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Post by lowtacks86 on Oct 15, 2020 18:25:48 GMT
an argument could probably be made for any of the following:
Kurosawa
FW Murnau
Felini
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Post by kolchak92 on Oct 15, 2020 18:41:23 GMT
Ingmar Bergman
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 15, 2020 20:10:49 GMT
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 15, 2020 20:18:04 GMT
I don't know that there is a non-Hollywood director that is widely known by "regular" film-goers (as opposed to cinephiles), the way Spielberg is, for example. Maybe Bergman, Fellini, Kurosawa, among older people. A twenty-something who only watches Hollywood blockbusters? I don't think he/she would know any non-Hollywood director by name.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 15, 2020 20:35:42 GMT
Pretty much agree with the choices so far put forward. I would probably give Kurosawa the edge over Bergman, with Fellini and Godard close behind
Maybe Leone, but that's a grey area as to whether he counts as non-Hollywood
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 15, 2020 20:40:20 GMT
Sergei Eisenstein
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Post by Reynard on Oct 15, 2020 23:39:12 GMT
Sergio Leone, followed by Kurosawa, Bergman and Tarkovsky.
I don't think Leone is grey area at all, since the US actors he worked with were pretty much nobodies - they became popular after working with Leone. Paramount producing Once Upon A Time in the West doesn't really matter either, since the writers & the crew were still Italian.
Kurosawa is in my opinion by far the most popular of the rest, sine his samurai adventures have far more wider appeal than Bergman's dark dramas or Tarkosvky's esoterism. Also, Kurosawa's best period is much longer - Bergman's popularit waned rather quickly, while Tarkovksy simply was not allowed to work as much as he would have liked to.
Giuseppe Tornatore is s a sort of "film club favorite" thanks to Cinema Paradiso and The Legend of 1900, but his other works are not well known.
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