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Oct 27, 2008 06:25AM
Please vote before November 1st for November's Director month. All directors have instant watch on Netflix and available movies on Netflix.
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since there has been a bit of discussion about a few directors lately, here are my top 3 votes for november:david cronenberg
akira kurosawa
alfred hitchcock
all of these directors have made quite a few films, so there would be lots to chose from, giving people a wide range of subjects.
Phillip, use the poll tab and vote that way. It is on the right upper hand corner. Click on that and then vote. A lot of people have voted already. Voting closes on November 1st unless we have a tie then we will have a second vote. I think that is the fair way to do it.
Well if we like the idea of a director a month, we can look at Kurosawa next. Is that ok?
i voted with rob on lean, for several reasons. i have seen a few of his films and liked them a LOT, and there are about 8 i haven't seen...so it would encourage me to check out some others.sad kurosawa wasn't in the poll....
december would be a great month for ozu or kurosawa.
so far it's looking like hitchcock is in the lead...that doesn't depress me at all.
I didn't vote for Hitchcock, but when I saw that he was in the lead, I thought it would be a lot of fun.I saw The Birds when I was very very young, too young to see it, and was terrified of birds for years.
i saw psycho when i was young and was terrified of mothers for years.; )
Well I didn't know a lot of the directors that Phillip posted so it was a good learning experience for me. It also is making me want to see a ton more movies, more for the netflix queue. We are all really lucky we have netflix or else we wouldn't be able to do all this.At first I thought Hitchcock, I have seen everything. But, I never had real discussions about him so that could be fun. He was such a master. Then I thought, I hope a lot of people in the discussion will be from people not from the USA because that will change our discussion and perceptions. I seem to be getting on threads about nonAmerican directors. I am pretty much not into our American films as of late and forget our masters.
there are quite a lot of great hitchcock films that tend to get overlooked. i made a top 20 list recently when i posted a little piece on him. that might serve as a starting point.did we end up choosing hitchcock? is that the final decision? i thought the vote was out until tomorrow.
rob, i would be happy to suggest some david lean films. there are a few classics that most folks have seen, like Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago. But his early stuff that he did in England are the ones I really enjoy.
For starters, since you like darker gothic narratives, I would recommend his adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations. If you like that, and are interested in finely acted, well scripted (yet doomed) romance, one of my personal faves is Brief Encounter. Noel Coward wrote it, and Lean directed it. There's a lot to like about that film.
yeah, but i've expanded it to 25 and will post it here if we decide on hitchcock for november...i'm still waiting to see if the decision sticks.it is pouring rain here at the moment. i walked to the store a while ago and was almost run over by some drunk guy that sped past me and then into a parked car, driving it right up on the sidewalk and over a no parking sign....he backed up, smashed into the car again until it was forced into the garden of this house, backed up, and then sped off.
you gotta love oakland....especially on holidaze like this.
Phillip, glad you're OK! We prosecute thirty people a week for DUI and it's the tip of the iceberg...we catch probably 1% off all drunk drivers in our County (in my unscientific estimation). Rob, hope you like Lean's GREAT EXPECTATIONS: I believe I posted my review here a months or two ago. I suppose it's really Dicken's GREAT EXPECTATIONS adapted by Lean...but you get my drift. It's fantasticly shot and I compared the deep focus cinematography to Toland's on CITIZEN KANE.
I had to buy several box sets in addition to my VHS tapes to get **most** of Hitchcock's movies. I think I have a two or three that I still need to complete my collection. I still have not viewed them all. Most people probably think they've seen all of Hitchcock's movies, but they probably have not. He was prolific. I will **never** see The Birds even though it is in my collection and my daughters have viewed it. I have an extreme fear of birds after being attacked in a commercial hen house when I was age 4.
I don't blame you for not wanting to see the Birds. Scared me silly when I was too young to watch it.
