Recommend any great directors i haven't tried yet? - List of great directors.

[Jaime N. Christley]

But no-one said anything about "begrudging".

Not correct: I said something about "begrudging," after this exchange:

He said:

It is also a clear tip off to a person's youth when someone puts Quentin Tarantino on the list of Great Directors.

You said:

I tend to agree.

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have never liked tarentino. he's like the master of over-yak. most of his movies i've seen could use 20 minutes of dialogue taken out.

[Sir Bygber Brown]

What about women directors? Correct me if i'm wrong, but most people mentioned so far have been men. We were talking about Ida Lupino before, and i must check out some of her low-rent noirs. I think she did well to direct some projects when the system was so biased against that kind of thing at that point of the sound era.

I heard there were some great women directors in the silent period? Can someone tell me who?

[allegra]

Sir Bygber,

A fascinating question to which I was sure there had to be scores of answers -- though I'm ashamed to admit, I couldn't put my finger on one. So I did a google search, and came up with this:

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/fwfdindx.html

Zounds and egads!!! (I don't know which were from the silent era, but a few -- better yet, a few hundred! -- clicks will get you started...)

-- allegra

[Sir Bygber Brown]

Zounds is right! What a list - a little on the listish side, though... I recognise Australian director Jane Campion of Piano fame, Ida Lupino... not many names are jumping out at me...

[Glenn Anders]

Dear Jaime: I agree with Sir Bygber that Tarantino is a better writer of dialogue than he is a director or scenario writer. He creates vivid modern comic book-like characters, but they tend to meander, no matter how melodramatic the situation.

Yes, I agree that one great movie can make a great director, especially if forces prevent him/her from doing more. Dryer would be a great director, for instance, purely on the creation of THE PASSION OF JEANNE D'ARC (1927) -- without mentioning VAMPYR, made the year after.

But I don't think Great Directors should be mixed up with commercial trendsetters like C.B. DeMille or James Cameron.

Dorothy Arzner is usually the director mentioned first on the distaff side. She began as an editor and started directing in the late 1920's. THE WILD PARTY (1929) is one of her best in the period. She continued into the 1940's. DANCE GIRL DANCE (1940) is singled out by Hallawell, but I've never seen it, that I can remember.

Glenn

[Sir Bygber Brown]

Glenn - distaff?

Was your remark about commerical trendsetters directed at any particular director mentioned? Not P.T Anderson, by any chance? Or was it Tarantino?