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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2010, 01:20:57 PM »
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[noembed]Agnès Varda (1928 - present)[/noembed] (#71)

“I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.”
Filmography

La Pointe-Courte (1955)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Le Bonheur (1965)
Daguerréotypes (1976)
Documenteur (1981)
Vagabond (1985)
Kung-fu Master (1988)
Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
The Gleaners & I (2000)
The Beaches of Agnes (2008)




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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2010, 01:22:44 PM »
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[noembed]Rob Reiner (1947 - present)[/noembed]

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot.”

Filmography

This is Spinal Tap (1984)
The Sure Thing (1985)
Stand by Me (1986)
The Princess Bride (1987)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Misery (1990)
A Few Good Men (1992)
The American President (1995)
Rumor Has It... (2005)
The Bucket List (2007)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2010, 01:25:39 PM »
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[noembed]Spike Lee (1957 - present)[/noembed] (#68)

“I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.”

Filmography

She's Gotta Have It (1986)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Malcolm X (1992)
Crooklyn (1994)
Clockers (1995)
He Got Game (1998)
25th Hour (2002)
Inside Man (2006)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)


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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2010, 01:28:12 PM »
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[noembed]Albert Maysles (1926 - present) and David Maysles (1931 - 1987)[/noembed]

"Documentary can requote reality I think more honestly and authentically, when done properly, than any other medium. If it is practiced properly, then it is more like photography than cinematography.”

Filmography

Salesman (1968)
Gimme Shelter (1970)
Grey Gardens (1975)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2010, 01:32:23 PM »
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[noembed]Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956)[/noembed] (#64)

“You must put the odor of the human body into images...describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel...there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.”

Filmography

Osaka Elegy (1936)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
Sisters of the Gion (1936)
The 47 Ronin (1941)
The Life of Oharu (1952)
A Geisha (1953)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)
Street of Shame (1956)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2010, 01:33:45 PM »
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[noembed]Brad Bird (1957 - present)[/noembed] (#22)

“We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.”

Filmography

The Iron Giant (1999)
The Incredibles (2004)
Ratatouille (2007)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2010, 01:36:26 PM »
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[noembed]Peter Greenaway (1942 - present)[/noembed]

“I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realizing all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.”

Filmography

The Falls (1980)
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
A Zed and Two Noughts (1986)
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Prospero's Books (1991)
The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
The Pillow Book (1996)
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! (2008)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2010, 01:38:55 PM »
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[noembed]Kathryn Bigelow (1951 - present)[/noembed]

“I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about what my aptitude is, and I really think it's to explore and push the medium. It's not about breaking gender roles or genre traditions.”

Filmography

The Loveless (1982)
Near Dark (1987)
Blue Steel (1989)
Point Break (1991)
Strange Days (1995)
The Weight of Water (2000)
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
The Hurt Locker (2008)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2010, 01:43:41 PM »
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[noembed]Zhang Yimou (1951 - present)[/noembed]

“To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.”

Filmography

Red Sorghum (1987)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
To Live (1994)
The Road Home (1999)
Not One Less (1999)
Hero (2002)
House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #19 on: December 12, 2010, 01:46:28 PM »
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[noembed]Satyajit Ray (1930 - present)[/noembed] (#86)

“What is attempted in these films is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.”

Filmography

Pather Panchali (1955)
The Music Room (1958)
Apur Sansar (1959)
Devi (1960)
Mahanagar] (1963)
Charulata (1964)
Nayak (1966)
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1968)
The Home and the World (1984)
The Stranger (1991)

 

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