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Old 03-15-03, 03:43 PM
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Whats your favorite cameo by a director in a movie?
Mine is Bob Kurtzman in The Wishmaster.Makes me not want to go near a piano ever again.My fav of a director not directing the movie would be Roger Corman in Silence of the Lambs.
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Old 03-15-03, 03:49 PM
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Cronenberg in Jason X and Wasn't Truffaut in Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.<---- well those were hardly cameos anyways.
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Old 03-15-03, 04:09 PM
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Gus Van Sant counting piles of cash while filming Good Will Hunting 2 in "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back".
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Steven Spielberg in The Blues Brothers. I don't know why, but it cracks me up every time.
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Old 03-15-03, 05:01 PM
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I've got a few:

Dario Argento and George Lucas in Beverly Hills Cop 3
Sam Peckinpah in Pat Garret and Billy The Kid
John Sayles in Gridlock'd
Roman Polanski in Blood for Dracula
Jim Jarmusch in Sling Blade
Sam Fuller in Pierrot le fou
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Old 03-15-03, 06:48 PM
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Come on, the greatest one EVER has got to be Scorsese in the back of Deniro's cab in Taxi Driver. Awesome stuff.

And can we count the Silent Bob character as one long cameo?
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Polanski cutting Nicholson's nostril in "Chinatown"
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Old 03-16-03, 01:32 AM
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Martin Scorsese in Taxi Driver
I love his rant in the cab.
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Gus Van Sant counting piles of cash while filming Good Will Hunting 2 in "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back".
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Dario Argento and George Lucas in Beverly Hills Cop 3
Any cameo by Argento counts as two due to that huge cranium of his.

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Easily Scorsese in Taxi Driver! Funny as crap!
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Scorsese in After Hours
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Spielberg in Goldmember.

I second Scorsese in Taxi Driver!
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Nobody mentioned this, but has to be any appearance by the man who perfected the cameo: Hitchcock
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Old 03-17-03, 07:19 AM
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Gus Van Sant counting piles of cash while filming Good Will Hunting 2 in "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back".
That, and Cecil B Demille as himself in Sunset Blvd.
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I can't believe no one mentioned:

Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now
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Stan Brakhage in Cannibal the Musical
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Originally posted by tdirgins
I can't believe no one mentioned:

Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now
That is a great one.

I like Buster Keaton in Sunset Blvd. too.

And Cronenberg in To Die For
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Old 03-18-03, 04:52 PM
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Wes Craven in Scream
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Another one for Scorsese in Taxi Driver.

While I don't consider it a cameo since he didn't direct the film, Scorsese is great in Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight.
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Scorsese also has a great one in King of Comedy.
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I liked Spielberg in Goldmember.

David Cronenberg's cameo in To Die For is very appropriate for his role.
Spoiler:
The minute I saw it was him, I knew it was a signal that Kidman's character was about to bite the big one. Probably the only one who made that connection at my screening.
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