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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #90 on: December 12, 2010, 04:29:36 PM »
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[noembed]Wong Kar Wai (1956 - present)[/noembed] (#10)

“For me, shooting an action scene is no different from shooting a love scene. What really matters is what happens before the penetration and not after.”

Filmography

As Tears Go By (1988)
Days of Being Wild (1990)
Chungking Express (1994)
Ashes of Time (1994)
Fallen Angels (1995)
Happy Together (1997)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
2046 (2004)
The Hand (2004)
My Blueberry Nights (2007)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #91 on: December 12, 2010, 04:30:39 PM »
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[noembed]Martin Scorsese[/b] (1942 - present)[/noembed] (#6)

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

Filmography

Mean Streets (1973)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Raging Bull (1980)
The King of Comedy (1982)
After Hours (1985)
Life Lessons (1989)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
The Departed (2006)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #92 on: December 12, 2010, 04:34:55 PM »
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[noembed]Werner Herzog (1942 - present)[/noembed] (#25)

“It is my duty to direct because the films might be the inner chronicle of what we are, and we have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.”

Filmography

Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Fata Morgana (1971)
Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
Aguirre the Wrath of God (1972)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Stroszek (1977)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Grizzly Man (2005)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #93 on: December 12, 2010, 04:36:03 PM »
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[noembed]Quentin Tarantino (1963 - present)[/noembed] (#24)

“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

Filmography

Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
Death Proof (2007)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #94 on: December 12, 2010, 04:37:10 PM »
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[noembed]Hayao Miyazaki (1941 - present)[/noembed] (#13)

“Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.”

Filmography

Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Castle in the Sky (1986)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Porco Rosso (1992)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Spirited Away (2001)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Ponyo on a Cliff (2008)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #95 on: December 12, 2010, 04:38:43 PM »
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[noembed]Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)[/noembed] (#11)

“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”

Filmography

Double Indemnity (1944)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Ace in the Hole (1953)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
One, Two, Three (1961)
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Avanti! (1972)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #96 on: December 12, 2010, 04:40:16 PM »
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[noembed]Sergio Leone (1929 - 1989)[/noembed] (#16)

“In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life in jeeps and upset all my dreams.”

Filmography

The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #97 on: December 12, 2010, 04:41:50 PM »
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[noembed]Stanley Kubrick (1928 - 1999)[/noembed] (#1)

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

Filmography:

The Killing (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Lolita (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #98 on: December 12, 2010, 04:42:47 PM »
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[noembed]Joel Coen (1954 - present) and Ethan Coen (1957 - present)[/noembed] (#3)

“The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them. ”

Filmography

Blood Simple (1984)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Fargo (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
A Serious Man (2009)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: The Countdown
« Reply #99 on: December 12, 2010, 04:44:04 PM »
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[noembed]Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)[/noembed] (#4)

“Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied...that's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.”

Filmography

No Regrets For Our Youth (1946)
Stray Dog (1949)
Ikiru (1952)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Throne of Blood (1957)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Sanjuro (1962)
High and Low (1963)
Red Beard (1965)
Ran (1985)

 

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