Favourite Directors
Submitted by Rushmore on Sat, 10/20/2007 - 03:57
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- Tim Burton
- Seen: Vincent, Beetle Juice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Want too see: Planet of the Apes, Big Fish
- Wes Anderson
- Seen:Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Hotel Chevalier, The Darjeeling Limited
- Want too see: The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - this is gonna be very interesting
- Quentin Tarantino
- Seen:Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Kill Bill Vol.2, Death Proof
- Want too see: Inglorious Bastards (2008)
- Martin Scorsese
- Seen:Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, The Aviator, The Departed
- Want too see: Mean Streets, Gangs Of New York
- David Fincher
- Seen:Alien 3, Se7en, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
- Want too see:
- Farrelly Bros.
- Seen:Dumb & Dumber, Kingpin, There's Something About Mary, Me Myself & Irene, Shallow Hal, Stuck On You
- Want too see Fever Pitch, Heartbreak Kid
- Coen Bros
- Seen Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Ladykillers, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading
- Want Too See Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There
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scorsese?
ah, now if i was to add anyone else it would be scorsese however i have had a certain amount love / hate relationship with his work. I really didn't enjoy both Taxi Driver and Raging bull when i first saw them. found them depressing. i haven't seen Raging bull since 2004, but i'm warming to Taxi Driver. I didn't like Gangs of New york either. However i did really really enjoyed Goodfellas, The Aviator (though most people didn't), and the Departed. And i did enjoy Casino quite a bit.
I belive i will add him, whats your view on his work ?
I am an avid Scorsesian (: I love The Departed, The Aviator, Goodfellas & Taxi Driver, as they were all either peeks of their genre (Gangster - Goodfellas) or came up with new innovative ideas (Taxi Driver). I'm yet to see Gangs of New York, it isn't a musical is it? I hope not. And I'm yet to see Raging Bull, other than you I've heard glowing reviews about it lol, but still, each to his own.
Also, Fincher is an amazing director, I love all the work I've seen from him too.
Stanley Kubrick?
i've only seen the shinning, whichi would give 10 / 10. but i need to see more, i sohlud be getting a HD player soon and i might get full metal jacket for it as that would be a good one on HD. i've seen like 20 mins of clockwork
which one do you recommend i check out?
A Clockwork Orange, Dr Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, Paths of Glory, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Killing.
All much better than the Shining
Or maybe it's because I don't really like the Shining much...
Clockwork Orange is PHENOMENAL, some truly uncomfortable, but remarkable viewing. The Shining is brilliant, one of the best horrors out there. I'm yet to see 2001, but I have high hopes!
How about Darren Aronofsky? Pi & Requiem for a Dream are both great movies, I'm yet to see the fountain but heard great things about it.
i've not seen anything by him, but yes i've heard both pi & Requiem are outstanding, i will be sure to check him out.
To be honest this list is short because i'm not usually one who tries to follow one directors work, i usually go by actors / actresses more. Such as i'll try and see lots of Tom hanks films, cus i like his acting, or right now i'm trying to watch Denzel Washington's films, as i think he's one of the best around, even though a few of the films he's in aren't so great.
I guess Wes Anderson is really the only director i would go out of my way to see films of, even if it didn't seem to appealing (ie i'm very worried about his next film...fantastic Mr Fox). I mean i love Tim Burton films, but not even i have had the courage to watch Planet of The apes yet ! :/
Fever Pitch is fun, smart and charming. Not too many Farrelly-like jokes in it.
Heartbreak Kid is baddang, I had to fast-forward it.
Anyhow, good bunch of directors you have there. Have fun with the unseen.
What are your thoughts on Jackie Brown? How would you rate it as a film by itself and also in relational to Tarantino's other films?
i rank it very highly. In fact theres only one tarantino film i'm not keen on and thats Kill Bill Vol.2 . Jackie Brown very often fights for second place in my mind with reservoir dogs (pulp fiction will always be my fave tarantino film). Jackie brown IMO never gets the credit it deserves, tarantino was able to take material that was not his, give it his own unique treatment however at the same time have a enough restraint to hold back and keep it fairly linear. Samuel L Jackson gives a terrific performance, Robert De Niro steals nearly every scene he's in, well the whole cast add something to it.
so in short i think it holds up very well, both as part of Quentins cannon of movies and as a stand alone film.
I agree that Samuel Jackson & Robert De Niro were great. The scene where De Niro shoots Melanie and the ensuing conversation he has with Jackson has to be one of the funniest moments in cinema I have seen. That being said, I actually did not grasp the appeal of Jackie Brown or the bail bondsman's characters. I think it's a good film, but I thought that Death Proof, Reservoir Dogs, & Kill Bill were better. To me, it barely feels like a 'Tarantino' movie.
So funny in fact was that scene with De Niro I may have played it back again two more times...
ok three more times...
ok, five more times and the last was in slow mo.
The single reason that movie rocks is De Niro/Jackson =D
Elston , so am i to gather then that "it barely feels like a tarantino film" is a bad thing in your mind? as i said i actually put that as a plus, as it shows he is able to do something different when it is asked of him.
Ah, you make a good point. I certainly did not choose my words correctly. The fact that he was reaching beyond his 'style' and branching into new territory is certainly admirable and for me to attack that is rather pathetic (which is not what I was doing). I just don't feel that Jackie Brown worked as a whole. The parts that I thought were greatly successful came from the supporting cast, the core of the film was a bit of a let down personally. I didn't feel that Jackie Brown was a leap forward for Tarantino - like La Dolce Vita & 8 1/2 were for Fellini (a leap forward from his 50's films). But, perhaps I need to sit down and watch it again more closely as it has been a few years.
ah thats fair enough. though i do think from a narrative and editing point of view, it was a change for tarantino, it is still a tarantino film, mainly from the dialogue. I'm not saying its a huge change of pace, its clearly not but i do feel its enough of one. I agreee with you too that it is important for directors to change their style and move with the times. However sadly i think less and less directors are willing to do that, they find their audience and stick with it.