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I had no idea when I started this thread that Scorsese and Eastwood would find themselves dueling for Oscars, I even used Scorsese for counterpoint against Eastwood's actor-centric style. Little did I know we'd be seeing the two men pitted against one another. As for the lean-and-mean 39 day...

Absolutely. Every day. And I love Him -- for the good and the bad, because I'm here.

:) Bumping just to celebrate my favorite director's Oscar win tonight.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a strange bird, almost a black comedy. I think David Lynch may have been a better fit for the project than Eastwood. But for $6, it's worth it just for Kevin Spacey's performance.

Bumping in honor of Clint Eastwood and his latest quiet, powerful, no frills knockout....Million Dollar Baby

"The stories of Scorcese and De Niro getting coked out of their minds in their hotel rooms during the Toronto Film Festival back in the 80s are pretty legendary." And if either of them had died from an overdose, we never would have received GoodFellas, The King of Comedy, and Casino. Perhpas...

"I don't see how Tarantino's personal life pertains to the question at all." Because the the title of the thread is greatest LIVING American Director. Anyone else note Tarantino's request on the MTV Movie Awards for people to revere him as if he were dead? Guys, you're looking at a man...

Walt Disney directed a few shorts in the silent era, and even intended to pursure a career in direction, but life took him on a different path. Walt also directed the Silly Symphony short, "The Golden Touch". Fantasia and Snow White both bear his personal mark, as he was instrumental in plotting...

Oops - I've gone and done it. I've up and killed another thread.

"There is definitely good reason to avoid making films uplifting. You can make your point substantially stronger. Pinocchio is a great example. Easily the darkest Disney movie I've seen, it succeeds in making its point by being dark. Seeing Pinocchio actually 'go bad,' actually begin becoming an...

"As I have not crewed any shoots for Mr. Spielberg, I was not aware that he prefers the name of "Steven" over the shorter "Steve," or that the use of this nickname would arouse from you a reprimand that can only be called blunt." I must need sensitivity training, because at no point at all...

"Tarantino will become either the next Kubrick or the next Leone." Tarantino is too much of a hedonist to become either. One of these days I'm going to turn on my TV to learn that Tarantino has died from a drug overdose in Amsterdam or has died in a durnken car accident speeding home from...

"Once again though, he was directing (or at least prepping) two films at once, so he was probably focused on SPR over TLW." More like Amistad and SPR -- Spielberg even let David Koepp direct some scenes in Lost World: JP. He didn't take it too seriously, and that sort of thing bugs me about...

Hook has some musical moments, or moments that feel they came right out of a musical. I know of one extended song that was cut from the film -- a ten minute pirate number that took place right after Peter fell into the ocean (the shots of the Mermaids saving Peter with "air kisses" and taking...

"Such as Guy Richie?" No, and I'm not telling.

"Steve Spielberg would run a close second for me." Were you aware that nobody calls Mr. Spielberg "Steve"? Just one of the things you're warned about if you're crewing a Spielberg shoot. Steven, yes. Steve, no. "His style is radically different from Marty's, he is certainly not as skilled...

"The rainstorm T-rex attack is note perfect..." Well, except for that moment where a cliff face suddenly appears where once stood a T-Rex feeding pen. You have to watch the animatics for that to make sense - there was a planned shot where the T-Rex grabbed the jeep and drug it further down...

"And I guess you don't want to sidetrack the thread by talking about directors you don't like, but I'm sure we can handle the potential of a revolt if it comes to that!" There are few directors I don't "like", but there are many films whose direction I question. Does that make sense? I don't...

You're working on the last ten years - if you're going to rate Eastwood's work, try going back to the 70's. If we went back ten years in Spielberg's career we'd be starting with one of his worst films of all time - The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

"Heh, let me take a wild guess. An obvious candidate is, in fact, my favorite director working today: Tarantino." Nope - I thnk Tarantino is a unique American director, but again, one at the start of his journey. Its the Tarantino wanna-bes and the Scorsese crib artists I'm referring to. All...

Raging Bull is indeed a work of art, maybe the best film of the 80's...but I think Ordinary People gets a bad rap because the Academy made the wrong choice (as usual). Ordinary People is a wonderful film - and here is where I get into trouble - I think Good Will Hunting is a pale imitation of...

Spielberg is freakishly talented - he knows the language of film the way Mozart knew the piano. The story of Spielberg has yet to be written (amazingly enough). As Dreyfuss said at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony for Spielberg, Spielberg was receiving a lifetime achievement award...

WHO, IN YOUR OPINION, IS THE GREATEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR WORKING TODAY? ------------------------------------ I'm going to go way out on a limb here, but I think Clint Eastwood is the greatest American director working today. I suppose I make this claim because he doesn't put himself between...