I just wanted to get fellow board members' picks of their favorite film by the following directors that have their own forum. This way it is more easier-than navigating between those forums just to find this info-and I would simply like to know why __________-is your favorite film rather than a poll. Something concise and to the point. This will help me/and others to try to see other and more films by these directors and also what some say will and should have influence on us to understand why you like that/a particular film more than another. I know that everyone here has a great knowledge of film and share alot of the same tastes...so...what you all have to say matters. Also, if anyone could make a broader list-feel free-you can edit your post to include knew inductees (and the like). Thank you.
Paul Thomas Anderson-Magnolia- The William H. Macy bar scene alongside Supertramp-he is this film.
Wes Anderson-Bottle Rocket- Short, sweet, and damn funny-you pick up something new each time-hotel scenes rule.
The Coen Brothers-Fargo- Wierd, funny, sick, depressing so many moods in one film-Buscemi's best(imo)
Cameron Crowe-Almost Famous- Never in a million years could i think someone could pull this very personale film off so well-good music and Billy Crudup.
David Fincher-Fight Club- It is a film w/so many ideas it cannot be crammed in it's running time to explain it all-great effects, acting,lensing, and always re-watchable.
Stanley Kubrick-2001: A Space Odyssey- Without hardly any dialouge this film manages to keep everyone's attention-cool visuals-a master's finest piece of art.
David Lynch-Mulholland Drive- Thank the Heavens that the pilot was rejected or we would have seen this puzzle that reveals clues EVERY time you watch it-damn dream sequence between the two guys in the restuarant talking while the camera floats around them still chills me-underrated Watts perform. also.
Martin Scorsese-Gangs of New York- Finally after all these years it's here... then gone-UNDERRATED AS ANY FILM COULD/EVER BE-scenes that give chills just typing this-and the best acting job by Daniel that I have ever seen-cannot wait till July 1 to get this.
Steven Soderbergh-Traffic- I love the way each color palette represents different scenes-Del Toro's damn amazing-eerie score-scarily true film-also, a nice ending.
Steven Spielberg-Minority Report- Something about this premise of the film that got me-cinematography is flawless-Tom C. deserves(as always) the A-list status-keeps you guessing until the end-nice special efects-perfect package of a film.
Quentin Tarantino-Jackie Brown- Music is so great in this film-awesome dialouge-great intro/outro-funny-damn funny film-the film oozes cool.
Paul Thomas Anderson- Magnolia
I think this is really his best film yet. It just crystallizes his style and themes up to that point in a way that is very, very impressive and very, very moving, not to mention unique.
Wes Anderson- The Royal Tenenbaums
Ditto for above. Anderson perfecting and expanding upon the themes/style that have come before. Will The Life Aquatic be his Punch-Drunk Love?
The Coen Brothers- Barton Fink
I've said it before and I've said it again: "Are you in pictures?" "Don't be silly." Brilliant. Nothing quite like it in the history of cinema.
Cameron Crowe- Almost Famous
I'm not a big Crowe fan. I found this the most enjoyable of what I've seen.
David Fincher- The Game
It's the least bad of all of his, I suppose.
Stanley Kubrick- A Clockwork Orange
It's hard to choose with him, but this is the first film that comes to my mind when I hear his name.
David Lynch- Mulholland Drive
With Blue Velvet a close second. Mulholland has Naomi Watts and more dream-logic emotion, though.
Martin Scorsese- Taxi Driver
Perfect and beautiful and alive. Anyone who's ever felt despair in a big city can relate (if not as grand a scale).
Steven Soderbergh- Sex, Lies, and Videotape
I've liked him off and on, but not really a die-hard fan.
Steven Spielberg- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Seriously. He really should stick to the whiz-bang pulp stuff, and this is his pulpiest film.
Quentin Tarantino- Jackie Brown
His most mature work, in every respect. I love the title character and Pam Grier's performance, too. He really tempers all the bad-ass stuff (which could've become boring at this point) with some real tenderness towards some of the characters. I appreciated that, and I thought the movie just worked remarkably well.
ill stick to the template, parameters are good, keeps things from going overboard....
Paul Thomas Anderson - Boogie Nights - One of the funniest movies I have ever seen and the style won me over. The people are also as interesting as the Porn industry.
Wes Anderson - The Royal Tenenbaums - Very thick atmosphere, intriguing characters, slightly edges out bottle rocket, humor.
The Coen Brothers - Big Lebowski - Because I love the early 90s
Cameron Crowe - Vanilla Sky - I like trying to figure out movies even if i cant. its a shame it had to be explained so bluntly at the end, but still my fav
David Fincher-Fight Club - Makes you want to get in a fight
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange - Tough one to call, because I like almost all of them but this is the first one I saw and the only movie to give me serious nightmares.
David Lynch - Mulholland Drive - Thank god the pilot got canned is right. Otherwise the show would have been canceled after its 3rd episode and we'd never see the rest. Creepy.
Martin Scorsese - Casino - Las Vegas is interesting, but only on celluloid
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic - ummm... the mind blowing special effects?
Steven Spielberg - ET - because
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction - Im tired of trying to explain why I like movies
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The Coen Brothers - Big Lebowski - Because I love the early 90s
That's the perfect reason. That's really the way I've come to see that this film "fits" into their oeuvre; whatever time/place they choose to delve into, they create this perfectly skewered semotic system within the film that evokes that time and place absolutely and brilliantly. They're really, really good at it. I wonder if they actually do research, or if all this stuff is just in their heads? It amazes me, sometimes.
PTA - Magnolia (The film I relate to most in the world)
WES ANDERSON - Rushmore (Relate to it more than Tenenbaum's and it's funnier. Haven't seen Bottle Rocket)
COEN BROS - Barton Fink (It's the ending that gets me too. And I relate to it in a very self-indulgent writer way. [Fink not the Coens])
CAMERON CROWE - Say Anything (Boombox moment: ultimate hopeless teenage love gesture. Optimism as a revolutionary act.)
FINCHER - Fight Club (Exhilarating, fascinating art. All it's contradictions only make it better for me. Love the book too - not half as complex as the movie though.)
KUBRICK - 2001 (The meaning of life in a movie.)
LYNCH - Lost Highway (The most consistent mood of a Lynch film in my opinon. Narrative clicks. Astounding final image.)
SCORCESE - Taxi Driver (Catcher in the Rye. Wanting innocence in Hell)
SODERBERGH - Schizopolis (Hilarious, anarchic, endlessly watchable. I've never been moved by one of his films, so I'd rather go for the most entertaining to me)
SPIELBERG - Raiders of the Lost Ark (Similar theory to Godardian, only I much prefer the original. I do think he's truly great at this kind of film though.)
TARANTINO - Pulp Fiction (Partly for nostalgia - haven't watched it forever.)
PTA- 'Punch-Drunk Love' (cult genuis, a cinephiles wet dream)
WES ANDERSON- 'The Royal Tenenbaums' (so different, such a nice fable)
THE COEN BROTHERS- 'O Brother Where Art Thou' (lots of Coen style fun)
CAMERON CROWE- 'Vanilla Sky' (a great ride)
DAVID FINCHER- 'Fight Club' (a real sledgehammer of a film, hip, twisted, dark, punchy)
STANLEY KUBRICK- 'A Clockwork Orange' (sooooooo good)
DAVID LYNCH- 'Wild At Heart' (one fucked up movie)
MARTIN SCORCESE- 'Gangs of New York' (under-rated as hell, big, stirring masterwork)
STEVEN SODERBERGH- 'Ocean's Eleven' (cooler than cool, near perfect ending)
STEVEN SPIELBERG- 'Jaws' (no explanation needed)
QUENTIN TARANTINO- 'Pulp Fiction' (nuff said)
paul thomas anderson - magnolia - cuz no movie has ever hit me that hard
wes anderson - the royal tenenbaums - not a major fan but his movie has a caracter named eli cash
cameron crowe - almost famous - perfect. touching and funny in so many ways. vanilla sky eats of its ass.
david fincher - se7en - very well done in its story and just sucks you in. dark as the soul of tony blair.
stanley kubrick - 2001 - visually... yeah you properbly know.
david lynch - mulholland drive - david lynch is the only director able to fullt capture the essence of dreams and makes one of the most haunting and desturbing caracter studies ever.
martin scorsese - goodfellas - best gangster movie ive ever seen. perfect in every way.
steven soderberg - traffic - perfect but does she have to be pregnant?
steven spielberg - minority report - because its a masterpiece and the best movie of 2001 and mybe the best scifi thriller ever.
quentin tarantino - pulp fiction - great caracters and dialogue an allround memorable as hell. very very very powerfull writing.
PTA - Magnolia. It's huge, it's long, it's an epic... about regular people over the course of one day. Perfect paradox. Bursting with beautiful (almost melodramatic) emotion throughout. First quality film to actually show a Christian character praying in a realistic way, and trying so hard to live according to the teachings of the good Book. Also, I'm a sucker for huge dolly/zoom shots.
Wes Anderson - Rushmore. It's funny. So funny. And full of bitter angst, in the cutest possible way. "I wrote a hit play" -- a perfectly good reason to enjoy a drink.
Coen Bros - The Big Lebowski. Hilarious. Goodman is a force. Dialogue like I've never heard: "Dude, the Chinaman is not the issue. And also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature -- Asian American, please." (if I fucked that quote up a bit, I apologize)
Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous. I feel so bad for hating this when I first saw it. Yes, overly sentimental, but its heart grows on you with each viewing. Way more about unrequited love than music, but that's cool. Seriously one of the greatest soundtracks ever.
Finch - Fight Club. This is the only Fincher film I like, and I still put him with the other top directors from this gen. Absolutely everything in this movie worked pitch-perfect for me. One of the rare films I could watch everyday.
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange. This movie is hardcore. And the best example for perfect zoom use.
Lynch - Lost Highway. A naked Patricia Arquette. Nuff said.
Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver. The perfect film. Best acting performance ever. Raging Bull could be argued, but I just relate to this one more: being in the big city, alone, hating everyone and hating yourself. And being really horny. And wanting to save people who don't want your help. Damn. And I do believe that the "Late For The Sky" scene is my favorite movie moment. Just the greatest mid-point scene, that in anybody else's hands would not have worked. But Marty takes a nothing scene, DeNiro acts an impossible bit of writing from Schrader, yet Paul has put so much raw emotion into that scene, that actor and director can reach the sublime.
Steve Soderberg - The Limey. It's just a good little crime film.
The 'Berg - Jaws. Okay, I admit, this is the ONE and ONLY film of his that got any response from me whatsoever. I'm still scared of sharks.
QT - Jackie Brown. Man, I guess everyone said it. Just seems to be his smoothest.
PTA - MAGNOLIA. truly came from his heart, good or bad, but you can feel it in every frame. he may make more great ones but he'll never top it.
WES ANDERSON - BOTTLE ROCKET. I dont know why, just got the most out of me.
CAMERON CROWE - SAY ANYTHING. Everything in this film is dead on perfect.
DAVID FINCHER - SE7EN. Shook me up.
KUBRICK - DR. STRANGELOVE. His best work (with clockwork orange, 2001, and eyes wide shut not far behind). brilliant in every respect, funny as hell, had a hell of alot of balls for a picture at that time, and one of the ten greatest ever made.
LYNCH - ERASERHEAD. I couldn't stop thinking about it and i fucking love the hairdoo.
SCORSESE - RAGING BULL. The acting, direction, everything is pure cinema. The fight scenes are incredible...just everything. one of my favorite pictures - scorsese has come close to topping this, but not quite...
SODERBEGH - SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE. One of the most brilliant debuts in cinema....
SPIELBERG - A tie between SCHINDLER'S LISTand CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND...the two stories he was born to tell.....
TARANTINO - PULP FICTION. Jackie Brown is fucking great but other directors could have made a great picture out of that too - nobody but Tarantino could have done Pulp Fiction and made it as good.....
OH, I FORGOT THE COENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WELL - A TIE BETWEEN THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE AND FARGO - TOO TIRED TO EXPLAIN.
PTA - Magnolia. I connected with this film the third time I saw it and have loved it since. I love every character. I feel like I know them on a personal level. They're become my friends, so to speak.
Wes Anderson - Rushmore. This movie, while not as polished as Royal Tennenbaums, tugs at something in me...The theme of teen alienation and confused leadership...it really captures the teen experience well. If I had to pick a movie character that was most like me, I'd say it was Max Fischer.
Coen Bros - O Brother Where Art Thou. As a music nut and fairly into bluegrass, this movie connected with me more than their other movies. It's also their sweetest and funniest, I feel. Beautiful visuals too.
Cameron Crowe - Vanilla Sky. The only Crowe movie I enjoy, really. His style doesn't appeal to me but this movie was genuinely creepy at times and Tom Cruise's performance was pretty damn good.
Finch - Fight Club. Definitely encourages its way of life, as Ducksauce pointed out...a little pseudo-intellectual, but still entertaining and it uses an original style of storytelling.
Stanley Kubrick - Full Metal Jacket. The only Kubrick movie that contains a protoganist that I could identify with. And really awesome visuals and emotions, especially towards the end. I am one of the few that likes the second half better.
Lynch - Mulholland Drive. Naomi Watts. Nuff said.
Martin Scorsese - Age of Innocence. Great storytelling, pure and simple.
Steve Soderberg - Traffic. i liked this film. I was familiar with a lot of the locales where it was shot, and so I'm a little biased towards it.
The 'Berg - I enjoyed Amistad. But I also like the Indiana Jones movies and of course Jaws.
QT - Pulp Fiction. Just for the Golden Watch vignette which is absolutely fucking brilliant
this thread is funner to fill out then to actually read
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON - MAGNOLIA
this is number one on my all time top 10 list. you know why it's so good!
WES ANDERSON - RUSHMORE
i still think max ficsher is the best character in all motion picture.
THE COEN BROTHERS - O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?
I love the look and the feel of this film. very entertaining and very fuckin' clever!
CAMERON CROWE - ALMOST FAMOUS
very well told and very well done.
DAVID FINCHER - SE7EN
good film, out of all of his films i think this is his best
STANLEY KUBRICK - FULL METAL JACKET
i really like the way it switched gears when they went to vietnam
DAVID LYNCH - sorry to say but i haven't gotten into david lynch yet. i know i should be hey! what are you gonna do? you guys don't even have any wong kar-wai post!!
MARTIN SCORSESE - CASINO
it's long and epic. took GOODFELLAS one step further.
STEVEN SODERBEGH - OCEAN'S 11
the most entertaining film i have seen in years. very classy!
STEVEN SPIELBERG - JAWS
good film, i think it's his best of the 70s.
QUENTIN TARANTINO - JACKIE BROWN
the most mature work. really fuckin' cool! and i love the music!
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indeed.
though i hope my post didn't prompt that comment, ducksauce. ha...
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Dammit, I started doing these but my answer was mostly 'all of them' and 'just because..'
Apart from...
Soderburgh - Traffic
Because it gets better every damn time.
Quote from: redlumDammit, I started doing these but my answer was mostly 'all of them' and 'just because..'
Apart from...
Soderburgh - Traffic
Because it gets better every damn time.
I'm set to re-watch this soon, and I hope you're right. I remember being underwhelmed when I saw it upon its release. I'm kind of looking forward to revisiting it, though.
PTA- Magnolia...uh, because it's the only film of his I've seen.
Wes Anderson- The Royal Tenenbaums. Loved the cast, the story, the music. Everything. But I liked Rushmore almost as much.
Coen bros.- Fargo cause it's so damn funny.
Cameron Crowe- Vanilla Sky. I can't begin to explain how much I love it.
David Fincer- Fight Club, Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are just great actors and I love its dark humour.
Kubrick- Clockwork Orange. Again, dark humour and great acting.
David Lynch- Mulholland Dr. See PTA.
Scorsese- Goodfellas. See Cameron Crowe.
Steve Soderberg- Traffic. I like how it shows the drug scene from every angle. Great cast, too.
Speilberg- This is a toughy. If anyone makes 'generally great' movies it's him. But I guess I'm going with Jurassic Park.
QT- Pulp Fiction. See Scorsese or Cameron Crowe.
p.t. anderson - Punch-Drunk Love . The movie where I feel he is starting to dominate the brushstokes of the paintings more so than general conformity or any specific movie. I think the most daring thing in movies is to try to show yourself without being drowned in thought on how it looks compared to other works.
wes anderson - bottle rocket. Only movie by him where i feel his story is not being compromised by the gimmickery of his style because he has yet to write to fully explore for that style if he wants to make it effective. His stories are still too typical to achieve what Fellini could in his stride when he could just share his feelings instead of telling a specific story.
coen brothers - I honestly don't care for any of their movies enough to differentiate.
cameron crowe - almost famous. Say Anything is more personal, but almost famous is the most mature work by Crowe in bringing a film that is both entertaining and heartwarming.
david fincher - The Game. Only movie I felt that wasn't dominated by the visuals of the background first and foremost. The film played to its story and kept the fitting pace all the way through according to the story even though Fincher is about a dialed up atmosphere.
Stanley Kubrick - 2001. Its really his contribution to the art of cinema for that century and in my mind the best film ever. Not most entertaining to watch, but no film clearly divides in showing how far it all can be pushed.
David Lynch - Mulholland Dr. Its really a masterful film that is so curious in how it sets everything up to make you want to attempt to explain it, but you fully can't. You just hit personal subjective questions and in your attempt to analyze further, you only appreciate every single bit of the film because no part slacks off, everything is done to interest.
Martin Scorsese - In my mind, Scorsese has divided himself into two directors. One is of pure personal vision and is deeply inspired by John Cassavettes. For that, I say Taxi Driver because frankly, no film as is powerful in its approach to the subject and ambiguilty in trying to look at it in a serious and mature way. The other filmmaker in him seems to lie in his affinity to be that old time filmmaker and so I go with Goodfellas, which created an epic out of a moasic piece of work in looking at a life. Not to grab you with any specific story, but to capture a feeling for a world. A world that dominated Scorsese's own childhood fascinations.
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic. Frankly, his most powerful and reaching of films. I'm still waiting for Soderbergh to seem like he is getting back off the others he is influenced by or the work he is remaking. The sad thing in that is that is never much difference between the previous and new works. Even if Soderbergh wants a low key filmmaking approach that is rooted in hand held camera, he should realize his work has to differentiate between the previous.
Steven Speilberg - Schindler's List . Most powerful and mature work and if he used any other name for this movie, many people here would love this work because it is a purely adult film. The Speilberg lights glows too much for some people to really appreciate this film, though I understand some may not love the movie, I also believe some are careful to admit favor to the man. I still love his other work too when done well. Its just that this movie is so powerful and feels like it is made from another vision of the movie world and not set up with any normal hook and seems to be documenting on a scale only for action films or whatever. Maybe thats why it is so unique; because it can make its vision so personal and yet so large in scope.
Quetin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction. A masterpiece of a movie that is playing with all the bad cliches of gangster stories but yet is drowned in so much realism it can never be understood what is serious and what is not. And instead of replaying a single gangster element, it goes after them all making the film even more adventurous and unique.
~rougerum
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON: Magnolia A+++
WES ANDERSON: The Royal Tenenbaums A+++
THE COEN BROTHERS: Fargo A+++
CAMERON CROWE: Almost Famous A
DAVID FINCHER: Fight Club A
STANLEY KUBRICK: Eyes Wides Shut A+++
DAVID LYNCH: Mulholland Drive A++
MARTIN SCORSESE: GoodFellas A+++
STEVEN SODERBEGH: Traffic A++
STEVEN SPIELBERG: Minority Report A+
QUENTIN TARANTINO: Pulp FictionA+++
GT, I'm really surprised by your blatant dismissal of the Coen Brothers there - I had no idea you had you had this, evidently intense, dislike towards them. You're someone who's opinion I respect, and I was wondering if you could elaborate a little on why you don't "care for any of their movies enough to differentiate". Maybe this isn't the place for this, but I'm genuinely interested... Are they not emotional enough for you? Too ironic? Too stylized?
Well, first off, I must admit to never seeing Barton Fink and Hudsucker Proxy and O' Brother but my view on The Man Who Wasn't There kinda sums up a lot of my feelings for the film in that it is direct photography with nothing more. The film acts on meditation where characters seem to be at some sort of stand still, but it is just for the photography. Beneath that is a story typical at best but the film is just the case of "since its from the 40s, only then do we film it black and white". Miller's Crossing also provided a typical gangster story but for some reason, they added moments of farce comedy. No believable or important reason at all. All it did was take away from the effect of power at the end the film was banking on, which is contradictory to the farce moments. Fargo was a little bearable, because it depend on some sort of story that was worth viewing, but the film just had to go down cliche road with the thinking every single person from these areas talks this way. Nothing further from the truth. I come from an area near this place and only a small minority talk that way in such a fashion. Yes, there is feelings of that voice, but not to the point where it becomes comedy with each line they say. But there is very little reason in doing this at all and sad thing, promise was in the film. The Big Lewbowski well, is the perfect cult film. Only available to the admirers of the work of the filmmakers and not able to be criticized. I promise to see more of their films, beginning with Barton Fink, but these films have provided a major annoyance to the point I can't stand them.
~rougerum
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON: Magnolia
WES ANDERSON: The Royal Tenenbaums
THE COEN BROTHERS: don't really care for them
CAMERON CROWE: don't like him either...sorry
DAVID FINCHER: Se7en
STANLEY KUBRICK: Clockwork Orange
DAVID LYNCH: Lost Highway...not a huge Lynch fan though
MARTIN SCORSESE: Raging Bull...though Goodfellas....up in the air
STEVEN SODERBEGH: The Limey....shhh
STEVEN SPIELBERG: ET
QUENTIN TARANTINO: Pulp Fiction
PTA: Hard Eight. Before he wrote Boogie Nights and Magnolia, he wrote this gem of a movie with nothing but an ear for fantastic dialogue and these troubled characters striving for normalcy, or happiness, in their lives...
Fincher: Se7en. Everything about that movie is just fucking great. The lighting, the set design (in the Gluttony scene in particular, they actually greased up the walls to give it that scuzzy ambiance....) Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey....followed closely by The Game...
Forman: Loves of a Blonde. Fireman's Ball.
Scorsese: Taxi Driver. De Niro, the Ultimate Method Actor. Everything...
Wes Anderson: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore....
A ton of others, but I'm just too fucking tired to type anymore.
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON: PDL. He showed he can do whatever he sets to.
WES ANDERSON: The Royal Tenenbaums. Amazing screenplay.
THE COEN BROTHERS: The Man Who Wasn't There. Beautifully shot.
CAMERON CROWE: Jerry Maguire
DAVID FINCHER: Fight Club
STANLEY KUBRICK: The Shining. Because it was my introduction to his films.
DAVID LYNCH: M.Dr. Best film of this decade so far.
MARTIN SCORSESE: Goodfellas
STEVEN SODERBEGH: Kafka
STEVEN SPIELBERG: Catch me if you can
QUENTIN TARANTINO: Jackie Brown
PT Anderson -Magnolia: This film is just plain brilliant. Every other person in here has expressed why I love this movie. Well Done
De Palma-Carlito's Way: De Palma's coolest movie. Pacino playing a Puerto Rican nuff said. Plus Luis Guzman is in it.
Lynch- The Straight Story- This movie made me cry.
Lucas- Empire Strikes Back- I 'm suprised this movie is not in lot of peoples list. You know you love it.
Kubrick- Dr. Strangelove- The best political comedy/satire ever made.
Coppola- The Godfather PArt II- One of the few movies that is quite long and I can watch over and over again. I'm a wanabe gangster I guess.
Jonze- Adaptation- I admit , I have fallen in love with this film.
A.H.- Vertigo- The music is brilliant, everything is brilliant.
Recent Honorable Mentions
Polanski- The Pianist
City of God
25th Hour
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON: Boogie Nights, I love Magnolia as well but Boogie Nights is the film of his that I could watch every day and still not get sick of it.
WES ANDERSON: The Royal Tenenbaums, probably because it is the last one I watched between it and Rushmore, I can never decide which one I enjoy most.
THE COEN BROTHERS: Fargo, maybe it's because I grew up in Northern Wisconsin.
CAMERON CROWE: Vanilla Sky, it is the only one I own, Crowe's films lose their effect on me the more I view them.
DAVID FINCHER: Se7en, I love Fight Club too but Se7en wins out because it just seems..."tighter"
STANLEY KUBRICK: Full Metal Jacket, if you only count the first half.
DAVID LYNCH: Mulholland Dr, only Lynch film I really liked.
MARTIN SCORSESE: Taxi Driver, DeNiro's performance and how much this film still seems new.
STEVEN SODERBEGH: Traffic, to me...one of the top films of the 90s.
STEVEN SPIELBERG: Jaws, for it's historical importance.
QUENTIN TARANTINO: Pulp Fiction, I have a feeling that in time we will see it in the top 10 of Sight & Sounds list.
PS> There are a lot of films that I haven't seen. Mainly more Scorsese, Lynch, Coen Bros and Kubrick films.
Quote from: SHAFTRSTEVEN SODERBEGH: Traffic, to me...one of the top films of the 90s.
traffic was released in december of 2000.
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December 27, 2000 (NY & LA), January 5 2001 (rest of US)
Quote from: themodernage02Quote from: SHAFTRSTEVEN SODERBEGH: Traffic, to me...one of the top films of the 90s.
traffic was released in december of 2000.
*edit technically...
December 27, 2000 (NY & LA), January 5 2001 (rest of US)
Shit!
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON: Boogie Nights. Hilarious and the funnest to watch. Although there is more to Magnolia, I think BN is better made.
WES ANDERSON: Rushmore.... bah, it's just better.
THE COEN BROTHERS: Big Lebowski. The brilliant characters and the ridiculous plot work so well together.
CAMERON CROWE: Vanilla Sky
DAVID FINCHER: Fight Club. I'm not spose to talk about it.
STANLEY KUBRICK: 2001, but not by far. Clockwork comes in 2nd.
DAVID LYNCH: Mulholland Dr. I only seen this & Blue Velvet, and this was better.
MARTIN SCORSESE: Taxi Driver. No explanation needed.
STEVEN SODERBEGH: Out of Site is probably his best, followed by Traffic.
STEVEN SPIELBERG: Last Cruisade.
QUENTIN TARANTINO: Pulp Fiction.
Magnolia ( by Paul Thomas Anderson) i loved this picture since the first scene, the music, the characters, and over all the SCRIPT, and W. H. Macy's character with the SuperTramp's music and the scene in the bar,and Aime Mann, and Carmen!!! (The Opera) wow!...well i could talk hours and hours an hours about this picture
The Dreams by Akira Kurosawa (i don't know if that's the title in english too) this movie is one of the reasons why a i love cinema as i love it and Martin Scorsese as Vincent Van Gogh!! and the tunnel sequence sooo touching, well this is just a masterpiece
The Rope by Alfred Hitchcock, is a play made movie, and just a genius as Hitchcock could make a movie so interesting as this, moving the camera during almost 2 hours in the same room!
Barton Fink by The Coen Brothers, is wonderful how depresion could became in a beautiful movie, and John Turturro is terrific!!! i really would like to see JT in a PTA movie, that would be sooooooooo niiiiice
Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino, this movie changed my way to watch pictures, i just would say that if someone askme what was the best of 90's, i would say: Pulp Fiction (because Magnolia was showed in 2000 in Peru)
PTA - Punch Drunk Love - I love the colors in this film, and I love how PTA makes any setting look beautiful (i.e. his office). The music is also perfect. A VERY near second is Boogie Nights (the opening to this movie is awesome with the long steadicam shot and "Best of My Love" playing in the background)
Wes Anderson - Rushmore - The music, Billy Murray, etc. What more is there to say? It's an awesome, FUN film to watch.
Coens - O Brother - Just a really fun film to watch. Plus I'm really into greek mythology.
Cameron Crowe - Vanilla Sky - So confusing that it glued me to the screen.
Kubrick - Clockwork Orange - Everything.
Lynch - I have yet to catch one of his films.
Marty Scorsese - Goodfellas - Bad ass film
Soderbergh - Traffic - The colors and editing were real cool in this movie.
Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Arc - I'm a HUGE Indiana Jones fan, and I can't help but love the first of the three.
Quentin Tarantino - hmmm...can't decide.
Fincher - Fight Club - also makes me want to fight.
Honorable Mentions -
Jonze - Being John Malkovich
Almodovar - All about my Mother
P.T. ANDERSON - "Magnolia" - the actors are just so amazing, especially William H. Macy as the unendless loser Donnie. You're right - the bar scene is really fantastic - "When I was young...!" - great song!
WES ANDERSON - "The Royal Tenenbaums" - great actors, a fantastic script, very entertaining, subtle fun - a masterpiece.
JOEL & ETHAN COEN - "The Big Lebowski" - incredibly funny, a fantastic Jeff Bridges and also an amazing John Goodman, nearly every line is quotable.
CAMERON CROWE - "Almost Famous" - nice, little film about Rock'n'Roll with great actors.
DAVID FINCHER - "Fight Club" - very disturbing but also damn funny with fantastic scenes, a great sense of humour, amazing actors and a new a very intelligent story. I also like the camerawork and the dark colours very much.
STANLEY KUBRICK - "A Clockwork Orange" - disturbing, bad - just great! And Malcolm McDowell is fantastic!
DAVID LYNCH - "Blue Velvet" - the great darkness of a small town, the actors are great and just the mystery of the film is great.
MARTIN SCORSESE - "Taxi Driver" - Robert De Niro at his best, a dark film - very good.
STEVEN SODERBERGH - "Traffic" - different colors for each scenes, it really encovers the drug scene.
STEVEN SPIELBERG - "Saving Private Ryan" - the camerawork's amazing, I think that nobody showed us ever the reality of the World War II so intensively.
QUENTIN TARANTINO - "Pulp Fiction" - what do I have to say about this flick? Just fucking awesome, dude! :-D
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON: PDL. I've never seen a movie that had so much charm to it. When people ask me what it's about, I say "too hard to explain, but really great." That way if they'll probably see it as opposed to me saying "it was a really deep, yet cute"
WES ANDERSON: Royal Tenebaums. Cinematic masterpiece with the directing, small storyline that branches out in a bunch of directions, and acting that can't be beaten. All around classic.
DAVID FINCHER: Fight Club. The first movie to really blow my mind. I think that's because I was expecting just some fighting and yadda yadda because all I had heard was "Two guys make an underground fighting ring to relieve the day's stress." I later realized that person completely missed the point of the movie...
STANLEY KUBRICK: Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. Who else has the balls to mock a war to this magnitude at one of the most tense times of it? To some he's overrated, to some he's God, but you can't say he didn't have some fucked up agenda.
DAVID LYNCH: Blue Velvet. Little memory of it, I just know that I cracked up everytime I heard Dennis Hopper go on his "FUCK! Don't you fucking look at me you fucking fucker! BABY WANTS TO FUCK!" rants.
MARTIN SCORSESE: Goodfellas. Great flick about the mafia. Good actor picks, and everything.
STEVEN SPIELBERG: Jurassic Park. Almost said Catch Me If You Can. Then, remembered how Jurassic Park was my first favorite movie. I was obssessed with it. I begged my parents to take me to a showing of it everyday when I was younger. I think I saw it 5 times in the theaters, though. I was in awe of the animation, true. But the story had me captivated. Ok, so what if I was just a kid?
QUENTIN TARANTINO: Pulp Fiction. I don't know many movies where I can watch it and feel coooooool. Anyone know what I mean? Whenever I watch it, I feel ok with giving my "yeahs" that special pronunciation, or saying "sall good." I'm not sure how, but it gives me a vibe of being really swank.
DAVID FINCHER: Fight Club. I am Jack's beer washed kidneys.
STANLEY KUBRICK: Shining. No explanation needed.
MARTIN SCORSESE: Goodfellas. Great actors, great story.
TIM BURTON: Beetlejuice. Because it didn't SUCK as bad as his other films.
QUENTIN TARANTINO: Reservoir Dogs. I LOVE Pulp, but I love RD just a little more.
CAMERON CROWE: Almost Famous. Great story telling. I love rock n' roll!
STEVEN SPIELBERG: Raiders of the Lost Arc. No explanation needed.
SAM RAIMI: EVIL DEAD 2 DEAD BY DAWN: The most visually stunning movie ever, and he made it for about ten bucks. LOL!!!
FRANCIS FORD COPOLLA: The Godfather 2. One of my all time favs. You people should have a forum for this guy.
KEVIN SMITH: Chasing Amy. Great characters, great dialogue, great story.
DAVID LYNCH: Who gives a sh1t. Is he on drugs?
SAM MENDES: American Beauty. A perfect movie. Now this is better than Magnolia, you've GOT to admit that.
I almost forgot RIDLEY SCOTT: 1984. It was a commercial he did for a certain computer company, heh heh. TV Guide ranked it as the greatest commercial ever. As far as a movie goes? BladeRunner
Quote from: Steve McQueen's ghostSAM MENDES: American Beauty. A perfect movie. Now this is better than Magnolia, you've GOT to admit that.
HAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahaha.... no.
Quote from: SoNowThenQuote from: Steve McQueen's ghostSAM MENDES: American Beauty. A perfect movie. Now this is better than Magnolia, you've GOT to admit that.
HAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahaha.... no.
what he said.
Yeah you guys are right Magnolia was much better. I mean so what if American Beauty won the Academy Awards for BEST PICTURE and BEST ACTOR and and eat this: BEST DIRECTOR! What did Magnolia get?
because the academy awards actually mean something?
Hey, themodernage02, you're right, the AA are full of crap. I'll be holding my breath with you waiting for J Lo to get that best actress nomination for Gigli....BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. OOOHHH! I touched a nerve! You guys can't accept that anything is better than Magnolia. I'm gonna watch it again. I must have missed something that I DIDN'T miss in American Beauty.
Quote from: Steve McQueen's ghostDAVID LYNCH: Who gives a sh1t. Is he on drugs?
NO..and thats the beauty of his films......
and for the record ..i just feel like venting some....
PTA ......HAS.. NOTHING
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LYN.CH.......
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Quote from: Steve McQueen's ghostYeah you guys are right Magnolia was much better. I mean so what if American Beauty won the Academy Awards for BEST PICTURE and BEST ACTOR and and eat this: BEST DIRECTOR! What did Magnolia get?
are you fucking kidding me?
i mean, I love American Beauty, too. Second fave film of 1999 (fave was - yeah, magnolia) but jesus christ dude, do you know how stupid that made you sound?
Quote from: ewardQuote from: Steve McQueen's ghostYeah you guys are right Magnolia was much better. I mean so what if American Beauty won the Academy Awards for BEST PICTURE and BEST ACTOR and and eat this: BEST DIRECTOR! What did Magnolia get?
are you fucking kidding me?
i mean, I love American Beauty, too. Second fave film of 1999 (fave was - yeah, magnolia) but jesus christ dude, do you know how stupid that made you sound?
..yeah gotta agree....w/eward..just b/c it wins gold, it doesn't mean is worth gold.....(i.e....
GLADIATOR...& SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE)...
Quote from: Steve McQueen's ghostI mean so what if American Beauty won the Academy Awards for BEST PICTURE and BEST ACTOR and and eat this: BEST DIRECTOR!
The quality of a film should not be judged like a football game.
And also... OMG HAVE U SEEN GLADIATOR? OMG IT WON BEST PICTURE OMG ITS SUCH A GOOD MOVIE
Quote from: Steve McQueen's ghostWhat did Magnolia get?
http://www.ptanderson.com/featurefilms/magnolia/awardsandnominations.htm
Discussion, please. This is what happens when an annoying guy with little to say but ego to drive it miles beyond can do when people start to take it serious. Opinions are fine, but no real discussion is actually coming from any of this.
~rougerum
Quote from: Steve McQueen's ghostHey, themodernage02, you're right, the AA are full of crap. I'll be holding my breath with you waiting for J Lo to get that best actress nomination for Gigli....BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. OOOHHH! I touched a nerve! You guys can't accept that anything is better than Magnolia. I'm gonna watch it again. I must have missed something that I DIDN'T miss in American Beauty.
i never said you had to like magnolia. i could care less if you watch it again and like it or not. but, saying that a movie is better than another just because it won an academy award is utter bullshit. as we've already brought up on other threads...
DIRECTORS WHO NEVER WON AN OSCAR-Alfred Hitchcock
-Stanley Kubrick
-Martin Scorsese
-Robert Altman
-Orson Welles
-Howard Hawks
DIRECTORS WHO HAVE WON OSCARS-Kevin Costner
-Mel Gibson
-Robert Redford
-Ron Howard
not that oscars dont mean anything. sometimes they do. but, time usually seperates the movies that won best picture and shouldnt have, from the movies that people still care about. look at the best picture history and look at the AFI top 100. tons of movies never won an oscar but have ended up being ones that people still care about years later.
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetDiscussion, please.
really. please say something if you have a reason. or you have something you want to talk about. but dont just say MAGNOLIA isnt any good, just look at the oscars! and close discussion.
Quote from: Steve McQueen's ghostI'll be holding my breath with you waiting for J Lo to get that best actress nomination for Gigli....BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. OOOHHH!
what the hell does that even mean? i refuse to believe you are 33 years old.
American Beauty was a better movie. Spacey was great. I see that Magnolia was nominated for alot of awards, hmmmm. American Beauty WON alot of awards. Academy awards that is, not Ponchos second annual best crap, but the BEST!!
I agree that there have been bad calls by the AA. Look at how long it took Pacino to win best actor. Hitchcock and Kubrick never won? That's insane.
Harrison Ford deserved it for Witness. Michael Caine, Sean Connery and H Ford can't win best actor, but Tom Hanks wins two? Then again many times they get it right. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Silence Of The Lambs, Unforgiven, American Beauty are a few of the very best made in the last thirty years. They were honored by the academy and have stood the test of time. Tell me you haven't seen one of these.
Hey Trumpetboy, what point would you like to "discuss" first? You choose and we'll discuss it. I have much to say on a number of different subjects, but being that we are talking about films here, I'll stick to that.
I didn't say that Magnolia wasn't any good. I am a big Kevin Spacey fan and American Beauty knocked me out. It was very impressive. It just so happens that the industry also agreed that it was the best movie of 1999.
How does that make me sound stupid? I believe AB was and is better. Why? Because I cared more about the characters in AB. I think the cast did a better job in AB. I think the story was better in AB. Spacey and Benning were perfect. I wouldn't have changed a thing. I have not seen a better movie since AB.
I have nothing against PTA. His stuff just hasn't really clicked for me. I can hear you all laughing now when I say this, but I think Eastwood is a great director. The outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven are both fantastic films. FFC is also a fav of mine Godfather 2 and Apocalyps Now are cinematic treasures.
What's wrong with Gladiator? Ridley Scott is cool. It's not the best movie ever, but I enjoyed it.
Quote from: Steve McQueen's ghost
I didn't say that Magnolia wasn't any good. I am a big Kevin Spacey fan and American Beauty knocked me out. It was very impressive. It just so happens that the industry also agreed that it was the best movie of 1999.
How does that make me sound stupid? I believe AB was and is better. Why? Because I cared more about the characters in AB. I think the cast did a better job in AB. I think the story was better in AB. Spacey and Benning were perfect. I wouldn't have changed a thing. I have not seen a better movie since AB.
it doesn't make you sound stupid when you put it like that, but the way you posted before made you sound like an asshole. i totally respect your opinion, i agree that AB is great. i loved it as well. end of story.
I'm gonna do this now:
Paul Thomas Anderson - Punch Drunk Love :(
Wes Anderson - Bottle Rocket
The Coen Brothers - Big Lebowski/Barton Fink
Cameron Crowe - Who? :(
David Fincher - Seven
Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
David Lynch - The Elephant Man
Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver/Mean Streets/Goodfellas
Steven Soderbergh - Um
Steven Spielberg - Raiders/Hook/Jurassic Park (I'm serious :()
Quentin Tarantino - Jackie Brown
Others:
Tim Burton - Ed Wood
Akira Kurosawa - Rashomon/Seven Samurai/High and Low
Robert Zemeckis - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Terry Gilliam - Brazil
Frances Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho/Rope
Segio Leone - The Good. The Bad, and the Ugly
Paul Thomas Anderson - BOOGIE NIGHTS
The energy is there from the beginning and it never ever stops. Even in the more somber scenes, it is intense. This film is probably the one that changed not only my outlook on film, but my life overall. It made me want to become a filmmaker. I never had seen so many characters juggled so flawlessly in one film. I had also never seen such subject matter potrayed in a humane way that felt so real and heartbreaking. Porn was always a joke to me before I saw it (I was 13). It's a perfect movie.
Wes Anderson - undecided
The Coen Brothers - undecided
Cameron Crowe - SAY ANYTHING
This isn't set in stone as I am in love with Almost Famous too. I won't say too much with this one. It's charm is just intoxicating, Cusack has never been better. Crowe perfectly captured the awkwardness of teen life and the feel of it. I can vouche for that. The phone scenes are some of the best scenes ever filmed. There's so much more that's just great to watch over and over again. All The Real Girls is the only other movie I can think of right now that captured young people as they really are.
David Fincher - N/A
Not a big Fincher fan at all.
Stanley Kubrick - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Again, like Boogie Nights, I never imagined the subject matter that Kubrick deals with here as something I could stomach or even sit through much less empathize with a character that was in the center of it all. It blows my mind and I really don't know how he did it. I've never read the book so maybe that's where the secret lies...who knows? It's Kubrick after all, he's the master...who could ever figure him out? Who wants to? His mystique kills me. He's a god and this might be his masterpiece. But who am I to say? He had multiple masterpieces.
David Lynch - THE ELEPHANT MAN
Ok, this is one of those movies that I can't watch or even talk about a whole lot...it's one of the most powerful movies I've ever seen plain and simple...if not the most powerful. It is Lynch's masterpiece, Anthony Hopkin's best preformance, and still the only John Hurt preformance I have had the pleasure of seeing to this day. I've always said that, along with Edward Scissorhands, it's probably the most heartbreaking movie I've ever seen and it's never sappy. If you notice, Hopkins never does lie to John, he doesn't tell him he can cure him, he doesn't hug him, he doesn't do any of that. He does take care of him though. The beauty of their relationship offsets all of the darkness and sadness in the movie. Like the offbeat humor and the fairy-tale elements of Edward does. I love Lynch for maintaining his style while never ignoring the subject matter and the message and the humane quality of the movie he was trying to make.
Martin Scorsese - undecided
Steven Soderbergh - OUT OF SIGHT
Just a cool little movie. Jlo is fucking hot as always and actually really good for once. Clooney is a great actor. Steve Zahn is funny. Don Cheadle is just smooth. This is a fun movie. The MTV/Rushmore parody of it made me like it even more.
Steven Spielberg - undecided
Quentin Tarantino - PULP FICTION
That's right...it's probably a cliche to choose this one but I'm not going to lie. What can I say that hasn't been said? It's cool as hell, it's fun, it's tastefully violent, it's a realistic genre movie, it's sexy, it's energetic, it's perfect.
PTA - Boogie Nights. The opening is the best since Touch of Evil.
Wes Anderson - Rushmore.
Demme - Melvin & Howard.
Godard - Weekend/My Life To Live. 2 films that show his stylistic range.
Kubrick - Barry Lyndon. Mesmerizing, not slow.
Scorsese - Mean Streets (Taxi Driver a close 2nd).
Altman - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Soderbergh - Traffic. Stylistically cool, and every performance is great.
Eastwood - Unforgiven. Each time I see it, it gets better and better. One of the greatest Westerns ever.
Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Fincher - Seven.
Tarantino - Pulp Fiction (Reservoir Dogs is a masterpiece, too).
Malick - Days of Heaven
Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia
Wes Anderson - Royal Tenenbaums
The Coen Brothers - Fargo
Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous
David Fincher - Seven
Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
David Lynch - Mulholland Dr.
Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
Steven Spielberg - E.T.
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
10 Others:
Akira Kurosawa - Rashomon
Federico Fellini - 8 1/2
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
Buster Keaton - The General
Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times
Robert Altman - Nashville
Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
Charles Laughton - Night of the Hunter
Coen Brothers - The Man Who Wasn't There - I really love this movie. The black and white makes it eerie and fun to watch
Cameron Crowe - Jerry McGuire - A great movie when your feeling blue. Lots of memorable scenes.
Wes Anderson - The Royal Tenenbaums - The best dysfuctional family
Kubrick - The Shining - first film to actually creep me out
Scorsese - Gangs of New York - A really great epic. (haven't seen a lot of his films)
Altman - Gosford Park - Clive Owen ruled the screen. Good mystery/timepiece
Soderbergh - Ocean's Eleven - such a fun movie to watch over and over
Spielberg - ET - Classic movie that gets better with each viewing
Lynch - I've only seen Mullholland Drive.
Tarantino - Pulp Fiction - Brilliant dialogue and use of great actors
Where's PTA?
Quote from: CinephileWhere's PTA?
Umm.....
i havent seen any of his movies yet :oops:
great picks, shanghai. you have some great ones too, soixante (barry lyndon as your favorite kubrick? thats fantastic)
pta - pdl
coens - fargo
fincher - fight club
kubrick - clockwork orange
lynch - lost highway
scorsese - taxi driver
soderbergh - sex lies
spielberg - close encounters of the 3rd kind
tarantino - reservoir dogs
Quote from: CinephileCharles Laughton - Night of the Hunter
Wasn't that his only film? I love it too, I'm just checking for myself.
Quote from: GloriaQuote from: CinephileWhere's PTA?
Umm.....
i havent seen any of his movies yet :oops:
Gloria Gloria Gloria. Go out and rent (or buy) Hard Eight immediately. That'll get you started off on the right foot. ;)
opinions change:
pta - punch-drunk love
wes anderson - bottle rocket
coen brothers - fargo
cameron crowe - TIE between say anything and almost famous
david fincher - ...i guess The Game, tho he's never truly impressed me yet
stanley kubrick - TIE between Dr. Strangelove and Clockwork Orange
david lynch - TIE between elephant man and mulholland drive
martin scorsese - raging bull
steven soderbergh - sex, lies, and videotape
steven spielberg - close encounters of the third kind
quentin tarantino - pulp fiction
Quote from: ebeamanQuote from: CinephileCharles Laughton - Night of the Hunter
Wasn't that his only film?
Damn right.
Since I could never pick one favorite Spielberg or PTA or Kurosawa film, I'll devote my answers a few of the directors who get somewhat less bulletin-board time here at xixax:
Alan J. Pakula -- All the President's Men
Sydney Pollack -- Tootsie
Errol Morris -- The Thin Blue Line
Henri-Georges Clouzot -- Wages of Fear
Robert Rossen -- The Hustler
Ermanno Olmi -- Il Posto
Sidney Lumet -- 12 Angry Men
Neil LaBute -- Nurse Betty
Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia
Wes Anderson - The Royal Tenenbaums
Coens - The Big Lebowski
Cameron Crowe - Jerry Maguire
David Fincher - Fight Club
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
David Lynch - Blue Velvet
Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Quentin Tarantino - Jackie Brown
Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia
Wes Anderson - Rushmore
Coens - Fargo
Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous
David Fincher - eh.
Stanley Kubrick - The Shining
David Lynch - Mulholland Dr.
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction (hopefully Kill Bill will eclipse it)
*Kurosawa - Rashomon/Seven Samurai/Ikiru/Kagemusha/Dreams/ok, etc...
*Hitchcock - Rope/ Vertigo/ Rear Window/Psycho/The Man Who Knew Too Much/ ok, etc...
*Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather I-II-III/Apocalypse Now
*Fellini - La Dolce Vita/ 8 1/2
*Chaplin - The Kid/ Modern Times
*Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
*Scorsese - Taxi Driver/ GoodFellas/Raging Bull
*PTA - Boogie Nights/ Magnolia/ PDL
*Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich
*Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
etccccccccc............
Quote from: eward
david fincher - ...i guess The Game, tho he's never truly impressed me yet
That is exactly my feeling.
Quote from: themodernage02
Quote from: Steve McQueen's ghostI'll be holding my breath with you waiting for J Lo to get that best actress nomination for Gigli....BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. OOOHHH!
what the hell does that even mean? i refuse to believe you are 33 years old.
Yeah, sorry, but did this get resolved yet? Everytime I read his posts, I wonder how old he actually is... If someone could fill me in, that'd be great.
boys don't cry by kimberly peirce. i really like how personal this was to the director. it has flaws, but considering that this was a debut, it's quite astounding how well-made this movie is. (shot composition, cinematography, direction of actors, music choices).
this is a new addition to the already established magnolia by paul thomas anderson, donnie darko by richard kelly, heavenly creatures by peter jackson list.
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON - BOOGIE NIGHTS
Magnolia is a better film, but I enjoy this one a lot more. I've seen it hundreds of times and it never for a second feels any less fun or entertaining. The soundtrack absolutely rules and every actor shines both in dramatic and comedic moments. And it has some really cool homages to other films.
WES ANDERSON - THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS
this is a masterpiece, you wanna get inside the screen and play with the children's toys and records. And it always makes me cry at the end.
THE COEN BROTHERS - THE BIG LEBOWSKI
This has to be the funniest movie in the world. The more I see it the more I love it. It's funny from all sorts of angles, and those characters are perfect, just perfectly written and performed by everyone. And it's visually interesting.
CAMERON CROWE - VANILLA SKY
I've never understood what all the complaints are about on this one...I think is more of an I hate hollywood-tom cruise attitude than anything else. I s better than Abre los Ojos, which wasa hollywood concept from the beggining, and has a more interesting focus on love than the original. And Cruise is a better actor than the guy in the spanish version.
DAVID FINCHER - SE7EN
Fight Club is great and more current and relevant as a whole, but the second half kinda slows down or something and I usually lose interest by then. This one on the other hand, keeps surprising and creepy all the way to that terrific desert climax.
STANLEY KUBRICK - 2001
on eo f the best films ever made by anyone anywhere
DAVID LYNCH - THE ELEPHANT MAN and THE STRAIGHT STORY
This was really hard cause i love all his movies, and some people may say this are the less lynchian movies he's made, but I disagree. This are as personal movies as any other, with all his usual details and stuff. The elephant man is for me, way more disturbing than any of his "horror" films, and it has a beauty and a love for life that's bittersweet and never corny. The same goes for A Straight Story, such a simple anecdote elevated to the status of epic odyssey.
MARTIN SCORSESE - GOOD FELLAS
Even harder for me, but Good fellas is my favorite movie ever and it's never a letdown at no point. Raging Bull, however, would be his very best film I guess.
STEVEN SODERBEGH - OUT OF SIGHT
the perfect balance between intelligent and light. very classy without feeling like a whorish attempt to cash some big bucks like ocean's eleven. And J Lo is hot.
STEVEN SPIELBERG - A.I.
probably the most underrated film so far this century
QUENTIN TARANTINO - PULP FICTION
a masterpice of timing and performance...this movie changed everything back in 1994
PTA - Magnolia
An openly emotional and honest film. PTA bearing his soul through these characters.
Wes Anderson - Royal Tenenbaums
Its great to go on a journey with these characters. WA creates a world that is both somewhat surreal and real and relatable.
Tim Burton - Pee Wee's Big Adventure
The ultimate feel-good movie. I feel happy whenever I watch it.
Hitchcock - Vertigo
Terrific film about the nature of illusion vs. reality, desire, obsession. Gorgeous visualization of the themes.
Scorsese - Taxi Driver
Brilliant film about anger, self-loathing, loneliness, and redemption.
PTA -- Boogie Nights.
Wes Anderson -- Rushmore.
Coen Bros. -- Raising Arizona. Hudsucker Proxy is underrated.
Crowe -- Jerry Maguire
Fincher -- Fight Club
Kubrick -- Barry Lyndon
Lynch -- Blue Velvet
Scorsese -- Mean Streets
Soderbergh -- Traffic
Spielberg -- Raiders of the Lost Ark
QT -- Pulp Fiction
Also:
Godard (My Life to Live), Penn (Bonnie and Clyde), Nichols (Carnal Knowledge), Fosse (Star 80), Coppola (The Conversation), Polanski (Rosemary's Baby), Boorman (Deliverance), Lester (Petulia), Ashby (Shampoo), Pakula (All The President's Men), Cimino (Deer Hunter), Ballard (Black Stallion), Allen (Annie Hall), Altman (McCabe and Mrs. Miller), Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces), Peckinpah (Straw Dogs), Friedkin (French Connection), Ritchie (The Candidate), Malick (Days of Heaven), Reisz (The Gambler), Russell (Women in Love), Leigh (Naked), Eastwood (Unforgiven), Linklater (Dazed and Confused), Van Sant (Elephant), Toback (Black and White), Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon), Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Haynes (Safe), Schrader (Blue Collar), Ivory (Remains of the Day), R. Scott (Black Hawk Down), T. Scott (True Romance), Payne (About Schmidt), Fuller (Big Red One), Demme (Melvin and Howard), Sayles (Return of Secaucus 7), Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy), Schatzberg (Scarecrow), Kaufman (Unbearable Lightness of Being), Stillman (Metropolitan), Lucas (American Graffiti), Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant), Stone (Natural Born Killers), Solondz (Happiness), Welles (Citizen Kane), Hitchcock (Psycho), Ford (The Searchers), Wilder (Sunset Boulevard), Kazan (Streetcar Named Desire), Fellini (La Strada), Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin), Renoir (Rules of the Game).
AND WHY, SOIXANTE!
PTA == Boogie Nights. Magnolia is great, but Boogie Nights is perfect.
Wes == Rushmore. What was fresh and funny in 1998 became too cute in Life Aquatic.
Coens == Raising Arizona. Their funniest film. Great performances by John Goodman and Cage.
Crowe == Jerry Maguire. Not a huge Crowe fan, but it does take us into a world I've never seen before -- that of sports agents.
Fincher == Fight Club. Seven was also great, but Fight Club is prophetic -- it ends with skyscrapers imploding.
Kubrick == Barry Lyndon. Kubrick's icy detachment and penchant for perfectionism have never been put to better use.
Lynch == Blue Velvet. Dennis Hopper creates one of the most memorable villains in film history.
Scorsese == Mean Streets. Scorsese's rawest, most personal film. There's nothing more exciting than when a major artist first achieves mastery of his craft.
Soderbergh == Traffic. Great acting. Unique color scheme.
Spielberg == Raiders of the Lost Ark. One great action set piece after another.
Tarantino == Pulp Fiction. Despite the complexity of the structure, the storyline is always clear-cut. Almost every line of dialogue is quotable.
As for the others, I'll have to tackle that another time.
pta - boogie nights (most watched, most accesible for repeated viewing, screenplay, and everything else...)
wes anderson - rushmore (jason and bill / every little detail )
coen brothers - big lebowski ( experience )
cameron crowe - people are gonna hate me for saying this: vanilla sky (mood)
david fincher - fight club ( one of the nineties best )
stanley kubrick - strangelove ( i love u sellers )
david lynch - lost highway ( don't care it's pullman in the lead )
martin scorsese - taxi driver ( de niro and new york at its best)
steven soderbergh - traffic ( everything except dennis quaid, and a lil bit of zeta )
steven spielberg - Munich (2005)
quentin tarantino - pulp fiction ( why? because i say so )
I liked Vanilla Sky. It was cool to see Crowe try something different. It reminded me of Waking Life.
Paul Thomas Anderson: Magnolia-for the great honest writing, the entanged stories and for the sheer wonderful performances of the whole cast especially Tom, William H. Macy, and Julianne
Wes Anderson: The Royal tenenbaums-Ben Stiller and Gyweneth Paltrow never fit better and New york never looked cooler
Coen's-The Big Lebowski-The petty argruments. "It's like Lenin said-" "I am the walrus"
Crowe-Tie between Almost Famous and Elizabethtown, for it's poitancy
David Fincher-Fight Club- The experience of being inside of a skitzo Multiple Personality Disorder
Kubrick-Eyes Wide Shut-Nicole and Tom's Pot smoking Scene and the beautiful compositions done by Kubrick
David Lynch-Blue Velvet-First Film I saw by lynch and it grabs me every time.
Martin Scorsese-After Hours-One of best, most crazy black comedy's I've ever seen.
Soderbergh-Traffic-My second Fav. movie about drugs. The other being requiem for a dream.
Spielburg-1941 For Akyroyd, Belushi, the rest of the great comedic cast and the madness about it.
Tarantino-Pulp Fiction-The one movie I wasn't able to see until I was 15
Oliver Stone-JFK Director's Cut-The Cast, the obsession of Garrison, and the way oliver presents it as a strait up murder mystery.
Godard-Band of Outsiders
Truffaut-Shoot the piano player
Fellini-La Dolce Vita
Solondz-Happiness
Woody Allen -- Annie Hall, because it is funny and serious and romantic.
Alan Pakula -- All The President's Men, because Nixon only appears in archive footage. No cross-cuting to the Oval Office. No love interests for either Woodward or Bernstein. These guys are just too busy for that. Also, 30 years on, it is interesting to note how difficult it was to obtain information in the pre-internet age. There's a scene in which Woodward has to look through shelves of phone books from across the U.S. to ascertain whether a particular name has a listing somewhere. Plus, they use typewriters and smoke in the office (and in the elevator -- Woodward to Bernstein: "Is there any place you don't smoke?") What makes the film great is what it didn't do as much as what it did do -- there is no scene with reporters cheering and drinking champagne while watching Nixon resign. No big Bruckheimer-esque high-fivin' scene with Aerosmith on the soundtrack.
Mike Nichols -- Carnal Knowledge. Before La Bute, before Closer, there was this (very) dark look at relationships. Like All The President's Men, the style is very low key (especially the end). Nichols takes a very clinical distance from all the emotional upheaval going on.
Sam Peckinpah -- Straw Dogs. I love The Wild Bunch, but the claustrophobic feeling of this film is highly effective. Dustin Hoffman is brilliant as an academic type who has to get in touch with his animal instincts in order to survive. (This is similar to Deliverance, in which genteel upper middle class men find themselves in a life or death situation and must rise to the occasion or die). I love how the suspense ratchets up slowly but surely in this film, until it becomes almost unbearable. In addition, people have widely varying interpretations about this movie. I watched it with one guy who felt that Hoffman's inability to get fit in to the insular culture of the village caused all the problems. There are some who sees parallels to Vietnam, with an American with supposedly good intentions interposing himself in a local dispute and causing more damage than would have occurred otherwise.
Sydney Pollack-The Firm-The music alone for this film, makes you want to anticipate what is going to happen next.
talk about random.
Robert Altman - 3 Women TIED w/ Thieves Like Us.
Speaking of which, WHERE is the Thieves Like Us DVD?? Criterion???
Paul Thomas Anderson - Punch-Drunk Love
unlikely chemistry between adam sandler and emily watson, tati influenced, kubrick-esque cinematography, doesn't miss a beat... his most perfect film
Wes Anderson - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
watching an artist challenge (or indulge) himself is always a joy. great ensemble work. looks really good. i like stop motion.
The Coen Brothers - Barton Fink
the best movie about writing ever. one of the strangest films as well.
Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous
because nothing else he's made is good. when they sing "tiny dancer" in the bus? fantastic.
David Fincher - Fight Club
dark and funny as hell, if a little blatant. really abrasive, and sometimes i like that. hopefully i outgrow it. or maybe i already have.
Stanley Kubrick - The Shining
it's scary.
David Lynch - Mulholland Dr.
tits!
Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
after living in new york for a year, this film takes on a whole new resonance for me.
Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
it steals a lot from Battle of Algiers (according to soderbergh), and that's cool. a tough film that doesn't assault the audience... beautifully crafted.
Steven Spielberg - War of the Worlds
for now... i really liked it, despite its obvious flaws/plot holes/etc. etc. his darkest film to date.
Quentin Tarantino - Jackie Brown
because it's the only tarantino film that's still really good when i'm away from it.
some others...
Robert Bresson - Au hasard balthazar
because it's the greatest movie ever made.
Howard Hawks - To Have and Have Not
sharp sharp sharp, impressively modern, love bogie and bacall... an absolute joy to watch them collide for the first time--sexy. prefer this to Casablanca.
Robert Altman - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
poetic and painterly, and the last shot confuses me, thus leading me to assume that it's profound.
Yasujiro Ozu - An Autumn Afternoon
it's the last one i saw.
Terrence Malick - ... picking a favorite would make my head explode.