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by Guest
Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 5 or more?
Replies: 54
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Re: 5 or more?

Up to 141 Now.

New Directors:

Robert Altman - Bumped up with viewings of the decent Thieves Like Us and the laughless O.C. and Stiggs.

Mario Bava - A director of excellent gothic thrillers, although they aren't the most memorable despite their virtues. SUre to benefit from rewatches.

William Beaudine - A director whose speciality is disposable trash. Made perhaps the worst of the Charlie Chan features.

Darren Lynn Bousman - Saw II wasn't up to much but Bousman has still devolved impressively. His most recent film, The Devil's Carnival, is TV-terrible garbage of the most garish variety.

Larry Cohen - One of my favourite directors, whose films almost always transcend their basic themes. Pick Me Up was one of the most enjoyable Masters of Horror episodes and The Ambulance was a surprising success even with Cohen as the director. It's a shame he prefers to play the role of writer over directing nowadays.

Don Coscarelli - A director of decent horror movies and one masterpiece (Phantasm), but I'm not in that much of a rush to see his remaining movies.

Blake Edwards - Enjoyed the Sellers/Edwards Pink Panther movies. Edwards is unusual among contemporary comedy directors in that the visual aspects of his films seem more important to him than scripts and dialogue.

Abel Ferrara - Elite among the American indie directors, he's made a number of excellent movies with gritty, violent themes, and that's just among the five films of his that I've seen. That he has many more credits to his name is very promising.

John Ford - Six films in and already leaning towards agreeing with the consensus that has Ford as one of the greatest of all directors. The Searchers is both beautiful and complex in a way that westerns seldom are, Stagecoach is a splendidly directed hoot and films like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance essentially speak for themselves. Obviously I'm trying to put Judge Priest to the back of my mind right now.

Michel Gondry - Can't make too many judgments since I've only seen three of his features and two fairly dreadful shorts, but I loved what he did with The Science of Sleep and The Green Hornet.

Stuart Gordon - An inconsistent director but also a very stylish one. Re-Animator was delightfully deranged and likely his finest achievement.

Amy Heckerling - Made one great comedy and a couple of decent ones. Alas, she gravitates towards crap and her sense of humour appears to have dilapidated over time.

Stephen Herek - I like Bill and Ted but the rest blows.

John Huston - Dunno what to make of him. With the exception of The African Queen (an ok movie), I haven't seen his most heralded films

Neil Jordan - Another uneven filmography, but The Butcher Boy is one of the more frightening films I've seen. The Company of Wolves is pretty abysmal despite its reputation.

Takeshi Kitano - His films tend to blend together but I enjoy them while they last.

John Landis - He's made some of the most hilarious movies I've seen. Love his work.

Abe Levitow - All five are cartoons, none of them bad.

Richard Linklater - Made one of the seminal teen movies with Dazed and Confused. Again, I've missed out on some of his more praised films.

Les Mayfield - I thought Miracle on 34th Street was pleasant enough but the rest of Mayfield's stuff has been truly repellent, especially The Man.

Adam McKay - A Ferrell collaborator with at least one good comedy (Step Brothers) to his name. The rest isn't so appealing.

Jean-Pierre Melville - A noir specialist if the consensus is to be believed and as much as I liked three of those noirs that I've seen, my favorite Melville is Leon Morin, Priest, which has a grace and humanism that Melville's noirs seem to have lacked.

Roy William Neill - Directed dozens of films but the eight I've seen are all Sherlock Holmes films of varying quality. Didn't have much of a visual style.

Todd Phillips - A director who never moves out of his comfort zone of raucous comedies.

Michael Powell - Peeping Tom and A Matter of Life and Death are among the more adventurous British films of their times and feature some excellent acting performances to boot.

Nicholas Ray - Will likely become one of my favourite directors if his other films are in the same league as four out of the five I've seen (didn't care for Rebel Without a Cause, though). Bigger Than Life and In a Lonely Place are both masterpieces.

Eric Rohmer - Can barely say anything since I've only really seen one of his features (I think we can discount the TV documentary about Louis Lumiere, however excellent it is).

Ridley Scott - His recent films aren't up to much but Alien and Blade Runner bump his rating up a bit.

Steven Soderbergh - Makes some of the coldest movies out there but sprung a surprise with Side Effects, a cleverly plotted and directed drama-thriller that veers off into unexpected territory again and again.

Lee Tamahori - With the exception of Along Came a Spider, he makes completely forgettable films.

Jeff Tremaine - Love Jackass, loved Bad Grandpa.

Agnes Varda - Seen five but only one full-fledged feature in Kung-fu Master!, a poetic but depthless drama. Obviously, I've seen none of her most championed films.

Adam Wingard - Was really hopeful for him after discovering his short films a few years ago. Alas, his ventures into feature filmmaking have been somewhat unsuccessful, although I'm stoked to see You're Next soon.
by Guest
Sun Feb 10, 2013 12:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 5 or more?
Replies: 54
Views: 97948

Re: 5 or more?

tomelce wrote:Dario Argento, Tex Avery, Joseph Barbera, J. Stuart Blackton, Tim Burton, John Carpenter, Charles Chaplin, Robert Clampett, Ron Clements, Chris Columbus, Francis Ford Coppola, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, Joe Dante, Maya Deren, William K.L. Dickson, Walt Disney, Thomas A. Edison, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Dave Fleischer, Friz Freleng, Clyde Geronimi, D.W. Griffith, William Hanna, Don Hertzfeldt, Alfred Hitchcock, Tobe Hooper, Ron Howard, John Hughes, Wilfred Jackson, Chuck Jones, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jack King, Jack Kinney, Stanley Kubrick, John Lasseter, Louis Lumiere, Hamilton Luske, David Lynch, Robert McKimson, Norman McLaren, Georges Melies, Maurice Noble, Brian De Palma, Trey Parker, Edwin S. Porter, Hawley Pratt, Sam Raimi, Robert Rodriguez, George A. Romero, Martin Scorsese, Adam Shankman, Ben Sharpsteen, M. Night Shyamalan, Kevin Smith, Barry Sonnenfeld, Steven Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone, Jan Svankmajer, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo Del Toro, Gore Verbinski, Kunihiko Yuyama, Robert Zemeckis, Rob Zombie, David Zucker.

67 in total. Probably not as high as I might have liked, and it certainly provides incentive to see more films by international directors. The only "foreign" names that seem to pop out are Del Toro and the director of the Pokemon films. :|


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