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#61
11-05-2006, 05:56 PM
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John Hughes: - Breakfast Club - Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Sixteen Candles (there are lots of other movies he has written that i would put above these, but few that he directed) [/ QUOTE ] That's because he doesn't like to leave his mansion outside of Chicago. AB 
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#62
11-05-2006, 06:15 PM
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[ QUOTE ] True Lies is a really *great* film for its specific genre. [/ QUOTE ] 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. [/ QUOTE ] Pearl Harbor and Gigli are both [censored], regardless of genre - and neither are great exampled of their genre. PH is a WWII film - eclipsed completely by Private Ryan (which I don't like for the same reasons I don't like most Spielberg films), and Gigli is nothing but next week's pic fill at Christies. [ QUOTE ] Soderbergh, Cameron(although Aliens is a great film), Stone, Forman and Gilliam are dwarfed by the other directors on the list. [/ QUOTE ] Soderbergh is my favorite living director - while his body of work includes a number of "misses", when he hits the mark it's astounding. [ QUOTE ] 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. [/ QUOTE ] Not aged well? Unwatchable today - though I agree he was a pioneer, he was hampered by the infancy of the technology, as well as the development of film language. [ QUOTE ] Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz. [/ QUOTE ] He was the director of "credit" on Gone With The Wind, though only for a portion of photography - He follow George Cukor and Sam Wood. GWTW is really a tribute to the producer, David O. Selznic, who after firing Cukor halfway through production, pulled Fleming off of Oz (to Fleming's dismay). At this time in film history, things were more like TV is today, with producers being a bigger part of the picture, and directors being "hired hands" of the studio system. This is not to totally dismiss Fleming's influence on GWTW, but it wasn't his film" the way "A Clockwork Orange" is Kubrick's. [ QUOTE ] Vittorio De Sica - The Bicycle Thief, Umberto D [/ QUOTE ] Both brilliant - TBT is one of my all time favorites AB
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#63
11-05-2006, 07:53 PM
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] How did Ocean's Eleven escape notice so far? [/ QUOTE ] ?? I listed it... AB [/ QUOTE ] Exactly. [/ QUOTE ] Oceans Eleven (The Soderbergh version) is astounding for the genre - I've seen it a dozen times and I never tire of it - it is sublimely crafted, entertaining, engaging, and just alot of fun to watch. AB [/ QUOTE ] I'll agree with AB here. Ocean's Eleven is one of my favorite movies of all-time and is probably the movie I've seen more than any other movie (I just can't change the channel when I see it airing on HBO and the like).
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#64
11-05-2006, 07:59 PM
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Why do you like Face/Off? I really like the 3 movies you listed for Woo, but can't stand Face/IOff.
[ QUOTE ] John Woo - The Killer - Hard Boiled - A Better Tomorrow (I also [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Face/Off) [/ QUOTE ]
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#67
11-05-2006, 08:21 PM
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You're right, but I think it's more like a mini-series than a film.
He has also done some other very good stuff I've seen, but unfortunately it's in Polish, and as far as I know isn't available in N. America.
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#68
11-05-2006, 08:26 PM
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Soderbergh, Cameron, and Oliver Stone do not belong on this list. Sorry.
My additions: Jean-Pierre Melville - Le Samourai, Bob Le Flambeur, Le Cercle Rouge John Sayles - Lone Star, Matewan, Eight Men Out (imo underappreciated) and the list for Kurosawa is much more than just three: Seven Samurai Yojimbo Rashomon Ikiru High And Low Ran Throne of Blood
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#69
11-05-2006, 08:33 PM
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You're right, but I think it's more like a mini-series than a film. He has also done some other very good stuff I've seen, but unfortunately it's in Polish, and as far as I know isn't available in N. America. [/ QUOTE ] you mean this? link
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#70
11-05-2006, 08:49 PM
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[ QUOTE ] You're right, but I think it's more like a mini-series than a film. He has also done some other very good stuff I've seen, but unfortunately it's in Polish, and as far as I know isn't available in N. America. [/ QUOTE ] you mean this? link [/ QUOTE ] Wow. Very cool.
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