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dumbingdown · Grip Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 3

subject says it all... talk about yours and why they're your faves?

personally, im a big michel gondry fan, i think he's absolutely great and really admire his work in eternal sunshine, which is how i discovered him actually.

Monkeypox · Posted: 09.11.2005 9:40 am Post subject:

Scorcese/Schrader - I've listed this as a pairing in my favorite filmmakers lists, so I'll do it here as well.

Inescapable paths of violence, the dehumanizing and isolationist nature of the city (a place absolutely CRAWLING with people), insomnia... these are a few of my favorite themes.

Taxi Driver was the first screenplay I wrote a critical analysis of. I had not, at that time, seen the film. The first page was just a description of Travis Bickle.

I probably wouldn't be writing if not for that screenplay.
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the night watchman · Posted: 09.12.2005 1:13 am Post subject:

I'm torn between the two Davids: Lynch and Cronenberg. Both filmmakers incarnate the metaphysical aspects of the human condition in their work, questioning the status quo, no matter how comfortable, and embracing change, no matter how catastrophic or tragic. Metamorphosis is the offering of the outside world, and it is preferable to the stagnation imposed by the world of human belief. I myself am not quite as daring as the xenonaut protagonists of their movies, but I'm inspired their symbolic journeys.
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beltmann · Posted: 09.12.2005 4:15 pm Post subject:

I was trying to pick just one name, but then I remembered that we discussed this once before. Out of sheer laziness, I will post a link to that thread:

https://www.flipsidearchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php-t=162.html

I don't know that all my choices would be the same, but it's close enough. I'd probably bump Moodysson up, and definitely add the Dardenne brothers.

Eric
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Danny Baldwin · Posted: 09.12.2005 11:02 pm Post subject:

Danny Baldwin · Posted: 09.12.2005 11:02 pm Post subject:

Oh, and Mr. Grammar, please don't inspect that quote. I already know what's wrong with it.
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beltmann · Posted: 09.13.2005 7:22 pm Post subject:

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Jim Harper · Posted: 09.14.2005 8:16 am Post subject:

Okay, just to recap my earlier list:

John Carpenter

Larry Cohen

Hideo Nakata

Alejandro Amenabar

Terence Fisher

Dario Argento

Don Coscarelli

I'm going to have to add Kiyoshi Kurosawa in there too, mainly for Pulse and Guard from the Underground, but also for Cure. He has a slew of horror movies in the next eighteen months, so I'm going to be an excited bunny for a while.

dumbingdown · Grip Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 3

interesting list, i know some of the names but not all... care to throw out some of your favorite films, maybe one or two for a few of the directors on your list? thanks!