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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
PostPosted: Sun May 25, 2014 3:41 pm 
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Guy Ritchie
1. Snatch
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
4. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
5. RocknRolla

I'd say LS&TSB should be above SH. It was Ritchie's surprise breakthrough and significantly more acclaimed than SH. I'm fine with the rest.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 11:24 am 
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Following lists sent to lew: M. Anderson, Arnold, Eustache, Garrel, Harlin, Jones, Mayo, Porter, Ramsay, Risi, Ritchie, Roach, To, Wiene, Yates.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
PostPosted: Wed May 28, 2014 4:17 pm 
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Seven new ones:

Lloyd Bacon
1. 42nd Street
2. Footlight Parade
3. Marked Woman
4. Knute Rockne, All American
5. A Slight Case of Murder
6. Wonder Bar
7. It Happens Every Spring
8. The Singing Fool
9. Brother Orchid
10. Action in the North Atlantic

Chris Columbus
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3. Home Alone
4. Mrs. Doubtfire
5. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
6. Adventures in Babysitting
7. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8. Only the Lonely
9. Stepmom
10. Bicentennial Man

James L. Brooks
1. Terms of Endearment
2. As Good as It Gets
3. Broadcast News
4. Spanglish
5. I'll Do Anything

Youssef Chahine
1. Cairo Station
2. Destiny
3. Alexandria... Why?
4. Salladin the Victorious
5. Struggle in the Valley
6. The Land
7. Silence... We're Rolling
8. The Sparrow
9. An Egyptian Story
10. The Emigrant

Robert Hamer
1. Kind Hearts and Coronets
2. It Always Rains on Sunday
3. School for Scoundrels
4. Father Brown
5. The Long Memory
6. The Scapegoat
7. The Spider and the Fly
8. Pink String and Sealing Wax
9. To Paris with Love
10. His Excellency

Marco Ferreri
1. La grande bouffe
2. Dillinger Is Dead
3. Tales of Ordinary Madness
4. Bye Bye Monkey
5. El cocechito
6. El pisito [with Isidoro M. Ferry]
7. The Ape Woman
8. L'udienza
9. The Last Woman
10. The Conjugal Bed

Gillo Pontecorvo
1. The Battle of Algiers
2. Kapò
3. Burn!
4. The Wide Blue Road [with Maleno Malenotti]
5. Ogro


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
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Paul Mazursky
1. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
2. An Unmarried Women
3. Moscow on the Hudson
4. Down and Out in Beverly Hills
5. Harry and Tonto
6. Enemies, A Love Story
7. Tempest
8. Next Stop, Greenwich Village
9. Blume in Love
10. Alex in Wonderland

John G. Avildsen
1. Rocky
2. Save the Tiger
3. The Karate Kid
4. Joe
5. Karate Kid, Part ll
6. Lean on Me
7. Rocky V
8. Neighbours
9. Karate Kid, Part lll
10. Fore Play


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2014 4:21 pm 
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Tiny Tim wrote:
John G. Avildsen
1. Rocky
2. Save the Tiger
3. The Karate Kid
4. Joe
5. Karate Kid, Part ll
6. Lean on Me
7. Rocky V
8. Neighbours
9. Karate Kid, Part lll
10. Fore Play

First of all I'd definitely swap #'s 2 & 3. TKK wins popularity by a way bigger margin than StT wins acclaim and influence would probably also go to TKK.

I'd also swap #'s 7 & 8. Neighbors takes acclaim by a very significant margin and while Rocky V takes popularity fairly easily, it was considered a financial disappointment in the US.

Finally I'd add "Cry Uncle!" somewhere, probably even ahead of TKK3. It was quite influential on later Troma films and has gathered a significant cult following over the years.

EDIT: Actually I would very much like to swap #'s 5 & 6 as well. LoM's advantage in acclaim appears to be bigger than TKK2's in popularity.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2014 5:05 pm 
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Tiny Tim wrote:
Paul Mazursky
1. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
2. An Unmarried Women
3. Moscow on the Hudson
4. Down and Out in Beverly Hills
5. Harry and Tonto
6. Enemies, A Love Story
7. Tempest
8. Next Stop, Greenwich Village
9. Blume in Love
10. Alex in Wonderland

I feel "Harry and Tonto" should be higher as it's arguably his biggest in lasting acclaim. All the films ahead of it beat it in initial popularity, yet it does better in lasting popularity than your top 2. It's also the only Mazursky to win an Oscar (lead actor for Art Carney). I see it at #2.

The rest of the list is completely fine.

EDIT: I'd also swap MotH and D&OiBH. The latter is Mazursky's most popular film overall and its advantage in popularity seems bigger than MotH's in acclaim.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
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Nick Cassavetes
1. The Notebook
2. Unhook the Stars
3. My Sister's Keeper
4. Another Women
5. John Q

Catherine Hardwicke
1. Twilight
2. Thirteen
3. Lords of Dogtown
4. The Nativity Story
5. Red Riding Hood

A question of what are you doing with your life would be a valid one.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
PostPosted: Sat May 31, 2014 12:04 pm 
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Tiny Tim wrote:
Nick Cassavetes
1. The Notebook
2. Unhook the Stars
3. My Sister's Keeper
4. Another Women
5. John Q

I'd have "Unhook the Stars" way lower, probably no higher than #5. It's easily his weakest in popularity. Its initial acclaim was positive but not very widespread due to its small distribution.

I'd definitely add "She's So Lovely" somewhere, probably at #2 or #3, kicking off "John Q". Pretty significant acclaim and his first film with a wider distribution.

The rest is fine.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
PostPosted: Sat May 31, 2014 12:17 pm 
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Tiny Tim wrote:
Catherine Hardwicke
1. Twilight
2. Thirteen
3. Lords of Dogtown
4. The Nativity Story
5. Red Riding Hood

This is undoubtedly correct.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
PostPosted: Sat May 31, 2014 3:21 pm 
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Anyway, it's niice to see these awesome directors getting lists!


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
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Grigori Alexandrov
1. October: Ten Days That Shook the World [with Sergei M. Eisenstein]
2. Jolly Fellows
3. Circus
4. The General Line [with Sergei M. Eisenstein]
5. Volga, Volga
6. Sentimental Romance [with Sergei M. Eisenstein]
7. The Shining Path
8. Encounter at the Elbe
9. The Composer Glinka
10. Spring

Eldar Ryazanov
1. Beware of the Car
2. Hussar Ballad
3. A Cruel Romance
4. The Irony of Fate
5. Office Romance
6. Carnival Night
7. The Garage
8. Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia [with Franco Prosperi]
9. Stariki-razboyniki
10. Nebesa Obetovanniye 


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
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I just sent to lew: Avildsen, Bacon, Bier, de Bont, Brooks, Chahine, Cohen, Columbus, Ferreri, Guest, Hamer, Marshall, Mazursky, Meyers, Pontecorvo.


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:20 pm 
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Charles Crichton
1. A Fish Called Wanda
2. The Lavender Hill Mob
3. Hue and Cry
4. The Titfield Thunderbolt
5. Hunted
6. The Divided Heart
7. The Battle of the Sexes
8. The Third Secret
9. Against the Wind
10. Law and Disorder

Marcel Ophüls
1. The Sorrow and the Pity
2. Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
3. The Memory of Justice
4. The Troubles We've Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime
5. Banana Peel
6. November Days
7. Un voyageur
8. A Sense of Loss
9. Munich or Peace in Our Time
10. The Harvest of My Lai

Roland Joffé
1. The Killing Fields
2. The Mission
3. The Spongers [Play for Today episode]
4. Vatel
5. Fat Man and Little Boy
6. City of Joy
7. There Be Dragons
8. Goodbye Lover
9. Captivity
10. The Scarlet Letter

Dušan Makavejev
1. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
2. Sweet Movie
3. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
4. Man Is Not a Bird
5. Innocence Unprotected
6. Montenegro
7. The Coca-Cola Kid
8. Gorilla Bathes at Noon
9. Manifesto
10. Hole in the Soul

Robert Benton
1. Kramer vs. Kramer
2. Places in the Heart
3. Nobody's Fool
4. Bad Company
5. The Late Show
6. Still of the Night
7. The Human Stain
8. Twilight
9. Feast of Love
10. Billy Bathgate

Joshua Logan
1. Picnic
2. South Pacific
3. Bus Stop
4. Sayonara
5. Paint Your Wagon
6. Fanny
7. Camelot
8. Tall Story
9. Ensign Pulver
10. I Met My Love Again [with Arthur Ripley]

Walerian Borowczyk
1. La bête
2. Immoral Tales
3. Goto, Island of Love
4. Blanche
5. Dom [with Jan Lenica]
6. Les astronautes [with Chris Marker]
7. Les jeux des anges
8. Docteur Jekyll et les femmes
9. Renaissance
10. The Story of Sin


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
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Tiny Tim wrote:
Grigori Alexandrov
1. October: Ten Days That Shook the World [with Sergei M. Eisenstein]
2. Jolly Fellows
3. Circus
4. The General Line [with Sergei M. Eisenstein]
5. Volga, Volga
6. Sentimental Romance [with Sergei M. Eisenstein]
7. The Shining Path
8. Encounter at the Elbe
9. The Composer Glinka
10. Spring

I'd say the three films he co-directed with Eisenstein are generally considered to be Eisenstein's works rather than Aleksandrov's and Eisenstein probably has to be considered the main auteur behind them. I'd rather leave them off and maybe ask lew to add a "see also: Sergei M. Eisenstein" note to the end.

As for the rest: "Circus" probably is slightly too high and "Spring" is way too low. "Circus" does very well in initial popularity but loses lasting acclaim and popularity to "Volga-Volga" and "Spring" also beats it at least in lasting acclaim. I suggest the following list:

1. Jolly Fellows
2. Volga-Volga (1938)
3. Circus [with Isidor Simkov]
4. Spring (1947)
5. Svetlyy put (1940)
6. Meeting on the Elbe [with Aleksei Utkin]
7. The Composer Glinka
8. Russkiy suvenir
9. A Family [with Mikayil Mikayilov & Rza Takhmasib]
10. Internationale


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 Post subject: Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
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Eldar Ryazanov
1. Beware of the Car
2. Hussar Ballad
3. A Cruel Romance
4. The Irony of Fate
5. Office Romance
6. Carnival Night
7. The Garage
8. Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia [with Franco Prosperi]
9. Stariki-razboyniki
10. Nebesa Obetovanniye 

Correct me if I'm wrong but "The Irony of Fate" appears to be his most popular film and is highly acclaimed as well so I'd have it at #1. "Office Romance" comes close in popularity and acclaim. I'd say it should be no lower than #3. "Hussar Ballad" seems a tad high, its lasting popularity just isn't as solid as that of some of the others. Also, I'd say "Station for Two" is a lock for the top 8. Very popular and acclaimed.

Again, correct me if you disagree with anything. I'm going by my usual internet sources here so your Russian point of view might open up completely new perspectives.


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