I'm not talking about looks, or even their movies, but them. Their essence. But definitely their approach to art, and everything else in life.
John Cassavetes is a director I relate a lot with, even though there's about 4-5 others I like more. Add a mix of Robert Altman. A bit of Sam Peckinpah - another anti-authoritarian fella. Maybe the morbid from Ingmar Bergman.
I'd like to think my sense of fun in all things macabre is akin to Alfred Hitchcock
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I don't know anything about Yorgos except the movie "Dogtooth" which reminds me "The Castle of Purity" but still a different feel. I gave it a 6/10 the first time, and liked it more the second time I saw it.
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Beautiful thread, for me from the early stages of cinema it would be Jack Cardiff, Howard Hawks, Sam Fuller, John Guillermin and Richard Fleicher, essentially people with a child-like playful spirit. From a bit more modern filmmakers it's people like Tsui Hark, Larry Cohen, Mark Pellington, Joe Johnston, Frank Darabont... Adventurous unpretentious artists who embrace all kinds of different work in order to build their experience and have fun, not for being seen a certain way.
shareI immediately thought of Jim Jarmusch, and next Wim Wenders, and throw in Richard Linklater. I really like character studies. I'm sure all these guys are a bit more cerebral than me, but if I were really talented and ambitious, I think I would like to make movies like these guys. I do like Altman, but I'm not sure I could emulate him. He's almost mainstream while being subversive at the same time. I believe Alan Parker was a disciple of Altman, and Choose Me is a real favorite, but again, I'm not sure if I could pull that type of movie off.
shareAltman, mainstream? "Nashville", "McCabe & Mrs. Miller"?
shareThis is probably confusion over what the term "mainstream" means. For one, he had enough success over his career that he worked with a lot of a lot of famous faces, so I don't consider him any sort of underground maverick. And his films usually are shot very brightly, without some sort of signature look. I love Altman's work, and he has some touches that are his own, but while the stories and themes are often fascinating, I don't see his films as having a daring look to them, i.e., conventionally filmed = mainstream. McCabe is one of my absolute favorite films, and his decision to film in the mud and snow was definitely different.
shareI think his last movies fit that description. I didn't even like "Gosford Park".
Did you ever see "Secret Honor"? Probably the only movie I saw with ONE character.
No ! Not at all familiar with it. I saw Gosford Park with a friend. She likes mysteries and she said it was too easy to figure out. I thought she was being harsh and not in the spirit of Altman, but maybe it's not that great of a movie. I don't know. With how much many interesting actors were in it, I figured it must be good, but I guess it was too "talky". But The Player seemed pretty good. Been a long time since I've seen any of these.
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