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Matthew Takes on the Pantheon of Important Directo
 8.9 A genius, of course. His abilities to make a film are simply inhuman
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8.7 Once again, a genius. This guy made some hard hitting, uncompromising stuff, but had the talent to make it somewhat palatable even to idiots
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8.3 You could just watch an actual Godard film. Or an actual Leone film. Or an actual Kurosawa film. Or anything he absorbed and then vomitted out into a mess of gimmicky, self serving masturbation
Tarintino is proof that great taste in film does not equal great film making m08221196's rating:
 
9 Overrated, no question about it; a lot of his stuff is really dated, often just plain boring, but there is definite talent in him; "Psycho" is indeed a fucking excellent film
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8.4 Not too big on "The Godfather", but "Apocalypse Now" and "The Conversation" are the shit
Oh yeah, I also met the guy in person. He's quite nice, actually m08221196's rating:
8.7 Pretty much the coolest man ever. I like "Citizen Kane", though not to the extent of most, and his last film, "F for Fake", is a total masterpiece of avant garde cinema
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9.2 A happy man who wants to do nothing more than share his happiness with everyone. Truly wonderful
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8.5 Michael Bay for those who fancy themselves too deep for Michael Bay. Both are brainless nonsense, but at least Bay doesn't suffer from an intellectual inferiority complex
edit: Okay, "Memento" is great, the above still stands for the rest, though m08221196's rating:
 
8.9 Okay, I have fallen under the Chaplin spell; his films are fucking wonderful
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7.8 I saw "Annie Hall" years back. I liked it a lot. Another for reinvestigation
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8.3 An eccentric genius, hellbent on challenging his viewers and spitting in the face of film conventions. Only for those smart enough to handle such greatness
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7.9 "Brazil" is a great, but "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is dumb as hell. I guess since he made the Python films, as well, I'll give him a pass
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8.4 Okay, fine, now I love "Fight Club" You win, average film fan, it is brilliant and I was wrong to insult it. Now let me watch "Seven" and "The Game" and I'll give a proper opinion on the guy
edit: watched "Seven", also loved it. Fincher may just be shaping up to become one of my favorite directors m08221196's rating:
8.3 Sterile Hollywood dreck masked under the guise of being "weird" and "eccentric" to fool the simple minded. That said, his claymation looks REALLY cool
8.3 "Pi" is good (terribly acted, but good), the rest is dreck
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8.6 Surrealism for idiots. "Dumbland" is so good, though, that justifies his entire career. "Elephant Man" was pretty good, to
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8.8 "M" is the peak of filmmaking. "Metropolis" is the peak of set design
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8.7 The best director of the silent era by a relatively wide margin
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9 He certainly has a knack for genuine realism, which is more than I can say for a lot of other directors, but I'm not sure if he's exactly my cup of tea
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8.1 I really like this guy's style. Instead of aiming to make a cast of characters we all love, he makes a cast of bastards. GREAT use of black comedy, also
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8.8 Reactionary anti art designed to disgust the mainstream public
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8.5 Much like Tarintino, I feel he's too devoted to appropriating other people's work as opposed to forging his own artistic vision. That said, that fight scene in "Oldboy" is one of the greatest things I've ever seen
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Truffaut's film Jules et Jim is incredible. The sequels to The 400 Blows, the Antoine Doinel films, aren't essential viewing.
A few suggestions :
- Emir Kusturica
- Lars Von Trier
- Wong Kar Wai
- Wim Wenders
- Jim Jarmusch
- David Lean
- Eric Rohmer
- Sam Peckinpah
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Roman Polanski
- Paul Verhoeven
- Luchino Visconti
- Dardenne Brothers
- Takeshi Kitano
- Jean Renoir
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Sergei M. Eisenstein
- Kim Ki-Duk
- Chan-Wook Park
- Chen Kaige
- Aki Kaurismaki
- Joseph Losey
- Terrence Malick
- Theo Angelopoulos (special for propelas here underneath)
Now, go watch 50 % of all the movies they have made before busting my ass about what I should see or not....
@propelas I FUCKING LOVE "SATANTANGO"
Please don't reply, charlatan.
deleting the opinion of others
2) Even if I did, what you typed couldn't be called "opinions", it was just an idiot child venting his frusrations in an immature manner (one of the internet's most famous archetypes)
3) You said you'd kill my family for having differing opinions. Not only are you an inarticulate man-child, you're also a hypcrite
REALLY? --'
and you give away your opinion like you have any facts behind it, how many hitchcocl films have you even watched? go dig your mother a grave dickhead
if half of the directors you talk about heard you they will probably rape you till death for being such a ultimate moron
I'm not being mean or trying to belittle you in typical internet, you sound incredibly stupid. Really, are you 9 yeas old?
you are the perfect example of it's wrong with the next generation, what you know about cinema you learn watching movies on your computer. you cant even enter the cinema with your age to see some of the greatest films ever made, you should be more honest with yourself and stop feeling superior to anyone because you have watched 1 or 2 tarkovsky/lang/bergman movies. you dont even have the mind to figure it out, remember probably almost everyone around you knows more than you do little brat and i still feel that i should kill your family because of you.
i give up kid i end up my journey with a "i hope you die for being such a stupid offspring"
Either way, it's been kind of fun, You're just so dumb, it's so easy to play off of
SHUT THE FUCK UP SAYING THAT HITCHCOCK IS OVERRATED BECAUSE YOU DONT EVEN HAVE MORAL TO SPEAK ABOUT IT IDIOT CHILD!
YOUR MOTHER THAT ONE, OVERRATED INDEED
go to bed you have school tommorow and a couple of kids are expecting to take a good beat out of you and i hope that so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd1kzNBt4f4
Don't bother commenting any more either, I have no desire to further fuel these childish, incoherent rants you're so good at making, and I just won't reply
you're still the sad waiting for puberty kid that ignorw all the facts i kept on saying you have made yourself a deal with your worst nightmare a INTERNET TROLL everytime that i feel like to on listal i'll come here and see what's going on with the justin bieber of films and when will him grow some balls and admit that he's NOBODY.your parents didnt love you so you start watching satantango and thought "uuuh i must be special" wrong you pussy i just got a good internet to download good stuff to your "yeat to grow" brain
Hitchcock is pretty wildly overhyped at times--with a 50-plus filmography, he can be dull or mediocre far too often to be considered a "genius" or even "great" filmmaker. That said, when he's good, he's usually very good.
Incidentally, have you ever read David Thompson's Biographical Dictionary of Film? It's loaded with directorial criticism, and Thompson is passionate, readable, and makes some interesting points, even (or especially) when you disagree with him.
FINALLY someone else who hates Nolan as much as I do! He's the very death of cinema. I mean yeah Memento was good, but he's dumbing down the world with his stupid garbage. The only one I don't understand is Spielberg. Do you not like being entertained? Sure he's made some shit movies lately, but Jaws, the Indy Jones movies and Schindler's List are fucking amazing.
adios
2) Even if I did, what you typed couldn't be called "opinions", it was just an idiot child venting his frusrations in an immature manner (one of the internet's most famous archetypes)
3) You said you'd kill my family for having differing opinions. Not only are you an inarticulate man-child, you're also a hypcrite."
Yes, please!
For example I personally consider Spielberg ultimately better film maker in American cinema than Fincher will ever be, Steve just lost his balls somewhere on the run and started to love money too much, to make anything worthwhile anymore. Fincher's good films are few in his filmography and while those two are pretty solid works as such, I have never considered Fincher an auteur in a sense. There's nothing that personalizes his style. Spielberg had it, atleast while he still did films and not shit.
What comes to Scorsese, I consider him to be the biggest hypocrite ever. Blatantly praising film and old cinema and still makes only bad remakes and 3D, because it's easy and it sells tickets. This being said, he did make some pretty solid films before, just as Spielberg and as pretty much every other New Wave Hollywood director as well he lost his way somewhere along the road... Sad really.
What comes to old Hitch here, which seems to raise some debate... Calling Hitchcock overrated is... a leap, to say atleast. Granted, many of his films are dated, but then again also many of his films have found the respect we know today only in the past 20 or so years... Rear Window could be his only film and I still would consider him one of the greatest there ever was. Of course all comes to down here what person seeks in his films, or of films in general. I personally consider many Hitchcock's films as a pure cinema, films which define the language of the whole artform and thus I have respect for him. And again: Granted, he isn't consistenly great. But then again who ever is? BUT, his greatest films truly are among the very best cinema has to offer and for those I rank him pretty high.
I could retort and say that for me Bresson is overrated. ;)
He takes his stylistic minimalism sometimes way too far and it doesn't serve the film and becomes just a bore. Yet he also has some redeeming titles like Man Escaped, which probably is one of the best films from it's decade.
I was somewhat surprised that you don't fancy Kieslowski though, would love to hear some more of this, because I find it hard to understand how someone wouldn't like colors or Decalogue atleast.
Also am not sure what to make of your comment on Malick for personally I have always found the two distinctively different in both visual style and themes. Though Tarkovski is unique in every way, there never will be another like him, but I wouldn't still credit him all that much on Malicks films, but then again I love em both. Malick for visual style mostly though.
Anyways, keep it up! I want to see this list updating gradually as you find more interesting directors.