With you on both. Although, I gotta be in the mood for Wes Anderson sometimes. I love his movies, but if I’m not in the mood, I find I don’t enjoy them as much, even on rewatch.
Nolan is always amazing to me. Audio issues aside, I enjoyed Tenet more than most, as well.
Seriously, I loved Tenet! I had to watch it multiple times to finally understand how they moved through time relatively to the opposite side, what happened how, and it was fun and really well thought out. I loved this take on time travel!
Yes, you can understand the movie after watching it once. But there are so many little details that you won’t get if you don’t watch it multiple times, I had fun puzzling it together!
It’s in my top three of the Nolan movies! And the music was great, I did not mind that it was too loud!
Regarding the dialogue: on my second watch (with subtitles) in the (few) scenes I wasn’t able to hear the dialogue clearly I realized it wasn’t relevant/important to the story. I believe these scenes were only about atmosphere, that was the moment I did not mind anymore and just enjoyed the bombastic sound scape.
I still have to see Baby Driver. For my money, Hot Fuzz was the best of the trilogy. That movie (and Scott Pilgrim) are so densely packed with cleverness, they demand to be rewatched intensely.
David Cronenberg, especially his stuff in the 90s and 80s. He has made so many movies that just got stuck in my brain. Everything’s weird, but memorable-weird. eXistenZ was my favorite movie for years.
I’m a huge fan of body horror and Cronenberg is the king. His son, Brandon, has been doing interesting stuff as well. Highly recommend Possessor if you haven’t seen it.
He’s going to be great I believe. He’s made 3 movies so far, the biggest name being Infinity Pool earlier this year. I liked it, but I can see how people wouldn’t. Antiviral is a good, especially for a debut. But I think Possessor is the most interesting, and Andrea Riseborough is so good in everything she does.
David Fincher is pretty rock solid. The Social Network is his best movie; all of his murder thrillers are equally good. Alien3 is his worst and hardly counts because it was a clean up job, and still isn’t a bad movie.
Fincher is one of my favs of all time. I just love how purposeful he is. Every camera angle and dolly move is for a specific reason. Nothing is a mistake in his films.
OP is specifically asking about dirs but yeah some DOPs might have filmographies to rival them.
Lol, I didn’t want to say it. But for sure, especially the ones like Deakins that form basically a partnership with certain directors and do almost all their movies.
Honestly, George Lucas has made way more good movies than bad ones. And even the bad ones were either massively influential or interesting in some way.
For example, it’s not a controversial statement to say Attack of the Clones is a shitty movie, but it was also the first Hollywood movie to be shot entirely digitally, using a camera that he worked closely with Sony to produce. Now basically every movie is shot digitally.
Yeah, 4 out of the 6 features he’s directed have been Star Wars films and at least half of those I’d consider bad. I’m not saying he isn’t influential or important when you look at the history of film, but if I’m looking at a the best director filmographies, GL’s isn’t even in the top 10 for me. Just on variety alone, it’s pretty weak.
Denis Villeneuve hands down. The guy has never made a bad mainstream film yet. Some would argue Enemy is his worst, and even then it’s not really a bad film.
Oh yes! Villeneuve is my favorite director working currently. I’d probably agree that Enemy is his worst, but it’s still a great film. Dude just doesn’t miss.
I’m going to have to go back and watch more of Gilliam. I’ve only seen Monty Python, The Fisher King, and 12 Monkeys. Somehow I missed Fear and Loathing when I was younger and never got around to it. And I’ve heard great things about Brazil and his recent works.
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