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Inspired by the Stalker question... this is like asking which Beethove's symphony you can't take. Blashpemy...Well, not really. I can't say I can't take it, but the 6th is BY FAR not my favorite.
Lemme just start with the three without which I could live happily.
Satiricon
Stalker
Eyes Wide Shut
Man, I almost feel ashamed by this list, as even whithin it there is great discrepancy. Maybe I should not even mention the Satiricon next to the EWS... hell, maybe NOTHING should be put next to that excrement.
Anyway, three titans of directing, three films I can't stand. I was not able to find one in my memory by Bergman... Bunuel... DeSica...
I agree with someone here who said things we like are so incredibly unpredictable.
Speaking of Tarkovsky, I mentioned his Stalker but not Sacrifice. There is reason. I don't see Sacrifice as an original work and I can watch and even enjoy it.
So shoot.
Follow Ups:
--- John Frankenheimer sank to unplummable depths with 'The Island of Dr. Moreau'--incidentally shot just up the road from me in the Daintree Rainforest Nth Qld Oz.Sad
Des
Boring & sentimental. lalalala lalal
...but David Lean is not a great director, so he is excused.BTW, the film is awful, but the novel is far worse.
Thank you. "Dr. Z" is (was) on my list of books that I should get around to reading some day. The film, though beautifully photographed, was boring and sentimental.It was quite the big deal here in the 'states -- probably because the book (reportedly) had been banned by the Soviets.
The history of the book and its author is fascinating, and I suggest you read ABOUT it, rather than the book itself. It was smuggled out of the country and brought Pasternak the Nobel Prize. So it is interesting from the political perspective, but it is poorly written.Pasternak was easily the best Russian poet of the 20th century, a titan or true standing, but his prose was awful.
However, the book contains some of the most beautiful poetry... not sure about the translation, of course.
Reading his biography might be interesting, as it was heavily intertwined with the history of the Soviet culture of that period... quite fascinating.
I am not quite sure then, what a great director is in your mind...
I think he has quite a fiew masterpieces...
Think of " Brief Encounter " His best.
Or,
Pygmalion ( remember..)
Laurence, was good too,and in the same league, the Brigde...
Oliver was nice too.
I don't recall the Brief Encounter, but neither the Pygmalion not Laurence raise to the level where the word Great would seem appropriate, in my view. Ditto for the Bridge.
Yes, but what films are left to be called " GREAT " not too much..Is it not ?
Brief Encounter, is de.fi-ni-ti-ve-ly, one ! ( That is why I start with it)
The quality of the film and the music, in Laurence, both were great. Some actors, too.
Actually, there are quite a few directors and films I would put in the "Great" category.I will try to view the Brief Encounter some day.
Gotta agree on this one. I haven't seen it in about ten years, and I plan to watch it again someday to be sure, but originally this one nearly put me to sleep, despite the eye-candy cinematography.
nt
Of course, the whole point of Eyes Wide Shut was that we were not supposed to like it...
Then it succeeded.
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Were I to make a movie, it would have to have lots and lots of scenes with Nicole Kidman taking off her clothes.
Randy
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But I can see your point.
nt
Bernardo Bertolucci: La Luna, the Last Emperor
Charles Chaplin: Monsieur Verdoux
Wolfgang Petersen: Stalingrad
Sam Peckinpah: Major Dundee
Pedro Almodovar: Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing
Robert Altman: The Long Goodbye
Woody Allen: Interiors
Federico Fellini: Casanova
Cohen Brothers: Barton FinkDirectors who've never made a bad film: Luis Bunuel, Mike Leigh, Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, DW Griffiths, Blake Edwards, Peter Jackson, Louis Malle, Wong Kar Wai, Jane Campion, Martin Scorcese
Eric
Tokyo
"10" right?Gotta 'splain that one to me.
nt
I don't know that I would consider Blake Edwards one of the "greats".His wife was very good in "10".
by Edwards, starring Ellen Barkin?It was lighthearted and fun.
go figure?
mp
So did I, and I say so quite unapologetically, I think fun is what Blake Edwards has always been about; Breakfast at Tiffanys, Bedazzled, the Peter Sellers collaborations like The Party, The Pink Panther series, The Great Race... I have enjoyed every one of his films and really don't think I'm putting him on a pedestal he doesn't deserve to be on, he is truly one of the Greats
As for "10" it was a huge commercial and critical success on its release that has admittedly not aged as well as some other Blake Edwards films, but I like(d) it. Suggest you compare "10" with Dudley Moores film "Arthur" (Dir: Steve Gordon) to see how BAD (in the non-Michael Jackson sense) a film can really be...
Eric
Tokyo
with John Ritter, he was a womanizer? I really enjoyed that picture!mp
While I never thought much of the TV "Threes Company" I do like John Ritter as an actor, I think he's clever and funny. I have a video of a very "B" movie called "Channel Adventure" that he stars in that is one of my guilty pleasures
Humor is really the most difficult thing to do; I think that's why Chaplin was such a star and Lucille Ball is still a star (and Bob Hope was with CBS for 60 years) there's just no-one to replace them
That's why I'm so passionate about Blake Edwards, so many funny films that can be easilly dismissed as fluff, but I think it goes to show what a vacuum exists
Eric
Tokyo
there is a costar who plays off Ritter's humor. He was a nuerotic in the sitcom spin city.This combination Is in another really funny film, clever funny, not slap you in the face funny. Well it's called Sink or Swim-I've provided a link.
Memorable: Ritter shows up dressed to the hilt in costume---Not a costume party though...When one of his many lady friends sets his house on fire. John Ritter plays a good drunk.
nt
You really think it is so good ? I donīt.
Thanks for reminding me - how about Ikiru? What a drag that one was!Agree on Chaplin. Almodovar - I don't think that one was truly out of step.
i bet that's a good list. i agree with the spike lee one, one that i'm familar with.i just saw 'crash' by david cronenberg, and i would definitely put it here.
recently saw fellini's 'la dolce vita' again, and found it a little unappealing.
as a big robert benigni fan, i found the movie 'life is beautiful' not as good as i was hoping it to be.
I just love la dolce vita, but you would have to fight me all the way to put Benigni on the list of the Great directors!
i was actually surprised to see he is the director of the movies he is in. i guess no one can really direct that type of comedic talent.he's not a great director, but he does have that great 'italian' sense of poignancy (like fellini).
i loved the movie 'johnny stecchino'. i saw it three times in the theaters in new york. he did a great job of having someone with down's syndrome be a co-star.
'life is beautiful' was a disappointment for this benigni fan, but it did have some truly poignant moments.
i just discovered that he made a movie called 'the monster'. i would like to see it as soon as i can.
Il Monstro is as close as he comes to making a passable movie. It is still a failure, but with few decent moments.My opinion of him is still very low, as I wrote some time ago. If I were looking for a good commedy, I would go to the originals like Pierre Richard. Take a look at his Goat.
nt
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