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Users activity: 11 post per thread
Forum activity: 6 active threads during last week
 

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EricBarker
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Is Billy Wilder the greatest...
Published (2009-11-13 08:30:00)
Yeah, they weren't bad. 'Course you realize, there's no such animal as the greatest director of all time. There have been many great directors, and there'll be many more. "...the work of art is invariably the creation of a new world..." -- Nabokov
SeanJoyce
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Is Billy Wilder the greatest...
Published (2009-11-06 01:48:00)
Along with Ford he was the finest of the pre 60s. Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, John Huston, William Wyler, Elia Kazan, and even Robert Wise all have something to say about that, though you certainly have a good argument. As for "pre-60s", most of those filmmakers were still going strong in that decade, even beyond, so that categorization is a bit disingenuous. Most of the directors listed below came to fruition in the...
jellobiafra2000
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Billy Wilder and The Coen Brothers
Published (2009-11-10 23:23:00)
I was just thinking of who my Mt. Rushmore of directors would be: I decided on Akira Kurosawa, The Coen Brothers (as one), Billy Wilder, and Alfred Hitchcock. Scorsese and Woody Allen just missed, and Francis Ford Coppola would have been on it had he died in the early eighties. My top 100 films http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNEyqzd1_GU&feature=fvw
therock_42
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What's his best DIRECTED...
Published (2009-11-12 19:38:00)
STALAG 17 IS GOOD Last Films : Rebel Withput A Cause : 8 Cache : 8 Good Will Hunting :7
coolasspunk
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Is Billy Wilder the greatest...
Published (2009-11-13 08:14:00)
no he is not kubrick and tarkovsky were the best directors of all time
 

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Started 5 months, 3 weeks ago (2009-05-27 21:00:00)  by Malick663
No, and Spielberg? gross. [blue] FYC: http://i39.tinypic.com/280hx0w.jpg
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Started 1 week, 6 days ago (2009-11-03 14:38:00)  by aeonblue277
Out of those, I'd say that Sunset Blvd. wins by a small margin. Beautifully shot and directed from beginning to end. The rest are so close though! Wow.. now I'm not even sure. :)
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Started 5 months ago (2009-06-15 06:35:00)  by ElvisMagic
I've thought of this comparison myself. The Dude abides
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Started 1 year, 4 months ago (2008-06-22 19:58:00)  by MissIlsaLund
I love this post! But I don't think I had to tell you that. 4. "He liked the souffle so much that he decided to stay for the fish." ( Sabrina ) 5. "Same chair, same perfume, same anklet?" "I wonder if I know what you mean." "I wonder if you wonder." ( Double Indemnity ) 6. "I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop." ( Some Like it Hot 7. "When I was a kid, Joe, I used...
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Started 2 months ago (2009-09-12 19:05:00)  by RnRingoStarRnR
Yeah, Wilder IMO is a top 5 director, you have to watch more, hell I have to watch more. Irma la Douce (1963) A The Apartment (1960) A+ Some Like It Hot (1959) Witness for the Prosecution (1957) A+ Sabrina (1954) A Stalag 17 (1953) A Ace in the Hole (1951) C Sunset Blvd. (1950) A A Foreign Affair (1948) A The Lost Weekend (1945) B/C Double Indemnity (1944) A+ My favorite is The ...
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Started 1 year, 7 months ago (2008-04-06 20:12:00)  by MissIlsaLund
Agreed. Maybe when I'm a sexually frustrated middle-aged man I'll be able to get into it. I am shocked, *shocked* to find that gambling goes on in here!
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Started 3 years, 10 months ago (2006-01-12 08:19:00)  by sundoora
well, I found that Wilder quote where he says about Marilyn: "My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?" ... I think that Marilyn was a very compicated woman and that it wasn´t easy to work with her because of all her crying fits,unpunctuality and forgetting her lines. and Wilder loves to exaggerate a bit. so I...
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Started 2 months, 3 weeks ago (2009-08-21 02:45:00)  by kastorulh
I think Hitchcock has the most. Not sure about that though.
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Started 5 months, 3 weeks ago (2009-05-27 21:00:00)  by Malick663
No, and Spielberg? gross. [blue] FYC: http://i39.tinypic.com/280hx0w.jpg
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Started 5 months ago (2009-06-15 06:35:00)  by ElvisMagic
I've thought of this comparison myself. The Dude abides
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Started 1 week, 6 days ago (2009-11-03 14:38:00)  by aeonblue277
Out of those, I'd say that Sunset Blvd. wins by a small margin. Beautifully shot and directed from beginning to end. The rest are so close though! Wow.. now I'm not even sure. :)
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