Which of these modern day auteur directors is your favorite?
Wes Anderson, without doubt.
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I probably like The Royal Tenenbaums the most from him, good choice.
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I'd have to agree, although there will always be a place in my heart for Rushmore. It came out when I was in high school and I ended up identifying with Max (minus the Oedipal crush on an older teacher). I saw Bottle Rocket afterwards and liked it for what it was.
I didn't really have an interest in any of his films between Life Aquatic and The Grand Budapest Hotel but I liked the last one more than I thought I would.
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I actually just picked up the Rushmore Criterion weeks ago, it was a random find in a used clothes place. I'll need to get on that, I've seen most of his other films though.
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Criterion is awesome, just wish I had enough money to spend on those and games, books, and gaming books. At least with the slow death of dvds one can often find them at discount stores.
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Thank you, if it were 2007 I might be tempted to say it was a lie.
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Very tough poll... I really like Tarantino and Scorsese, but the Coen brothers and Wes Anderson have really good movies too... If I have to chose only one though, I'll go with Scorsese.
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Scorsese is great, but one thing to keep in mind is that he's been around for a good 20 more years and has about 15 more films made than most of the other guys in the poll. I can't wait to see what everybody's made in 10 years, although I'm worried that Lynch or Gilliam may not make it until then.
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It was a pretty easy decision for David Fincher, of the directors on the list. I was pretty hot & cold on Quentin Taratino's earlier stuff, but he's really found a groove. Darren Aronofsky, the Coen Brothers, and the Anderson brothers all make movies that just make me bored and tired.
And I've long been convinced that David Lynch knows he makes crap movies, which is why he throws random nonsense into them, as misdirection. Modern art is 10% talent and 90% salesmanship.
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The thing about David Lynch is that he doesn't throw random stuff into his movies for misdirection, he admits that he gets a lot of his ideas from his dreams and random moments in his life. He writes all this stuff down and then figures out what he can use to enhance the mood of his films. There's no great mystery to be solved involving the oddities in his films, but there is a theme of some kind that you can normally pick up by a few viewings, and most of the weird pieces help express that mood. I do know that he's not going to be everyone's taste though.
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That's a good consensus for Lynch's work. Personally I still consider Twin Peaks my favorite out of his oeuvre, and really hope the new season is as good as Kyle MacLachlan is promising (good timing).
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You don't like the Coens?
Seriously though man, I'm surprised, you seem like the type to appreciate them:)
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It may be one of those things that I would like now that I'm older, but when I watched some of there stuff in my younger days, it just didn't resonate at all. The Big Lebowski had some great moments, but there are lots of movies I didn't enjoy that had great moments. Glengary Glenross had some of the best bits of dialogue ever, but the movie as a whole is dreadfully boring. So perhaps I should give them another chance.
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Might be time to revisit them, then. I was captivated by Fargo when it came out, and I was in HS. Somehow I sort of forgot about the bros until college, though, and then caught up in a big way. Among my top ten film "teams" for sure.
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That's ok, at least you have some giveaways to enter.
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Happy sg day joejoe!
Oh I didn't see the poll :O *reading...* I will say Aronofski, but one of my favourite ones is Haneke ^^
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The only Haneke film I've seen was Funny Games, it was very good but it made me so uncomfortable during my second viewing that I shut it off about 15 minutes in, which is a rare feat of film for me. I'm very interested in watching Cache though.
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The piano teacher impacted me when I saw it. I think it was the first Haneke film I saw (without knowing it was from him).
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I didn't know he made that either, I'll have to check it out.
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What, no Jarmusch?:P Happy Cake day, though.
So little love for mah Coen Bros...I guess less people are familiar with them, or maybe they don't know what they've actually directed and written. The list is very long.
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I'm actually not too familiar with any of Jarmusch's films, I'll have to check out Cigarette's and Coffee.
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Coffee and Cigarettes is a good one, but I recommend starting with Down by Law (also featuring one of my favorite musicians, Tom Waits) and then Dead Man, Ghost Dog, and Broken Flowers in particular.
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Thanks for the recs, I added Down By Law to my watchlist.
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God dammit almost all of them are hipsters >.>
Quentin Tarantino He have too much brain destroyer films. Not for me something like that.
I will choose Martin Scorsese Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, Shutter Island (incredible awesome ending). Infliltration is some joke. I don't like whole plot there especially ending. Original was better.
I still didn't see The Wolf of Wall Street. I heard that this is a great film.
From Coen brothers I saw only Big Lebowski. If i could i would join Dudeism. Propably one of the greatest and most peaceful religion that exist.
But to be frankly I don't have any favourite director. There isn't exist any that I would like almost all films from him or even most of them
Hmm maybe except Wachowski but they didn't created many films. Speed Racers, Matrix, V for Vendetta, Animatrix, Cloud Atlas. Assasins.
I only didn't see Bounds but it don't look like i would like it.
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Yay, happy cake day!
How do you even choose a favorite? They've all done some pretty good films. I just picked Martin Scorsese at random, because it's a lot easier that way. xD
Edit: You've made me pull out several of my old movies, dammit. I don't have the free time for a movie marathon! Time to make some, I guess.
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That was my plan, I've got a lot of films to watch now to from recs.
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He's not an auteur, he only does already scripted studio projects.
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Happy cake day.
No Nolan option makes me really sad... sorry... :(
Memento alone was one of the most original movies (if not THE most original movie) in the last 20 years of film-making. In my opinion, anyway.
Don't worry though, not as sad as watching Spielberg rape Kubrick on his grave on AI. :(
So i went with Fincher, because... well... should be obvious why i'm biased towards him, there's at least one masterpiece that trumps all else, given how biased i am towards said masterpiece. :)
As a sidenote rant (sort of)...
I'm one of the plain folks who never really bought into the David Lynch hype as well. I know of his explanation that you cited for his movies... (i've even heard stranger ones)... but i'm more inclined to call BS on it... on his account i mean. :P
I mean, just to name one the productions he's most acclaimed for... i actually somewhat recently binge-rewatched Twin Peaks, as i had only watched it when i was really, really young. And yes, the show is quite interesting (as i recalled it to be)... up until a certain point in the narrative. Then it just... ugh... :/
If it was a show done today, i don't think anybody would have any qualms calling BS on that ending or even go so far as to call it a rushed ending. The typical ending you see of a show that is getting pressured to be put to rest because the ratings are becoming mediocre or worse, except this wasn't the case for Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks is probably what has really jump-started his career. It reeks more of one of those shows that tries so hard to make such a convoluted plot, that ends up springing a web so deep, that it can't get out of it gracefully, so it just... ends.
I mean, i don't even want to comment on Inland Empire, it had been a while since i hadn't been able to stomach watching a movie till the end.
Lynch says dreams, i say LSD... :P
No offence though, i hope. Just my 2 cents. :P
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I was honestly on the fence with Nolan. He makes great films, but I don't think that he's a true auteur. He seemed embarrassed about having to work in Batman's universe, and it seems like his films are a little more popcorn than art minded. I was also pretty sure that if I included him in the poll he'd wipe out almost everyone else. Memento is fantastic though.
I didn't include Kubrick simply because he passed away, I wanted everyone in it to still be making films. He might be my top director, and the stories about him and his work are fascinating to read up on.
The thing about Twin Peaks is that he never wanted Laura's killer to ever be revealed in the series, and certainly not that early. The network at that time forced him to give away his entire show's cliffhanger a season and a half in. After that twist was revealed, Lynch basically had nothing left planned out for the series at that point and mostly bowed out to go work on Wild At Heart. They had to scramble for show ideas and that's why some really silly stuff got into the show. Lynch mostly got back involved for the final few despises, and I think that last episode was probably one of the strangest things that was ever put onto TV. I honestly have no idea how he was able to get away with that when the studio forced his hand about the killer. The reason why it cliffhangs is because he planned for a third season that never happened, and the he did a prequel because he planned for three Twin Peaks films that turned into one after it bombed.
i don't believe that Lynch has ever actually taken any type of drugs, although he's a sugar and cigarette fiend. He said that he'd used to sit in a diner for hours and have a milkshake to get sugar to his head, then drink 5-10 black coffees and just write for hours. He's also really heavy into meditation, so he get's some ideas out of that. I do know that his movies aren't going to be for everybody though, they're all over the place narratively and they all have mostly the same theme.
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Interesting read. :)
Starting on your last paragraph though, i was just trying (and horribly failing it seems) to be witty about Lynch, i wasn't being serious on my LSD comment. :P
I just meant he does strike me as someone who tries to make his movies convoluted on purpose without an actual story or message (hidden or otherwise)... most of the time.
Don't get me wrong, i like movies that are different, especially movies that are thought provoking (i share your love for Kubrick, for instance, and movies don't get any more thought provoking than his - and i understood why you didn't include him, given his passing, since you said modern day), i just feel like Lynch's movies are really not that deep or thought provoking, they just try to look the part by confusing the viewer because they don't make sense (nor try to, if anything it almost seems like the opposite). But again, i could just be missing their point. :)
Was completely oblivious to that whole info on Twin Peaks though, i have to admit, and it does explain a lot. Also, alleviates at least a bit of my grief towards the guy i guess. Heck, in my own words, i expressed how it really gave off a bit of that network pressure feel, but i honestly thought that kind of crap was not pulled back then. I thought it was something that networks had begun doing some 15-20 years ago, given how corporate some of them have become, worrying so much about ratings, they end up shooting themselves on the foot by either cancelling good shows with extreme potential or pressuring writers and directors to wrap it up and all because most of the time they stick them in stupid timeslots.
As for Nolan, well, i have to respect your opinion... but i have heard very different things regarding his work in Batman's Universe. If anything, that he really enjoyed working on it. So i'm quite surprised about that.
I can understand why you'd consider his movies more popcorn than art minded though, given that all 3 Batman movies and Inception are well... blockbusters (even though i do thoroughly enjoyed all of those), but the ones i happen to like the most are Memento, The Prestige and The Following. And i wouldn't consider any of those popcorn movies. :)
He does not produce / write as much as some or even most of those mentioned in the poll, that's a given.
But honestly, it's hard for me to find one really awful movie he took any part in and i honestly prefer quality over quantity. :)
Thanks for your reply btw, i enjoyed the read. :)
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I think that Lynch knows how to sustain a really nice atmosphere. When I watched Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive, I had absolutely no idea what was really going on and I still didn't by the ends on the films. I could only follow the basic plots of each, and I figured that they had something to do with either alternate dimension versions of people or people imagining themselves to be different. I really liked each one though, because they kept me engrossed in the entire picture without being able to follow what was really happening. I'm not sure that David Lynch intends for there to be much meaning in his films outside of the basic themes and stories. For Eraserhead, a lot of people believe that the film represents David's fear of becoming a father, which I think is spot on. I'm not sure if there really was anything put into the film outside of that fear.
The Twin Peaks troubles were really unfortunate, that first season and a half is so engrossing and then you have to start pulling yourself through the last half. That actually wouldn't be the last time that he got screwed over by a tv network, Mulholland Drive was originally shot as a 2 hour long pilot. They basically told him that they weren't going to air it because it was too strange and they couldn't fund a series. he ended up getting the pilot rights from them and shooting another 45 minutes for the ending. I'm really hoping that third time's the charm for David and that Showtime doesn't end up messing around with the Twin Peaks revival.
I really enjoyed the Dark Knight trilogy, it just always seemed like he was a bit put off with having to work within the comics, and then plus having someone take over for the new movies. Memento is a classic, but I haven't seen The Prestige or The Following yet, so that may be why I see him as more of a blockbuster director.
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