Most of my faves are in MacBeth's list. Some others: Orson Welles Sidney Lumet Paul Mazursky Sam Peckinpah Arthur Penn Otto Preminger W.S. Van Dyke
Can't believe I blanked on Welles, Lumet, Peck and Penn. Especially Peck and OW. Wow. In my defense, I am under the weather.
McBeth, Do you have any suggestions for Altman films? I really enjoyed Gosford Park but it the only one of his I have seen. I have The Player in my netflix que right now since it sounded interesting.
M*A*S*H, McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Nashville, in that order. Gosford is my favorite, the Player has his seminal shot ( opening), but M*A*S*H best demonstrates his idea of sustained narrative.
Here's a list in no particular order. John Sayles Alex Cox Alfred Hitchcock Preston Sturges Terry Gilliam Milos Forman John Ford Woody Allen Michael Curtiz William Keighly William Wilder Charlie Chaplin Stanley Kubrick
Darren Aronofsky. He's got a couple of things announced, but I don't know when he's going to get anything done. He was working on a Batman: Year One project for a while with Frank Miller, but Warners is going with Chris Nolan's Batfilm.
I foolishly left Elia Kazan off the list. A Face in the Crowd is one of my favorite movies ever made, and Andy Griffith gives one of the best perfromances I've ever seen an actor give. I would never have suspected that from Griffith. It was amazing.
Obviously you've never been cleverly framed for murder, with exactly three (3) other seemingly innocent but in actuality possible suspects as likely candidates, else you'd have though of ol' Andy right quick.
Dang I forgot about him as well. Face in a crowd is an excellent film. Also great films directed by Kazan- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Panic in the Streets, On the Waterfront and Streetcar Named Desire.
East of Eden, Splendour in the Grass and Gentlman's Agreement deserve mention too...yeah, when you stack em up like that, it is a pretty impressive pile.
Good point, and if I was a loveable comedic overweight drunk, with a carte blanche to lock myself in jail when I needed to sleep it off I might have realized my error as well.
my list: Terence Malick (the finest American director of the last 35 years) Werner Herzog Gaspar Noé Terry Gilliam Pavel Pawlikowski Federico Fellini Krzysztof Kieslowski Robert Altman François Truffaut Satyajit Ray Peter Weir Mike Leigh Atom Egoyan Joel and Ethan Coen Todd Solondz Wong Kar-Wai Jean Luc Godard Woody Allen Zhang Yimou Stanley Kubrick Abbas Kiarostami Luis Bunuel David Lynch Ridley Scott David Gordon Green
hey nomar you went to st. thomas?? thats where they made rushmore.. man am i a freak for wes.. in a good way
