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Re: Top 5 Bookends (Longest Time Between Great Films by a Director)
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2017, 12:57:51 PM »
3. Frederick Wiseman
42 Years
Titicut Follies (1967) to La danse (2009)

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Re: Top 5 Bookends (Longest Time Between Great Films by a Director)
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2017, 01:33:24 PM »
Hayao Miyazaki: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) - The Wind Rises (2013) = 34 years
Robert Altman: Brewster McCloud (1970) - Gosford Park (2001) = 31 years
King Vidor: The Big Parade (1925) - Man Without a Star (1955) = 30 years
Sergio Leone: A Fistful of Dollars (1964) - Once Upon a Time in America (1984) = 20 years

Biggest agreement already mentioned:
John Huston: The Maltese Falcon 1941 - The Dead 1987 = 46 years

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Re: Top 5 Bookends (Longest Time Between Great Films by a Director)
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2017, 03:28:09 PM »
Brewster McCloud over MASH?
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Re: Top 5 Bookends (Longest Time Between Great Films by a Director)
« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2017, 04:58:59 PM »
Based just on what I've seen since 2008 and graded B+ or better (which is a pretty loose definition of 'great'):

5. Alfred Hitchcock
26 Years
Easy Virtue (1928) to Dial M for Murder (1954)

Blackmail (1929) - Family Plot (1976) = 47 years
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Re: Top 5 Bookends (Longest Time Between Great Films by a Director)
« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2017, 05:20:17 PM »
Brewster McCloud over MASH?

Yes. Not that it matters, IMDB lists both as 1970.

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Re: Top 5 Bookends (Longest Time Between Great Films by a Director)
« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2017, 07:22:40 PM »
In to the mix.

Fritz Lang Dr Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) to The Big Heat (1953) = 31 years, or possibly out to Human Desire (1954) = 32 years or possibly start with Metropolis (1927) which results in 26 or 27 years.

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Re: Top 5 Bookends (Longest Time Between Great Films by a Director)
« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2017, 09:00:00 AM »
Luis Buñuel: Un chien andalou (1929) - The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (1972), 43 years
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Re: Top 5 Bookends (Longest Time Between Great Films by a Director)
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2017, 01:27:04 AM »
For Lang I'd definitely go out to Human Desire. I'd start at Siegfried (1924) if not Gambler.

For Bunuel, I'd take it all the way out to That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), making it 48 years. Quite a run.

 

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