Best Foreign Filmmaker?

Started by j_scott_stroup04, December 17, 2003, 10:48:11 PM

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SHAFTR

#15
December 19, 2003, 12:03:27 AM
Wong Kar-Wai
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Blanketing opinions that i'll probably regret soon"

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#16
December 19, 2003, 01:12:54 PM
scorsese
hitchcock
welles
kubrick
spielberg
...

Pubrick

#17
December 19, 2003, 01:19:03 PM
Señor Spielbergo.
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godardian

#18
December 19, 2003, 02:10:19 PM
Quote from: PSeñor Spielbergo.
:lol:
""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

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Stefen

#19
December 21, 2003, 06:19:34 PM
No love for Almodovar? All About My Mother has got to be one of the best foreign films ever made.
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kotte

#20
December 21, 2003, 07:13:03 PM
There are many...but right now I'll go with Peter Jackson.

But as I said, there are many.

©brad

#21
December 22, 2003, 12:00:49 AM
Quote from: StefenNo love for Almodovar? All About My Mother has got to be one of the best foreign films ever made.

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talk to her.

modage

#22
December 22, 2003, 01:18:22 AM
Quote from: j_scott_stroup04Thanks a bunch!!

In the coming months, I'm probably going to be spending a shit load of money on half.com, ebay and such.

spend it on netflix instead.
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#23
December 22, 2003, 01:39:41 AM
Quote from: StefenNo love for Almodovar?

I'll vote for Almodovar.

SoNowThen

#24
December 22, 2003, 09:07:11 AM
I won't.



Godard and Bergman are still alive folks....

anyway, if we're talking younger, I'll go with Cristophe Gans, based on Brotherhood Of The Wolf alone.
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

molly

#25
December 22, 2003, 09:49:21 AM
nobody mentioned Tykwer and that spanish guy that made The Others.

j_scott_stroup04

#26
January 03, 2004, 01:16:02 PM
I got some Godard for Christmas: Breathless, Alphaville, and Band of Outsiders.  I've watched Breathless and Band of Outsiders and absolutely loved them!  Godard seems like he's gonna be one of my favorites, his style definitely intrigues me.  

I also got 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits, Fellini's Roma, and La Strada.  8 1/2 was fuckin' amazin'!  For about the first hour, the only thing I could think about was that this film was overrated.  By the end I was blown away!  It's one of those films that get better with each viewing, and by the end you see why the first part of the film is how it is, and that begins to be enjoyable as well.  I'd definitely put it along the lines of Citizen Kane.
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cron

#27
January 03, 2004, 03:41:35 PM
Quote from: mollynobody mentioned Tykwer and that spanish guy that made The Others.


Alejandro Amenábar.


there's also the spanish guy who directed Lucia y el Sexo   and Los Amantes del Circulo Polar, Julio Medem.
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