Favorite Movies of Great Directors
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Topic: Favorite Movies of Great Directors
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Subject: Favorite Movies of Great Directors
Date Posted: November 24 2024 at 10:37
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Orson Welles / Favourite Films The Baker's Wife (1938) Marcel Pagnol, Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) William Wyler, Bicycle Thieves (1948) Vittorio De Sica, City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin, La Grande illusion (1937) Jean Renoir, Greed (1924) Erich von Stroheim, Intolerance (1916) D.W. Griffith, Nanook of the North (1922) Robert J. Flaherty, Ninotchka (1939) Ernst Lubitsch, Shoeshine (1946) Vittorio De Sica, Stagecoach (1939) John Ford. ity: ;"> ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 24 2024 at 10:55
Michael Winner - Top 10 favourite films by the great cinema auteur and restaurant critic. Everyone's a Winner.   1969: Hannibal Brooks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNa5tdhHZNI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNa5tdhHZNI 1971: Lawman 1972: Chato's Land 1972: The Mechanic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMNCUlJq-Xk" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMNCUlJq-Xk 1973: Scorpio 1973: The Stone Killer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYESGHbfaV0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYESGHbfaV0 1974: Death Wish 1978: The Big Sleep - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSuG2CSTvx0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSuG2CSTvx0 1979: Firepower - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-l1O3yvv4Q" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-l1O3yvv4Q 1982: Death Wish II |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 24 2024 at 20:53
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Hitchcock - North By Northwest Scorsese - Casino Spielberg - Jaws Kubrick - 2001 A Space Odyssey Coppola - Apocalypse Now Fincher - Seven Tarentino - Resevoir Dogs Coen Brothers - No Country For Old Men Lynch - Eraserhead Eastwood - Unforgiven |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 08:49
Top 10 Movies directed by J. Lee Thompson - Best-known for working with granite-faced actor Charles Bronson. 1961: The Guns of Navarone 1962: Cape Fear 1976: St. Ives 1977: The White Buffalo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXjNfeNPKCw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXjNfeNPKCw 1979: The Passage 1983: 10 to Midnight 1984: The Evil That Men Do - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2UvqrKYkIk" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2UvqrKYkIk 1986: Murphy's Law 1988: Messenger of Death 1989: Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 11:39
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Hi, Here is my listing off my website ... it's hard to make these lists for me as I end up leaving behind too many great things ... but here goes ... half a list, let's say, and it is DEFINITELY foreign as in all over the world. Vittorio de Sica - After The Fox Milos Forman - Amadeus Nicolas Roeg - Bad Timing/A sensual Obsession Nicolas Roeg/Donald Cammell - Performance Spike Milligan - Bed Sitting Room Stanley Donen - Bedazzled Terry Gilliam - Brazil Peter Brook - Marat/Sade Peter Greenaway - Prospero's Books Ken Russell - The Devils Akira Kurosawa - Ran Patrice Chereau - Queen Margot Claude Berri - Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring Giuseppe Tornatore - Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore - Ennio Biography Werner Herzog - Aguirre, The Wrath of God Denys Arcand - Jesus of Montreal Krzysztof Kieslowski - The Double Life of Veronique Carlos Saura - Carmen Pedro Olea - The Fencing Master Luis Bunuel - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Orson Welles - Chimes at Midnight Phillip Kaufman - Henry and June Richard Donner - Ladyhawke Sam Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch Zhang Yimou - Raise the Red Lantern Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor PP will have fun getting these links, if he wants to. A lot of what is probably thought of as art house stuff. "The Fencing Master" is the best fencing film EVER, but sadly, there was one version with subtitles on PBS, but I have never found that video anywhere, and the film, is only available in the European format, and thus not quite visible, or possible to catch in America. It a fabulous film, and then some ... and you probably learn a lot about fencing, unlike the hero poor stuff done in Hollywood. Basil Rathbone was good, but he is almost cardboard next to this film.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 12:11
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^ Funnily enough, my all-time favourite fencing scene is from my all-time worst Bond movie: Die Another Day, starring Pierce Brosnan and Madonna. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 12:33
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Hitchcock - Psycho Zemeckis - Back to the Future Trilogy, Forrest Gump Stanton - Wall-E Lasseter - Toy Story 1 & 2 Waters - Pink Flamingos Jackson - Lord of the Rings Trilogy Spielberg - E.T. Peele - Get Out Louis C.K. - Pootie Tang Reiner - This Is Spinal Tap, Misery Brooks - Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles Coen - The Big Lebowski Oedekerk - Kung Pow! Enter The Fist Sharman - The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spheeris - Wayne's World Allen - Most all of them Guest - Best In Show, For Your Consideration, Waiting For Guffman, A Mighty Wind Ashby - Harold and Maude Burton - Pee Wee's Big Adventure Demme - Stop Making Sense, Silence of the Lambs |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 16:45
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Fellini - La Dolce Vita Antonioni - L'Avventura Farhadi - About Elly Ceylan - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Malle - Ascenseur pour l'echafaud von Trier - Europa Vinterberg - Festen Seidl - Hundstage Wenders - Pina Kurosawa - Rashomon Altman - Short Cuts Bunuel - The Exterminating Angel Kusturica - Time of the Gypsies Tarkovsky - Solaris Lubitsch - To Be Or Not To Be
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 26 2024 at 10:49
Top 10 Movies by Don Siegel, a director who makes my day and who's best-known for working with Clint Eastwood. 1964: The Killers (starring Lee Marvin & Ronald Reagan!) 1968: Coogan's Bluff 1970: Two Mules for Sister Sara 1971: The Beguiled  1971: Dirty Harry 1973: Charley Varrick - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ovbzXVWFqs" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ovbzXVWFqs 1974: The Black Windmill 1977: Telefon 1979: Escape from Alcatraz 1980: Rough Cut - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFQpWsY3Q3o" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFQpWsY3Q3o |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 11 2024 at 09:58
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Hi, I kinda wish that some of these lists were not about "great" something or other. Many of the "great directors" in the history of film taught in classes (for example) are not anywhere near the association with the top grossing films that everyone has seen ... and the other 75% were never even considered, because no one in Podunk, North Dakota will ever see a Fellini, or a Nikita Mikhalkov film. But sadly, you can look at some of these lists and almost all of them have been on American TV for many years, which, for me, doesn't make them "great" ... just well known by the public! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: December 11 2024 at 17:27
And yet, when I look at your list, I have seen at list 15 of those films on American cable TV. More than half of the films you've listed. You are so pompous you have become a caricature of conceit.  ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
moshkito wrote:Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: January 13 2025 at 12:54
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I meant the favorite movies of (not from) your favorite director... If you like Vittorio De Sica, you'd name movies (not his) that were his favorites. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: January 13 2025 at 14:28
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^ Well that's much harder & obscure. I'll have to re-watch Oliver Stone with Bill Maher. And god knows what films Hitchcock liked, he probably wouldn't even say, knowing how pompous he could be. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: January 13 2025 at 14:56
| ^^This would have been beneficial if you mentioned this in your OP. No? |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: January 13 2025 at 16:30
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^ I think he thought it was clear from the title. That's language for ya. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: January 13 2025 at 16:46
In the OP, I named Orson Welles' favorite movies. I didn't name movies he directed. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 13 2025 at 18:06
Hi, I always thought that CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT was his best film ever ... sadly it wasn't liked because it was in Black and White, and on top of it, he made the film story from 3 Shakespeare plays, to create a character that was not just a funny aside in the days of those plays at The Globe. I think that his character was there to help the audience have a nice giggle. In many ways, Orson Welles took some of his lines, and instead of using them as "throwaway lines" helped them make up a much stronger character. It's just sad that the film is not liked ... it is excellent and has some brilliant moments ... specially well known is a battle scene, when Falstaff is likely drunk (have to read it to remember it correctly) and the camera does 360's around him ... as if this is what he sees, but makes no sense of anything ... until he falls down or the like ... directing wise it is really neat, and a touch that might suggest that as good a character he was ... that he also had his poor side, which his drinking would suggest. The ending of the film is also outstanding, were it not suggestive of Luis Bunuel's ending for "EL" ... which had been done 12/13 years earlier ... the ending shows the man walking into a dark tunnel ... a suggestion that it was a dead end for this character. Same thing in Chimes at Midnight.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 13 2025 at 23:35
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classic Pedro
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Posted By: Fercandio46
Date Posted: July 22 2025 at 04:20
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Willie & Phil (1980) by Paul Mazursky. One of his lesser-known films, yet for me one of his most personal. It has everything: humor, drama, freshness, wisdom, music by Claude Bolling, and even a cameo by Natalie Wood! The Nest (1980) by Jaime de Armiñán. From a unique Spanish director whose films always had something special about them, a certain unnerving nerve they reached, an aura of mystery and a lot of magic, with the Spanish child actress of the 70s, who had already worked with Saura and Erice, Ana Torrent, who together with Hector Alterio created this special and disturbing atmosphere that permeates the entire film. The Red Squirrel (1993) by Julio Medem. I'm still in Spain, and it's hard to choose among Medem's early works (before he inevitably lost his way) because Vacas was already excellent, but in The Red Squirrel he achieves a synthesis between the popular and the authorial that's difficult to achieve. You don't really know what's happening, nor do the protagonists, and you enjoy it as if you were at that campsite with them, needle after pine needle, mysteries are revealed, where everything is a game, and each character matters. Like a puzzle piece! Emma Suarez and Nancho Novo are splendid, in addition to being regular figures in that very inspired period of the director. There's something psychedelic and progressive, if you will, in its construction. Ed Wood (1994), Tim Burton's least representative film, is for me the one that comes closest to his true spirit, and not what is expected of him. Burton was someone strange ... but not because of the darkness of his films when they became somewhat predictable, but because of his own darkness in life, glimpsed in small details in his filmography. In Beetlejuice he questions and mocks the family, and in fact in the end he turns his back on it, and in his real life his relationship with his father was quite dysfunctional, later and with more years under his belt, the famous Big Fish, vindicated the relationship between a father and son, recovering family values, and he would do the same in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, in a less sentimental and sweetened way, however it was already a different Burton, trying not to make value judgments, in another less rebellious stage, as usually happens, although not to everyone. In Ed Wood, still in a period of transition, he opts for a hybrid of the two paths, more realistic if I may say so, where the protagonist creates his own group, his own dysfunctional family, with a very diverse group, but who love and support each other because they consciously choose each other. That's one of the values I appreciate about the film, besides the hilarious performance of a still-in-its-best Johnny Depp, and the entire cast, really, understanding the absurd humor and the odyssey of joining the quixotic mission of this director to whom the film pays homage. Far from being "the worst in history," Burton didn't care what people said about him when he made this film. There was a lesson he himself seemed to forget: like Depp's character does with his second partner, he warns that he's peculiar, trying to correct the mistake he made with his first partner, without giving up on being one.It has that particular climate of freedom that was experienced in the 90s and that was related, indebted as it was, to the freedom of the 70s. |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: July 22 2025 at 08:45
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Interesting.. My favorite movie is made by Paul M.. I never could find "Willie & Phil" but will look for it. Thanks! ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |