This is for Silver Bullet. He answered it in Gamblor's "I would kill to see a screening with the director" thread anyway and I wanted to as well. So I'm doing it here.
If you could have a private screening of a film with its director, what would you pick? Choose one living director and his/her film and one deceased director and his/her film.
Enjoy.
Edit: I didn't add my own films yet because I really gotta think about it.
Quote from: The Silver BulletLIVING: Martin Scorsese, GoodFellas (1990)
DEAD: David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Living: Chasing Amy with Kevin Smith (I figure PTA will be booked with screening from here to eternity in this thread)
Dead: Dr. Strangelove with Stanley Kubrick
Living: Spielberg with "Saving Private Ryan." We don't get the pleasure of any commentaries with him, so this would be a wonderful way to fill that void. You could never do "Schindler's List," because that movie is just too painful to chat through. It demands your attention. So "Ryan" would be good because it's such a great example of filmmaking, filled with great scenes and great actors to talk about. Plus, it's NOT perfect, it would also be interesting to pick Spielberg's brain about some of the more-criticized elements (the framing device, Damon's godawful "she hit every branch on the way down the ugly tree" speech). There are things to be learned in the successes and failures.
Dead: Pakula with "All The President's Men." We lost such a great director a few years ago, and I always come back to ATPM as one of my favorite films. I love how this movie is fresh every time you come back to it and maintains suspense and drama in what must have seemed to be one of the most impossible book adaptations of all time (kudos to Goldman, of course). I mean, it's a movie about a couple of reporters who make phone calls, knock on doors and generally get rebuked in their dogged attempts to get to the bottom of a story. Nobody is trying to gun them down. There are no car chases. Heck, the movie actually ends with one of their setbacks. Having a stellar cast helps, but I'd want to chat with Pakula about how this all worked soooooooo wonderfully.
Living: Lucas on Episode I: Throughout the screening, I would be poking him in the ribs and saying "So how come you suck George? How come you suck George?"
Dead: Hitchcock on Vertigo.
This is a tough one because there's so many...but
Living: Soderberg - just about anything he's done, Traffic, Out of Sight, or The Limey inparticular. His commentaries are so great it would be fantastic to get to ask him questions.
Dead: I'm gonna go with a less obvious one, Ted Demme - Blow. I saw Monument Ave. aka Snitch at Sundance and he was great, but it was quick and the cast was there, leaving most of the questions directed at Martin Sheen and Denis Leary. It was heard to get a called on for a question also. But, he seemed like such an enthusiastic guy, and obviously loved films. An underrated director for sure.
Living: Scorsese - Taxi Driver
tie
Godard - My Life To Live
Dead: Fellini - Amarcord
Rather than see the a film with its director I would do this:
Dead: Kubrick with Ereaserhead, it is known that he loved that film so it would be great to hear his insights about this one and why he liked it.
Living: Either Lynch or Scorsese with almost any Kubrick film, perhaps with MS I'd watch Barry Lyndon and with Lynch EWS or The Shining. Same as above, to find out why are those films great for them.
living=darren aronofsky:requeim for a dream
deceased=alfred H.:rear window
Quote from: RaikusLiving: Chasing Amy with Kevin Smith (I figure PTA will be booked with screening from here to eternity in this thread)
Dead: Dr. Strangelove with Stanley Kubrick
Fuck that man. I'll kill all opposition to have a screening with PTA. So:
Living: Punch Drunk Love, Paul Thomas Anderson
Dead: In a Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray or Monument Ave. with Ted Demme.
Living: Magnolia/PTA, i have a soft spot for him!
Dead: mmm...(Hitchcock or Kurosawa...tricky,tricky)...ok Dreams/Akira
LIVING David Lynch Mulholland Dr.
DEAD Stanley Kubrick The Clockwork Orange
As much as I would love to sit down with Hitchcock on "Vertigo" or Billy Wilder on "Double Indemnity", I feel I know the back stories of the productions and the filmmakers from books and footage. So I would pick:
DECEASED: Orson Welles - "The Magnificent Ambersons" to find out exactly what he had in mind and get all the the studio backstabbing stories straight from him.
LIVING: Steven Spielberg - "A.I." to find out all the conversations between him and Kubrick and what changes were made, etc.
Just now I'd like PTA on Fight Club.
Otherwise Jim Jarmusch on Dead Man, or Richard Linklater on Waking Life, just to listen to him ramble on and on while I close my eyes.
Dead: Von Sternberg on The Scarlet Empress, to hear his deranged slaverings about Dietrich.
If it's about who you'd like to be in a room with, watching the movie with and not saying too much, then Billy Bob Thornton on Sling Blade.
I'm forced to do a top 3 for each.
Living:
1. Martin Scorsese on Raging Bull
2. Mel Brooks on Silent Movie
3. Werner Herzog on Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Dead:
1. Federico Fellini on La Dolce Vita
2. Buster Keaton on The General
3. Stanley Kubrick on 2001
As for a director screening a different director's movie, I'd have to go with:
1. PTA on Nashville
2. Woody Allen on Shane
3. Kevin Smith on Magnolia
i wish there were hot chick directors.
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2. Woody Allen on Shane
3. Kevin Smith on Magnolia
That's an interesting choice for Woody Allen. Is he a big fan of Shane?
And as for Kevin Smith, after the Q&A we could put him in the middle of a kicking circle. "You call Magnolia self-indulgent, look at your films you cum-catching faggot!"
Quote from: Pi wish there were hot chick directors.
Rebecca Miller's kinda hot...in a librarian sorta way
living: michael bay on pearl harbor
dead: chaplin on city lights
Quote from: jasper_windowQuote from: Cinephile
2. Woody Allen on Shane
3. Kevin Smith on Magnolia
That's an interesting choice for Woody Allen. Is he a big fan of Shane?
And as for Kevin Smith, after the Q&A we could put him in the middle of a kicking circle. "You call Magnolia self-indulgent, look at your films you cum-catching faggot!"
Yeah, Shane was one of his favourite movies, along with the Seventh Seal (of course).
By the way, if he's a cum-catching faggot, does this mean he likely enjoys it? I was just thinking because maybe a kicking circle isn't the best idea. Perhaps a circle jerk would be better. .. But probably not... nevermind.
i'd like to watch any film w/ scorsese, cuz he's a human film library and would have more to say than most others. plus he talks fast, so u'd get more for ur money.
QuoteAnd as for Kevin Smith, after the Q&A we could put him in the middle of a kicking circle. "You call Magnolia self-indulgent, look at your films you cum-catching faggot!"
crawl out of PTA's ass. I have nothing against PTA, in fact i really like him, but some of you ass holes act like he is gods gift to cinema. Maybe your quoting somone else there but man, get off his dick.
Nice thread but it's damn hard to choose one director.
So, I'll do a Top-3:
LIVING DIRECTORS:
1) Peter Jackson on "Braindead"
2) Paul Thomas Anderson on "Boogie Nights"
3) David Fincher on "Alien 3" (that would be a quiet dark event :twisted: )
DEAD DIRECTORS:
1) Stanley Kubrick on "Fight Club"
2) Sergio Leone on "Once Upon A Time in America"
3) Alfred Hitchcock on "Silence of the Lambs"
Quote from: jasper_windowAnd as for Kevin Smith, after the Q&A we could put him in the middle of a kicking circle. "You call Magnolia self-indulgent, look at your films you cum-catching faggot!"
yeah, that's a bit harsh.
when he's not making wack movies, kevin smith is a funny person.
Quote from: PQuote from: jasper_windowAnd as for Kevin Smith, after the Q&A we could put him in the middle of a kicking circle. "You call Magnolia self-indulgent, look at your films you cum-catching faggot!"
yeah, that's a bit harsh.
when he's not making wack movies, kevin smith is a funny person.
definantly, what whack movies has he made
I like think thier all good except JASBSB
Quote from: PQuote from: jasper_windowAnd as for Kevin Smith, after the Q&A we could put him in the middle of a kicking circle. "You call Magnolia self-indulgent, look at your films you cum-catching faggot!"
yeah, that's a bit harsh.
when he's not making wack movies, kevin smith is a funny person.
It was harsh. I was having an angry day. But it always pissed me off that he called magnolia "self-indulgent" when his films are exactly that. I love magnolia and I'm protective of it. Smith is funny and I do like some of his films, I was unnecessarily harsh.
Quote from: Bankywhat whack movies has he made
Dogma and JSBSB suffered from over-writing. that thing where the characters talk like Dawson's Creek Early Years was hilarious in Clerks and still worked in Chasing Amy, but Dogma and JSBSB it seems every single plot point is talked about endlessly. in trying to make his characters sound articulate and intelligent he's succeeded in baby-talking to the audience.
that's my gripe with his last couple of films. and i think that's the only problem he has.
Quote from: PQuote from: Bankywhat whack movies has he made
Dogma and JSBSB suffered from over-writing. that thing where the characters talk like Dawson's Creek Early Years was hilarious in Clerks and still worked in Chasing Amy, but Dogma and JSBSB it seems every single plot point is talked about endlessly. in trying to make his characters sound articulate and intelligent he's succeeded in baby-talking to the audience.
that's my gripe with his last couple of films. and i think that's the only problem he has.
I was watching Dawsons Creek and the characters on that show have the most rediculous vocabulary. They must do well on Sat verbal. Kevin Williams wrote the early episodes which is strange becasue when you watch his other work like I know what You did last summer, it sounds nothing like it.
Kevin Smith even says how he feels that Dogma boarders on being "preachy". I love Dogma and think it is one of his best films. I think it was the best use of Jay and Silent Bob.
Its wierd discussing Kevin Smith on this board. Most people just diss him and have nothing intereseting to say about him.