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Post by notacrook on Apr 16, 2017 10:54:52 GMT
Movies where the direction really stands out (in a good way).
I'll do a top 5:
1) Mulholland Drive, David Lynch
2) 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick
3) Trainspotting, Danny Boyle
4) Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson
5) The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme
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Post by matheusf on Apr 16, 2017 14:35:39 GMT
1. Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa
2. Persona, Ingmar Bergman
3. Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick
4. The Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir
5. Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2017 14:58:00 GMT
Besides the ones you mentioned, I'll throw in Blue Velvet, A Brighter Summer Day, and Ordet.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2017 16:01:58 GMT
I'm always up for Trainspotting being in a Top of all time list. Dig it.
As for me
Kieslowski - Three Colours Trilogy
Scott - Alien
Scorsese - Taxi Driver
Lynch - Mulholland Drive
Altman - M*A*S*H
In no order really.
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Post by themoviesinner on Apr 16, 2017 16:21:56 GMT
1. Salo, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom - Pier Paolo Pasolini
2. Red Psalm - Miklos Jancso
3. Crash - David Cronenberg
4. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
5. Aguirre, The Wrath Of God - Werner Herzog
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Post by urbanpatrician on Apr 16, 2017 19:58:09 GMT
Oh barf, the Silence of the Plebs. Trainspotting is cool though, I agree with Dexter.
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Post by notacrook on Apr 16, 2017 20:48:00 GMT
Oh barf, the Silence of the Plebs. How dare you. |
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Post by urbanpatrician on Apr 16, 2017 20:50:03 GMT
Oh barf, the Silence of the Plebs. How dare you. It's a painfully standard movie. I can't distinguish it from a movie I see on night owl channels. |
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Post by notacrook on Apr 16, 2017 21:01:52 GMT
It's a painfully standard movie. I can't distinguish it from a movie I see on night owl channels. In all fairness, I can see what you mean, but part of what I love about it is actually how unabashedly mainstream it is. I love arty indies as much as anyone, but when they're done well, mainstream flicks are just as great, and SotL is executed to perfection (in my opinion). |
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Post by tobias on Apr 16, 2017 22:00:18 GMT
Fitzcarraldo, Sunrise, 2001, Vertigo, Mysteries of Lisbon, Teorema
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Post by HorrorBuff7193 on Apr 17, 2017 3:50:58 GMT
Vertigo (1958)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Persona (1966)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Taxi Driver (1976)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Tokyo Story (1953)
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Post by ChairfaceC on Apr 17, 2017 4:04:11 GMT
Beasts of the Southern Wild
In the Mood for Love
Ikiru
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Third Man
Not definite or anything, but those are the first 5 to come to mind.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Apr 18, 2017 15:06:07 GMT
First 3 to come to mind:
Mulholland Drive
The Exorcist
Mad Max: Fury Road
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Post by chris3 on Apr 19, 2017 2:57:17 GMT
Off the top of my head, in no order:
Citizen Kane, Orson Welles
2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick
Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese
Mulholland Dr., David Lynch
Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola
Dog Day Afternoon, Sidney Lumet
Alien, Ridley Scott
Aliens, James Cameron
Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson
The Empire Strikes Back, Irvin Kershner
E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg
The Tree Of Life, Terrence Malick
Fargo, Joel and Ethan Coen
The Exorcist, William Friedkin
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Apr 19, 2017 3:14:50 GMT
Just like chris3 , I'm going off the top of my head but I'll arrange it in alphabetical order: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick 8½, Frederico Fellini Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola Citizen Kane, Orson Welles Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg The Godfather Part II, Francis Ford Coppola Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean Mulholland Dr., David Lynch Persona, Ingmar Bergman Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, F.W. Murnau United 93, Paul Greengrass Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 8:48:07 GMT
mikediastavrone96 Didn't know you liked it that much. Not too big on it myself, but Greengrass did a great job here. Dig it.
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Post by wendy on Apr 19, 2017 12:11:14 GMT
White Material, dir. Claire Denis  |
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Post by oneflyr on Apr 19, 2017 16:50:45 GMT
The best movies of all time.
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Post by no on Apr 20, 2017 15:09:08 GMT
not sure how this question differs from "best movies of all time"
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Post by no on Apr 20, 2017 15:13:51 GMT
Stalker (1979)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Melancholia (2008)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
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Post by notacrook on Apr 20, 2017 18:09:50 GMT
not sure how this question differs from "best movies of all time" These are movies where the direction is a particular standout. Trainspotting is not in my top 5 movies (it's not even in my top 50), but the direction is just extraordinary, and more notable than some of the direction in my actual all-time favourites. |
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Post by no on Apr 20, 2017 18:12:12 GMT
not sure how this question differs from "best movies of all time" These are movies where the direction is a particular standout. Trainspotting is not in my top 5 movies (it's not even in my top 50), but the direction is just extraordinary, and more notable than some of the direction in my actual all-time favourites. how does one measure direction how does one define direction how are people able to observe direction |
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Apr 20, 2017 18:29:12 GMT
These are movies where the direction is a particular standout. Trainspotting is not in my top 5 movies (it's not even in my top 50), but the direction is just extraordinary, and more notable than some of the direction in my actual all-time favourites. how does one measure direction how does one define direction how are people able to observe direction You didn't ask me, but I think there are some ways to tease apart direction from overall film quality. I often think of direction as analogous to the narration of a novel, every choice within the film is like the words on a page. There are novels where the narration is what makes a book extraordinary, far more than the actual plot or characterization (I'd say The Great Gatsby fits with that) and similarly there are films where the telling of the story is far more interesting than the story itself and the characters that inhabit it (for notacrook that's Trainspotting; for me, an example would be Rosemary's Baby). Obviously the direction is going to be closely tied to a film's quality, just as the narration is closely tied to a novel's quality, but it may not be a 1:1 relationship. |
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Apr 30, 2017 9:37:40 GMT
Carol Reed's The Third Man comes to mind first. It might be my number one for direction.
Tarkovsky's Solaris, The Mirror, and Stalker (I mean, pick one).
Martin Ritt's Hud (UNDERRATED direction)
Coens' Fargo and No Country For Old Men (again pick one)
Hitchcock's Psycho
Terrence Malick's Badlands (still the best Malick IMO)
John Cassavetes Opening Night (This should be regarded as his masterpiece)
Scorsese's Raging Bull and Goodfellas (should be every aspiring director's filmmaking school)
Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
Jonathan Demme's the Silence of the Lambs (and yes this movie IS brilliantly directed)
Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (I love the ENERGY of the man's direction here. A good example of a young filmmaker really going for it.)
Michael Haneke's Cache (absolutely brutal, but unforgettable due to Haneke)
Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (a cliche for a reason)
Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers, The Seventh Seal, and Persona (take your pick)
Christopher Nolan's Memento
Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai
Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine (should be mentioned more than it has been.)
Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (Polanski did his thing here. So many great choices that made this film damn near flawless as a horror
Dario Argento's Suspiria (pure art. I won't take it easy on the remake.)
David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr and the one that should get more love: Lost Highway
Recent examples that have impressed me would have to be Sean Durkin's direction of Martha Marcy May Marlene, and Alejandro González Iñárritu's direction of the last two movies he's made.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Apr 30, 2017 10:25:48 GMT
White Material, dir. Claire Denis I love every single screenshot I've seen from that movie, yet I still haven't watched it. Huppert is such a paradigm of modern art. |
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