The 47 Ronin- 1941 Mizoguchi
I'm not sure how often I'll do reviews on the site but I had to send up a quick flare after watching Mizoguchi's The 47 Ronin on TCM. I was lucky to catch it. It's nowhere
The 97th Best Director of All-Time: Peter Jackson
Jackson. Obviously Jackson isn’t on this list without the lord of the rings but the momentous achievement of that masterpiece cannot overlooked. I count the lord of the rings as one film in the same way I count the decalogue or kill
The 98th Best Director of All-Time: Jacques Demy
Demy. Demy’s 10-year run from 1961-1970 was something to behold. I did a demy study in 2014 and I’m both pissed it took me so long to get to him and thrilled to have finally
The 99th Best Director of All-Time: George Cukor
Cukor. Even without any credit for gone with the wind cukor’s filmography alone is deserving of about the 80th slot on this list by my tally. He’s not a style-plus director and his contribution to gone with the
RIP – John Hurt
Really sad to lose John Hurt. He was an amazing actor and has 22 archiveable films (which is astounding) over a 50 year period. 22 archiveable films, 2 nominations for midnight express and the
Best Directors in the World 2017
Top 10 Directors Current list Here’s my annual stab at listing and ranking the best directors on the planet. Usually I look at the last 10 years’ worth of work with a heavy emphasis
The 100th Best Director of All-Time: Samuel Fuller
Fuller. "If you don’t like Sam Fuller, you just don’t like cinema.” - Martin Scorsese. How about that? haha. I had a hard time picking between Fuller, Fosse, Carol Reed, Ashby, Rohmer, Yimou
Working top 10 of 2016
It’s been a really weak year for cinema. Without la la land it would be one of the worst years on record. Hopefully some of these other 2016 titles still trickling into theaters and