Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

Blade II has a Metacritc score of 52 and a Rotten Tomato score of 57%. That is not universal acclaim, and it's no Masterpiece.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

Some very solid runs...

Ingmar Bergman:
Cries and Whispers (classic) -> Scenes from a Marriage (very good) -> The Magic Flute (very good)

Robert Bresson:
The Diary of a Country Priest (very good) -> A Man Escaped (classic) -> Pickpocket (very good)

Charlie Chaplin:
City Lights (classic) -> Modern Times (classic) -> The Great Dictator (classic) -> Monsier Verdoux (very good)

Carl Theodor Dreyer:
The Passion of Joan of Arc (classic) -> Vampyr (very good) -> Day of Wrath (very good)

Federico Fellini:
Nights of Cabiria (very good) -> La Dolce Vita (classic) -> 8 1/2 (classic)

Howard Hawks:
To Have and Have Not (very good) -> The Big Sleep (classic) -> Red River (classic)

Stanley Kubric:
Dr. Strangelove (classic) -> 2001 (classic) -> A Clockwork Orange (classic) -> Barry Lyndon (classic) -> The Shining (very good)

Martin Scorsese:
Mean Streets (classic) -> Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (very good) -> Taxi Driver (classic)

Andrei Tarkovsky:
Ivan's Childhood (very good) -> Andrei Rublev (classic) -> Solaris (classic) -> The Mirror (classic) -> Stalker (very good)

Billy Wilder:
A Foreign Affair (very good) -> Sunset Boulevard (classic) -> Ace in the Hole (very good) -> Stalag 17 (very good) -> Sabrina (classic) -> The Seven Year Itch (very good) -> Witness for the Prosecution (very good)


Kurosawa and Ozu always seemed to bookend their great films with meh films...

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

A few more...

Woody Allen:
Sleeper (very good) -> Love and Death (very good) -> Annie Hall (classic)

Sergei Eisenstein:
Strike (very good) -> Battleship Potemkin (classic) -> October (very good)

Satyajit Ray:
Pather Panchali (classic) -> Aparajito (very good) -> The Music Room (very good)

Alain Resnais:
Hiroshima Mon Amour (very good) -> Last Year at Marienbad (classic) -> Muriel, or the Time of Return (very good)

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

So far as I'm concerned, Mel Brooks made two classics: Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Before and after were The Seven Chairs, which was pretty good, and Silent Movie which was once-funny.

Do people still admire The Seven Year Itch? Marilyn Monroe was sexy as hell, but as soon as she leaves the screen the rest of the movie is a bad 50s sitcom. Even Billy Wilder said bad things about it.

I haven't seen Love in the Afternoon or Spirit of St Louis. That still leaves Wilder with two separate runs of three masterpieces.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

The Producers is another Brooks masterpiece imo. And The Seven Year Itch is a deliberate parody of those 50s Hollywood romances.

Calling The Spirit of St. Louis and Love in the Afternoon 'masterpieces' is a huge stretch.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

I'm not a big fan of The Producers. It's an hour-long setup for one scene, although the scene is one of the funniest things in cinema history.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

Oldboy, I think one could make the argument that QT's entire filmography has been masterpieces, although I'd probably say it goes from Pulp Fiction to at least Django Unchained. I actually haven't seen his last two films, yet.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

That's gonna be a no for me dawg

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

Even QT was pretty cognizant of when it is appropriate to use that terminology.
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Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

i wouldn't disagree and i would throw in the ones he wrote, like Natural Born Killers and True Romance as well. and his last 2, H8 and OUaTiH are masterpieces as well...

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

true. but everybody thought it was the best in trilogy by far and made a boatload of $$ ;)

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

Luc Besson: La Femme Nikita, Léon: The Professional, The Fifth Element.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

No, I did in post 10. I only listed the first three. The only other one I'd consider that is is The Apartment, but the chain is broken.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

To be fair, he also called Shutter Island and Brothers Bloom masterpieces too.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

And that The King of Comedy wasn't!

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

Kevin Smith - Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma

Chad Stahelski - John Wick, John Wick II, John Wick III

The Russo Brothers - Captain America Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

I think Hateful 8 is overly long and tedious.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

This thread needs to stop.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

At some point I assume the forum will be downsized to two threads, one titled "movies I like" and one titled "movies I don't like".

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

I, too, hate being forced at gunpoint to come into threads I don’t like

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

Indeed you did. Sorry.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

I was just being a little sarcastic after seeing the thread descend into hailing The Russo Brothers as directors of 3 straight masterpieces.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

Touché. If there’s one thing this thread taught me, there’s maybe 10 directors in history who have made 3 masterpieces in a row

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

The real pity is no hailing if You, Me, and Dupree.

Re: Directors with three or more consecutive masterpieces
 

Joe Russo did direct the following Community episodes back to back to back:

Cooperative Calligraphy
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking

For my money, those are three masterpieces.