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Elizabeth S
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Some of my favorites: The Coen Brothers, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Zhang Yimou, Christopher Nolan, Bernardo Bertolucci, Walter Hill, Pedro Almodovar, Paul Haggis (back from his TV days). Some directors have that special 1 or 2 films I adore, though not too many others, like Michael Cimino, John Dahl, Richard Lester, Wolfgang Petersen. Even my favorites tend to have several I don't like. (You're always glad you hit the films of theirs you liked first, or you may never have given them a chance beyond the mediocre ones. I always feel this way about authors, too.)
A couple of directors whom I tend not to like -- Peter Greenaway, David Lynch. Greenaway's "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" is the only film I've walked out on as an adult. (I did last about 100 minutes, though.)
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06-05-2008, 02:08 PM
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A couple of directors whom I tend not to like -- Peter Greenaway, David Lynch. Greenaway's "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" is the only film I've walked out on as an adult. (I did last about 100 minutes, though.)
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Gawd that was a bad movie. My ex and i saw it when it came out. First NC-17 film and all that. It was not so much shocking as it was stupid. Thankfully i have almost blocked the whole experience.
Love Chris Nolan too Liz. He is moving up to a top spot fast.
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06-05-2008, 05:13 PM
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Elizabeth S
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Gawd that was a bad movie. My ex and i saw it when it came out. First NC-17 film and all that. It was not so much shocking as it was stupid. Thankfully i have almost blocked the whole experience.
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It was so UNPLEASANT. While my then boyfriend finished watching the film, I was in the lobby talking to the theater worker about his having to clean up vomit after the showings. I'm sure he also hated the film. I was on Rotten Tomatoes a while back and mentioned I walked out on this -- someone promptly told me "you're so lame". |
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06-06-2008, 10:42 AM
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We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave them kids alone
All in all it's just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
I have a friend who loves Greenaway, and he loved TCTTHWAHL too. I just couldn't get into it. But I do like me some Ken Russell and his particular brand of excess. Ken's still around, writes a column in The Times. The Devils is his most infamous film, hugely controversial in it's time, featuring fornicating nuns, naked satan worshippers, torture, executions and Oliver Reed! [bites fist] a shockingly grotesque and perverse masterpiece. 
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06-06-2008, 11:12 AM
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Russell Grant
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I watched the Devils on the last horror challenge, a fan made directors cut I think. Good stuff, I'd buy the DVD. no way in hell that cover well get released though  Ken Russell made some good stuff, watchable anyways. "Tommy" was a fave of mine since I love "the Who, but's it's goofy as hell. Nowheres near as crazy as "Listomania" though...
I saw "The cook" one. I remember hearing it was hot crap, but I fell asleep.
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06-06-2008, 11:18 AM
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Hey Russ, dont you love "the sky is falling" talk in the Universal fire thread?
Ken Russell, yea, i have a few of his flicks. Whore was an interesting movie, starring is wife, if i recall?
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06-06-2008, 11:35 AM
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Russell Grant
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Yup, Whore was a good one too. Wonder why there hasn't been a big boxset of his works? There has to be a cult following out there somewhere.
The fire thread is funny. I wonder if anyone on here has lives outside of their plasma screens? Don't get me wrong, it would be tragic if we truely lost films for all time, but not as tragic as if my 250gig portable hard drive crashes... know what I'm saying? Cause that shit took me months to collect....
thing to is, okay, worst case we lose some negatives and masters, there's still tv prints and stuff they can use if need be. It's not like "London After Midnight" or something where it's gone gone. The snoots have to un-knot their panties a bit.
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06-06-2008, 11:38 AM
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When I think of Directors that I love I think of how I react when they tell me a particular director is doing to do a film. Sort of like if you favorite actor is in a film you may go see it just because he/she is in it. The same goes for directors for me.
My favorite directors are Alfred Hitchcock, Brian DePalma (especially his earlier works), Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Lawrence Kasdan, David Lean, Ridley and Tony Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Franklin J. Schaffner, Richard Attenborough, Terry Gilliam, Bryan Singer, Akira Kurosawa, Sydney Pollock, Ang Lee and Ron Howard.
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06-06-2008, 11:46 AM
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Forgot DePalma! I was a huge fan of his decades ago, Carrie, The Fury, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, a little known gangster film starring Al Pacino called Scarface "Manolo shoot dat pis of chit!" , Carlito's Way and the fabulous... Untouchables! 
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The fire thread is funny. I wonder if anyone on here has lives outside of their plasma screens? Don't get me wrong, it would be tragic if we truely lost films for all time, but not as tragic as if my 250gig portable hard drive crashes... know what I'm saying? Cause that shit took me months to collect.... |
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