Great Films and Filmmakers

[Jeff W]

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

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That doesn't make it a great film.

Pearl Harbor and Gigli may vy for best in the genre "complete [censored]" but that doesn't mean they're great films.

Soderbergh, Cameron(although Aliens is a great film), Stone, Forman and Gilliam are dwarfed by the other directors on the list.

Some directors I'll add who haven't been mentioned(A lot of the greats have been covered along with some mediocrities and a couple downright execrable directors):

DW Griffith - Birth of a Nation, Intolerance

Griffith's films haven't aged well, but he is the most influential film director ever.

Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz.

Vittorio De Sica - The Bicycle Thief, Umberto D

Fritz Lang - M, Metropolis

There are lots of others whom I'm not a big fan of, but who should prob. be considered greats(aside from Griffith) - Eisenstein, Fellini, Buster Keaton, Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Renoir, Truffaut.