|
Post by Martin Stett on Jun 7, 2024 15:28:13 GMT
The idea of this poll is to take the BP winner of each year and reimagine them with the best director nominees of that year, and ask which director would make the best version of that film. If the BP winner was nominated in directing, that option will not be listed.
The Polish master makes his Hollywood debut and creates a box office smash, resulting in a renewed interest in arthouse cinema
So our choices for Schindler's List are...
Robert Altman Jane Campion James Ivory Jim Sheridan
Previous winners: 2022: Ruben Östlund's Everything Everywhere All at Once 2021: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's CODA 2020: Lee Isaac Chung's Nomadland 2019: Martin Scorsese's Parasite 2018: Spike Lee's Green Book 2017: Jordan Peele's The Shape of Water 2016: Kenneth Lonergan's Moonlight 2015: Lenny Abrahamson's Spotlight 2014: Wes Anderson's Birdman 2013: Martin Scorsese's 12 Years a Slave 2012: Steven Spielberg's Argo 2011: Woody Allen's The Artist 2010: Joel and Ethan Coen's The King's Speech 2009: James Cameron's The Hurt Locker 2008: David Fincher's Slumdog Millionaire 2007: Paul Thomas Anderson's No Country for Old Men 2006: Paul Greengrass's The Departed 2005: Bennett Miller's Crash 2004: Martin Scorsese's Million Dollar Baby 2003: Peter Weir's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2002: Pedro Almodóvar's Chicago 2001: David Lynch's A Beautiful Mind 2000: Ang Lee's Gladiator 1999: Spike Jonze's American Beauty 1998: Steven Spielberg's Shakespeare in Love 1997: Curtis Hanson's Titanic 1996: Miloš Forman's The English Patient 1995: Chris Noonan's Braveheart 1994: Krzysztof Kieślowski's Forrest Gump
|
|
|
Post by pupdurcs on Jun 7, 2024 15:30:15 GMT
Jim Sheridan.
Schindler's List is 100% his bag, in terms of telling stories about oppression or oppresed peoples.
|
|
|
Post by countjohn on Jun 7, 2024 17:20:14 GMT
I guess I'll give Ivory a shot.
|
|
|
Post by finniussnrub on Jun 7, 2024 19:09:21 GMT
Although I could envision a successful satire set in this period by Altman as kind of his version of Zone of Interest, don't think Schindler's story is right for it.
Campion would be a much colder version and not necessarily better for it.
It is easy to forget that most of Ivory's films aren't particularly good, and only works effectively when adapting strong novels set in a very specific setting which Schindler's Story does not fall into.
Sheridan is the easy choice, his version would be smaller and more intimate. Maybe not better on the whole but would probably avoid some of the common criticisms of Spielberg's choices. Plus probably Day-Lewis as Schindler.
|
|
Steve17
Badass
![*](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/stars/star_skyblue.png)
Posts: 1,140
Likes: 229
|
Post by Steve17 on Jun 9, 2024 0:10:48 GMT
Sheridan
|
|