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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #60 on: October 23, 2010, 03:37:38 PM »
yikes, that shoudl be Its a Wonderful Life. Did the favorites too fast after arranging the list.

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« Reply #61 on: October 23, 2010, 03:45:00 PM »
People. Peter Weir. He needs to place really high on this list. He was on the last one, but he is so often unsung that even I forgot to rank him.

I think his best movies speak for themselves:

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
The Last Wave (1977)
Gallipoli (1981)
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Witness (1985)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Fearless (1993)
The Truman Show (1998)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

This here is a no-brainer.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #62 on: October 23, 2010, 03:51:55 PM »
I'm not too familiar with his pre-Truman show stuff. I've seen Witness & Poets, just not for a while. In anycase, seems worth considering.

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« Reply #63 on: October 23, 2010, 03:53:34 PM »
I'm not too familiar with his pre-Truman show stuff. I've seen Witness & Poets, just not for a while. In anycase, seems worth considering.

100% worth considering. Even based on Truman and Master and Commander alone. You add Witness and Dead Poets and that's that. But then you add a movie as amazing as Picnic at Hanging Rock and you're truly watching the work of one of the greatest directors of all time.
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« Reply #64 on: October 23, 2010, 03:59:12 PM »
Picnic is one of my all-time favorites, and Last Wave is pretty good, but the rest is crap.

edit: "crap" is too harsh.  I'll say "underwhelming".
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« Reply #65 on: October 23, 2010, 04:00:29 PM »
He seems like one of those cool do-it-all type directors. Would you say there's anything about his directing that comes across in every film he does? Not that it's bad if there isn't, just curious.

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« Reply #66 on: October 23, 2010, 04:06:03 PM »
He seems like one of those cool do-it-all type directors. Would you say there's anything about his directing that comes across in every film he does? Not that it's bad if there isn't, just curious.

Um. I wouldn't say that his films immediately scream "Weir" in any way and that probably is the big reason he is often left unmentioned in discussions of great directors. All I can say for sure is that nearly every film he has made is great. There are only two feature films of his that I left of the list. One is Green Card, which is a comedy that is decent at best. I also left of his first film, an Australian comedy-horror kind movie called The Cars That Ate Paris. That one is actually quite fun.
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« Reply #67 on: October 23, 2010, 04:11:25 PM »
What's the deal with his newest one, The Way Back? I only heard about it just now looking him up on IMDB. Looks like it's not going to get a release until next year, yet it's finished now. Should that be taken as a bad sign?

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« Reply #68 on: October 23, 2010, 04:11:46 PM »
My last viewing of Dead Poets Society put it into my top 100, probably because I have kids at that certain age and it resonated with me. Plus that Robin Williams actually can act.
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« Reply #69 on: October 23, 2010, 04:23:31 PM »
What's the deal with his newest one, The Way Back? I only heard about it just now looking him up on IMDB. Looks like it's not going to get a release until next year, yet it's finished now. Should that be taken as a bad sign?

I've heard good things about it. It's play a couple of festivals, and I believe they had a hard time finding a slot for it, so they have chosen to release it right at the end of 2010 in NY and LA for awards consideration, and then run an Oscar campaign/theatrical release beginning in late January.
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