My god, I can't believe the beating Forman is taking! I like Jaws, but come on! MICHAEL CURTIZ - (Casablanca) MILOS FORMAN - (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) WERNER HERZOG - (Aguirre: The Wrath of God) - tough one!
DAVID LYNCH - (Blue Velvet) Just saw ITMFL for the first time last night. It was good, but it didn't knock my socks off or anything. Very nice cinematography and exquisite use of tight spaces, but just a little too slow. I don't mind slow (2001 is one of my favorites) but it felt too...
MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER - (The Red Shoes) PETER JACKSON - (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) SAM RAIMI - (A Simple Plan) Never mind the fact that I think LOTR is the better movie, I ain't voting for a pedophile.
MICHAEL CURTIZ (Casablanca) - easily WILLIAM FRIEDKIN - (The French Connection) - not crazy about either film, though MILOS FORMAN - (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) - brilliant adaptation of a brilliant book