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Lets discuss movies and their directors! Here are some of my favorites:
Michael Haneke 10/10 KLAR
Ki duk Kim 15/15 KLAR
Roy Andersson 3/3 KLAR
Shohei Immamura 20/20 KLAR
Alejandro Gonzalez 4/4 KLAR
Hirokazu Koreeda 3/8
Shunji Iwai 7/8
Shinji Aoyama 1/8
Takeshi Kitano 7/14
Edward Yang 4/8
Hsiao-hsien Hou 1/18
Ming-liang Tsai 1/11
Sam Mendes 2/5
Fatih Akin 2/8
Sion Sono 5/10
Andrei Tarkovsky 5/10
Hiroyuki Tanaka 1/9
Kar Wai Wong 1/12
Eric Khoo 1/?
Alejandro Amenábar 1/?
François Truffaut 1/?
note for myself to check out: Juan José Campanella, Frederico Fellini, Ryo Nakajima, Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Royston Tan, Nae Caranfil, Emir Kusturica, Krzysztof Kieślowski
The reason why I'm sorting by favorite directors rather than movies is that most good directors have a distinctive style that makes all/most of their movies worth watching.
Please tell me about your favorite directors. The above list is what I have to complete, the other ones below are just sparks of interest. Recognize a name, seen a good movie recently or know a director that might interest me, post.
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Generally, good directing seems hard to judge, I'd say 90% of a movie is the actors, the plot, and the sound.
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On May 10 2010 08:31 Catch]22 wrote:
Generally, good directing seems hard to judge, I'd say 90% of a movie is the actors, the plot, and the sound.
Its not true at all. Well, it is true that those things play a part, but a good director is always fully involved with the acting, the plot and the sound. We're not talking about a movie split up in several different wills (like most multibillion movies), we're talking about movies where the director has a certain vision to pursue.
For example, Ki duk Kim is a producer, writer, editor and director, he uses a film crew with no experience and unknown actors so they won't kill his vision.
ps. no mention of hollywood directors (especially not cameron), sam and alejandro are borderline I guess.
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On May 10 2010 08:34 Shauni wrote:
its not true!
Please elaborate
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Top #5 by me:
Sergio Leone
Martin Scorsese
Guy Ritchie
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
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bookmarked this thread, gonna check all those I dont know out.
I guess I really need to watch more japanese movies, watched Sion Sonos Love exposure some months ago and it really blew me away.
I think the only ones I know out of that list are Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke, Kitano, Sono and Kim Ki duk.
Oh and Mendes
On May 10 2010 08:31 Catch]22 wrote:
Generally, good directing seems hard to judge, I'd say 90% of a movie is the actors, the plot, and the sound.
If that was the case then how come certain directors keep on making great movies that are amazingly different.
I mean if you go into a David Lynch movie you kind of know what you're gonna get, no matter who the actors are or what exactly the plot is.
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Well, yeah, I could see how that could enhance a movie, I mean if you took a script written by one guy and gave it to 5 different directors, they would all interpret it in their own style, but what makes these guys so much better than any of the others, and I'hve always felt Tarantino produced movies that were good simply because he in fact was so involved with the entire process like you describe. The same goes for several good ones really.
Now I have seen alot of Bergmans movies (being Swedish), and I can really recommend alot of them.
to 7mk: I know that if you have a movie with bad actors, chances are you are going to have a bad director aswell, who might not properly notice the bad acting, or maybe even care, but there is a slight difference in knowing what makes a bad director bad and a good actor good, and I want to know what signs I can look for that indicates that a director is awesome.
Damn I wish I wasnt so tired, I really want to discuss this, but I'm going to sleep.
Edit: You can also still have good acting, but a bad director, like the new Iron Man movies, Downey is a pretty decent actor and makes the character pretty believeable, and the movie is entertaining, but its not AWESOME, and I dont think Favre is that good.
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Someone has a severe case of a yellow fever. This list can't be taken seriously.
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On May 10 2010 09:01 condoriano wrote:
Someone has a severe case of a yellow fever. This list can't be taken seriously.
I'm not claiming to be an expert about directors, I wish I had a few more french and italian names on the list, that's also why I posted this... For people to help me widen my taste. But I don't see why it shouldn't be taken seriously just because there's a lot of asian names there. Especially the taiwanese directors on that list are incredibly good and underrated.
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On May 10 2010 09:01 condoriano wrote:
Someone has a severe case of a yellow fever. This list can't be taken seriously.
Don't hate, bro.
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sorry for being so newbie but what do those number and KLAR mean?
edit: my guess is that its the number of movies you liked out of the number they made? and KLAR are the directors you really liked? but whats it stand for?
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On May 10 2010 09:10 redtooth wrote:
sorry for being so newbie but what do those number and KLAR mean?
edit: my guess is that its the number of movies you liked out of the number they made? and KLAR are the directors you really liked? but whats it stand for?
Klar means finished, as in I've seen all of them. The first number is the number of movies I've seen by the director, the second is the total of movies he made except for tv series, co productions and short films/unattainable films.
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I'll check some of those directors out, I don't really have any directors to recommend other than mainstream ones which you already know of.
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On May 10 2010 08:27 Shauni wrote:
Kar Wai Wong 1/12
If that 1/12 isn't "In The Mood For Love", I suggest you make that one your 2/12.
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On May 10 2010 10:56 hoborg wrote:If that 1/12 isn't "In The Mood For Love", I suggest you make that one your 2/12.
I've seen it and I think he seems like an interesting director, his filming technique and building of atmosphere is very unique.
But I don't know why it is his most famous movie, most of them seem quite praised...
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