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Erk
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #98 John Sturges
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Sofia Coppola (and Tarantino) I think are the only american directors still alive who's really interesting today.
I've only seen sturges great escape and magnificent seven. Both good adventure movies but nothing more.
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #98 John Sturges
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97. Baz Luhrmann
The showman
Who’d have known that the kitsch-lover behind Strictly Ballroom could deliver a cinematic statement of intent as radical as Romeo + Juliet, mixing Shakespeare with helicopters and handguns? The flamboyant former actor followed up with twirling, lavish pop musical Moulin Rouge!. A perfectionist (“All the films I make are about 60 per cent of what I imagine them to be”) wise to the power of adding theatrical zing to celluloid dreams, he’s about to go epic with period romance Australia. Expect anything but the ordinary.
Picture perfect Moulin Rouge! If music be the food of love…
I didn't like Romeo + Juliet, and I haven't seen Moulin Rouge.
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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I love Baz Luhrman.
The Red Curtain trilogy is simply a masterpiece. It's essentially the same story told through 3 different mediums (dance, poetry, and music). The openings are frenetic and designed to get your adreniline going. They all calm down after boy and girl meet, but you are still so hyped after the roller coaster, the rest of the movies feel magical.
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Yodas-evil-twin2
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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General_Dodonna posted:
Sturges was a fine genre director (Bad Day at Black Rock is great), but to include Sturges and leave out perhaps the greatest of all genre directors, Jacques Tourneur, is simply anathema.
What did you expect? It's IMDB.
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Zaz
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9/6/07 4:39pm
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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His new film, "Australia" is due out in 2008, seven years after his last, "Moulin Rouge". Big gap.
I've only seen "Moulin Rouge", which was a curate's egg of a movie; some great things and some things that just don't work. The ultra-kinetic style *did* work, at least for awhile.
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severian28
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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I already have a gripe with this list with Luhrmann ranking better than Sturges. Good director, no doubt, but premature much?
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JediANGELA
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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I dont know why, but I sort of expected Luhrmann to be in 50's. Moulin Rouge and Romeo and Juliet are two movies that I can watch over and over again.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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I've seen Baz's movies, and while I'm not fond of his style or his films,
I like the fact that he takes risks and pushes the envelope. Very creative
guy and while he's not my cup of tea, at least the guy is interesting.
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General_Dodonna
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9/6/07 8:11pm
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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Yodas-evil-twin2 posted:
What did you expect? It's IMDB.
IMDB did not make this list.
Re: Luhrmann
Where is Hollywood's supreme color stylist and musical director, Vincente Minelli? Oh, not on this list? Next.
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KissMeImARebel
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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I like Luhrmann. Even when things don't quite work (I think Romeo + Juliet suffered during the fast-talking-hyper-action scenes - I mean, hello this is Shakespeare, it's important to let the words be understood), it can't be said the man doesn't have a vision. At least he has ideas and the guts to go with them.
I really like Strictly Ballroom. Not as flashy and well known as later works, but it's got real heart.
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Zaz
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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What, no Minnelli? That's very strange.
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Drac39
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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Waaaay too early for him to make it. He's only made two real movies(His first picture doesn't add to the resume) and they weren't good on the level of making this list.
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Zaz
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9/8/07 12:40pm
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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I suspect a lot of voters haven't seen anything older than 1950, or very little.
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Drac39
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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I'm guessing that as well,it's a shame that a lot of the writers of these list have no conception of time besides the last five years
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Zaz
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9/23/07 12:34pm
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RE: Total Film's 100 Greatest Directors Ever - #97: Baz Luhrmann
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I wonder if Murnau made the list...
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