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Phil 
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 Posted: July 27 2006 at 09:57 |
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I voted Hitch, because he consistently made great films. Orson Welles also right up there for me.
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Open-Mind
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 06:50 |
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Felini
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"I'm on a roll, I'm on a roll this time, I feel my luck could change.. "
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Rocktopus
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 06:46 |
 Fassbinder wrote:
Nice to see people from the non-Russian speaking auditory who like Tarkovsky!
Actually, I think that the Soviet cinema suffers from a weak
exposure out of the USSR (well, like other national cinemas).
Nevertheless it has a unique cinematographic tradition with incredibly
high level of both actors play and directors work.
But I think few are known outside, Tarkovsky is one of them. There
are also two brothers: Andrey (Andron) Konchalovsky and Nikita
Mikhalkov, both are known in the world. For me, Mikhalkov was great
director of great films until he's made "Tired (wearied?) by the Sun".
After that he's gone even worse with "Siberian Barber". Ironically, I
think that only two aforementioned works are known worldwide. |
The debut film from '03 "The Return" from the russian director Andrey
Zvyagintzev, is one of the best films I've seen from the last couple of
years.
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Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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MustShaveBeard
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Posted: July 26 2006 at 16:07 |
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Right now it's Tim Burton (I just love Halloweeny visuals), but I've recently become an "Eraserhead" fan and it could become David Lynch. Gilliam and Kubrick are awesome as well, and I love "Dead Man" by Jarmusch.
Edited by MustShaveBeard - July 26 2006 at 16:08
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Your life or your lupins!!!
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Drew
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Posted: July 26 2006 at 10:55 |
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Steven Spielberg
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Fassbinder
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Posted: July 26 2006 at 10:54 |
Nice to see people from the non-Russian speaking auditory who like Tarkovsky!
Actually, I think that the Soviet cinema suffers from a weak exposure out of the USSR (well, like other national cinemas). Nevertheless it has a unique cinematographic tradition with incredibly high level of both actors play and directors work.
But I think few are known outside, Tarkovsky is one of them. There are also two brothers: Andrey (Andron) Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov, both are known in the world. For me, Mikhalkov was great director of great films until he's made "Tired (wearied?) by the Sun". After that he's gone even worse with "Siberian Barber". Ironically, I think that only two aforementioned works are known worldwide.
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cuncuna
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Posted: July 25 2006 at 11:17 |
Eetu Pellonpää wrote:
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That one too... I can't stop watching "Stalker"...
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¡Beware of the Bee!
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AtLossForWords
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Posted: July 24 2006 at 14:17 |
Rust wrote:
Stan's the man. 
Bible of an athiest. 
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I don't think it was really the directing that made that film good. The story is obviously the best seller. What was caught on the film, the rape scene for instance, is just ground-breaking, so credit must be given to Kubrick. He put on film what few would.
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"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls."
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cuncuna
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Posted: July 24 2006 at 14:06 |
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Prolific as nobody else, he even invented a genre, and produced a movie with no protagonist; my vote is for mr. Fellini. He is a tender, imaginative and fierce director, with a great sense of composition, a level of writing that can be compared to nobel prize witters; his 8 1/2 is a killer movie, with the greates end I've ever witnessed (I can't help it, I always cry when I see the end of that movie, same with "I la nave va". He is a crazy genius and I simply worship him. Take off Spielberg from the list, he's mearly average if compared with the great art shown by other like Kurosawa, another favourite. And Mr. Greenaway should be in that list too; he's admirable.
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¡Beware of the Bee!
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Rust
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Posted: July 19 2006 at 04:22 |
Stan's the man.
Bible of an athiest.
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We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
from the heart
Its astart
What we need is awareness we cant get careless
Mental self defensive fitness
Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be
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Rocktopus
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Posted: July 18 2006 at 09:46 |
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Well Paul K. That might have worked on the moviearchives. To spark an
interest for a poll like this on a progarchive, I had to make a broad
selection. No matter how you think of my poll, I included 24 of the
greatest names from 20th. century filmhistory. Highbrow or lowbrow, art
and entertaiment.
So far its been a discussion on who should/could/shouldn't be included, what are peoples favorites and a lot of reccomendations.
The list of peoples favorites (in the poll) is pretty interesting and varied too:
1. Kubrick
2. Tarkovsky
3. Polanski and Spielberg.
Not that it means all that much.
I'm pleased. If I only had selected. The Eisensteins, Pasolinis or
Bergmans we would either still be at page one, or 2/3s of the posts
would be people complaining about the snobby selection, and shouting
where's Lucas, or where's Jackson.
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Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Paul K.
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Posted: July 18 2006 at 09:21 |
Rocktopus wrote:
Paul K. wrote:
Strange list indeed, Lucas next to Fellini...
My favourite directors are
Stanley Kubrick
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Quentin Tarantino
Martin Scorsese
Federico Fellini
Francis Ford Coppola
Peter Jackson |
Indeed? Six of your nine favorites are in it.
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Indeed, they are in poll, but this is my preferences.
I just think that it's wrong to make poll and compose it with a list of such absolutely different directors.
As I've mentioned, Fellini next to Lucas is weird. Poll is very incoherent.
To get more or less adequate results they all must be in the same leauge. For example
Pasolini, Fellini, Visconti, etc...
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Weasels ripped my flesh
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: July 18 2006 at 01:59 |
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: July 18 2006 at 01:56 |
Sean Trane wrote:
Kubrick from your list
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Kubrick from any list.
Haven't seen Riddley Scott or am I wrong?
Iván
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: July 17 2006 at 21:48 |
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I would really love to vote Fellini because I feel he's forgotten among the greats but I have to go with Kubrick. The man is a legend, 2001: A Space Odyssey showed me that directing is more than just pointing a camera.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Rocktopus
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Posted: July 17 2006 at 16:14 |
Paul K. wrote:
Strange list indeed, Lucas next to Fellini...
My favourite directors are
Stanley Kubrick
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Quentin Tarantino
Martin Scorsese
Federico Fellini
Francis Ford Coppola
Peter Jackson |
Indeed? Six of your nine favorites are in it.
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Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Logos
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Posted: July 17 2006 at 11:45 |
Logan wrote:
I liked Jarmusch's Mystery Train, Night on Earth, and Down by Law very
much. |
Coffee and Cigarettes
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Paul K.
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Posted: July 17 2006 at 10:38 |
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Strange list indeed, Lucas next to Fellini...
My favourite directors are
Stanley Kubrick
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Quentin Tarantino
Martin Scorsese
Federico Fellini
Francis Ford Coppola
Peter Jackson
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Weasels ripped my flesh
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cowbell1
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Posted: July 17 2006 at 09:20 |
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Quentin Tarantino anyone? What about Martin Scorsese.
Edited by cowbell1 - July 17 2006 at 09:22
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Rocktopus
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Posted: July 17 2006 at 04:26 |
maani wrote:
It may be that even Scott's and Weir's greatest films (to my mind,
Blade Runner, Alien, Black Rain and Gladiator, and Picnic at
Hanging Rock, The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness and The Truman
Show) do not "measure up" to The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Dr.
Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey et al. However, to dismiss
Scott and Weir as you do is short-sighted.
Ultimately, however, the problem remains the subjectivity of the
topic: one man's meat is another man's poison, and one man's "good" is
another man's "masterpiece."
Peace. |
Well Maani. I've rarely seen a reviewer or heard anyone calling any of
the films I listed, a masterpiece. I don't believe everything is all
subective. On the other hand I've seen and heard many times Blade
Runner, Alien, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Truman Show being
(rightfully) praised as such. I have seen the tree (solid) films I
listed separatly being called masterpieces when they were new, by
shortsited rewievers.
I'm not at all dismissing them as directors, why do you say that? I
listed the films I've seen they have I rate from just good
(Fearless...) or bad (Hannibal...). Among them only two titles by Peter Weir. And if Hannibal and 1492 aren't also questionable films, I don't know what is.
I rate them more or less as equals to the ones you mentioned (except
Terry Gilliam whom I rate higher). Fritz Lang, Charlie Chaplin, Jean
Cocteau etc.. maybe leaving them out they is inexcusable. A list of 24
top names is not much, I don't think many people who has seen many
films from directors of all nationalities would rate Weir or Scott
among them. I'm not saying I haven't put any questionable names in the
poll myself.
BTW: I think The Shining is Kubricks best, and one of the best horror
movies made. The solid Spartacus and Paths of Gory are both from before
he started making his string of classics that also includes Barry
Lyndon imo. Full Metal Jacket is not among them, but also good and
surely better than say Matchstick Men?
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Find a fly and eat his eye
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