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Top Five Director Winning Streaks
« on: June 10, 2009, 02:35:57 PM »
Over at Empire Magazine site there is a interesting article on directors who have had winning streaks: That is a director who has made at least three successive great to  really good films, one after the other, within a seven year span.  The article used John McTiernan as an example (Predator, Hunt for Red October, Die Hard).  There is also someone like  Francis Ford Coppola: Godfather , The Conversation, Godfather Part 2.   So.  Using those guidelines  (someone like Terrance Malick wouldn't count since there is almost a 20 year gap between Days of Heaven and Thin Red Line): Seven years, three successive great to really good films not broken by a mediocre or bad one:


1. Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange

2. Steven Spielberg: Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can (I would have wanted to put Jaws, Close Encounters and Raiders but 1941 broke the streak before Raiders)

3. Martin Scorsese: Raging Bull, King of Comedy, After Hours

4. Michael Mann: Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Insider

5. Lawerance Kasdan: Body Heat, Big Chill, Accidental Tourist
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Re: Top Five Director Winning Streaks
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2009, 02:52:50 PM »
bb6634 those are great suggestions! The Scorsese and Kubrick ones are hard to beat!

I could only add

PT Anderson: 
There Will Be Blood (2007),
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 
Magnolia (1999)
(bonus: Boogie Nights)

The Coen Brothers might have two:
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Big Lebowski (1998) 
Fargo (1996)

and

Barton Fink (1991)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Raising Arizona (1987)

(although I must admit never having seen Barton Fink)
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Re: Top Five Director Winning Streaks
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2009, 02:58:16 PM »
John Ford

Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk and The Grapes of Wrath in a one-year span.
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Re: Top Five Director Winning Streaks
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2009, 03:00:35 PM »
Sergio Leone

Fistfull of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, GB&U and Once Upon a Time in the West (64-68).
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Re: Top Five Director Winning Streaks
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2009, 03:03:35 PM »
Akira Kurosawa
From 1958 to 1962: The Hidden Fortress, The Bad Sleep Well, Yokimbo and Sanjuro
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Re: Top Five Director Winning Streaks
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2009, 03:05:21 PM »
Five more:

Jean-Luc Godard 1960-1967: Breathless, A Woman Is A Woman, My Life To Life, Le petit soldat, Les carabiniers, Contempt, Band Of Outsiders, A Married Woman, Alphaville, Pierrot le fou, Masculine-feminine, Made in USA, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, La Chinoise. Week End.

Wong Kar-wai 1990-1997: Days Of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Ashes Of Time, Fallen Angels, Happy Together.

Orson Welles 1941-1948: Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Stranger, Lady From Shanghai, Macbeth.

Yasujiro Ozu 1953-1960: Tokyo Story, Early Spring, Tokyo Twilight, Equinox Flower, Good Morning, Floating Weeds, Late Autumn.

Howard Hawks 1938-1944: Bringing Up Baby, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday, Sergeant York, Ball Of Fire, Air Force, To Have And Have Not.
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Re: Top Five Director Winning Streaks
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2009, 03:06:08 PM »
David Cronenberg

From 1983 to 1988: Videodrome, The Dead Zone, The Fly and Dead Ringers.
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Re: Top Five Director Winning Streaks
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2009, 03:07:47 PM »
Five more:

Jean-Luc Godard 1960-1967: Breathless, A Woman Is A Woman, My Life To Life, Le petit soldat, Les carabiniers, Contempt, Band Of Outsiders, A Married Woman, Alphaville, Pierrot le fou, Masculine-feminine, Made in USA, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, La Chinoise. Week End.


Is that you saying each and every one of those is 'really good' to 'great' or is that also a general consensus as well among film buffs?
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Re: Top Five Director Winning Streaks
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2009, 03:11:30 PM »
Yes.

There are two in there I haven't seen, so I can't really say A Married Woman and Made In USA are really good.  But I'm willing to bet.
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Re: Top Five Director Winning Streaks
« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2009, 03:14:02 PM »
Yes.

There are two in there I haven't seen, so I can't really say A Married Woman and Made In USA are really good.  But I'm willing to bet.

So it's basically one of the greatest director streaks of all time, if not ever.
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