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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #60 on: December 12, 2010, 03:30:21 PM »
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[noembed]Michael Mann (1943 - present)[/noembed] (#91)

“I cannot just make a film and walk away from it. I need that creative intimacy, and quite frankly, the control to execute my visions, on all my projects.”

Filmography

The Jericho Mile (1979)
Thief (1981)
Manhunter (1986)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Heat (1995)
The Insider (1999)
Ali (2001)
Collateral (2004)
Miami Vice (2006)
Public Enemies (2009)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #61 on: December 12, 2010, 03:32:58 PM »
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[noembed]Park Chan Wook (1963 - present)[/noembed] (#80)

“The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.”

Filmography

Moon is the Sun's Dream (1992)
Saminjo (1997)
Judgment (1999)
Joint Security Area (2000)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
Oldboy (2003)
Cut (2004)
Lady Vengeance (2005)
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
Thirst (2009)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #62 on: December 12, 2010, 03:33:27 PM »
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[noembed]Frank Capra (1897-1991)[/noembed] (#59)

“My advice to young filmmakers is this: Don’t follow trends. Start them!”

Filmography

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Lost Horizon (1937)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #63 on: December 12, 2010, 03:34:41 PM »
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[noembed]Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993)[/noembed] (#44)

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one...”

Filmography

I Vitelloni (1953)
La Strada (1954)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
(1963)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Fellini's Roma (1972)
Amarcord (1973)
Ginger and Fred (1986)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #64 on: December 12, 2010, 03:36:38 PM »
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[noembed]Claire Denis (1948 - present)[/noembed] (#62)

“Even if it's the dream of a voyage, I think it was very important for me that the film offer the two sides of the globe.”

Filmography

Chocolat (1988)
No Fear No Die (1990)
I Can't Sleep (1994)
Nenette et Boni (1996)
Beau Travail (1999)
Trouble Every Day (2001)
Friday Night (2002)
L'Intrus (2004)
35 rhums (2008)
White Material (2009)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #65 on: December 12, 2010, 03:41:35 PM »
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[noembed]Jean-Luc Godard (1930 - present)[/noembed] (#35)

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”
Filmography

Breathless (1960)
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Band of Outsiders (1964)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Masculine Feminine (1966)
Week End (1967)
Numero deux (1975)
Hail Mary (1985)
Histoire(s) du cinema (1998)
Notre Musique (2004)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #66 on: December 12, 2010, 03:43:43 PM »
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[noembed]François Truffaut (1932 - 1984)[/noembed] (#36)

“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”

Filmography

The 400 Blows (1959)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Antoine et Colette (1962)
Jules and Jim (1962)
The Soft Skin (1964)
Stolen Kisses (1968)
Two English Girls (1971)
Day for Night (1973)
Small Change (1976)
The Green Room (1978)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #67 on: December 12, 2010, 03:45:18 PM »
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[noembed]Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1947 - present)[/noembed] (#37)

“The main thing is for the actors to forget the camera. They have to act as if they are working in a documentary.”

Filmography

The Boys From Fengkuei (1983)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1986)
Dust in the Wind (1986)
City of Sadness (1989)
Good Men, Good Women (1995)
Goodbye, South, Goodbye (1996)
Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
Millennium Mambo (2001)
Three Times (2005)
Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #68 on: December 12, 2010, 03:47:12 PM »
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[noembed]David Lean (1908 - 1991)[/noembed] (#44)

“My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.”

Filmography

Brief Encounter (1945)
Great Expectations (1946)
Oliver Twist (1948)
The Passionate Friends (1949)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
Summertime (1955)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Ryan's Daughter (1970)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #69 on: December 12, 2010, 03:48:37 PM »
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[noembed]Steven Soderbergh (1963 - present)[/noembed] (#34)

“To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.”

Filmography

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
King of the Hill (1993)
Schizopolis (1996)
Out of Sight (1998)
The Limey (1999)
Traffic (2000)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Solaris (2002)
Bubble (2005)
Che (2008)