Directors Who Were Not Popular In Their Country?

I use "Were" specifically because things can change for a living director. Maybe they make one great movie and their country loves them forever. Name a dead director who IS popular in other countries, but not their own. Specify all you can.. The country/countries a particular director IS popular, maybe reasons why you think (or know) this?

I've heard Kurosawa say he was disliked in Japan. One reason I read was that he drew from Western influences (Shakespeare, for example) and wasn't Japanese "enough". I've heard the same being said about Bergman as well. My guess is that his movies might paint a dark picture of Sweden. I heard a director in this Bergman documentary say that Fellini wasn't liked in Italy, but I find it hard to believe. He mentioned that his last few movies didn't make any money as a possible reason, but that's usually standard anywhere.

Out of curiosity, since I learnt from your last topic that you post these across multiple forums (reddit, Steve Hoffman...), in which forum do you tend to get the best discussions out of these sorts of topics?

It might be useful for us to read the other forumites responses so we don't just end up repeating what they said when answering your query.

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/directors-who-were-not-popular-in-their-country.977788/

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/hsze9f/directors_who_were_not_popular_in_their_country/

Edited by Logan - July 17 2020 at 14:23

I'm a one forum at a time kind of guy, and I wouldn't want to stretch myself thin by trying to have discussions across various boards (let alone doing the same topics/ posting the same things in several places), but Reddit is awesome for the breadth of topics and knowledge and analysis. I don't post there, but I do read there for research-purposes. I prefer communicating here because I enjoy various members of the community (including you, of course).

Edited by Logan - July 17 2020 at 14:56

I'm not going to talk about other sites on here, nor would I mention someone else' activities on other sites.

oh have no doubt...they talk about us.. oh yes they do...  

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