Search found 1 match: Martin Brest

I've got a bunch of them. I've left a few off because (like PeaceAnarchy) I feel I owe the Tier 1 films a fresh viewing. I will say that most of these tend to be on the "high end" of my tier 1. At the very bottom, I didn't see anything by directors I like.

Carl Thedor Dreyer (T10: Vampyr; T1: Gertrud)

Steven Spielberg (T10: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; T1: The Terminal, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jurassic Park)

Jean-Luc Godard (T10: Band of Outsiders; T1: Hail Mary, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her)

John Ford (T10: My Darling Clementine; T1: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, The Quiet Man)

Stan Brakhage (T10: too many to list; T1: too many to list)

Vittorio de Sica (T10: The Bicycle Thief; T1: Terminal Station, The Children Are Watching Us)

Ernst Lubitsch (T10: One Hour With You; T1: Ninotchka)

Victor Fleming (T10: The Wizard of Oz; T1: Gone With the Wind)

Charlie Chaplin (T10: The Circus; T1: Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight)

Sidney Lumet (T10: Network; T1: Find Me Guilty)

John Huston (T10: The Dead; T1: Victory)

Martin Brest (T10: Midnight Run; T1: Scent of a Woman)

Howard Hawks (T10: Rio Bravo; T1: The Thing from Another World)

Federico Fellini (T10: Nights of Cabiria, 8 1/2; T1: Amarcord)


Even some of my favorite directors:

Alfred Hitchcock (T10: too many to list; T1: Marnie, Topaz)

Akira Kurosawa (T10: too many to list; T1: Rhapsody in August)

Woody Allen (T10: too many to list; T1: September, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)

Luis Bunuel (T10: too many to list; T1: The Milky Way)

Ingmar Bergman (T10: way too many to list; T1: All These Women, High Tension)

Robert Bresson (T10: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket; T1: Lancelot du Lac)


Brakhage is easily the most striking example for me. I love his later films, especially the hand-painted stuff. But with a few notable exceptions (Dog Star Man, Deus Ex, Window Water Baby Moving, The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes, Text of Light), his work up until the 80's leaves me cold. He has films in all 10 tiers for me.