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by JooJoo
Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:46 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Director with the biggest score range?
Replies: 25
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Re: Director with the biggest score range?

Neat topic. I think it's fair to say that even with the greatest of greats, especially the prolific ones, it's basically inevitable that you fall flat on your face and create garbage. At least once. Whether by first-time fumbles, a mainstream studio job, possible senility in the declining years, or just that perfect storm of crap in every area that can unpredictably occur.

It's happened with..............

Tim Burton
tier 9 - Batman / Beetlejuice / Ed Wood / Vincent
tier 2 - Planet of the Apes

Charles Chaplin
tier 10 & 9 - City Lights / A Dog's Life / The Gold Rush / The Great Dictator / Sunnyside
tier 2 & 1 - Triple Trouble / A Night in the Show

Milos Foreman
tier 10 & 9 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Loves of a Blonde
tier 2 - Goya's Ghosts

Jean-Luc Godard
tier 9 - A Woman Is a Woman / Breathless / A Married Woman / Masculin, Feminin
tier 2 - 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

Howard Hawks
tier 10 & 9 - Only Angels Have Wings / The Big Sleep
tier 2 - Twentieth Century

Werner Herzog
tier 10 & 9 - Fitzcarraldo / The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser / Stroszek / Even Dwarfs Started Small / Land of Silence and Darkness / and lots more in tier 9.
tier 2 - My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Takeshi Kitano
tier 10 & 9 - Sonatine / Dolls / Violent Cop
tier 2 - Achilles and the Tortoise

Akira Kurosawa
tier 10 & 9 - Rashomon / Red Beard / Seven Samurai / Yojimbo / Ran / The Hidden Fortress / Throne of Blood / Sanjuro / High and Low / Ikuru / Dodes'ka-den
tier 2 - Sanshiro Sugata Part Two / The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

Takashi Miike
tier 9 - Gozu
tier 2 & 1 - Demon Pond / Yakuza: Like a Dragon / Full Metal Yakuza / Crows Zero

Trey Parker
tier 9 - South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
tier 2 - Orgazmo

Carol Reed
tier 10 & 9 - The Third Man / The Fallen Idol
tier 2 - Night Train to Munich

Alain Resnais
tier 10 & 9 - Last Year at Marienbad / Muriel / Hiroshima mon amour / Mon oncle d'Amérique / Night and Fog / Providence / Je t'aime, je t'aime
tier 1 - I Want to Go Home

Josef von Sternberg
tier 9 - Shanghai Express / The Scarlet Empress
tier 2 - Dishonored

Seijun Suzuki
tier 10 & 9 - Branded to Kill / Tokyo Drifter / Youth of the Beast / Story of a Prostitute / Gate of Flesh
tier 2 - Zigeunerweisen / Kageroza / A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

Isao Takahata
tier 10 & 9 - Only Yesterday / Grave of the Fireflies
tier 2 - My Neighbors the Yamadas

Peter Watkins
tier 10 & 9 - Edvard Munch / Culloden
tier 1 - Punishment Park

And the director with the largest range between his best and worst material is.................Peter Watkins. Funny thing is I purposefully (despite psi and kumpels saying differently) went out of my way to never see another thing from Watkins, since the godawful Punishment Park was the first of his I'd seen, and I actually paid for and still own it. But, a couple years passed, the hatred diminished to the point that I could consider something else, and just having seen a rip online of Edvard Munch and having loved his work for years and years, it seemed a safe bet. Much to my astonishment, it's become an absolute favorite of mine and I've even found some short work of Watkins that's been very much worthwhile.