dedicate a post to your favorite director
 

Shinya Tsukamoto [worst picture ever!]
I have a lot of favorite directors, people like Jodorowksy, Cronenberg, Fukui, Miike, Lynch, etc... but no one to me can top Shinya Tsukamoto in consistency of making amazing films.

Shinya Tsukamoto is best known as the director of Tetsuo: The Iron Man, and admittingly it is one of the best films I've ever seen. But all of his films that I've seen (I've yet to see his short films are his newest ones) are just as groundbreaking. His films are very personal and very minimal, focusing on only a few characters (with usually only one female character to speak of) and filmed.. very strikingly. Indeed, even if you dislike the plot, the cinematogrophy in his films is amazing... yeah.

Not much to say, just wanted to dedicate a post to him... Shinya Tsukamoto.

ALSO, FEEL FREE TO POST UNFLATTERING PICTURES OF THEM AS WELL!

Jean-Luc Godard is a god. That's all you need to know.

Miyazaki's a killer.

multiple italian favs:






I miss you.

ref. to the movie thread "why don't people ask the big questions" - i think these 3 are a good starting point - jean cocteau in le sang d'un poete tells us that "mirrors should reflect more before sending back images" and jean cocteau certainly reflected before being that mirror of ours who sent images back to us from the depths of the sub-conscious - so surrealist in that he explored what lives inside the mirror and that's so exciting.

i love maya deren who is pictured above in a mirror and she holds one up to ourselves and explores what makes us behave in the ways we behave but in a different way to cocteau in that it isn't what is hidden deep inside the mirror or the mind that effects us but the society outside the mind which shapes it ritualistically - it's not about hidden monsters but rhythms and rituals and numbers and patterns - she was an amazing woman, poss. my favourite of all time.


and finally ingmar bergman who dealt with the big questions humans have been asking since we started thinking his films are so emotionally expansive that they touch on every emotional dilemma i can think of and what stories and what cinematography and what characters!

wonderful, wonderful choices - saw P.P's Uccellacci e uccellini recently, what a film!!

i will have to agree and a woman is a woman is a great film. i think his best are my life to live and weekend.

week end is amazing, but une femme est une femme is my favorite

godard is my favorite and i will have to include fellini, wes anderson, luis bunuel, john cassavetes and the director of commando to my list.

bande a parte is my favorite of his....
i need to see more of his films though
i have seen
breathless
bande a parte
a woman is a woman
alphaville (which i was not crazy about)
and contempt (which was amazing)
favorite directors
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and also godard
korin
carrol reid (because of the 3rd man)
lynch
greenaway
etc

Meshes of the Afternoon is a beautiful film (the still above is taken from it). Viewed today, it can seem slightly pretentious and a bit cliched, but it is glorious to watch, and has been much copied/parodied.

A huge influence on David Lynch, Martin Scorsese (see his early short films) and many others.

Jan Švankmajer is my own favorite film maker.

I don't know what to write about him, coz saying that he made me think "how beautiful..." while seeing a little girl drowning on a big screen sounds just wrong.
He might be "overrated" (or better, "overknown" if that's a real world) in comparison with other less widely known asian directors, but every scene he shoots is a painting in motion, and I love how he deals with disturbing/hard subjects.

here's one of my favorites,




Brakhage

No one ever talks about Godard's 70s work. Or his 80s stuff. His 90s films are marganalized. And although he makes a movie a year, when's the last time you went to a theater to watch one?

Orson Welles!

Chimes at Midnight, his best IMO (and last completed:()

Unflattering pics of Terry Gilliam? Hmm let me see if I can find any...







He's currently working on The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus starring Tom Waits and Heath Ledger. Seeing Time Bandits in the theater as a kid really changed the way I view reality. Its ending really confused me and inspired many frustrating conversations with my pop.

Many of the directors I would have posted have been already, but I don't believe Krzysztof Kieslowski has.

Seijun Suzuki

you bitches have preempted me many posts, from seijun suzuki to the italian directors to melville & godard maya deren casavettes herzog &c. i'll add

visconti




peckinpah






(i'm about to watch disc 1 of the newly released berlin alexanderplatz!!)

a very un-flatterable wim wenders

catherine breillat

Many good choices, y'all.

Ira Cohen







John Carpenter







Pasolini







Jack Smith

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david lynch as gordon cole in twin peaks

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coen bros

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takashi miike

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scorcese on coke (obvious choice, but did you film raging bull or taxi driver? didnt think so...)

su friederich


miranda july


sofia coppola (except for the atrocious marie-antoinette)


lina wertmuller

kieslowski




jacques rivette


gregory markopoulos

eisenstein!

dziga vertov (if you haven't seen man with the movie camera, you should...)

 

bresson

 

and, needing no introduction:

lars von trier


wim wenders


andre tarkovsky


lang

tout va bien is the only 70's movie of his i have seen and it's excellent.

Dario Argento





Mike Leigh






Jacques Demy

bertolucci (he's at times a hack, but i forgive him)


takeshi kitano


and i just realize, why the fuck haven't we posted a picture of kurosawa yet????


and the coen brothers?

Joseph Losey

Gus Van Sant

Béla Tarr!

Round 2 - Satoshi Kon

Aki Kaurismaki. I love a lot of his stuff, in particular Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana.





The poster for Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana:



A rather splendid still culled from the same:

Sam Fuller


Michael Haneke


Roman Polanski


Jörg Buttgereit

Hitchcock.Some of you may have heard of him.

edit:

Wow a non-trying desperately to out obscure everybody else post. But no Hitchcock really is fucking amazing.

As for me. I'll post some up tomorrow. Taking some thinking. Has a director ever not made a bad film?