Hi,

Luis Bunuel

Jean-Luc Godard

Nicolas Roeg

Terry Gilliam

Zhang Yimou

Akira Kurosawa

Up until the last 10 years or so, I had stuck with directors. These days, with the Internet, the names are not even mentioned and many of them are invisible and even a new film (as in the case of the last) by Godard was ignored ... as are some of the films by Gilliam and Yimou ... because they don't sell and there is no distribution for them.

A horrible sad state for a "world economy" where Gop Tun can get distributed and seen all over and no one will ever give a damn about other films! So much for the power of a "religion", no?

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more:

Ken Russell (just about all of it including the BBC release of early stuff)

George Miller

The past few years is more about combing through the Amazon Prime to find a film or two worth watching, and half of them I don't even bother to write a review ... The series they had on Byron, got dumped, it seems, and they have not continued it, and I think they simplified the whole story too much to the point that Shelley dies before we even meet the women and the stories about the writing ... which has some of the characters in it, but not within a writing, role ... which tells you that it was not written by knowledgeable people, but by folks reading Cliff Notes for the Sophomorons.

but I miss some directors that were way too good ... and did some wonderful things. Akira Kurosawa is the best example of them all ... but I like Terry Gilliam whose sentiments are very close and similar to my own ... life is a vision, and then you turn left and you are in a desert! BOOM .... same as dreams and our minds! (Baron M film!)

Working on the old stuff right now

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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John Carpenter

Martin Scorsese

Ridley Scott

Don Siegel

Steven Spielberg

J. Lee Thompson

Michael Winner

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - April 24 2023 at 14:02

I've seen all of Kubrick's movies. But I think he only made 15. I think he'd be #6.

I've seen a few handfuls of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, who I think are the best living directors. Oh, and I saw (the other living director I like) all of Aki Kaurismaki's movies.

Edited by MortSahlFan - April 22 2023 at 17:07

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Vittorio De Sica
Luchino Visconti
John Cassavetes
Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Ollallà!

Viva Italian cinema!

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Where are the Dario Argento and John Carpenter fans!?

eBay

Dario Argento is awful, is horrible.... is he...horror? LOL

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jamesbaldwin wrote:

Dario Argento is awful, is horrible.... is he...horror? LOL

Really? He's got a few weak/bad movies, but overall I think he's really good. But i like giallo movies. I also like his collaboration with both Morricone and Goblin who made great soundtracks that are definitely relevant in the context of the movie (atmosphere that is) Smile

Edited by Cristi - April 23 2023 at 09:20

Argento made amazing Giallo in the 70s and 80s. He's got a wonderful camera eye. Argento's horror elevates beauty, stimulating the watcher's awareness. Profundo Rosso contains my favorite cinematic progressive rock moments. Argento's output since the 90s is flawed and sporadic. However, the thread topic is:

5 Directors You Have Seen The Most Films From

I would have named different directors than Carpenter and Argento....if the topic had been "Best Directors Ever". I've seen 17 Argento films, compared to only 15 Fellini films. Horror is my cinematic guilty pleasure. I've seen two dozen Terrance Fisher films. Fisher directed the majority of Hammer Cushing/Lee films. Is Fisher a better director Martin Scorsese? I don't think so. However, I've seen more Fisher than Scorsese.

Now that I think of it...I've seen a bunch of Clint Eastwood movies.

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I listed Kubrick, even though he made only thirteen films. However, I've watched all of Kubrick's films many times.

Edited by omphaloskepsis - April 23 2023 at 06:35

Among the directors whose movies I've been very fond of are Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Zhang Yimou, Woody Allen,

Mike Leigh, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Pedro Almodovar plus a bunch of Italian and French directors.

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

David_D wrote:

Among the directors whose movies I've been very fond of are Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Zhang Yimou, Woody Allen,

Mike Leigh, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Pedro Almodovar plus a bunch of Italian and French directors.

Please, go with the names of the Italian and French directors!

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