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Post by moviemouth on Jun 7, 2021 3:23:42 GMT
The thread about directors who had a good track record, but then went downhill made me curious about this.
Sidney Lumet's final movie is one of the greatest final films ever and what makes it even more special is that he had a string of not very good movies prior to that. I will say that Find Me Guilty was definitely a step in the right direction though.
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Post by sdrew13163 on Jun 7, 2021 4:42:08 GMT
Split was pretty well liked after Shyamalan went through a decade and a half of being hated.
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Post by rudeboy on Jun 7, 2021 4:54:26 GMT
I'm not sure it fully qualifies but I did feel that Blue Jasmine was Woody Allen's best film in close to two decades.
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Post by Cat on Jun 7, 2021 5:00:29 GMT
Terrence Malick. 20 years between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line. That was a strong return.
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 7, 2021 5:01:37 GMT
Terrence Malick. 20 years between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line. That was a strong return. I meant comebacks from bad movies.
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 7, 2021 5:11:45 GMT
I'm not sure it fully qualifies but I did feel that Blue Jasmine was Woody Allen's best film in close to two decades. I personally wouldn't count that and for a couple reasons, but if it is a comeback for you then I can't argue. I'd say that Match Point is probably his biggest leap, but he has always been hit or miss for me. Deconstructing Harry is my favorite Woody Allen movie.
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 7, 2021 5:19:10 GMT
Split was pretty well liked after Shyamalan went through a decade and a half of being hated. Yes, that is probably the single most significant comeback I can think of for any director.
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Post by gw on Jun 7, 2021 5:21:44 GMT
The only one that comes to mind right away due to my animation slant is Jean Francois Laguionie. He went from nearly a decade and a half of no feature film to A Monkey's Tale and Black Mor's Island and came back to form with the cel shaded CGI films The Painting and Louise by the Shore.
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Post by Archelaus on Jun 7, 2021 5:57:37 GMT
Alfred Hitchcock had a well-acclaimed comeback with Frenzy after Torn Curtain and Topaz disappointed critics and audiences.
The Player and Short Cuts revived Robert Altman's career.
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Post by rudeboy on Jun 7, 2021 6:19:12 GMT
I'm not sure it fully qualifies but I did feel that Blue Jasmine was Woody Allen's best film in close to two decades. I personally wouldn't count that and for a couple reasons, but if it is a comeback for you then I can't argue. I'd say that Match Point is probably his biggest leap, but he has always been hit or miss for me. Deconstructing Harry is my favorite Woody Allen movie. I do like some of the films in between - Deconstructing Harry included (Match Point has its virtues but I found it an interesting failure at best) but for me, Jasmine was his best since Bullets Over Broadway, maybe even since Husbands & Wives. I agree on the spotty nature of his career, but I do feel that from the mid seventies to mid nineties the hits far outweighed the misses.
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Post by Hurdy Gurdy Man on Jun 7, 2021 6:42:11 GMT
John Frankenheimer with Ronin.
Maybe Roland Emmerich with Midway? I mean by this point no one expected him to make a good movie.
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Post by millar70 on Jun 7, 2021 6:43:44 GMT
How about Unforgiven?
Eastwood was always pretty respected as a director, but I believe people thought he was going through a so-so stretch in the 80's up until Unforgiven in 1992.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jun 7, 2021 7:19:00 GMT
After the shitty Hook, Spielberg releases Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List in the same year.
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 7, 2021 7:59:12 GMT
I personally wouldn't count that and for a couple reasons, but if it is a comeback for you then I can't argue. I'd say that Match Point is probably his biggest leap, but he has always been hit or miss for me. Deconstructing Harry is my favorite Woody Allen movie. I do like some of the films in between - Deconstructing Harry included (Match Point has its virtues but I found it an interesting failure at best) but for me, Jasmine was his best since Bullets Over Broadway, maybe even since Husbands & Wives. I agree on the spotty nature of his career, but I do feel that from the mid seventies to mid nineties the hits far outweighed the misses. More so than after 1994 I can agree about. I REALLY dislike some of his movies made after 1995. Not a fan of Midnight in Paris? I'm not, but I think that is often considered his best movie made after 1995. I think his career started to get more praise from critics and the public after starting with Match Point and ending with Blue Jasmine. In between was Vicky Christina Barcelona and Midnight in Paris. Before Match Point his last movie that got a lot of praise was Sweet and Lowdown, 6 years before.
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Post by rudeboy on Jun 7, 2021 9:05:49 GMT
I do like some of the films in between - Deconstructing Harry included (Match Point has its virtues but I found it an interesting failure at best) but for me, Jasmine was his best since Bullets Over Broadway, maybe even since Husbands & Wives. I agree on the spotty nature of his career, but I do feel that from the mid seventies to mid nineties the hits far outweighed the misses. More so than after 1994 I can agree about. I REALLY dislike some of his movies made after 1995. Not a fan of Midnight in Paris? I'm not, but I think that is often considered his best movie made after 1995. I think his career started to get more praise from critics and the public after starting with Match Point and ending with Blue Jasmine. In between was Vicky Christina Barcelona and Midnight in Paris. Before Match Point his last movie that got a lot of praise was Sweet and Lowdown, 6 years before. I think Midnight in Paris was popular with people who had not seen any of Allen's early films. Response from long-time fans, or those I have spoken to, was largely more mixed. The 'back in time' sequences had a few nice ideas but I thought the present-day scenes were close to terrible. It was a very big hit, though, for whatever reasons. Sweet and Lowdown was beautifully-acted by Penn and Morton and an enjoyable experience, but not one I've ever thought of going back to. I LOATHED Vicky Cristina Barcelona - second only to Magic in the Moonlight at the bottom of my Woody-pile. I agree about his post-mid-90s output being far inferior. I'd push it back a year, though - I disliked Mighty Aphrodite quite a bit too. Blue Jasmine is the only post-Bullets film I'd rate as high as 7/10, whereas there are only four or five of his earlier movies I'd rate lower. There are, admittedly, still a few I have never seen.
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Post by Isapop on Jun 7, 2021 14:43:07 GMT
As far as Woody Allen goes, I'd say Midnight In Paris finally lived up to his high standard that Allen really hadn't met in the previous twenty years.
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Jun 7, 2021 14:47:30 GMT
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is amazing. One of the greatest movies ever made.
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