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Where is Fellini and Goddard???

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In Reply to: What are your top ten favourit all time directors------- posted by patrickU on July 2, 2005 at 05:29:54:

Hardly any mention of Federico Fellini and Jean-Luc Godard.
Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" and "8 1/2" are, in my opinion, two of the finest sound films of the second half of the twentieth century. Godard's "My Life To Live" is a great philosophical treatise on modern life. And, wow, Anna Karina's performance!
Really, how can they be ignored? This is all so personal and subjective but one should have some historical context before stating favorite directors of all time.
Responses to this thread are pretty much commercial Hollywood guys and recent films.

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Ignored? Au contraire mon amis... - Harmonia 23:33:23 07/22/05 (1)
I believe my choices, as well as those of several other inmates, do indeed reflect sufficient historical perspective. (My list includes directors from the silent era to the present, thank you very much.)
Patrick asked "who are your ten *favorite* directors", not "who are the ten *best* directors of all time, or the most "influential directors of all time, or the most "important" directors of all time, so the choices are bound to be very personal - which is what makes the responses so interesting.
For me this meant many "great" directors whose films I admire - or even love - didn't make my list: Welles, Eisenstien, Bergman, Ray, Truffaut, Fellini, Lang, Lean, Visconti, Bunuel, De Sica, Fellini, Fassbinder, Wilder, Hawks and many others.
I've always had somewhat mixed feelings about the brilliant Monsieur Goddard. While I agree his movies can be fascinating and provocative, and I readily admit he is one of the most important and influential filmmakers of the past 50 years, the fact remains...I don't love him, not yet. I plan to revisit his films, and perhaps I'll change my mind.

Until then...a "favorite"? For you "oui", for me "no".
- Re: Ignored? Au contraire mon amis... - patrickU 07:47:49 07/23/05 (0)
  Well send post & so true. Congratulations.
Re: Where is Fellini and Goddard??? - patrickU 11:45:54 07/22/05 (0)
As far I am concerned, I do not like J-L Godard particulary but respect his intellectualism,
But I feel that one day I will have to re-introduce him to myself...Fellini? One of the very finest.

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