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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 4, 2017 13:05:41 GMT
pimpinainteasy I need clarification of the OP. Director made only one film and that one film became a classic. OR Director made many films BUT only one of them became a classic. Thanks in advance. you made add directors/films from both categories. |
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Post by london777 on Apr 5, 2017 3:19:05 GMT
Jean Vigo, who directed the wonderful L'Atalante, his only [full-length] film. Before L"Atalante (1934) he wrote and directed Zéro de Conduite (1933). Although only 44 minutes long, I would say it was at least as influential on film history, influencing such as Bunuel and Lindsay Anderson (If ...., 1968). |
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Post by movielover on Apr 5, 2017 3:25:08 GMT
John Boorman - No disrespect to Excalibur or Hope and Glory, but Deliverance is the only classic he made.  |
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Post by london777 on Apr 5, 2017 3:31:12 GMT
After writing the Oscar nominated screenplay for The Killing Fields (1984), Bruce Robinson wrote and directed the very funny and original Withnail & I (1987), which became a cult classic, but is now more widely recognized as one of the best films of the 1980s.
In the thirty years since, he has only directed three more movies, none of them remarkable, plus doing some more writing and acting.
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Post by movielover on Apr 5, 2017 3:35:14 GMT
Paul Brickman only directed 3 movies, but one of them was Risky Business. (I can understand if some people don't consider this to be a classic, but I do. Brickman's comic filmmaking style was ahead of its time, and Cruise's solo dancing to "Old Time Rock and Roll" is certainly an iconic movie image.)  |
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Post by london777 on Apr 5, 2017 3:56:08 GMT
John Boorman - No disrespect to Excalibur or Hope and Glory, but Deliverance is the only classic he made. Certainly his biggest commercial success and maybe his best film, though others would say differently. My own favorite is Point Blank (1967) which influenced a lot of crime thrillers since. He is certainly not like some directors cited here, who suddenly pulled an outstanding movie out of their ass which was head and shoulders above the rest of their work. He has usually tried to do something different in his movies, but has had some real disasters, critical, box-office or both, and many ambitious but uncompleted projects. I feel he has often let his talent get in the way of the story, a failing not seen in Point Blank, where he just went for it without trying too hard to impress. |
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Post by OldAussie on Apr 5, 2017 3:59:52 GMT
I was about to mention Point Blank. Fantastic movie.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 5, 2017 4:05:51 GMT
movielover said "John Boorman - No disrespect to Excalibur or Hope and Glory, but Deliverance is the only classic he made." Here's where that whole "what is the definition of a classic?" rears its ugly head again.
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Post by movielover on Apr 5, 2017 4:09:18 GMT
movielover said "John Boorman - No disrespect to Excalibur or Hope and Glory, but Deliverance is the only classic he made." Here's where that whole "what is the definition of a classic?" rears its ugly head again. It's 45 years old, so I thought it might qualify. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 5, 2017 4:17:17 GMT
movielover It's not the date that might be a problem, it's the statement that it is the ONLY classic that he made.
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Post by london777 on Apr 5, 2017 4:31:01 GMT
movielover It's not the date that might be a problem, it's the statement that it is the ONLY classic that he made. Many would agree that Deliverance is a classic and that, for example, Boorman's Zardoz (1974) is not a classic, but where to draw the line with his other good movies (some mentioned above)? |
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 5, 2017 5:38:19 GMT
movielover It's not the date that might be a problem, it's the statement that it is the ONLY classic that he made. Many would agree that Deliverance is a classic and that, for example, Boorman's Zardoz (1974) is not a classic, but where to draw the line with his other good movies (some mentioned above)? HELL IN THE PACIFIC was a damn good film. i'm surprised its not that well known - it has LEE MARVIN and TOSHIRO MIFUNE. |
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 5, 2017 6:45:27 GMT
i can think of HERK HARVEY who made CARNIVAL OF SOULS. he did make many shorts and documentaries though. there was an air of melancholy about him when he put some white paint on his face and appeared at a press conference for CARNIVAL OF SOULS. it was on the criterion DVD. im surprised he didnt make more movies. any others? HE'S A GOOD COP. ON A BIG BIKE. ON A BAD ROAD. The only film JAMES WILLIAM GUERCIA (who was the band Chicago's manager) has ever directed is the 1973 classic ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE - starring, in perhaps his finest performance, Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Elisha Cooke Jr., Royal Dano and Jeannine Riley. One of the great films about the counterculture, ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE is right up there with the likes of EASY RIDER and CISCO PIKE. The budget was pretty low so Guercio gave up his salary so he could afford to hire the legendary cinematographer Conrad Hall. Thanks to Guercio's passion for John Ford the film - beautifully lensed in 2.35:1. Panavison often looks like a modern day western. The first time I watched it - in 1978 - I was lucky enough to see this film in 35mm on one of the biggest drive-in screens in South Africa while doing my basic training in Pretoria. Three of us sneaked off the base and went to the drive-in in a battered old VW bug. ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE was the second feature and my two buddies had passed out by the time it began, but I was riveted to the screen while this amazing film played out. A producer of numerous albums and singles by Chicago, Blood, Sweat & Tears and the Beach Boys, Guercio has been nominated for some 36 Grammies. After Don Siegel clashed with star Steve McQueen on the 1980 western TOM HORN and quit, Elliot Silverstein replaced him but soon fell out with McQueen. Guercio replaced Silverstein, but was fired by McQueen after thre days. Guercio was replaced by veteran TV director William Wiard. TOM HORN is the only feature film on Wiard's resume. While this melancholy western is a somewhat underrated flick, it's no ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE. Trailer - www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2sOYpYHibs (unfortunately not in widescreen) Tribute - www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVcpSlaKbBk |
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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 5, 2017 6:53:24 GMT
John Boorman - No disrespect to Excalibur or Hope and Glory, but Deliverance is the only classic he made. I'm guessing you haven't seen John Boorman's brilliant 1967 classic crime thriller POINT BLANK - starring an unforgettable, superby cast Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson and John Vernon movielover. Or maybe, you just forget that Boorman directed the groundbreaking, one-of-a-kind POINT BLANK - which is available on Blu Ray. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3gj5_6DHRY |
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Post by angel on Apr 5, 2017 12:01:53 GMT
To date, Gary Oldman has only directed one movie Nil By Mouth which was pretty fantastic.
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Post by Salzmank on Apr 5, 2017 14:14:11 GMT
It's not a classic by any means, but Kerry Conran directed one movie, the very enjoyable Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, with big-name stars and good reviews, and then was essentially thrown out of Hollywood, never to return, when the picture flopped at the box office. Yes, it says something about modern filmgoers, who by and large cannot stand a '30s or '40s setting except when stuff gets "blown up real' good," but it says something more about modern Hollywood, which is more exclusivist than Toyland ever was. (" Once your movie doesn't make money, you can never re-turn again...") Which is so ironic, because, as mentioned, Sky Captain is quite a good movie, and Conran showed a visual flair that could do well with more straightforward backgrounds (the sets in Sky Captain are nearly all CGI) and scenarios. Really too bad. I agree she sjould try a possible noire. Not to be pedantic, hi224 , but Kerry Conran is male. P.S. And he was, according to that Wikipedia article, supposed to direct Disney's John Carter movie ('12), which I've never seen and which flopped at the box office, but he, who had replaced Robert Rodriguez, was himself eventually replaced by Jon Favreau, who was in turn replaced with Andrew Stanton. I wonder if it would have been any better if Conran had directed. |
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Post by london777 on Apr 10, 2017 22:03:40 GMT
Wolfgang Petersen has made many films, but only one classic (Das Boot). See my new thread on it. The way his career has gone since I do not see him making another classic, but we can always hope.
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