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I would go for Tarkowski.
The worthy successor of Melies.
He was able to melt down many dimensions on one celluloid.
Bergmanīs choice and humbly mine too.
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unable to choose one I'd say, for me, all time (and in no particular order)... Tarkovsky, Bergman, Kubrick and Kurosawa. If I were to add an American I'd say Malick & Cassavetes.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
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"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
indomitable, unmatchable giant is theater, and that only because so many of the great Greek masters' work is missing. As it stands, the only true solitary Titan in art is Shakespeare.
Film?
Several Italians, Brits, Americans, Russians (can you really state Tarkovsky is "greater" than Eisenstein?!?), one Brasilian, French, Japanese, and Scandinavians all vie for the title.
Kind of like choosing the greatest novelist, poet, painter, or composer. Can't reasonably be done.
Put down in his memoir.
A few months ago I wrote that there can not be only one best but more best in different categories.
Now I am thinking if B. was not right, after all.
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39 Steps, The Lady Vanished, Rebecca, Rear Window, Birds, The Boat ( the best propaganda film ever, )
He fact he always make only one film again and again, with the exception of Mrs & Mr. Smith.
In no particular order I'd list:
"Rebecca"
"Rear Window"
"Vertigo"
"North by Morthwest"
"The Birds"
"Psycho"
Hitch himself said his best was Shadow of a doubt...
Rebecca is extraordinary but also thanks to the WHOLE cast!
As for myself, I love Young and Innocent, but also his whole English period is..to die for.
it wasn't?
NT
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Orson Welles, while making "Citizen Kane", said (paraphrase) "We watch the old masters: John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford". Welles watched
"Stagecoach" in particular many times.
One of the greatest, but the greatest?
Well I love him, love him very much.
And the other John, the Huston one was not bad either.
His last film is and will always remain as one of my favourit.
The Dead.
What a film, boy what a film.
And what a book.
It's amazing that this wonderful film is still not avaiable on DVD.
I have the Spanish DVD, which is now sold out, and I just bought this one, in the hope the quality will be better....Thanks to your message I made a search and...BINGO.
And when the USA version will come I will get this one too.
That is what I call fanatic...
- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Anjelica-Huston/dp/B000EWOO4C/ref=sr_1_1/203-0594169-2424705?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1188735251&sr=1-1 (Open in New Window)
I should have specified no Region I DVD.
Donītītell me that you do not have a modified palyer!
Rico that is not serious coming from you!
I do have the laserdisc but the aspect ratio is not right as it's a pan and scan version. Plus a modern DVD would play that wonderful Victorian piano music in 5.1.
I don't think anybody made as many really good pictures as Ford. The guy was making pictures from what, the 1910s into the 1960s and so many of them were very good. A huge body of high quality work.
Yes that is precisely what I thought when I wrote you back.
Very few of his film are not really worth to be seen.
One of the few I never liked was " They were not expandable " or something like it.
And his last one, I think.
;0)
Seriously, I'd probably go with Frederick W. Murnau or Fritz Lang, followed closely by Orson Welles, Erich Von Stroheim and Peter Jackson (just to have you spittin' nails! -grin).
To put Jackson on any list!
The director of the film that is almost inevitably at the top of all those 'top one hundred films' lists must deserve mention as a possibility for 'greatest director'. It's difficult to recall shot set-ups and camera angles from any movie since to equal what Welles gave us in 'Citizen Kane'.
Living? I'm tempted to say Coen Brothers. The body of their work shows a willingness to branch out into unfamiliar (read: possibly unprofitable) genres, usually with excellent results. Their comedies are laugh-out-loud funny, without treating the audience like 3rd-grade hicks. They use metaphor and allegory even in their comedies (which can sometimes be over-the-top, but always gives their films a broader context). They've had films that didn't get the credit they deserve ('Hudsucker Proxy') and one total dog ('Lady Killers'), but there is no directing/writing team, ever since I was totally blown away by 'Blood Simple', whose latest movie I look more forward to than the Coens.
BTW, great question/post. Extremely tough to answer.
evidence of his claim.
Coens have fallen far since "Fargo," I hate to say. I still have hope but they may have shot their artistic best shots.
Funny no one thinks of Pasolini or Fassbinder. No director is their superior, certainly.
Both great movies, but even if he'd only, done 'Kane', he'd be in the upper echelon."....have fallen far since "Fargo,"
There's a lot of truth to that, but of the three movies they've done since
'Fargo''O Brother Where Art Thou', only one is a true dud ('Ladykillers'). 'Intolerable Cruelty' was a bit of fluff, but relatively enjoyable fluff. As for 'The Man Who Wasn't There', I guess I see more value in the film than some. For me, it was a wonderful study in 'noir', and true noir at that-shadowy, grim, a seemingly good man caught up in his desires until his morality is stretched to the breaking point (and with an ending proper to true noir). Along with a good story and wonderful cinematography, the Coens got a superb and measured performance out of Billy Bob.As for the future-there's a lot of good buzz coming out of Cannes about 'No Country for Old Men'. Check out this trailer and tell me it doesn't take you back to 'Blood Simple'!
"....Pasolini or Fassbinder...."
Which is why this question is impossible to really answer, but still fun to talk about.
The man who was not There!
although they may not be chi chi enough for this crowd - lol
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -HST
Are you making a " big " complex of inferiority?
You should not...
but then again, it might have just been the keyboard keys....Yeah, I knew it would be a, ahem, 'controversial' pick, which is why I devoted a bit more ink to my reasoning. When you look at their library, you see the obvious great stuff ('Miller's Crossing', 'Barton Fink'), but even the movies that seem like fluff have so much more care and thought behind them than most directors would give. In 'Raising Arizona', for instance, the use of the Biker from Hell as a metaphor for the Blackness in All Men's Hearts is more than most mainstream directors could pull off (even though it's fairly obvious from the beginning, and shoved in your face at the end), but a more subtle gesture is the 'unfinished furniture store' owner, who in virtually any other movie would be a cartoonish buffoon, but whom the Coens bestow with a personal strength, thoughtful intelligence, and higher morality than any other character, while still maintaining a down-home, shit-kickin' persona.
Anyway, thanks for the positive nod in the midst of a tough crowd.
vaya con dios
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Pick one for me Patrick and I'll agree with you ; ^ )
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That's my pick as well.
Yeah, I was leaning toward Kurosawa. ; ^ )
others; I don't know.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
Milos of course.
His last film did get bad critics have you seen it?
I did not.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
O think this choice needs no explination
"We " did not ask for any...
sorry to be so plebeian, but if favorite means he whose films i watch the most, then marty is my man
my short list is also very plain compared to those of you who search imdb for obscurity - capra, weir, lean, hitchcock, allen
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -HST
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i enjoy scorsese's complete catalog more than any other director - how can i be wrong in submitting an opinion - not esoteric enough for you? okay, how about thai anh (a director no one ever heard of)
i think one should feel free to express an actual opinion here, rather than try to impress with some off-the-wall filmmakers whose entire works consist of a handful of weird movies you can only find on imdb
the last waltz, taxi driver, king of comedy, mean streets, raging bull, goodfellas, the departed, no direction home, casino, alice doesn't live here anymore - terrific pieces by a fine director
Dan chim tro ve - didn't see it, did anyone?
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -HST
No for the best director of the world.
My opinion...
You say yes I say no.
Of course! I mean the only goal of this forum are OPINIONS!
Nothing esoteric about that.
You are so right that I am wrong, or vice versa.
I hope I made it clear.
...BergmanKurosawa
I'd like to nominate Kenji Mizoguchi, but have only seen two of his films. Too many choices to say IMO. There are at least eight that I like equally, depending on who's film I last saw.
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While one very own culture will always be more exposed to another alien one.
I meant a universal director, while I am well aware of my self limitation as far as go Africa, Iranian, and many others coutries...
But you can choose for each hemisphere one...But best would be to melt two to one, as for my original quest....
In the case of Southern vs. Northern, at least I can meld those!
clark
Your champ.
Stanley Kubrick.
I must curisoly state that more time pass and more my love for is fading.
A few months ago I ask myself...why.
Barry Lindon is now the one I like the most.
Peter Jackson.
I really appreciate how, given what must be incredible temptation based on the scale of his films, he manages to avoid excess.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
Is that a member of the Jacksonīs Five?
their love for subtlety.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
Stephen, I am very thanksful to your rec. of the Lanterne Magique book.
In the middle of it and when compared to the Bunuel book very different.
South and North, one could say.
I still haven't started the Bunuel book as I'm waiting to re-watch "That Obscure Object Of Desire". I recently re-wathed "Belle Du Jour" (liked it) and, for the first time, "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (loved it) but want to add that third film before diving in.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
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It's almost on the verge of being out of control for moments here and there but it all works in the end.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
Very funny.
:-)
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
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