Great Films and Filmmakers
 

I like to categorize "great" filmmakers as those filmmakers that have made at least three outstanding films - and each of those film sis so outstanding that portions of it have become part of the contemporary lexicon, that is, a part of our culture so that references to it are immediately understood and recognized.

For instance, because of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, we associate Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" with space imagery. Or the line "I'm not animal!" from the film "Elephant Man".

These are my favorite directors, and the films that I think puts them into the outstanding category:


Stanley Kubrick:

Dr. Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey


Steven Soderbergh:

Sex Lies and Videotape
Traffic
Ocean's Eleven


Francis Coppolla:

The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Apocalypse Now!


Martin Scorsesse:

Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Raging Bull
King of Comedy


James Cameron:

The Terminator
Aliens
True Lies


Oliver Stone:

Platoon
Wall Street
The Doors


Milos Forman:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Amadeus
The People vs. Larry Flynt


Terry Gilliam:

Brazil
The Fisher King
Twelve Monkeys



What are yours?

AB

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True Lies? What The F?

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True Lies is a really *great* film for its specific genre.

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True Lies is a really *great* film for its specific genre.

No.

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True Lies is a really *great* film for its specific genre.

No.

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The genre is "Action Comedy". Name another action comedy that exceeds it.

AB

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True Lies is a really *great* film for its specific genre.

No.

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The genre is "Action Comedy". Name another action comedy that exceeds it.

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Beverly Hills Cop one through fifteen?

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Ah.... True Lies?

Tarantino:
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown

Leone:
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
A Fistful of Dollars
Once Upon a Time in the West

Kurosawa
The Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Rashomon

John Huston
The Maltese Falcon
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The African Queen

Howard Hawks
Scarface
The Big Sleep
His Girl Friday

Orson Welles
Citizen Kane
The Lady from Shanghai
Touch of Evil

I've only seen two John Ford movies, but both are great, The Searchers and Stagecoach.

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How did Ocean's Eleven escape notice so far?

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David Lean

Doctor Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge on the River Kwai

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I'd say Bev. Hills Cop ONE only - though it's hard to say "exceeds".


AB