Director With Best Repeat Viewing Movies
01-10-14, 02:15 AM
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Re: Director With Best Repeat Viewing Movies
Eastwood
Tarantino
Scorcese
Charles Barton (directed a lot of the better Abbott & Costello movies)
Tarantino
Scorcese
Charles Barton (directed a lot of the better Abbott & Costello movies)
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Re: Director With Best Repeat Viewing Movies
Chaplin
Scorsese
Tarantino
Jonze
Fincher
Nolan
Kubrick
Del Toro
Cuarón
Iñárritu
Wright
Kurosawa
Scorsese
Tarantino
Jonze
Fincher
Nolan
Kubrick
Del Toro
Cuarón
Iñárritu
Wright
Kurosawa
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01-10-14, 10:43 AM
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Wong Kar Wai, with his elliptical style of editing he doesn't spell everything out to the audience, leaving the viewer to connect the dots, which leaves his films with an enormous amount of replay value. Every time I watch In the Mood For Love I have a different interpretation about what is happening off screen.
Ingmar Bergman, his films are rarely narrative driven, but usually thoughtful and soul-searching experiences. They often deal with characters that are struggling with the silence of God, and how to find meaning in life. A viewer's personal experience and spirituality will have a huge influence on how they interpret his movies, and I can't imagine watching Winter Light at 15 and 60 and having the same feelings about it.
Seijin Suzuki because of the sheer madness of his editing. This is a director who was fired because his films were incomprehensible, but there is something about them that are so appealing. He takes standard yakuza stories and films and edits them in a way that elevates the material. I have seen Tokyo Drifter three times and I'm still not entirely sure what's going on, but that just makes me want to see it again.
Ingmar Bergman, his films are rarely narrative driven, but usually thoughtful and soul-searching experiences. They often deal with characters that are struggling with the silence of God, and how to find meaning in life. A viewer's personal experience and spirituality will have a huge influence on how they interpret his movies, and I can't imagine watching Winter Light at 15 and 60 and having the same feelings about it.
Seijin Suzuki because of the sheer madness of his editing. This is a director who was fired because his films were incomprehensible, but there is something about them that are so appealing. He takes standard yakuza stories and films and edits them in a way that elevates the material. I have seen Tokyo Drifter three times and I'm still not entirely sure what's going on, but that just makes me want to see it again.
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I like Verhoeven but I've seen so little of his work. Was that black book one good? It had a trailer that interested me.
01-10-14, 11:57 AM
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Black Book is really fucking good. It's Verhoeven doing a war flick, so it doesn't mince words. That Dutch actress is in it - the chick from Game of Thrones that's the evil redheaded witch. I forget her name. I'm hoping that they release his Dutch films on BD at some point, because his stuff with Rutger Haur is supposedly really good.
01-10-14, 12:00 PM
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The 4th Man, Turkish Delight, Soldier of Orange, Katie Tippel & Business Is Business
01-10-14, 12:09 PM
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Yeah, we need some proper releases of those. I am aware that a couple of those have already been released in Europe but the BD's aren't great and skimp on many things. I don't even think Verhoeven was involved in any of the supplements or the video/audio transfers.
01-10-14, 12:23 PM
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Anchor Bay back in their heyday before the DVD market collapsed released a boxed set of his early Dutch films, but it's out of print now and really expensive. My library network used to let me do out-of-state holds before the funding got cut, but I only managed to order Business is Business, which is vaguely interesting, but by Verhoeven's own admission was only made to appease producers so he could actually make the film he really wanted. They had commentaries from Verhoeven himself now too, I wish someone would rerelease them, but it doesn't look likely.
01-10-14, 01:43 PM
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01-10-14, 02:14 PM
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Lynch and Cronenberg get my my votes for most enjoyable with repeat viewings.
01-10-14, 02:20 PM
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I would actually put Nolan as one of the least re-watchable. His movies get shallower and dumber and more contrived with each viewing. Obviously not a Nolan fan at all.
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