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Post by Derrick on Jun 5, 2011 12:57:05 GMT -5
Tom Deja and I have been kicking around ideas for this summer's theme and we've been thinking about making this "The Summer of Great, Great Men" You know how this works: Tom and I sit around and kick the willy bobo about the actors and directors we think deserve that appellation. Some of the names we've thrown back and forth:
Jeff Goldblum
Alan Rudolph
Robert DeNiro
James Woods
Sidney Poitier
Larry Cohen
Richard Pryor
Christopher Lee
Michael Keaton
Zack Snyder
Bruce Willis
Luc Besson
Peter Cushing
John Woo
Anybody you guys think should be on that list? Anybody who shouldn't? How about some Great, Great Women?
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Post by tombitd on Jun 5, 2011 13:30:40 GMT -5
The first Great, Great Woman that comes to mind is simple...
Katherine Bigelow. The woman who directed my favorite vampire movie eeeeever....
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Post by Derrick on Jun 5, 2011 14:12:13 GMT -5
The first Great, Great Woman that comes to mind is simple... Katherine Bigelow. The woman who directed my favorite vampire movie eeeeever.... Katherine Bigelow does rock, doesn't she? She directed POINT BREAK which is on the list of most guys I know as one of their favorite movies. It's so testosterone I think a huge segment of the movie going world has forgotten it's directed by a woman. She also directed one of my favorite Angela Bassett movies: STRANGE DAYS and I loved THE HURT LOCKER. |
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Post by Kelen on Jun 5, 2011 22:38:13 GMT -5
Definitely Pryor or Poitier.
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Post by Eddie Love on Jun 7, 2011 18:38:05 GMT -5
Anybody you guys think should be on that list? Weeeeeeellllll, since you asked -- yes, I do think there's a joker in that great, great list, and for me -- it's Zack. He's made how many movies? And two of them were essentially storyboarded by other people? Maybe, it's me, but I say give him some time before he's chiseled on the pantheon... |
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Post by tombitd on Jun 7, 2011 20:18:38 GMT -5
Anybody you guys think should be on that list? Weeeeeeellllll, since you asked -- yes, I do think there's a joker in that great, great list, and for me -- it's Zack. He's made how many movies? And two of them were essentially storyboarded by other people? Maybe, it's me, but I say give him some time before he's chiseled on the pantheon... The main reason he's there is because there's a Director's Court we certainly want to get recorded with Joel Mangrum about him and the backlash against him. |
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Post by Derrick on Sept 16, 2011 0:00:17 GMT -5
Any John Garfield fans out there? Think we should do a Great, Great Man episode on this woefully underrated actor?
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Post by Eddie Love on Sept 17, 2011 9:32:01 GMT -5
I'd sure be interested in this. I'm sorry to say I only really know him from GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT -- I'd appreciate the overview. People used to talk about him all the time -- these day's less and less.
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Post by Derrick on Sept 17, 2011 16:45:48 GMT -5
I'd sure be interested in this. I'm sorry to say I only really know him from GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT -- I'd appreciate the overview. People used to talk about him all the time -- these day's less and less. That's why I'd like to focus on him. Most people only know him from THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE and that's it. John Garfield's influence reaches a lot further than most people know. Robert DeNiro has said that Garfield's his favorite actor. And while we're on the subject, how about a Robert Shaw episode? |
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Post by Eddie Love on Sept 17, 2011 18:43:28 GMT -5
I'd love that as well, Shaw was great -- and a novelist and plywright to boot.
I'd love you guys to do a show on "stock companies". I'm watching some CARRY ON.. pictures off TCM, and I think those must be the most dramatic example of that, where the same actors appear in different roles in films of the same series. Brooks, Ford and some others, I know of -- but I find the whole thing fascinating.
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Post by Derrick on Sept 17, 2011 18:53:25 GMT -5
I'd love that as well, Shaw was great -- and a novelist and plywright to boot. I'd love you guys to do a show on "stock companies". I'm watching some CARRY ON.. pictures off TCM, and I think those must be the most dramatic example of that, where the same actors appear in different roles in films of the same series. Brooks, Ford and some others, I know of -- but I find the whole thing fascinating. I DVR'ed three of the CARRY ON movies myself. Planning on watching them later on this evening after I get some writing done. I also want to watch WICKED,WICKED which is a slasher movie shown in split screen for the entire running time of the movie. |
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Post by Eddie Love on Sept 17, 2011 19:57:15 GMT -5
We're pretty simpatico in the DRV-ing. I've really enjoyed the first two CARRY ONs and I'm giving WICKED, WICKED a second chance as I think I tried to watch this once before and zoned out...
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