A film director can work for decades and never make anything approaching a good film. Often within the movie industry, wannabe directors can strive for years and years and never get close to making a feature film – that’s what makes the directors on this list so extraordinary. They have been extraordinarily consistent over a substantial amount of time, never allowing the quality of their art to shrink.
Some of the very greats have made poor films. Hitchcock made numerous clangers such as Family Plot, Topaz and Lifeboat amongst his formidable filmography. Francis Ford Coppola, director of the greatest film of all time (The Godfather Part II) has not made a good film for a while now and Billy Wilder did his best to taint his legacy with his late career output of Fedora and Buddy Buddy.
I decided a certain criteria was needed for a list like this, so put simply,...
Some of the very greats have made poor films. Hitchcock made numerous clangers such as Family Plot, Topaz and Lifeboat amongst his formidable filmography. Francis Ford Coppola, director of the greatest film of all time (The Godfather Part II) has not made a good film for a while now and Billy Wilder did his best to taint his legacy with his late career output of Fedora and Buddy Buddy.
I decided a certain criteria was needed for a list like this, so put simply,...
- 1/19/2013
- by Sam Moore
- Obsessed with Film
Our King's Speech coverage came early this week, what with the SAGs and DGAs happening last weekend. Which left the rest of the week free for … what, exactly?
The big story
In fact, it's been quite a quiet week for film; a lull before the storm of next week's awards blow out (Monday: Evening Standard film awards, Thursday: Critics Circle film awards, Sunday: Baftas) and after last weekend's King's Speech hoorah at the SAGs and the DGAs. Tom Hooper's drama has even been knocked off the top of the UK box office by princess pretender Tangled (though over the pond it's still doing remarkable business). But don't worry. We haven't abandoned our commitment to running at least one sizeable King's Speech think piece each week. This time round, it was the turn of Christopher Hitchens, who weighed in with some objections to the historical accuracy, especially re Churchill.
In the news
• Maria Schneider,...
The big story
In fact, it's been quite a quiet week for film; a lull before the storm of next week's awards blow out (Monday: Evening Standard film awards, Thursday: Critics Circle film awards, Sunday: Baftas) and after last weekend's King's Speech hoorah at the SAGs and the DGAs. Tom Hooper's drama has even been knocked off the top of the UK box office by princess pretender Tangled (though over the pond it's still doing remarkable business). But don't worry. We haven't abandoned our commitment to running at least one sizeable King's Speech think piece each week. This time round, it was the turn of Christopher Hitchens, who weighed in with some objections to the historical accuracy, especially re Churchill.
In the news
• Maria Schneider,...
- 2/4/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
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