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10-08-2003, 04:27 AM
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The other night I watched my new DVD of Enigma - a truly brilliant film. While looking up the director's bio I realized he also directed the stinkfest The World Is Not Enough. I was shocked, to put it mildly. No doubt I underestimated the importance of other factors (writer/producer/editor/cast/etc).
So can you name two films, one you loved, one you hated from the same director?
(Here's an extra one from me: I adored Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, but utterly loathed The Talented Mr Ripley.)
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10-08-2003, 06:45 AM
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This is easy, and I could probably do it for many directors, but the obvious one is Ingmar Bergman.
The Seventh Seal is a truly great film.
Cries & Whispers is my most despised film of all time.
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10-08-2003, 08:54 AM
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What George said on being able to do it for a great many directors. Jean Cocteau comes immediately to mind with:
Beauty and the Beast, which I consider a magical film—great from almost every perspective and
The Blood of a Poet, which may be important as a piece of surrealism, but is so incredibly amateurish that it belongs in the dreaded ‘student film’ category. Plus I consider parts pretentious in the extreme.
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10-08-2003, 09:55 AM
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Cries & Whispers is my most despised film of all time.
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Time and time again, I've seen you proclaim a deep hatred for this movie. I can understand not liking it, but I can't understand why someone would hate it with so much vitriol. What's the deal, George? Isn't something like Airheads or Battlefield Earth or Biodome more deserving? |
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10-08-2003, 10:23 AM
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Lew beat me to it. In the spirit of the new Italian poll I'd say Antonioni:
L'Avventura - One of the best Italian films ever.
Zabriskie Point- IMO, frivolous and a snoozer.
You could do this all day. Almodovar, Woody Allen, Speilberg anyone?
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10-08-2003, 10:55 AM
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I'm hardpressed to come up with anything. If I'm a fan of a directors work, they just don't make movies that I hate. I guess I could go with Woody Allen or DePalma, but there's usually a few times I'll laugh even in the Allen movies I don't care for and Mission to Mars is terrible, but I can't say I hated it.
I guess the best I can do (and keeping in the Italian spirit):
Giuseppe Tornatore
Cinema Paradiso: A beautiful, magical film for film lovers, and lovers in general.
Malena: A hateful piece of woman-abusing slime.
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10-08-2003, 11:20 AM
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Well Martin, it's hard to explain because it's not so much an objective analysis as it is an overall impression. Let's just say that when I finish watching a film, I'm either pleased, unimpressed/indifferent, or irritated. It's hard to say, in most cases, why I'm irritated. For a film like Do the Right Thing, it's easy to say, it's because I view the film as promoting racism.
Let's just say that I feel the same way after viewing Cries & Whispers that Brook feels when he hears me talk about it. Brook can't help feeling irritated by my opinions anymore than I can help feeling irritated by the film. 
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10-08-2003, 11:35 AM
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David Fincher...
Loved: Seven.
Hated: Alien 3.
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10-08-2003, 11:44 AM
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Richard Lester:
Great: Help!
Awful: Superman III
Alfred Hitchcock
Great: Vertigo
Awful: Torn Curtain
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