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Post by the Scribe on Nov 20, 2017 23:29:56 GMT -5
Erik and others, who do you think was or is the greatest director of all time and also who would your favorite be? I have never been much of a movie buff in my adult life but loved the old movies shown in the early days of television as tv had to rely on that catalog to fill their programming. It is odd because I was exposed to all of the same movies and movie shorts that my mother watched when she was a kid by going to the movies. I got them on television in the 1950's as my babysitter. I was always a fan of Hitchcock movies but also the catalog of nameless movies put out by the major studios as well as being a fan of the B movies especially the creepy crawlies with titles like The Crawling Eye, Attack of the GIANT Crabmonsters (there is something attractive about a French speaking crab), Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Blob, Charlie Chan, etc.
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Post by erik on Nov 20, 2017 23:51:20 GMT -5
Well, if you ask a hundred different people who the best film director was and ask them to name just one, you'd probably get a hundred different answers. In this era of living directors...well, I don't think it's even close. It'd be this man:  ...and his upcoming film about the Pentagon Papers, THE POST, with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, will be his 30th film. But besides the fabulous filmmaker who learned to make films while living for seven years (1957-1964) in Phoenix, my other favorites would be (not in any particular order): Stanley Kubrick Sam Peckinpah Alfred Hitchcock Sergio Leone Brian DePalma Oliver Stone Michael Moore John Ford Orson Welles |
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Post by sliderocker on Nov 21, 2017 18:52:15 GMT -5
I've seen most of those old movies you posted on, Rob, and in fact, have a DVD copy of "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" among my collection. That DVD included commentary from actress Yvette Vickers, which I believe was the last thing she done before her own tragic death. Actress Allison Hayes was also a tragic figure in real life. I totally like old movies and prefer many of them over stuff that is made today. However, I've seen a few stinkers that were considered B-movies but which should've considered grade Z movies, The real surprise for me was that some B-movies were far more watchable than some of the A-movies. I tend to believe critics give certain movies a rating higher than the deserve because of the director or the writer, and only rarely because of the star. I watched one movie several years ago that was considered an A movie and it was so boring and lethargic in the first thirty minutes, I walked out of the theater. Don't remember what the movie was, but it just plodded along. I agree with the list of directors Erik came up with, although I would also add directors like Frank Capra, Michael Curtiz, Victor Fleming, George Cukor and Preston Sturges among others to the list. Even Roger Corman, who was king of the B-movie directors.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 21, 2017 23:14:50 GMT -5
Yes, Yvette was dead about a year before her mummified body was found in her house. That can happen when you have automatic bill pay and no friends. I expect to be half eaten by my cats before my body is found.
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Post by sliderocker on Nov 23, 2017 14:48:06 GMT -5
Yes, Yvette was dead about a year before her mummified body was found in her house. That can happen when you have automatic bill pay and no friends. I expect to be half eaten by my cats before my body is found. I wondered how come the postal worker who delivered her mail didn't suspect something was wrong as he or she delivered her mail to her box and it just remained in her box, uncollected. I could understand not being curious on a few days or a couple of weeks, but a few months and eventually a year? I would've brought that to the attention of the superiors and to the attention of the law as something was very much amiss. As at an advanced age as Yvette was, she shouldn't have been alone in her home. Someone should've been staying with her to have kept an eye on her and to have summoned help when it was most needed. She might still have been with us if someone had been staying with her. |
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Post by erik on Nov 24, 2017 0:24:44 GMT -5
An example of the kind of violent action that too much of Hollywood misinterprets as "fun", which it definitely ain't--The Battle Of Bloody Porch, the climax of director Sam Peckinpah's 1969 Western epic THE WILD BUNCH:
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 10, 2017 15:44:44 GMT -5
Not all old old movies but you gotta love these rants!
(is this Mary Hart's voice?)
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