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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #20 on: December 12, 2010, 01:54:30 PM »
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[noembed]Jane Campion (1954 - present)[/noembed]

“What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.”

Filmography

Two Friends (1986)
Sweetie (1989)
An Angel at My Table (1990)
The Piano (1993)
Portrait of a Lady (1996)
Holy Smoke (1999)
In the Cut (2003)
Bright Star (2009)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #21 on: December 12, 2010, 01:55:44 PM »
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[noembed]Rian Johnson (1973 - present)[/noembed]

"A force for good in the universe."

Filmography

Brick (2005)
The Brothers Bloom (2008)
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #22 on: December 12, 2010, 01:57:32 PM »
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[noembed]John Hughes (1950-2009)[/noembed]

“I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw Doctor Zhivago every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.”

Filmography

Sixteen Candles (1984)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Weird Science (1985)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
She's Having a Baby (1988)
Uncle Buck (1989)
Curly Sue (1991)



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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #23 on: December 12, 2010, 02:00:50 PM »
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[noembed]Jim Jarmusch (1953 - present)[/noembed] (#80)

“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are."

Filmography

Permanent Vacation (1980)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Down by Law (1986)
Mystery Train (1989)
Night on Earth (1991)
Dead Man (1995)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Broken Flowers (2005)
The Limits of Control (2009)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #24 on: December 12, 2010, 02:03:53 PM »
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[noembed]Wim Wenders (1945 - present)[/noembed] (#90)

“Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making. ”

Filmography

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972)
Alice in the Cities (1974)
Kings of the Road (1976)
The American Friend (1977)
The State of Things (1982)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Until the End of the World (1991)
So Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Lisbon Story (1994)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)


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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #25 on: December 12, 2010, 02:06:03 PM »
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[noembed]Robert Bresson (1901-1999)[/noembed] (#42)

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

Filmography

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
A Man Escaped (1956)
Pickpocket (1959)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
A Gentle Woman (1969)
Mouchette (1967)
Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
The Devil Probably (1977)
L'argent (1983)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #26 on: December 12, 2010, 02:10:02 PM »
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[noembed]Luis Buñuel (1900-1983)[/noembed]

“If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'”

Filmography

Un chien andalou (1929)
L'âge d'or (1930)
Los olvidados (1950)
El (1953)
The Young One (1960)
Viridiana (1961)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Belle de jour (1967)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #27 on: December 12, 2010, 02:11:37 PM »
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[noembed]Andrew Stanton (1965 - present)[/noembed] (#60)

“The big myth is that we want to make the best computer-animated movie in the world. And it's like, no. We want to make the best movie we can make.”

Filmography

A Bug's Life (1998)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Wall-E (2008)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #28 on: December 12, 2010, 02:14:08 PM »
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[noembed]Peter Jackson (1961 - present)[/noembed]

“I don't quite know what an auteur is. I've never quite understood that term, because filmmaking is such a huge team effort.”

Filmography

Bad Taste (1987)
Meet the Feebles (1990)
Dead Alive (1992)
Heavenly Creatures (1995)
The Frighteners (1996)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: Th Return of the King (2003)
King Kong  (2005)
The Lovely Bones (2009)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #29 on: December 12, 2010, 02:16:39 PM »
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[noembed]Spike Jonze (1969 - present)[/noembed] (#84)

“Being able to shoot on videos and commercials — just being on the set, with only a certain amount of time and shots and sequences to do in that amount of time, learning how to work with the crew the physical production and the limitations — is all good training.”

Filmography

Being John Malkovich (1999)
Adaptation (2002)
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
I'm Here (2010)

 

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