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In Reply to: RE: No Spielberg? posted by Victor Khomenko on February 05, 2010 at 12:15:58
One can certainly make a case for Wilder, although he's not American born, not that THAT's particularly important, as Wilder certainly grasped the American ethos and qualifies as a great director. I simply mentioned Huston as the greatest American born director but I think he's argualbly the geatest American director period. And we musn't forget Hawks and Welles - Welles was a huge influence on filmmaking despite his small output.
Spielberg is something else. He is unquestionably a gifted filmmaker.
However, I don't think anything he's ever made approaches the emotional depth and subtlety of The Dead, Wise Blood, The Misfits, Under The Volcano etc. I have famously recounted my Spielberg issues on this forum before. Just thinking about his place among his contemporaries, IMO SS comes behind Scorsese, Coppola, Lynch, the Coens and maybe a couple others.
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