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Writers: Billy Wilder/Ben Hecht/Luis Bunuel/Robert Bresson/Woody Allen/Chaplin (alongside myself) DP(s): Sacha Vierny/Gianni di Venanzo/Gordon Willis/Sven Nykvist/Stanley Cortez Director: Michelangelo Antonioni/Robert Breson/Carl Dreyer/Bela Tarr/Andrei Tarkovksy (with the inclusion of myself)...

I watch four to five films a day. I will begin by listing films I watched from yesterday and the day before yesterday, and will continue posting on a daily basis. Day Before Yesterday (March 14.): Belle De Jour (1967) - Luis Buñuel 10/10 His Girl Friday (1940) - Hawks 10/10 Duck...

Brilliant! A fine piece of cinematography and visual storytelling.

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Thank you for supporting my statement in a sense Alcove Audio.

Please don't forget to mention Mulholland Drive. Lynch is quite an amazing director and visionary, though I have to admit also that the quality of his work has dropped significantly through the years. By the way, has anyone seen "Rabbits" by Lynch, its quite amazing how strange his...

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Polanski is in fact not an over-rated director.

I agree to some extent with your notion on what an under-rated director is considered to be. In response to this thought, I must say that Buñuel has not received the recognition and/or acknowledgement that he deserves by critics, viewers, or peer filmmakers during his film making career, in an...

Buñuel I would also like to mention Luis Buñuel, one of my personal influences, and most admired directors. From his early days of surrealism to his later works involving the church and the bourgeoisie as prime targets of the subjects of his films, Buñuel has never truly come to receive the...

Sergio Leone Michelangelo Antonioni Both very under-rated based on the quality of their films.

It's a marvelous film, especially if you have a fetish for old French crime films. In case you are not particularly well acquainted with Jean-Pierre Melville, he was one of the major figures who began the French New Wave, with his influential film, Bob Le Flambeur, in 1956. He's pretty much...

Just an off-topic question out of pure curiosity: Does your screenplay of the film, "The Samurai", bear any resemblance to Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 film, titled, "Le Samurai"?

Thank you, I will proceed to research further on Bresson's novel, who knows i might even purchase it when the opportunity comes. As for your criticism for me not including any Godard on my list, I have to say that his filmmaking style does not exactly come near to my expectations. Of his many...

My top twenty in no specific order: 8 1/2 (1963) La Dolce Vita (1960) La Strada (1954) L'Age D'Or (1930) A Clockwork Orange (1971) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Dr.Strangelove (1964) M (1931) All Hitchcock Films Most Melville Films Seventh Seal (1957) Wild Strawberries (1957) La Grande Illusion...