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11-04-2006, 10:09 PM
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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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11-04-2006, 10:12 PM
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Re: Great Films and Filmmakers
True Lies? What The F?
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11-04-2006, 10:21 PM
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Re: Great Films and Filmmakers
True Lies is a really *great* film for its specific genre.
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11-04-2006, 10:29 PM
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Re: Great Films and Filmmakers
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[ QUOTE ] True Lies is a really *great* film for its specific genre. No. [/ QUOTE ] The genre is "Action Comedy". Name another action comedy that exceeds it. AB [/ QUOTE ] Beverly Hills Cop one through fifteen?
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11-04-2006, 10:33 PM
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Re: Great Films and Filmmakers
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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