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Post by franklin on Aug 18, 2020 12:02:15 GMT
Greatest Filmmaker ever lived in cinema history?
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Aug 18, 2020 12:10:00 GMT
David Lynch (who is not on the list for whatever reason).
Of those on the list, Bergman.
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Post by LaraQ on Aug 18, 2020 12:11:10 GMT
Alfred Hitchcock.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Aug 18, 2020 12:34:59 GMT
Oh honey, for me it's Luis Buñuel... innovative, scandalous, iconoclastic, subversive, perverted... all the ingredients that make great art.
Why isn't Sion Sono on the list? (Also no Jean Cocteau or Pedro Almodovar?)
Only Buñuel would be genius enough to collect his Oscar in a ridiculous get-up of wig & sunglasses... metaphorically giving the Academy the finger.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 18, 2020 12:36:28 GMT
Roman Polanski - he exceeded his influences (Hitchcock).........was more overtly cinematic than great rivals for this title (Bergman), was far more in touch with the medium as a pop cultural tool than great countrymen (Kieslowski) .... more range than his direct American peers (Coppola, Scorsese) ...... more interesting in the language of film too particularly as a psychological vehicle even in areas that were groundbreaking such as feminism, freewill and identity. At least 7 movies routinely called masterpieces across a great range of material and genres - original scripts, adaptations, wildly diverse period films or modern in setting......... and also one movie which is also the greatest single film of all-time.
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Post by franklin on Aug 18, 2020 12:54:44 GMT
Scorsese.
Mean Streets Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Taxi Driver Raging Bull The King of Comedy After Hours The Last Temptation of Christ Goodfellas Cape Fear The Age of Innocence Casino Gangs of New York The Aviator The Departed Shutter Island Hugo The Wolf of Wall Street Silence The Irishman
I can't think of another filmmaker in cinema history with so many masterpieces/great films under his belt.
Also one of the most versatile filmmakers ever. Truly the GOAT.
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Post by JangoB on Aug 18, 2020 13:03:26 GMT
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Post by TerryMontana on Aug 18, 2020 13:21:47 GMT
In another thread, we had chosen our Mount Rushmore of film makers. Iirc, I had chosen Marty, Hitchcock, Spielberg and Chaplin (or Woody Allen?). Anyway, these are my top 5 of all time.
As for my #1, I prefer Scorsese but I can't see how Hitchcock loses the first place. The impact he had in the history of cinema is only comparable to Chaplin's in my opinion.
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Post by themoviesinner on Aug 18, 2020 13:49:10 GMT
The top 10 are:
David Cronenberg Miklos Jancso Theodoros Angelopoulos Akira Kurosawa Ingmar Bergman Raul Ruiz Pier Paolo Pasolini Tsui Hark Alfred Hitchcock Sion Sono
I cannot single anyone out.
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Post by countjohn on Aug 18, 2020 23:13:01 GMT
My top ten from the list-
Kubrick Welles Kazan Spielberg Tarkovsky Eisenstein Wes Anderson Bergman PTA Wilder
Lynch, Coen Bros., and Eastwood would probably take spots on my actual list.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Aug 18, 2020 23:14:31 GMT
That would be Kubrick
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 0:47:29 GMT
For me it's far and away David Lynch, who's also just my favorite artist in general.
Honorable mentions to Sion Sono, Edward Yang, and Carl Dreyer.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 0:47:57 GMT
The top 10 are: David Cronenberg Miklos Jancso Theodoros Angelopoulos Akira Kurosawa Ingmar Bergman Raul Ruiz Pier Paolo Pasolini Tsui Hark Alfred Hitchcock Sion Sono I cannot single anyone out. Fantastic group of 10
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Post by futuretrunks on Aug 19, 2020 0:59:38 GMT
Coppola, Lynch, Hitchcock, or Polanski.
H.M. Woody Allen, Spielberg, Tarantino, Preston Sturges
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Post by urbanpatrician on Aug 19, 2020 1:20:36 GMT
Ok.......... why have only 3 or 4 of the Top 10 greatest directors made your list?
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Post by Film Socialism on Aug 19, 2020 2:22:08 GMT
jacques rivette is the not only the goat director but the goat artist of any medium
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Post by pupdurcs on Aug 19, 2020 7:56:27 GMT
Hitchcock. He basically invented the thriller and modern horror (Psycho).
No other filmmaker has had as profound an impact in terms of the language of cinema. So many of the tropes we take for granted in movies ( or even TV) come from Hitch.
Shit, one of the best directors of the 70's generation, Brian De Palma is pretty much just an Alfred Hitchcock tribute act.
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Post by tobias on Aug 19, 2020 13:31:56 GMT
Why is De Mille in the poll, lol? Isn't it consensus that the guy's a massive hyppocrit who's prime distinction is making films high on budget and low on content while persecuting left-wing filmmakers more talented than him?
Aside from that obviously Eric Rohmer.
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Post by Archie on Aug 19, 2020 13:53:41 GMT
tfw I'm the only vote for Altman.
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Post by sirchuck23 on Aug 19, 2020 14:05:22 GMT
I’ll go with Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train. So many iconic scenes and cinematic moments from his films.
Also for this poll, I think Spike Lee and The Coen Brothers should’ve been on there as well if Wes Anderson is on there. Each of those directors have 3 or more masterpieces to their name.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Aug 19, 2020 14:25:01 GMT
I’ll go with Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train. So many iconic scenes and cinematic moments from his films. Also for this poll, I think Spike Lee and The Coen Brothers should’ve been on there as well if Wes Anderson is on there. Each of those directors have 3 or more masterpieces to their name. In addition to Spike Lee and The Coen Brothers, I'd add David Lean, and Orson Welles as important "great filmmakers" who probably should have been on this list. To be fair, it is a long list. I'm sure there are other great directors I'm forgetting.
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Post by sirchuck23 on Aug 19, 2020 14:42:26 GMT
I’ll go with Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train. So many iconic scenes and cinematic moments from his films. Also for this poll, I think Spike Lee and The Coen Brothers should’ve been on there as well if Wes Anderson is on there. Each of those directors have 3 or more masterpieces to their name. In addition to Spike Lee and The Coen Brothers, I'd add David Lean, and Orson Welles as important "great filmmakers" who probably should have been on this list. To be fair, it is a long list. I'm sure there are other great directors I'm forgetting. Agreed, there's been alot of great filmmakers over the 100+ years of cinema. You'll always forget someone. That website, They Shoot Pictures Don't They, has a great library of films/directors. Can find out about great films/directors you've never even heard of.
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Post by brancaleone on Aug 19, 2020 16:05:16 GMT
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Post by urbanpatrician on Aug 19, 2020 16:19:11 GMT
Chris Marker
This guy is the true definition of an artist. A thinking man. I lol at people who call Malick a thinking man. Marker's IQ is 100 points higher than Malick's. Before The Tree of Life, I saw him mostly as a dude who made really nicely done productions with a postcard American backdrop. Which is cool and all and he seemed to know what he was doing at his strong suit, but a thinking man? Not sure I agree with that.
He's better than Antonioni in that he's not confined by one main core concept.... which is this extremely cold woman feeling the empty alienation of her environment while the modern world is changing around her. Antonioni is great, and fantastic doing what he does. But Marker has far wider a scope.
He's better than Godard because his most Godardian film (Le Joli Mai) beats Godard at his own game. Godard made the 60s and pretty much created the 60s pop culture movement in France, but Marker was just getting started.
His 2 most acclaimed films: La Jetee and Sans Soleil are vastly different films. One is a nearly indecipherable and frightening post apocalyptic vision, and the other is a stream of memory filmed in the highest cinematic language. No one besides Luis Buñuel is his equal in translating a dream onto cinematic celluoid.
You watch La Jetee, Sans Soleil, Junkopia, A Grin Without a Cat, and Le Joli Mai..... and tell me if any of those are similar?
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Post by ibbi on Aug 19, 2020 18:53:30 GMT
Brian.
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