August 6, 2007
Lists, 8/6.
"Who are the oldest living film directors?" Ray Pride's decided to find out and offers "a necessarily selective survey of over 250 directors from around the world, all of whom are 60 or older, who have had lasting impact or a moment that matters in one way or another."
"[T]he real quandary comes in trying to decipher who among the pre- and post-millennial mavericks we see today will remain important enough to warrant mention 30, 40 or even 50 years from now," writes Bill Gibron at PopMatters. "Certainly, such a determination is fraught with flaws, but in looking over the possible choices, we can reflect on the state of cinema in the 21st century, and who, if anyone, will remain its ballyhooed bellwether." Also, the "Top 10 Trilogies of All Time."
"The 20 Hottest New Faces of Comedy." It's a list at Premiere and a few of those faces might surprise you.
ART iT lists "10X10 'artistic' films of the 21st century." Via Greg Allen.
Dan Eisenberg on that OFC Top 100: "It's interesting... to see which films people complain about when they talk about how this list isn't what it could have been."
Posted by dwhudson at August 6, 2007 3:00 PM
Ray Pride's list is indisepnsible, but is still missing some important names. A baker's dozen that comes to my mind:
Kaneto Shindo, b. April 28, 1912
Norman Mailer, b. January 31, 1923
Fernando Birri, b. March 13, 1925
Masahiro Shinoda, b. March 9, 1931
Bruce Baillie, b. September 24, 1931
Chor Yuen, b. 1934
Haile Gerima, b. March 4, 1936
Lau Kar Leung, b. August 1936
George & Mike Kuchar, b. August 31, 1942
Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, b. November 29, 1942
Thom Andersen, b. 1943
Ann Hui, b. May 23, 1947
I'm afraid that Andre Delvaux, on Ray Pride's list, died 5 years ago (see my Guardian obit.) Alas, Melville Shavelson has just died.
Posted by: Ronald Bergan at August 9, 2007 12:30 AM







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