Who is your favorite film director of all time?

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BartholomewB said:
Another outstanding director who no one has mentioned yet: Norman Jewison.
The Russians Are Coming, In the Heat of the Night, Jesus Christ Superstar …
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I did not like the movie or much of the music from Jesus Christ Superstar. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being a realky great movie I would give it a 3. I think Andrew Lloyd Webber helped write some of the songs. I have never seen The Russians Are Coming. That was a comedy wasn’t it.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I did not like the movie or much of the music from Jesus Christ Superstar. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being a realky great movie I would give it a 3. I think Andrew Lloyd Webber helped write some of the songs. I have never seen The Russians Are Coming. That was a comedy wasn’t it.
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Yes, lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It was a stage musical (or “rock opera”) before it was adapted for the screen.

Curiously, I never cared very much for anything else by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, not even Evita. But, to my taste, Jesus Christ Superstar is one of the two best-ever gospel-based movies, the other one being Zeffirelli’s Jesus of Nazareth.

And yes, *The Russians Are Coming *is a Cold War comedy. Alan Arkin is exceptionally well cast as a Russian naval officer but I won’t tell you any more than that because I don’t want to spoil it.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Oh I got Zanuck and Selznick confused. Yiu sre right!!
ii wonder if Sidney wasany relation to Leslie Howard. I never cared for Leslie Howard as Ashley. I don’t know who would have been better suited for that role. I just found Ashley so boring compared to Rhett. I read that Leslie wanted to hurry and finish filming as England was about to be at war with Germany and he wanted to return to England
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A documentary called *The Mystery of Flight 777 *is scheduled to be released next year, about the plane crash in which Leslie Howard was killed during the war.
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BartholomewB said:
A documentary called *The Mystery of Flight 777 *is scheduled to be released next year, about the plane crash in which Leslie Howard was killed during the war.
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thanks BartholomewB. Was he rumored to possibly be a spy or am I confusing him with someone else?
 
7_Sorrows said:
thanks BartholomewB. Was he rumored to possibly be a spy or am I confusing him with someone else?
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Rumored, yes. Whether there was any truth in the rumor, I don’t know. But the rumor has to do with information that was starting to leak out about the Holocaust, and that the Germans were trying to suppress.
 
meltzerboy said:
You’re so right. Stanley Kubrick’s films are among the most innovative ever. I just saw (finally) his 1975 Barry Lyndon, starring Ryan O’Neal and Marisa Berenson. Apart from the exceptional beauty of the cinematography, the film is superb with respect to script, acting, and authentic details of the period. And look at some of Kubrick’s other films: 2001, A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Paths of Glory, Lolita: all triumphs in their own way.
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I just saw “Lolita” a few nights ago on TCM.

I actually found it more disturbing than “The Shining”.

Peter Sellers really was very creepy in this.

As was Shelley Winters as the self involved narcissistic mom.

James Mason’s character was also quite creepy, because he really did present himself as “normal”.
 
7_Sorrows said:
In the Heat of the Night is really good. Definitely recommend it.
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Very good film.

One of my favorites is Vittorio De Sica.

The Bicycle Thief, Umberto D, Two Women, Marriage Italian Style, Yesterday, Today and Tommorrow are all really great films.

I also like Giuseppe Tornatore. He directed* Cinema Paradiso, The Starmaker,* and Everyone is Fine (the original one with Marcello Mastroianni)
 
7_Sorrows said:
I know. I think of that a lot when I watch movies from 1939 or before.
Do you think we will ever see great movies like that again?
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To be fair, occasionally a great movie does pop up nowadays. But never will we see so many of them as in the golden year of 1939. Further, the way movies are made–both the content and the technique–have changed a lot, and not necessarily for the better, in my view. Many of them lack heart.
 
meltzerboy said:
To be fair, occasionally a great movie does pop up nowadays. But never will we see so many of them as in the golden year of 1939. Further, the way movies are made–both the content and the technique–have changed a lot, and not necessarily for the better, in my view. Many of them lack heart.
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Agree. and back then actors were under contract to particular studios. maybe that made a difference.
 
John Huges…totally defined the 80’s…with awesome soundtracks to his movies too!
 
William Wyler is another favorite.

also the Cohen (Coen?) brothers. Raising Arizona and O Brother Where Art Thou?
 
BartholomewB said:
A few more who haven’t been mentioned yet:

Alfred Hitchcock
Francis Ford Coppola
George Roy Hill (for The Sting)
Sergio Leone
Charles Laughton (for The Night of the Hunter)
John Landis (for The Blues Brothers)
John Hughes (for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)
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George Roy Hill also directed another favorite of mine, Slapstick.
 
Lately, by accident or design, I’ve been enjoying the films of Sidney Lumet.

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