two investigates the tragedy that occurred on Read More

Love God

Crew: Editor

Actors: Shannon Burkett, Kymberli Ghee, Will Keenan

Synopsis: In this inarguably bizarre comedy, Larue Maxwell (Will Keenan) is an unfortunate young man suffering from "compulsive reading syndrome," a neurochemical malady that causes him to furiously read as many books as he can, and then destroy them. Larue is released from the mental institution he's Read More

Dear Diary

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Miami Rhapsody

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Gil Bellows, Antonio Banderas, Mia Farrow, Paul Mazursky

Synopsis: The discovery of marital troubles in her family causes a young woman to question her own upcoming nuptials in this clever romantic comedy. Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Gwyn, a bright, slightly neurotic advertising copywriter who is initially thrilled when her boyfriend Matt (Gil Bellows) finally Read More

Nervous Ticks

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bill Pullman, Julie Brown, Peter Boyle, Brent Jennings, James LeGros

Synopsis: After his work day ends, airline luggage-handler York Daley (Bill Pullman) has 90 minutes to run home, pick up his lover Nancy (Julie Brown), and return to the airport to catch an eight o' clock flight to Rio de Janeiro. A collection of colorful characters and bizarre mishaps guarantee that York's Read More

Funny About Love

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gene Wilder, Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Prosky, Stephen Tobolowsky, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: The once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between star Gene Wilder and director Leonard Nimoy resulted in the charmingly haphazard and anachronistic Funny About Love. Wilder plays political cartoonist Duffy Bergman, who falls in love with much-younger Meg (Christine Lahti) during a book-signing Read More