JimBell
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11/30/2007 1:48 AM
posted awhile ago
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: Total Film's Greatest Directors Ever List
It's fun to play Top 10, but we have to be careful when it become counterproductive. Is Steve Nash one of the 10 best basketball players in the world? There are not too many variables when we see Steve on the court with four team mates. Is Margaret Atwood one of the 10 best novelists writing today? Although it takes a few years to read enough books to answer that question, we know that Margaret wrote her books solo, maybe with some help from a frightened editor. Is Neil Jordon--or insert the name of another director--one of the top 10 directors? Egads! As the word "director" implies, he is trying to coordinate dozens and often hundreds of people. He doesn't control the budget, he may not control the final editing--he may, in fact, simply be one of the more substantial cogs in a multi-tooth wheel.
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Risselada
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12/3/2007 10:31 AM
posted awhile ago
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: Total Film's Greatest Directors Ever List
Seems like a point that continues to come up in every thread in this group. Due to laziness and to avoid being redundant, I would suggest scouring through some of the other threads to see my and other folks comments on this. Although Jim, I thought I remembered that you were a part of those other conversations as well.
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NakedLunchRadio Show
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1/15/2008 1:58 AM
posted awhile ago
Re:Re: Total Film's Greatest Directors Ever List
Hey I am sorry to be so negative, but that list of the Top 100 Directors was ridiculous. First of all I could have deleted half the names on this list. O.k. Charlie Chaplin. Hello? Where on the list is he? I did not see Gus Van Sant and what about Pier Paolo Pasolini? Derek Jarman, Jules Dasin, Jean Cocteau, & Sergio Leone were all missing? Of course as you all mentioned Terry Gilliam was also missing on this list. I am sure I can sit here and think of a dozen other international film directors who weren’t mentioned. Also any list that omits Stanley Kubrick on the top 5 cannot be taken seriously. I totally agree with everything that Sonofkinski had to say about the list. You know your cinema! :) Ricky D Naked-lunch.org
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leeroy711
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3/10/2008 7:05 PM
posted awhile ago
Re:Total Film's Greatest Directors Ever List
Does nobody think that Jean-Pierre Juenet deserves to be on this list? I also think that Spike Jonze directed two masterpieces (niether one was called Jackass) and that's more than I can say for Fincher. The Coen brothers should have made the top ten - no excuses.
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kristen
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6/5/2008 1:54 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Total Film's Greatest Directors Ever List
Kudos to you for watching "Toby Dammit", one of Fellini's best. Anyway, if you can get your hands on it, watch Fellini's Casanova.
My 10 Best Directors List-
1. Federico Fellini
2. Andrei Tarkovsky
3. Charlie Chaplin
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Werner Herzog (best living director)
6. Woody Allen
7. Wong Kar-Wai
8. Jean Luc Godard
9. David Lynch
10. Maybe Jacques Rivette
The fact that M. Night Shamalan even made the list is disgraceful. And though most people might not know of him, Hiroshi Teshigahara is a great filmmaker and should be included in the list.
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CinemaRian
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6/8/2008 3:53 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Total Film's Greatest Directors Ever List
My list of the ten best directors:
1. Francis Ford Coppola
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Ingmar Bergman
4. Buster Keaton
5. Carl Theodore Dreyer
6. Peter Jackson
7. Sir David Lean
8. Neil Jordan
9. Michael Curtiz
10. Vittorio De Sica
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