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Favorite Movies By Great Directors

posted 3 months ago by BillHicksFan (10709)
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Orson Welles / Favourite Films
The Baker's Wife (1938) Marcel Pagnol, Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) William Wyler, Bicycle Thieves (1948) Vittorio De Sica, City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin, La Grande illusion (1937) Jean Renoir, Greed (1924) Erich von Stroheim, Intolerance (1916) D.W. Griffith, Nanook of the North (1922) Robert J. Flaherty, Ninotchka (1939) Ernst Lubitsch, Shoeshine (1946) Vittorio De Sica, Stagecoach (1939) John Ford.
Source: Cinematheque Belgique (1952)

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78448) 3 months ago

I quite like Oliver Stone’s work. I know you are a big Doors fan as am I, but I liked that script and film and I seem to recall you did not. We can disagree politely on that one🤓

But of all his body of work I consider Born On The 4th Of July and Platoon to be his very best films. War films are by there nature big loud exciting affairs but in these two movies Stone brings the reality to the forefront. These are young men slaughtering each other for a cause they neither understand nor give a damn about.

Scary stuff.