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Favorite Director from 30 years ago?
2005-02-08, 12:44 PM #1
Okay, if directors were big in 1975 or earlier, then you gotta name who your favorite is. If you say Lucas or Spielberg, you gotta pick an extra one. If you can't name any, you have to see three movies on IMDb's top 250 list (or something...jeez, get some culture).
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2005-02-08, 12:56 PM #2
That's cheating, that is. I wasn't born then.
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2005-02-08, 12:58 PM #3
Martin Scorsese did taxi driver in 76, does that count?
2005-02-08, 1:12 PM #4
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Originally posted by - Tony -
That's cheating, that is. I wasn't born then.


So? I wasn't, either, but I still have the audacity to watch movies that are 30 years or older.

I guess Taxi Driver could count. But then I'd have to let Rocky count, which is pretty popular and not a rare treat people would've been exposed to like The Apartment or The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
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2005-02-08, 1:57 PM #5
1) Watching 70s movies does not require audacity.

2) Martin Scorsese is an awesome director, with taxi driver being the only one i've seen from the mid 70s.

I wanna see The Aviator.
2005-02-08, 1:59 PM #6
Lucas, 70's Lucas.
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2005-02-08, 2:05 PM #7
Can't say that I know of any directors from 30 years ago... much less one I like...


Lucas was directing films 30 years ago?
2005-02-08, 2:12 PM #8
Star Wars will be 30 years old in 2 years.

and if you wanna be pedantic, his directorial debut was 40 years ago.
2005-02-08, 2:16 PM #9
How about we say Lucas AND Speilberg. Ridley Scott is good too, but that's a little less than 30 years ago.
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2005-02-08, 2:16 PM #10
Terry Jones/Gilliam
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2005-02-08, 2:18 PM #11
Does Fritz Lang count or is that too far back?
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2005-02-08, 2:26 PM #12
So the star wars movies debuted in 1977?

I guess that isn't too much earlier than I orginally thought.
2005-02-08, 2:29 PM #13
Stanley Kubrick, hands down.
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2005-02-08, 2:46 PM #14
Kubrick
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2005-02-08, 2:56 PM #15
Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean or Orson Welles.
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2005-02-08, 4:47 PM #16
Coppola and Hitchcock.
2005-02-08, 4:51 PM #17
Akira Kurosawa or Roger Corman
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2005-02-08, 5:11 PM #18
I can't believe I forgot Kurosawa. Seven Samurai is one of my favorite films. :(
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2005-02-08, 5:14 PM #19
And the original Star Wars has such heavy influence from his movie The Hidden Fortress.
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2005-02-08, 5:19 PM #20
Carpenter and Hooper. Maybe not over 30 years ago, but both did films in the 70's.
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2005-02-08, 5:27 PM #21
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Terry Jones/Gilliam
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2005-02-08, 5:27 PM #22
Castro.
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2005-02-08, 8:18 PM #23
Kubrick.
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2005-02-08, 8:26 PM #24
Hitchcock. Definite.
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2005-02-08, 8:56 PM #25
I know the names Stanley Kubrick, Hitchcock, and Orson Wells, and obviously George Lucas...

I really haven't seen but only 3 of Lucas' movies (Ep. 1, 2, and 4)

Hitchcock I've seen one (Psycho)...

Other than that I don't know a single movie by the others... is that bad?

In fact, I thought Orson wells was an author (sadly, I know more about movies/direcotrs than I do about books/authors)
2005-02-08, 9:06 PM #26
Personally, I'd have to say that I've taken a liking to Otto Preminger. The man knew how to make a war movie, filled to the brim with conflict for its main character.

I like John Ford, too. His movies don't entertain me, but since they've gone down as the go-to Westerns, then I pretty much like him for that. Robert Aldridge (Flight of the Phoenix, The Dirty Dozen) is fairly good, too. John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) was decent.

Of course, I like Capra, Kubrick, and Coppola, too. It was made in '79, but Apocalypse Now is freakin sweet.
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2005-02-08, 9:10 PM #27
Kubrick and Kurosawa.

Dr. Strangelove and Seven Samurai are some of my favorite movies.
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2005-02-09, 12:15 AM #28
John Ford, Frank Capra, David Lean, John Sturges, William Wyler, Anthony Mann... just to name the few I can remember
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2005-02-09, 12:24 AM #29
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Originally posted by FCTuner04
Other than that I don't know a single movie by the others... is that bad?


It's probably a good thing. You're yet to see a lot of bloody good 60s/70s films for the first time, I think I envy you.
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2005-02-09, 11:15 AM #30
Coppola.
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2005-02-09, 11:17 AM #31
Friedkin, De Palma, Scorcese, Coppola, and Frankenheimer.

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2005-02-09, 11:37 AM #32
Kubrick.
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2005-02-09, 12:29 PM #33
Quote:
Originally posted by FCTuner04
I know the names Stanley Kubrick, Hitchcock, and Orson Wells, and obviously George Lucas...

Other than that I don't know a single movie by the others... is that bad?


Kubrick's most popular films include:
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
Dr. Strangelove
Clockwork Orange
Lolita
2001: Space Odyssey
The Shining
2005-02-09, 2:34 PM #34
Quote:
Originally posted by matrixhacker
Kubrick's most popular films include:
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
Dr. Strangelove
Clockwork Orange
Lolita
2001: Space Odyssey
The Shining


Barry Lyndon is another popular Kubrick film. He also directed Spartacus, but he didn't have the same level of creative control over that.

It has to be said that Eyes Wide Shut was trash, a glorified porn film and a sorry way to end his career.
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2005-02-09, 7:00 PM #35
Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa. I loved Taxi Driver. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction).
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2005-02-09, 7:08 PM #36
Quote:
Originally posted by Master Tonberry
Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction).


I'm guessing you didn't read the topic's subject.
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2005-02-09, 7:17 PM #37
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Originally posted by TimeWolfOfThePast
I'm guessing you didn't read the topic's subject.

Nope. I'm surprised I got anywhere close to what the actual thread is about.
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2005-02-09, 8:30 PM #38
Scott's really pushing it. Alien was pretty much his breakout and that came in '79.
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2005-02-09, 9:33 PM #39
Quote:
Originally posted by Genki
Terry Jones/Gilliam

Terry Gilliam is great. I just saw Brazil a few days ago. Brilliant film.
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2005-02-11, 12:13 PM #40
See also: Fear and Loating in Las Vegas and Twelve Monkeys.

And to think it all started with the (brilliant) animated Python shorts.
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