Positive Passion wrote:Yes - surely Bogdanovich had done all he needed to with the last picture show.
With Targets, as far as I'm concerned. One of the great directorial debuts.
Positive Passion wrote:Yes - surely Bogdanovich had done all he needed to with the last picture show.
Jeemo wrote:algroth wrote:For both Singer and the Wachowskis I prefer their X-Men and post-Matrix work respectively, actually. For the latter case in particular, Speed Racer is highly creative and heads and shoulders above anything they'd done til that point or since.
Spèed Racer is headache inducing. All flash and nothing underneath.
algroth wrote:Jeemo wrote:algroth wrote:For both Singer and the Wachowskis I prefer their X-Men and post-Matrix work respectively, actually. For the latter case in particular, Speed Racer is highly creative and heads and shoulders above anything they'd done til that point or since.
Spèed Racer is headache inducing. All flash and nothing underneath.
Sure, but it's interesting flash at least, opposite to The Matrix.
Jeemo wrote:The Modernist wrote:Some great shouts so far.
Donald Cammell of Performance fame seems an obvious example.
Also I'd add Mathieu Kassovitz who hasn't done anything of note since La Haine.
How much of Performance was down to Roeg, any idea?
joels344 wrote:Bernardo Bertolucci. While he's directed some impressive films with great popularity i.e., Last Tango in Paris, and The Last Emperor, I feel The Conformist was his last and only masterpiece. That film showed much potential for him as a filmmaker. After that and some scattered success, he was sadly designated to making big budget flops, mediocre art films, one convoluted epic, and largely forgettable affairs. He could've been what followed for Italian cinema after Fellini and Antonioni, but that wasn't the case.
algroth wrote:Jeemo wrote:algroth wrote:For both Singer and the Wachowskis I prefer their X-Men and post-Matrix work respectively, actually. For the latter case in particular, Speed Racer is highly creative and heads and shoulders above anything they'd done til that point or since.
Spèed Racer is headache inducing. All flash and nothing underneath.
Sure, but it's interesting flash at least, opposite to The Matrix.
driftin wrote:joels344 wrote:Bernardo Bertolucci. While he's directed some impressive films with great popularity i.e., Last Tango in Paris, and The Last Emperor, I feel The Conformist was his last and only masterpiece. That film showed much potential for him as a filmmaker. After that and some scattered success, he was sadly designated to making big budget flops, mediocre art films, one convoluted epic, and largely forgettable affairs. He could've been what followed for Italian cinema after Fellini and Antonioni, but that wasn't the case.
That does seem to be the general consensus about his filmography and I can get on board with it but in my opinion his best film isn't The Conformist, Last Tango, or The Last Emperor (although all 3 are great), it's The Dreamers. I know it's not as well regarded by critics or viewers but to me it's brilliant.
Darkness_Fish wrote:Ridley Scott.
Alien, Blade Runner, and a bunch of fair to middling bobbins until The Martian.
driftin wrote:Darkness_Fish wrote:Ridley Scott.
Alien, Blade Runner, and a bunch of fair to middling bobbins until The Martian.
And then after The Martian he went back to making fair to middling bobbins with Alien: Covenant.
I'd argue that The Martian could even be part of that mediocrity too. I enjoyed it when I saw it at the cinema but the more I think about it the less I like it. I can't back this up with any sort of evidence but I have a gut feeling it won't age well.
joels344 wrote:The Martian*
fange wrote:One of the things i really dislike in this life is people raising their voices in German.
PENK wrote:joels344 wrote:The Martian*
Shame. A film about Dick Martin getting stranded on Mars might have been fun!
fange wrote:One of the things i really dislike in this life is people raising their voices in German.