ever watch a film with the director in the room? (1 Viewer)

[Justin W]

i'm going to be watching creepshow with george romero on april 19th. not quite dawn of the dead, but i'll be sure to have my 4-disc ready for signing. (i actually don't like creepshow at all, but i'm not passing up a chance to meet mr romero and listen to him speak)

 

[Tino]

Let's see...

I saw Backdraft and Far And Away with Ron Howard

Three Men And A Baby with Leonard Nimoy(!)

Overboard with Garry Marshall

Wolf with Mike Nichols and Diane Sawyer

Canadian Bacon with Michael Moore

Natural Born Killers with Oliver Stone

The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen with Terry Gilliam

And a bunch of others with directors I don't remember.

 

[nickGreenwood]

Never seen one with the director (unless our home movies count) but I did attend a discussion on how Nathan Johnson scored the movie "Brick", I met Nathan through my best friend who is his bands (The Cinematic Underground) publicist/manager. Nathan's a good guy, very funny, intelligent, a bit awkward talking in public, but stated he's also scoring the film to his cousin Rian's next film as well.

 

[Elizabeth S]

Robot Stories with Greg Pak at the Hawaii International Film Festival.

 

[Jason Seaver]

Heh. Was it possible to see Robot Stories without Greg Pak in attendance? He was all over the place with that movie.

 

[Mario Gauci]

Thanks to my attending the 61st Venice Film Festival in August/September 2004, I managed to "mingle" with these industry people at the following screenings:


1.I FRATELLI DINAMITE aka THE DYNAMITE BROTHERS (1949) – with the children of late director Nino Pagot

2.COLPO DI STATO aka COUP D' ETAT (1968) – with the son of late director Luciano Salce and leading lady Orchidea De Santis

3.COLPO ROVENTE (1969) – with leading lady Barbara Bouchet

4.A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG (2004) – with stars John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson and director Shainee Gabel

5.5x2 (CINQUE FOIS DEUX) (2004) – with director Francois Ozon and leading lady Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

6.MILANO CALIBRO 9 aka THE CONTRACT (1972) – with leading lady Barbara Bouchet

7.NON SI SEVIZIA UN PAPERINO aka DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING (1972) – with leading lady Barbara Bouchet

8.DANZA MACABRA aka CASTLE OF BLOOD and CASTLE OF TERROR (1964) – with the son of late director Antonio Margheriti

9.…E TU VIVRAI NEL TERRORE! - L' ALDILA` aka THE BEYOND and SEVEN DOORS OF DEATH (1981) – with screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti

10.I CENTO CAVALIERI aka 100 HORSEMEN and SON OF EL CID (1964) – with leading man Mark Damon

11.ORGASMO aka PARANOIA (1969) – with director Umberto Lenzi

12.LO STRANO VIZIO DELLA SIGNORA WARDH aka BLADE OF THE RIPPER and NEXT! (1970) – with director Sergio Martino

13.IZO (2004) – with director Takeshi Miike

14.LA DEMOISELLE D' HONNEUR (2004) – with director Claude Chabrol and leading lady Laura Smet

15.IL DIO SERPENTE aka THE SNAKE GOD (1970) – with director Piero Vivarelli

16.THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES PART THREE: FROM SARK TO FINISH (2004) – with director Peter Greenaway

17.CRIMINAL (2004) – with stars John C. Reilly, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Diego Luna, director Gregory Jacobs and executive producer Steven Soderbergh

18.QUEL MALEDETTO TRENO BLINDATO aka INGLORIOUS BASTARDS and COUNTERFEIT COMMANDOS (1977) – with director Enzo G. Castellari

19.EROS (2004) – with directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh and Gillo Pontecorvo (whose son shot Antonioni’s segment) and stars Christopher Buchholz and Luisa Ranieri

20.COL CUORE IN GOLA aka DEADLY SWEET (1967) – with director Tinto Brass

21.SPASMO aka THE DEATH DEALER (1974) – with director Umberto Lenzi

22.STEAMBOY (2004) – with one of the producers

23.CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1979) – with director Ruggero Deodato


Most of the screenings of the Euro-Cult titles above were also attended by Joe Dante and Quentin Tarantino who acted as patrons to the retrospective dedicated to Italian "B" movies. Consequently, I got to see them practically every day and talked, shook hands and gotten an autograoh from both of them! Actually, fellow cult film fan Martin Scorsese was also expected to be there but, sadly, he couldn't make it:frowning:!

Even though, understandably, he didn't list any names, I'm very impressed with Bill's track record. Bravo!


P.S. Spending a fortnight in Venice led me to "meet" about 80 "famous" people but during 3 months in Hollywood I only met one - Seymour Cassel, in a great DVD rental store on Santa Monica Boulevard - but I only realized who he was after he left the building...:frowning:!!

 

[Bill McA]

You want names, you got them (and the film title(s)
Some of these directors were talking at screenings of other filmmaker's films.


Chris Abraham (I, Claudia)
Lisandro Alonso (Los Muertos)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights)
Wes Anderson (Rushmore)
Roy Andersson (Songs From the Second Floor)
Theo Angelopoulos (Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow)
Nimrod Antal (Kontroll)
Gregg Araki (The Doom Generation, Mysterious Skin)
Denys Arcand (The Decline of the American Empire)
Zev Asher (Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat)
Olivier Assayas (Clean)
Clive Barker Interactive discussion
Noah Baumbach (Mr. Jealousy)
Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang)
Catherine Breillat (Anatomy of Hell)
Matthew Bright (Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby)
Gary Burns (Kitchen Party)
David Caesar (Idiot Box)
Robin Campillo (Les Revenants aka They Came Back)
Shane Carruth (Primer)
Michael Caton-Jones (Shooting Dogs)
Dan Clark (The Item)
Joel Coen (Romance & Cigarettes)
Antony Cordier (Douches Froides)
Paul Cox (Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors, Human Touch)
David Cronenberg (Freaks)
Michael Cuesta (Twelve and Holding)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (La Promesse, L'Enfant)
Raymond De Felitta (Two Family House)
Nonny De La Pena (The Jaundiced Eye)
Brian De Palma (Touch of Evil)
Donna Deitch (Angel on My Shoulder)
Claire Denis (L'Intrus)
Kirby Dick (Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist)
Diane Doniol-Valcroze (Kill By Inches)
Thomas Michael Donnelly (A Soldier's Sweetheart)
Doris Dorrie (Nobody Loves Me, Am I Beautiful?)
Zaid Doueiri (Lila Says)
Robert I. Douglas (Eleven Men Out)
Fabrice Du Welz (Calvaire)
Christian Duguay (Screamers)
Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus)
Robert Duvall (The Apostle)
Atom Egoyan too many to mention, he's everywhere!
Emilio Estevez (Wisdom)
Marc Evans (Trauma)
Arthur Flam (Kill By Inches)
Bill Forsyth (Gregory's Two Girls)
Eytan Fox (Walk on Water)
Morgan J. Freeman (Desert Blue)
Bart Freundlich (Trust the Man)
Kei Fujiwara (Oegan)
Peque Gallaga (Scorpio Nights, Delirium, Gangland)
Aron Gauder (The District)
Crispin Glover (What Is It?)
Christophe Gans (Crying Freeman)
Terry Gilliam (Tideland)
Philippe Grandrieux (Sombre)
David Gordon Green (Undertow)
John Greyson (Lilies)
Philip Haas (The Blood Oranges)
Lucile Hadzihalilovic (Innocence)
Michael Haneke (Funny Games, The Castle)
Randall Harris (Wayward Son)
Hal Hartley (Henry Fool)
Ethan Hawke (Brokeback Mountain)
James Herbert (Speedy Boys)
Joel Hershman (Greenfingers)
Juraj Herz (Passage)
Agnieszka Holland (Total Eclipse)
Pornchai Hongrattanaporn (Bangkok Loco)
Gavin Hood (Tsotsi)
Mike Hoolboom (House of Pain)
Arliss Howard (Big Bad Love)
Katsuhito Ishii (Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl)
Attila Janisch (After the Day Before)
Jim Jarmusch (Year of the Horse)
Zhang-Ke Jia (The World)
Neil Jordan (Breakfast on Pluto)
John Kalangis (Jack & Jill)
Daphna Kastner (Spanish Fly)
Amos Kollek (Sue)
Lajos Koltai (Fateless)
Hirokazu Kore-eda (Nobody Knows)
Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, Palindromes)
Marco Kreuzpaintner (Summer Storm)
Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Kichiku)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Charisma, Barren Illusions, Kairo)
Bruce La Bruce (The Raspberry Reich)
Didier Le Pecheur (Don't Let Me Die On a Sunday)
Quentin Lee (Shopping for Fangs)
Spike Lee (4 Little Girls)
Po-Chih Leong (The Wisdom of Crocodiles)
Justin Lin (Shopping for Fangs)
Alison MacLean (Jesus' Son)
Stewart Main (50 Ways of Saying Fabulous)
Majid Majidi (The Willow Tree)
Hardy Martins (Cascadeur: The Amber Chamber)
Tim McCann (Desolation Angels(
Shane Meadows (TwentyFourSeven)
Takashi Miike (The City of Lost Souls)
Mike Mills (Thumbsucker)
Koki Mitani (Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald)
Jennifer Montgomery (Art for Teachers of Children)
Lukas Moodysson (A Hole in My Heart)
Michael Moore (The Big One)
Lance Muniga (Six-String Samurai)
Vicenzo Natali (Cube)
Maurizio Nichetti (Killer Tongue)
Gregor Nicholas (Broken English)
Gaspar Noe (I Stand Alone)
Billy O'Brien (Isolation)
Joaquin Oristrell (Inconscientes)
Jafar Panahi (The Mirror)
Dean Parisot (Home Fries)
Nick Parsons (Dead Heart)
Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry)
Bill Plympton (I Married a Strange Person!)
Jeremy Podeswa (The Five Senses)
Ventura Pons (Caresses)
The Brothers Quay (Institute Benjamenta, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes)
Yvonne Rainer (MURDER and murder)
Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher)
Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking)
Norman Rene (Reckless)
Lore Reyes (Delirium, Gangland)
Carlos Reygadas (Battle in Heaven)
Scott Reynolds (The Ugly)
Svetozar Ristovski (Mirage)
George A. Romero (The Tales of Hoffman)
Eli Roth (Hostel)
Tim Roth (The War Zone)
Saul Rubinek (Jerry and Tom)
Alan Rudolph (Afterglow)
Gabriele Salvatores (Teeth)
Philip Saville (Metroland)
John Sayles (Limbo)
Olivier Schatzky (L'Eleve)
Volker Schlondorff (The Ninth Day)
Paul Schrader (The Comfort of Strangers)
Peter Sehr (Obsession)
Adrian Shergold (The Last Hangman)
Cindy Sherman (Office Killer)
Simon Shore (Get Real)
Carlos Siguion-Reyna (Yesterday Children)
Bryan Singer (Apt Pupil)
Yuthlert Sippapak (Rahtree: Flower of the Night)
Jerzy Skolimowski (The Shout)
Christopher Smith (Creep)
Todd Solondz (Happiness, Palindromes)
Shinji Somai (Kaza-hana)
Philip Spink (Once in a Blue Moon)
Joshua Michael Stern (Neverwas)
John Sullivan (Sleepover)
Tetsuro Takeuchi (Wild Zero)
Ron Termaat (Lef)
Jeremy Thomas (Tideland)
Patrice Toye (Rosie: The Devil in My Head)
Shinya Tsukamoto (Tokyo Fist, Gemini)
Alex Turner (Dead Birds)
John Turturro (Romance & Cigarettes)
Paula Van Der Oest (Hidden Flaws)
Theo Van Gogh (Cool)
Jaap Van Hoewijk (Procedure 769: Witnesses to an Execution)
Gus Van Sant (Palindromes)
Todd Verow (Frisk)
Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration, Dear Wendy)
Clement Virgo (Rude)
Kieron J. Walsh (When Brendan Met Trudy)
James Wan (Saw)
Vincent Ward (The River Queen)
John Waters (Pecker, A Dirty Shame)
Jake West (Evil Aliens)
Tod Williams (The Adventures of Sebastian Cole)
Stephen Woolley (Stoned)
Ning Ying (On the Beat)
Yimou Zhang (House of Flying Daggers)
Scott Ziehl (Broken Vessels)

and coming May 6th.....Werner Herzog!!

 

[Brook K]

Too bad, would have been fun to meet Moskowitz.

I had the same thing happen in an LA movie monster toy store called "Creature Features" with director Frank Darabont, when someone said "Hey that was Frank Darabont!" I had been too busy drooling over the Godzilla toys to really look at the other people in the store.

 

[Christ Reynolds]

i haven't seen palindromes, but i'd have loved to see happiness and rushmore with the directors. but boogie nights makes me insanely jealous

CJ

 

[GregW]

I'll never forget sitting through Darren Aronofsky's "Pi" at Sundance at '98. My wife and I were near the back of the theater and our conversation frequently drifted into how much this movie sucked (still haven't watch it since to see if I feel the same way). After the lights came up, Aronofsky and his posse stand up for the Q & A...of course, they were sitting directly behind us. I felt terrible, but I think he got over it.

 

[Bill McA]

If it makes you feel any better Christ, Owen Wilson was also at the Rushmore screening.

The Happiness screening also included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Cynthia Stevenson, Jared Harris, and Dylan Baker.
Solondz's speaking style takes a bit getting used to

The very loud Boogie Nights screening also featured Mark Wahlberg, Heather Graham, Luis Guzman and Melora Walters.
I also spotted music mogul and Dreamworks honcho David Geffen in the audience as well as Deborah Kara Unger (Geffen's date) and Lou Diamond Phillips (Wahlberg's date).

P.T. Anderson was very enthusiastic and talked a blue streak!

Brook, I met Moskowitz 10 year ago at a screening of Passage. He was pacing up and down like a wild man and seemed really bored and restless.

 

[Mario Gauci]

Quote (originally posted by Brook K):

"Too bad, would have been fun to meet Moskowitz."

The worst part of it is that, while I didn¡¦t get to take a good look at his face, I was admiring from the distance this "old man" who was eagerly looking through the DVD keepcases on the shelves and occasionally enthustically exclaim out loud to his much younger female companion: "Ah, now that's a great film"! I heard him say that at least twice - about Roberto Rossellini's STROMBOLI (1950) and Jules Dassin's NEVER ON SUNDAY (1960); he was even mildly irritated that the owners of the place had classified the latter as a "drama" and not a comedy! When I realized who he was, I found his having just rented FACES (1968) quite amusing!


Quote (originally posted by Bill McA):

"Theo Angelopoulos (Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow)
Denys Arcand (The Decline of the American Empire)
Olivier Assayas (Clean)
Catherine Breillat (Anatomy of Hell)
Joel Coen (Romance & Cigarettes)
David Cronenberg (Freaks)
Brian De Palma (Touch of Evil)
Robert Duvall (The Apostle)
Terry Gilliam (Tideland)
Michael Haneke (Funny Games, The Castle)
Jim Jarmusch (Year of the Horse)
Neil Jordan (Breakfast on Pluto)
Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, Palindromes)
Gaspar Noe (I Stand Alone)
George A. Romero (The Tales of Hoffman)
Tim Roth (The War Zone)
Alan Rudolph (Afterglow)
John Sayles (Limbo)
Volker Schlondorff (The Ninth Day)
Paul Schrader (The Comfort of Strangers)
Jerzy Skolimowski (The Shout)
John Waters (Pecker, A Dirty Shame)
and coming May 6th.....Werner Herzog!!"

Not that I doubted your claims but I'm glad you posted your list and I would have been glad to meet all of the above myself. At film school in Hollywood, I did get to meet a script supervisor on Neil Jordan's IN DREAMS (1999) and she didn't have a lot of positive stuff to say about him!

From your list, I did get to catch sight of Ethan Hawke (at London's National Film Theatre) and Spike Lee, Takashi Miike and Maurizio Nichetti (at the 61st Venice Film Festival); I practically brushed against Hawke as he was entering one of the theaters where he was going to sit for a Q&A session and I managed to get Miike's authograph after a Press Conference.