Most diverse director?
06-06-19 | 07:10 AM
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White Squall is truly great. Bridges is amazing, along with youngish cast. Love that one.
06-06-19 | 07:52 AM
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How Green was my Valley (Family Drama)
The Quiet Man (Romantic Comedy)
The Grapes of Wrath (Historical Drama)
The Informer (Crime Drama)
Oh, and he won the Best Director Academy Award for each of those!
06-06-19 | 08:36 AM
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Robert Altman
Gosford Park (mystery)
The Gingerbread Man (legal thriller)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (western)
Images (psychological horror)
3 Women (surrealism)
MASH (war)
Quintet (post-apocalyptic sci-fi)
Vincent & Theo (biopic)
Nashville (musical)
The Player (black comedy)
The Long Goodbye (noir)
OC & Stiggs (teen comedy)
Short Cuts (intersecting multiple stories)
A Perfect Couple (rom-com)
Brewster McCloud (fantasy)
California Split (buddy film)
Streamers (play adaptation)
Gosford Park (mystery)
The Gingerbread Man (legal thriller)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (western)
Images (psychological horror)
3 Women (surrealism)
MASH (war)
Quintet (post-apocalyptic sci-fi)
Vincent & Theo (biopic)
Nashville (musical)
The Player (black comedy)
The Long Goodbye (noir)
OC & Stiggs (teen comedy)
Short Cuts (intersecting multiple stories)
A Perfect Couple (rom-com)
Brewster McCloud (fantasy)
California Split (buddy film)
Streamers (play adaptation)
06-06-19 | 10:09 AM
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06-06-19 | 10:18 AM
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Re: Most diverse director?
Both Wilder and Altman may have tackled different genres, but they were auteurs. There is a distinct similarity amidst their output.
How about Ron Howard. Lots of different genres and not really any kind of distinct personal vision.
How about Ron Howard. Lots of different genres and not really any kind of distinct personal vision.
06-06-19 | 11:28 AM
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Howard Hawks
06-06-19 | 11:29 AM
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06-06-19 | 12:20 PM
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I believe Ridley Scott doesn't give two shits about whether a script is good or not. That, or he can’t tell the difference between a good script and a bad script. It’s a flip of the coin whether or not his name on a movie will be any good. I guess that’s kinda fun at this point.
06-06-19 | 02:21 PM
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I believe Ridley Scott doesn't give two shits about whether a script is good or not. That, or he can’t tell the difference between a good script and a bad script. It’s a flip of the coin whether or not his name on a movie will be any good. I guess that’s kinda fun at this point.
RS also criticized the film for bombing at the box office because it was "long and slow" and said that he would have trimmed it by half an hour.
I liked that film and I'm glad he did not direct it. I think he's lost it.
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06-06-19 | 02:38 PM
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Brian DePalma
Oliver Stone
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06-06-19 | 02:56 PM
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Gordon Douglas (1907-1993) directed 69 features and 25 shorts in a directorial career that spanned 1935 to 1977.
He directed:
Our Gang shorts
Lowbrow comedies (the Gildersleeve series)
a Dick Tracy movie
a Zombie comedy (ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY)
mysteries (THE FALCON IN HOLLYWOOD)
musicals (tons of them, including ROBIN AND THE SEVEN HOODS)
westerns (tons of them, including a remake of STAGECOACH)
police thrillers (e.g. BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN)
film noir: KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE, with James Cagney
anti-communist films: I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI
biopics (SO THIS IS LOVE, THE MCCONNELL STORY)
war movies (FIRST YANK INTO TOKYO)
a sci-fi classic (THEM!)
an Elvis movie (FOLLOW THAT DREAM, one of his best)
Jerry Lewis (WAY, WAY OUT)
secret agent (IN LIKE FLINT)
blaxploitation (SLAUGHTER'S BIG RIP-OFF)
melodramas (THE SINS OF RACHEL CADE, CLAUDELLE INGLISH)
historical adventures (THE BLACK ARROW, THE IRON MISTRESS)
swashbucklers (FORTUNES OF CAPTAIN BLOOD, ROGUES OF SHERWOOD FOREST)
3-D (THE CHARGE AT FEATHER RIVER)
He was under contract at times to RKO, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. and other studios.
A surprising number of these films are quite good.
He directed the following performers in movies: Our Gang, Laurel & Hardy, Bela Lugosi, Eddie Cantor, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, the Rat Pack, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lewis, Alan Ladd, Liberace, Bing Crosby, James Coburn, Roger Moore, Bob Hope, Raquel Welch, Lee Van Cleef, Burt Reynolds, Sidney Poitier, Jim Brown, Gene Kelly and Evel Knievel, among many others.
He directed:
Our Gang shorts
Lowbrow comedies (the Gildersleeve series)
a Dick Tracy movie
a Zombie comedy (ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY)
mysteries (THE FALCON IN HOLLYWOOD)
musicals (tons of them, including ROBIN AND THE SEVEN HOODS)
westerns (tons of them, including a remake of STAGECOACH)
police thrillers (e.g. BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN)
film noir: KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE, with James Cagney
anti-communist films: I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI
biopics (SO THIS IS LOVE, THE MCCONNELL STORY)
war movies (FIRST YANK INTO TOKYO)
a sci-fi classic (THEM!)
an Elvis movie (FOLLOW THAT DREAM, one of his best)
Jerry Lewis (WAY, WAY OUT)
secret agent (IN LIKE FLINT)
blaxploitation (SLAUGHTER'S BIG RIP-OFF)
melodramas (THE SINS OF RACHEL CADE, CLAUDELLE INGLISH)
historical adventures (THE BLACK ARROW, THE IRON MISTRESS)
swashbucklers (FORTUNES OF CAPTAIN BLOOD, ROGUES OF SHERWOOD FOREST)
3-D (THE CHARGE AT FEATHER RIVER)
He was under contract at times to RKO, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. and other studios.
A surprising number of these films are quite good.
He directed the following performers in movies: Our Gang, Laurel & Hardy, Bela Lugosi, Eddie Cantor, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, the Rat Pack, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lewis, Alan Ladd, Liberace, Bing Crosby, James Coburn, Roger Moore, Bob Hope, Raquel Welch, Lee Van Cleef, Burt Reynolds, Sidney Poitier, Jim Brown, Gene Kelly and Evel Knievel, among many others.
06-06-19 | 04:55 PM
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I'll throw out Takashi Miike.
06-06-19 | 06:02 PM
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now, that i hold in hand (Veronica Guerin, great movie btw), i'll go with Joel Schumacher. he's qirky and has done many different things in genres and styles. Phone Booth, aforementioned VG, pretty much killed the older Batman franchise, Tigerland (one of my all-time favs), 8MM, A Time to Kill (another Grisham adaptation i love), Falling fucking Down! Flatliners, The Lost Boys, St. Elmo's Fire. Damn! He's done some pretty diverse and good stuff...
06-07-19 | 05:59 AM
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06-07-19 | 09:57 AM
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Paul Schrader
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06-07-19 | 08:25 PM
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Michael Bay
06-07-19 | 09:09 PM
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06-07-19 | 09:22 PM
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C’mon. He’s totally diverse! Sometimes the 360°camera spins clockwise and sometimes it spins counter clockwise!
06-08-19 | 09:07 AM
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