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Hemispheres 
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 Posted: January 09 2006 at 15:03 |
I voted for coppela because i love Apocalypse Now i also like Kubrik but he seems to be very popular so i decided to go for coppela
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Jared
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 15:54 |
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Allen is one of my favourite too!!
I love Manhattan, Annie Hall, The purple rose of Cairo but most of all Crimes and Misdemeanors!!!!
I love him also as a writer (and for his theatrical experiences)
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Crimes & Misdemeanors is superb...but don't forget Interiors, Hannah & Her Sisters, Husbands & Wives, Another Woman & even Love & Death...all top drawer stuff!
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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stonebeard
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Posted: January 09 2006 at 16:42 |
Tarantino...for the incredible dialogue throughout his movies.
Spielberg...for Saving Private Ryan
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el böthy
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Posted: January 12 2006 at 15:01 |
Kubrik does it for me
2001 is the most amazing movie I have ever seen!!!
where is Burton???
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dralan
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Posted: January 12 2006 at 19:22 |
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Kubrick. "A Clockwork Orange" and "Full Metal Jacket" are timeless and seem as fresh now as when they came out.
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Spacemac
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 07:00 |
Kubrick 
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BaldFriede
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 07:48 |
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Lots of directors missing. Out of the list Polanski.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 08:18 |
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Lots of directors missing. Out of the list Polanski. |
It suprised me how many people admire that child molester.
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BaldFriede
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 08:59 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
BaldFriede wrote:
Lots of directors missing. Out of the list Polanski. |
It suprised me how many people admire that child molester. |
I separate the work of the artist from his character. Also most of his work, and in my opinion the best, is from the time before he was convicted as a child molester. And he had been the victim of a vicious crime himself (his pregnant wife Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson and his gang). This is not meant to be an excuse of his own crime, but I certainly know what an effect a crime like that has on the psyche of a person.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 09:21 |
BaldFriede wrote:
TheProgtologist wrote:
BaldFriede wrote:
Lots of directors missing. Out of the list Polanski. |
It suprised me how many people admire that child molester.
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I separate the work of the artist from his character. Also most of his work, and in my opinion the best, is from the time before he was convicted as a child molester. And he had been the victim of a vicious crime himself (his pregnant wife Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson and his gang). This is not meant to be an excuse of his own crime, but I certainly know what an effect a crime like that has on the psyche of a person. |
It was terrible what he went through with Sharon's and his unborn childs murder,but it still doesn't excuse his actions.
And I just can't seperate the work of an artist from his character,especially when the crime involves the abuse of a child.He should be locked up,not praised for his movies.IMO
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Syzygy
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 09:32 |
BaldFriede wrote:
TheProgtologist wrote:
BaldFriede wrote:
Lots of directors missing. Out of the list Polanski. |
It suprised me how many people admire that child molester.
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I separate the work of the artist from his character. Also most of his work, and in my opinion the best, is from the time before he was convicted as a child molester. And he had been the victim of a vicious crime himself (his pregnant wife Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson and his gang). This is not meant to be an excuse of his own crime, but I certainly know what an effect a crime like that has on the psyche of a person. |
I'd have to agree with you there. Also, while he may technically be a child molester, as I understand it he slept with an underage teenage girl - illegal, and morally wrong, but there is a big difference between that and molesting pre-pubescent children, which as far as I know he has never even been suspected of.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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BaldFriede
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 09:45 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
BaldFriede wrote:
TheProgtologist wrote:
BaldFriede wrote:
Lots of directors missing. Out of the list Polanski. |
It suprised me how many people admire that child molester.
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I separate the work of the artist from his character. Also most of his work, and in my opinion the best, is from the time before he was convicted as a child molester. And he had been the victim of a vicious crime himself (his pregnant wife Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson and his gang). This is not meant to be an excuse of his own crime, but I certainly know what an effect a crime like that has on the psyche of a person. |
It was terrible what he went through with Sharon's and his unborn childs murder,but it still doesn't excuse his actions.
And I just can't seperate the work of an artist from his character,especially when the crime involves the abuse of a child.He should be locked up,not praised for his movies.IMO |
So should we actually stop praising the work of any living artist, because he or she may commit an unspeakable crime in the future, which would then invalidate all his efforts? I don't think this is the right approach. Polanski should certainly pay for his crime, just like any other person, but that has nothing to do with his work. This kind of behaviour is in my opinion hypocritical. Do we know about all the skeletons in the closets of other artists? "He who has a clean slate shall throw the first stone". We are all human and all prone to err and misbehave. Just because someone commits a heinous crime does not invalidate anything he did up until this point, nor does it invalidate anything he does afterwards. He should pay for his crime, and that's it.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 09:50 |
Well,I am not trying to argue with you.
We just have different points of view,our moral compasses point in different directions I guess.
I just can't admire the work of someone who did something I think is morally wrong.And I am no angel,and I understand that no one is perfect and we all have skeletons in our closet,but that's just the way I am.
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BaldFriede
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 10:05 |
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Just imagine you show a movie like for example "Repulse" to a person who doesn't know who made it, and he says "Great movie!", and then you tell that person it is a movie by Polanski. Do you expect the person to do a 180 degrees turn then and say "Oh, in that case I don't like it?"? I hardly think so.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 10:19 |
BaldFriede wrote:
Just imagine you show a movie like for example "Repulse" to a person who doesn't know who made it, and he says "Great movie!", and then you tell that person it is a movie by Polanski. Do you expect the person to do a 180 degrees turn then and say "Oh, in that case I don't like it?"? I hardly think so. |
I don't either.
I am just telling you the way I feel.I am not trying to turn anyone against him,if you all like his work,fine.Enjoy his movies.
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marktheshark
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 11:45 |
I go with Kubrick, but as for director still living it's Marty all the way!
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NutterAlert
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 12:03 |
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Marty Balin?
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Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005
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marktheshark
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Posted: January 31 2006 at 13:05 |
NutterAlert wrote:
Marty Balin? |
Yeah, favorite film was Surrealistic Goodfellas! 
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