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Post by Mattsby on Jun 26, 2020 19:51:04 GMT
PTA turned 50 today - before, I think he would've been the undisputed winner here. Martin McDonagh recently turned 50, so did Chris Smith, and Nolan hits half-a-hundred next month so I'm not counting him.
Favorite or best, Who's your pick? Underrated/Overrated? Top 5? Who am I forgetting (I'm sure many) or who has big films coming up that could put them more into the conversation?
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 26, 2020 20:03:35 GMT
Thank God for you Mattsby I was so bored I was about to start a poll "Mandy Moore vs. Chrissy Teigen" in keeping with some of the heavyweight polls we've been doing on here lately  Lanthimos is the one here who has a genuine (and unique) directorial POV, in fact you could write a book on his style and sensibilities right now - the same way you could Chan-wook Park or someone that great he's that modern and timely.....and Lanthimos has a long way to go making films........ like Polanski he has a unique POV from where he grew up which is more or less unique in US films.......if you don't like his films .......or some of them anyway......that isn't really the point of how good he is. Like Kubrick you feel he's in control of everything he's doing whether it works for you or not.... |
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Post by pupdurcs on Jun 26, 2020 20:12:09 GMT
The omissions of Barry Jenkins and Ryan Coogler are kinda shameful.
Jenkins is one of the major auteurs of his generation now it seems, and Coogler banging out Fruitvale Station, Creed and Black Panther before the age of 32 is some Spielberg type Prodigy shit. Insane progression at his age. |
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Post by JangoB on Jun 26, 2020 20:13:53 GMT
Easily Luca Guadagnino for me from this list. An extraordinary dude.
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Post by themoviesinner on Jun 26, 2020 20:22:03 GMT
Lanthimos is the one here who has a genuine (and unique) directorial POV, in fact you could write a book on his style and sensibilities right now - the same way you could Chan-wook Park or someone that great he's that modern and timely.....and Lanthimos has a long way to go making films........ like Polanski he has a unique POV from where he grew up which is more or less unique in US films.......if you don't like his films .......or some of them anyway......that isn't really the point of how good he is. Like Kubrick you feel he's in control of everything he's doing whether it works for you or not.... Most Greek films from 2008 onwards are of similar style to those of Lanthimos' and they are mainly inspired by the films of Nikos Nikolaidis and some unique Greek black comedies of the 70s and 80s like The Idlers Of The Fertile Valley (1978), that first used that kind of cynical deadpan humour. Lanthimos was the one that started that trend with his first film Kinetta (2005) and made the style somewhat more mainstream. Most other Greek filmmakers nowadays are only keen to copy his style. |
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Post by themoviesinner on Jun 26, 2020 20:28:10 GMT
My favourite filmmaker under 50 is probably Lee Sang-il. Rage (2016) is among my favourite films of the 21st century, Villain (2010) and Hula Girls (2006) are pretty great films as well and his remake of Unforgiven is one of the best remakes I've seen.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jun 26, 2020 20:32:33 GMT
I think Xavier Dolan deserves a mention as well.
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Post by themoviesinner on Jun 26, 2020 20:38:15 GMT
I think Xavier Dolan deserves a mention as well. Yeah, Laurence Anyways and Mommy are pretty fantastic films and I really like Tom At The Farm as well, but his last two films were big disappointments. |
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Post by themoviesinner on Jun 26, 2020 20:50:15 GMT
I also should mention Mariano Llinas. I've only seen La Flor from him, but that film is definitely one of the most unique and audacious cinematic works of the 21st century. And it's a masterpiece through and through.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 26, 2020 21:23:09 GMT
Lanthimos and Chazelle top this list for me.
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Post by futuretrunks on Jun 26, 2020 21:41:23 GMT
I'll go with Chazelle, despite not being a fan of La La Land. First Man is the best film anybody on this list has made since Marie Antoinette.
Lanthimos is just deranged quirk. It's sporadically amusing, but a gimmicky thing to rely on more than pure storytelling.
Sofia has stumbled too much lately. Marie Antoinette is in my top 20 of the 2000s, and The Virgin Suicides was very good, and Somewhere was good, but The Bling Ring was awful and The Beguiling thoroughly underwhelming.
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Post by countjohn on Jun 26, 2020 21:57:41 GMT
Not a great list but I voted for Chazelle. Lost in Translation is the best movie anyone on the list has made but outside of that Coppola is pretty spotty.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 26, 2020 22:01:50 GMT
Maren Ade (Can't wait for her follow-up to Toni Erdmann)
But out of those.... Coppola.
Quite looking forward to Babylon too, from Chazelle.
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Post by brancaleone on Jun 27, 2020 8:47:57 GMT
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Post by jimmalone on Jun 27, 2020 10:11:00 GMT
No impressive names. From some I haven't seen much or anything. Coppola has by far the best movie of anybody on this list (Lost in Translation). But not a second great film. Still she would be my choice of those names. However there are some names I might even prefer to her. One is Fatih Akin, who has rarely been great, but made consistenly some very good films (still have some of his lesser well received work to see though). Sames goes for Asghar Farhadi, who hasn't made a film I truly love, but all four of his movies I've seen except The Past were really good. However my choice would be Ben Affleck. With his four films he has one masterpiece, two more great films and one that is still good.
As for Lanthimos, who somehow leads the poll: I've only seen two of his movies (Lobster, Killing of a Sacred Deer), but both were stupid, only trying to provoke and also badly crafted.
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Post by themoviesinner on Jun 27, 2020 13:37:06 GMT
Another filmmaker worth mentioning is Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit. Die Tomorrow (2017) is among my favourite films of the decade, Heart Attack (2015) and Happy Old Year (2019) are pretty great and poignant dramedies and with Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013) he made a bold and risky move in adapting a twitter feed to film, and, even though I wasn't a big fan of it, it sure was unique and interesting. I'm really looking forward to seeing what he does next, as he is definitely among the most interesting directors to emerge during the previous decade.
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Jun 28, 2020 0:09:50 GMT
I'll hold off on giving this to Eggers until he has at least one more film under his belt. Chazelle is my pick in his stead, all 3 of his movies last decade were massively impressive feats for a filmmaker of his age.
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Post by quetee on Jun 28, 2020 2:23:40 GMT
The omissions of Barry Jenkins and Ryan Coogler are kinda shameful.
Jenkins is one of the major auteurs of his generation now it seems, and Coogler banging out Fruitvale Station, Creed and Black Panther before the age of 32 is some Spielberg type Prodigy shit. Insane progression at his age. Kinda? It's MF'ing shameful. Barry has directed a best picture winner. Nobody on that list can say the same. |
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Post by pupdurcs on Jun 28, 2020 3:59:50 GMT
The omissions of Barry Jenkins and Ryan Coogler are kinda shameful.
Jenkins is one of the major auteurs of his generation now it seems, and Coogler banging out Fruitvale Station, Creed and Black Panther before the age of 32 is some Spielberg type Prodigy shit. Insane progression at his age. Kinda? It's MF'ing shameful. Barry has directed a best picture winner. Nobody on that list can say the same. Hey....I didn't start this poll  But yeah, how do you do a poll like this and just "forget" about someone like Jenkins  Makes no sense. |
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Post by stabcaesar on Jun 28, 2020 4:32:56 GMT
Jeff Nichols.
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Post by tastytomatoes on Jun 28, 2020 11:13:37 GMT
Some important ones you are missing!!!
Edgar Wright (The Cornetto Trilogy, Baby Driver, Last Night in Soho)
Tom Hooper (The King's Speech, Les Misérables, The Danish Girl)
Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, Darkest Hour, The Woman in the Window)
Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, Knives Out)
Ben Affleck (Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo)
Barry Jenkis (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Underground Railroad series)
Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther)
Greta Gerwig (Ladybird, Little Women)
Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us)
Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation)
Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar)
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 28, 2020 17:04:40 GMT
Barry Jenkis (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Underground Railroad series) Underground Railroad is a good mention - thank you btw for bringing up information. That's a huge mini-series and Jenkins has teased Tarkovsky's Stalker as a reference and also said it'll be "part There Will Be Blood, part The Rider" etc. He's also directing the whole thing! like Fukunaga did (masterfully) with True Detective S1. We're going to see these directors tackle bigger longer projects more commonly that could yield huge triumphs - Guadagnino with HBO's We Are Who We Are, Larrain's Liseys Story, etc.... |
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 29, 2020 21:10:16 GMT
Just some others to mention / any fans?
Celine Sciamma
Antonio Campos - Afterschool, Christine, some of The Sinner
Allen / Albert Hughes - Menace 2 Society, the underrated From Hell
Bart Layton - wish he'd work more, dig his two so far: The Imposter, American Animals
Nicholas Stoller - Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Neighbors/2, Storks
Chloe Zhao
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 29, 2020 22:25:50 GMT
Lanthimos from that list but Sciamma is probably ahead of him and Jenkins is THE best new filmmaker of this last decade.
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