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Robert Kramer.
I’ll have you know, I’m shaking my head. Vigorously.
I can’t agree with that list.
“Robert Kramer.”
Always a good answer.
I’m just giving examples, I don’t by any means think that those names are solid or decisive. I’m just trying to determine who comes first to mind of all American filmmakers. If anything, it’d be good to gather further examples for all of them.
kubrick, i guess.
“If anything, it’d be good to gather further examples for all of them.”
France: Chris Marker
Italy: Ermanno Olmi
Germany: Rudolf Thome
Sweden: Victor Sjöström
Japan: Kenji Mizoguchi
Hong Kong: Fruit Chan
China: Jiang Wen
Korea: Hong Sang-soo
Brazil: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Mexico: Emilio Fernández
I think Ingmar Bergman should stay as is. Having never seen any Sjostrom, this statement is not justified.
But still…
Well, at least Bergman would have nominated Sjöström as the greatest Swedish director. I think that both are outstanding masters of world cinema who worked in different time periods and therefore can hardly get compared, and of course Sjöström got most prominent as the leading actor in Bergman’s “Wild Strawberries”. There’s no doubt about it that Bergman deserves his international reputation, but if we’re talking about making discoveries it’s worth to take a look at Sjöström’s extraordinary body of work.
Denmark?
India?
USA: Welles …
India: Ray or Ghatak or Sen or Benegal
Papua New Guinea?
Kurosawa or Mizoguchi for Japan I can see, but Godard for France? Even Marker…
…now that I think of it, there aren’t any French directors besides Melville (who I probabally wouldn’t put on that list, anyway) that I particularly like. Strange…
Check out this list, Anonymouse.
if i were going with the FIRST director that came to mind to represent the usa, i’d say John Ford, but that’s not set in stone… where’s England?
USA: Kubrick, that’s the first one that comes to mind
John Ford
-Papua New Guinea?-
Pengau Nengo
Seymour Kneitel
Also, Russia: Tarkovsky
Chile: Jodorowsky
England: Alfred Hitchcock probably
who else comes to mind for those? Kubrick sounds to me like a pretty good fit for USA.
Chile has generated far greater directors than Jodorowsky whose films actually seem like bad imitations of Terayama. Among the Chilean filmmakers that would rather qualify are true masters like Littin, Ruiz, Caiozzi and Guzmán.
Lynch maybe? Ford, Scorsese?
I’d have to say Lynch for the USA. Maybe even Woody Allen. Heck, I’m crazy for Billy Wilder.
Devon Hansen
France: Godard
Italy: Fellini
Germany: Lang
Sweden: Bergman
Japan: Kurosawa
Hong Kong: Wong
China: Woo
Korea: Park
Brazil: Salles
Mexico: Cuaron…shit or Inarritu
you get the drift so far, here’s my question:
USA: ?
thoughts?