How about it? My vote goes to Stanley Kubrick. He never made the same film twice, and was the master of interesting camera angles. His use of music in his flicks was wonderful as well.
Favorite movie director?
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Would you really say any of Jarmusch's movies have really been masterpieces?
Originally posted by MTB-Markie:i don't really like masterpieces. but yes, i would consider "dead man" to be a masterpiece.
Would you really say any of Jarmusch's movies have really been masterpieces?
Billy Wilder or Sidney Lumet.
Probably Zhang Yimou, but Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Akira Kurosawa, Kim Ki-Duk, Changwook Park, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Wong Kar-Wai, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, David Gordon Green, Krzysztof Kieslowski, George Lucas, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Preston Sturges, Pedro Almodovar, Ridley Scott, Hayao Miyazaki, John Woo, Orson Welles, Buster Keaton, and Tim Burton are close runners-up. :)
Ron Howard!
Kubrick and Truffaut
"dead man" is DEFINITELY a masterpiece, and jarmusch's best film.
for me:
kubrick
herzog
godard
tarkovsky
fellini
bunuel
jodorowsky
cassavetes
leigh
altman
for me:
kubrick
herzog
godard
tarkovsky
fellini
bunuel
jodorowsky
cassavetes
leigh
altman
Here are a few that Team Dupek feels deserve mention:
John Ford
Robert Aldrich
Terrence Young
Sam Peckinpah
Richard Brooks
John Boorman
Robert Wise
Blake Edwards
Ken Annakin
Lindsay Anderson
Nicholas Roeg
John Irvin
Roman Polansky
Terrence Mallick
William Friedkin
David Cronenberg
John Carpenter
John Ford
Robert Aldrich
Terrence Young
Sam Peckinpah
Richard Brooks
John Boorman
Robert Wise
Blake Edwards
Ken Annakin
Lindsay Anderson
Nicholas Roeg
John Irvin
Roman Polansky
Terrence Mallick
William Friedkin
David Cronenberg
John Carpenter
No love for Gilliam?
Originally posted by Sir HC:He made my list…
No love for Gilliam?
you all are a bunch of elitist pricks … i like watching michael bay movies whilst listening to angels and airwaves and drinking natty light
Originally posted by Sir HC:I'm anxious to see Tideland but it can't get US distribution… very frustrating
No love for Gilliam?
kevin costner.
seriously though, if you look at somebody's whole career, it is hard to top kubrick.
no mention of scorsese on anyone's? have you seen taxi driver or raging bull or goodfellas? i mean the guy has made some steaming piles of shit, to some extent, for the last 15 years, but he has made some great films as well.
seriously though, if you look at somebody's whole career, it is hard to top kubrick.
no mention of scorsese on anyone's? have you seen taxi driver or raging bull or goodfellas? i mean the guy has made some steaming piles of shit, to some extent, for the last 15 years, but he has made some great films as well.
David Lynch, Gus Van Sant, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Christopher Guest
Originally posted by Darth Ed:I cannot stand Gilliam.
Originally posted by Sir HC:He made my list…
No love for Gilliam?
For me, Mike Nichols, the Coen Brothers and Scorsese. All have made so-so (if not outright bad) films, but the classics from each I think are top-of-the-line moviemaking.
And by the by, for Nichols, I believe "Carnal Knowledge" is his masterpiece.
Joel and Ethan Coen.
Look at their body of work:
Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink
The Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo
The Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Ladykillers
I've excluded Intolerable Cruelty because this was a studio film they were paid to direct and a couple others that the brothers didn't team up on.
All in all though that is a nearly flawless list of films.
Look at their body of work:
Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink
The Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo
The Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Ladykillers
I've excluded Intolerable Cruelty because this was a studio film they were paid to direct and a couple others that the brothers didn't team up on.
All in all though that is a nearly flawless list of films.
Not one person named Tarantino. Thank ya lord.
Scorsese yes, he'd probably be in my Top 3. King of Comedy is very underrated.
I'd also say Speilberg. Jaws is an all-time great, Raiders, Schindler's List, ET, Munich this year. Like a lot of others, he for sure has some duds, but he also has some exquisite films.
Scorsese yes, he'd probably be in my Top 3. King of Comedy is very underrated.
I'd also say Speilberg. Jaws is an all-time great, Raiders, Schindler's List, ET, Munich this year. Like a lot of others, he for sure has some duds, but he also has some exquisite films.
FINCHER!