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  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    @ToTheRight, nice to see the love for John Huston, but I noticed you've got Some Like it Hot attributed to him instead of Billy Wilder.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    edited August 2016 Posts: 16,167
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    @ToTheRight, nice to see the love for John Huston, but I noticed you've got Some Like it Hot attributed to him instead of Billy Wilder.
    LOL! Big ooops. I was meaning The Misfits!. That's what I get for mixing up Marilyn films. :) Now I've got a whole separate category for Wilder.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    @ToTheRight, nice to see the love for John Huston, but I noticed you've got Some Like it Hot attributed to him instead of Billy Wilder.
    LOL! Big ooops. I was meaning The Misfits!. That's what I get for mixing up Marilyn films. :) Now I've got a whole separate category for Wilder.

    Nice to see some Marilyn love as well! You've got great taste in the classics, sir.
  • DCisaredDCisared Liverpool
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    Steven Spielberg

    Jurassic park
    Catch me if you can
    Jaws
    War Horse
    The last crusade
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
    edited August 2016 Posts: 9,020
    I don't have A favourite director but a couple of them so I'll vote for my favourite living and my favourite dead director: movies listed alphanumerically.


    Alfred Hitchcock:

    The 39 Steps
    The Lady Vanishes
    North By Northwest
    Rebecca
    To Catch A Thief

    Bonus: Sabotage


    Ridley Scott:

    Alien
    Black Hawk Down
    Blade Runner
    Gladiator
    The Martian

    Bonus: Prometheus
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @BondJasonBond006, I can only surmise you're anticipating 'Alien: Covenant' as much as I am, then? Seems like Ridley has been firing on all cylinders in the sci-fi department lately.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    @Creasy47

    Just so you know I was tempted to list 5 Wes Anderson films, but I can't help but prefer Ridley over Wes a tiny bit.

    Yes Alien Covenant will be the movie I've waited for my whole life and never knew it would exist one day.
    Like I waited my whole life for Justice League which I always knew would be made some day. But I guess Alien will be so much better than JL.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    To hell with the rules, thinking of it, Ha!

    Wes Anderson:

    Rushmore
    The Royal Tenenbaums
    The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
    Moonrise Kingdom
    Grand Budapest Hotel

    Bonus: Untitled Wes Anderson Project 2016
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    @ToTheRight, nice to see the love for John Huston, but I noticed you've got Some Like it Hot attributed to him instead of Billy Wilder.
    LOL! Big ooops. I was meaning The Misfits!. That's what I get for mixing up Marilyn films. :) Now I've got a whole separate category for Wilder.

    Nice to see some Marilyn love as well! You've got great taste in the classics, sir.

    Thank you! Always been a fan of the classics, but became a Monroe fan a few years ago.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @BondJasonBond006, I forgot you also love Wes Anderson's work! His films are great, really looking forward to his next one, isn't it a return to stop motion? 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' is great.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    @ToTheRight, nice to see the love for John Huston, but I noticed you've got Some Like it Hot attributed to him instead of Billy Wilder.
    LOL! Big ooops. I was meaning The Misfits!. That's what I get for mixing up Marilyn films. :) Now I've got a whole separate category for Wilder.

    Nice to see some Marilyn love as well! You've got great taste in the classics, sir.

    Thank you! Always been a fan of the classics, but became a Monroe fan a few years ago.

    @ToTheRight, if you'd like to know more about the woman behind the mythic name, I'd recommend this great biography:

    https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Marilyn-Monroe/dp/0446198188

    I read it voraciously as an awkward freshman in college, and loved every minute. It's a great big tome of information, and really digs deep behind the iconic facade of Marilyn Monroe to the real woman that lived beneath. Great, great stuff.

    "Tough Without a Gun" by Stefan Kanfer is also a great Bogart biography, if you like the actor (which I'm guessing you do, according to your love of John Huston). The book relates a great story of when Bogart was challenged by a French resistance fighter to see how tough he was, which involved the frenchman crunching a champagne glass in his mouth. He and Bogart entered a drinking contest, matching each other all along the way, after which point Bogart also took a champagne glass and chomped it apart in his mouth right down to the stem, until blood was gushing out of his mouth. It was then that he earned the frenchman's approval. ;) Such is Bogie.
  • Mikah21Mikah21
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    Alfred Hitchcock

    Psycho.
    The Birds.
    Vertigo.
    Rear Window.
    North by Northwest.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    @ToTheRight, nice to see the love for John Huston, but I noticed you've got Some Like it Hot attributed to him instead of Billy Wilder.
    LOL! Big ooops. I was meaning The Misfits!. That's what I get for mixing up Marilyn films. :) Now I've got a whole separate category for Wilder.

    Nice to see some Marilyn love as well! You've got great taste in the classics, sir.

    Thank you! Always been a fan of the classics, but became a Monroe fan a few years ago.

    @ToTheRight, if you'd like to know more about the woman behind the mythic name, I'd recommend this great biography:

    https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Marilyn-Monroe/dp/0446198188

    I read it voraciously as an awkward freshman in college, and loved every minute. It's a great big tome of information, and really digs deep behind the iconic facade of Marilyn Monroe to the real woman that lived beneath. Great, great stuff.

    "Tough Without a Gun" by Stefan Kanfer is also a great Bogart biography, if you like the actor (which I'm guessing you do, according to your love of John Huston). The book relates a great story of when Bogart was challenged by a French resistance fighter to see how tough he was, which involved the frenchman crunching a champagne glass in his mouth. He and Bogart entered a drinking contest, matching each other all along the way, after which point Bogart also took a champagne glass and chomped it apart in his mouth right down to the stem, until blood was gushing out of his mouth. It was then that he earned the frenchman's approval. ;) Such is Bogie.

    I'll have to read that one on Marilyn! A few years ago I had picked up a documentary on her for a friend, watched it and started collecting her films. I got hooked pretty quick. So I'm a fairly new fan of hers.
    That Bogart bio sounds great too. I had a few 1970s books on Bogie. I read about him biting on the glass somewhere. Yeah- he used to needle people to the point they wanted him to step outside- then he'd offer them a drink and hang out with them. I get the impression Bogie just like flipping people sh** to see if they had a sense of humor or couldn't take it.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    @ToTheRight, Marilyn's films are something, and it's a shame she got type-casted so long. One of my favorites of hers is Niagara, where she plays a fierce, uncompromising femme fatale alongside Joseph Cotten in a movie set around Niagra Falls. Any serious roles she did, like that, Bus Stop or River of No Return are grand, because she got to flex bigger acting muscles. Most iconic of hers, however, are certainly Some Like it Hot and for me, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The latter is a vibrant, fun comedy that shows Marilyn really displaying her great comedic wit and timing alongside another mind-blowing dame in the form of Jane Russell. All of them are worth checking out if you haven't experienced them yet.

    That book I mentioned will open up a whole new world to you as you find out all the crazy and traumatic things Marilyn was put through as a child, and how that impacted her later psychology and outlook. It's amazing she was able to grow into such a mature, level-headed and sweet woman. She was a tough cookie.

    As for Bogie, well, he's just the best. My favorite Golden Age star, without a doubt, and the icon of a generation of icons. In an industry where all kinds of dirty dealings, subterfuge and affairs were going on, Bogie was respectable and stoic in the face of it. While Sinatra was screwing anything not nailed down, even he commented how much he looked up to Bogie for being loyal to Lauren Bacall in all aspects. He's the epitome of a man for me.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, I loved Niagara- a noir in color! She's great there, too. I also loved finding the films she did with smaller roles. She steals every scene in Clash By Night. I love her character in that one. She's also amazing in Don't Bother To Knock.
    Bogie is hands down my favorite Golden Age star as well- with Mitchum and Cagney not too far behind. Bogie didn't fool around. He had a strong sense of responsibility and stayed loyal to the end. Even though it was probably a shock him for him to have kids at a late age, he still stepped up to the plate and became a family man. Whereas Sinatra and Errol Flynn were more the promiscuous partying types, Bogie would stay at home with Lauren.
    I think a lot of stars back then actually were pretty loyal and looked after their families- Lou Costello for example. I read an interview with Ava Gardner awhile back that she had wanted to have a fling with Mitchum on the set of My Forbidden Past
    , and when he sensed it he immediately called his wife so she was on the set the rest of the shoot. Apparently, though he enjoyed the press making him out to be more of a womanizer than he was. Thought it was funny.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited August 2016 Posts: 28,694
    @ToTheRight, fascinating stuff. Bogie and Lauren have the greatest chemistry of any on screen pair I've seen, right up there with Hepburn and Tracy. You feel the love they had for each other so intensely off set in every scene they played that it seems erroneous at times to call what they did acting. Wonderful.

    Here's a compilation of Bogie bloopers I found on YouTube a while back that you might enjoy:


    I didn't know that about bit about Mitchum, but it seems to fit his character. Another class acting and icon of noir, right up there with Bogie. I know @MajorDSmythe is a big Mitchum fan, to the point that he has an ongoing ranking just for the man's movies and nothing else.

    It's nice to see others here who appreciate the old black and whites, and the icons that made them so special. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited August 2016 Posts: 15,718
    Some of my favorite directors (sadly for a few I haven't seen enough films to make a top 5:

    Johnnie To
    1. Breaking News
    2. The Mission
    3. PTU

    Edgar Wright
    1. Hot Fuzz
    2. Shaun of the Dead
    3. Scott Pilgrim vs The World
    4. The World's End

    Matthew Vaughn
    1. Layer Cake
    2. Kick Ass
    3. Kingsman
    4. First Class
    5. Stardust

    Kim Jee-woon
    1. The Good, The Bad, The Weird
    2. I Saw The Devil
    3. A Bittersweet Life

    Na Hong-jin
    1. The Yellow Sea
    2. The Chaser
    3. The Wailing
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    @ToTheRight - I didn't know that about Mitchum. I did know that he was married to the same wife for 50 years, only ending with his passing. Humorously, when asked what the secret to a long lasting marriage was, he replied simply: deviousness.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    MajorDSmythe wrote: »
    @ToTheRight - I didn't know that about Mitchum. I did know that he was married to the same wife for 50 years, only ending with his passing. Humorously, when asked what the secret to a long lasting marriage was, he replied simply: deviousness.
    I remember that interview- that was great! When asked if girls come flocking to him he said " yeah...with their problems" .
    At one point he was asked if everything written about him in the press was true and he replied " Sure - make up some more if you like."
    My girlfriend tracked down Christopher Mitchum's email and asked him if Bob had really rode the rails and was put on a chain gang in the 30s. Apparently he did. He rode the trains across the country to California. Once settled, brought his family over and married his sweetheart. Pretty cool life Mitchum had. Underrated as an actor, brought his own experiences to his roles without classical training.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    MajorDSmythe wrote: »
    @ToTheRight - I didn't know that about Mitchum. I did know that he was married to the same wife for 50 years, only ending with his passing. Humorously, when asked what the secret to a long lasting marriage was, he replied simply: deviousness.
    I remember that interview- that was great! When asked if girls come flocking to him he said " yeah...with their problems" .
    At one point he was asked if everything written about him in the press was true and he replied " Sure - make up some more if you like."
    My girlfriend tracked down Christopher Mitchum's email and asked him if Bob had really rode the rails and was put on a chain gang in the 30s. Apparently he did. He rode the trains across the country to California. Once settled, brought his family over and married his sweetheart. Pretty cool life Mitchum had. Underrated as an actor, brought his own experiences to his roles without classical training.

    Given his sense of humour, I have often wondered just how much of his life (such as being on a chain gang), that he spoke of, was actually true. I whole heartedly agree with your last sentence.
  • timmertimmer
    Posts: 4,622
    This is easy. The Great Guy!
    1 Diamonds Are Forever
    2. Goldfinger
    3. Live And Let Die
    4. The Man With The Golden Gun
    5. Remo Williams, The Adventure Begins
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Christopher Nolan is one of them.

    ! Inception
    2 The Dark Knight
    3 Batman Begins
    4 Memento
    5 The Prestige
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Terence Fisher:

    1. Horror of Dracula (aka Dracula)
    2. The Curse of Frankenstein
    3. The Mummy
    4. Dracula-Prince of Darkness
    5. Frankenstein Created Woman
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Joss Whedon:

    Serenity
    Avengers
    Avengers: Age Of Ultron
    Much Ado About Nothing
    *he only made 4 films

    Walter Hill:

    The Warriors
    48 Hrs
    Supernova (as Thomas Lee)
    Hard Times
    A Bullet To The Head

    Stephen Speilberg:

    Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
    Raiders Of The Lost Ark
    Jaws
    Duel
    Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
    edited October 2016 Posts: 6,432
    Hitchcock

    The 39 Steps
    Foreign Correspondent
    North by Northwest
    Vertigo
    Notorious

    Depalma
    Raising Cain
    Untouchables
    Scarface
    Carlitos Way
    Femme Fatale

    Kubrick
    2001
    Dr Strangelove
    The Shining
    A Clockwork Orange
    Spartacus

  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    fire_and_ice wrote: »
    Hitchcock


    Depalma
    Raising Cain
    Untouchables
    Scarface
    Carlitos Way
    Femme Fatale


    No Carrie or Dressed To Kill...? Good lord!
  • Crazysoul95Crazysoul95
    Posts: 3,336
    Alfred Hitchcock

    1. Vertigo
    2. Rear Window
    3. Dial M for Murder
    4. Psycho
    5. North by Northwest

    David Fincher

    1. Se7en
    2. Gone Girl
    3. The Social Network
    4. Fight Club
    5. Zodiac

    Billy Wilder

    1. Double Indemnity
    2. The Apartment
    3. Sunset Boulevard
    4. Some Like it Hot
    5. Witness for the Prosecution

    Christopher Nolan

    1. The Dark Knight
    2. The Dark Knight Rises
    3. Inception
    4. Batman Begins
    5. Interstellar

    Francis Ford Coppola

    1. The Godfather
    2. The Godfather Part II
    3. Apocalypse Now
    4. The Conversation
    5. The Godfather Part III

    I haven't seen too many films of his, since i've heard many are bad. But that top 4 alone makes him a great director.

    Howard Hawks

    1. Rio Bravo
    2. The Big Sleep
    3. His Girl Friday
    4. Bringing Up Baby
    5. Scarface

    Martin Scorsese

    1. The Departed
    2. The Wolf of Wall Street
    3. Raging Bull
    4. Casino
    5. Goodfellas

    Jean-Pierre Melville

    1. Army of Shadows
    2. Le Cercle Rouge
    3. Le Samouraï
    4. Le Doulos
    5. Le Deuxième Souffle

    Steven Spielberg

    1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
    2. Saving Private Ryan
    3. Schindler's List
    4. Minority Report
    5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    Chisisall, I glad to see Walter Hill in your lists. I'm surprised you put 'Supernova' in there, since Hill disowned it! Hill never did sci-fi, which is a surprise considering he was one of the producers behind the Alien series!
    My own fav Walter Hill films.
    1) Hard Times
    2) Southern Comfort
    3) The Driver
    4) The Warriors
    5) 48 Hrs
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    Three of my favorite directors. I'm defining "top" as in "which are my personal favorites of theirs?" (For example, I think "Se7en" is David Fincher's unequivocal masterpiece, yet personally I enjoy a few of his other films more. Similar cases with the other two directors' films here.)

    Wong Kar-wai
    Chungking Express
    2046
    As Tears Go By
    Ashes of Time
    In the Mood for Love

    John Carpenter
    The Thing
    The Fog
    Halloween
    Assault on Precinct 13
    In the Mouth of Madness

    David Fincher
    Alien 3
    The Game
    The Social Network
    Se7en
    Fight Club
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
    Posts: 4,006
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    Chisisall, I glad to see Walter Hill in your lists. I'm surprised you put 'Supernova' in there, since Hill disowned it! Hill never did sci-fi, which is a surprise considering he was one of the producers behind the Alien series!
    My own fav Walter Hill films.
    1) Hard Times
    2) Southern Comfort
    3) The Driver
    4) The Warriors
    5) 48 Hrs

    Almost the same as mine @Mathis1

    Except I'd have Streets of Fire in there instead of Hard Times AKA The Streetfighter.
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