so a few of you mentioned that you have seen every Kubrick feature. Well, his first feature “Fear and Desire” has never been released and Kubrick actually tried to re-obtain every copy to prevent distribution and public viewing of it. So, if you have in fact seen every feature including this one, how did you view “Fear and Desire”? Have you been able to find a copy of it anywhere? If so, where? That is his only feature I haven’t seen and would love to view it.
At first I felt old, then I susepcted that something inexplicable was going on, but perhaps I’m just a weird exception.
As with most things that seem not to add up, closer scrutiny reveals that my list is not all that remarkable.
1. I’m forty-something.
2. In 1979 I began seriously watching pictures on HBO, Cinemax, and local channels that had decent lineups.
3. In 1980 I took some film courses.
4. From early 1981 to late 1988, I had access to the massive, constantly growing collection of titles at the video chain I managed.
5. From 1997 to present, watching pictures is partially a job-related endeavor, as well as a full-time hobby.
6. NetFlix happened.
With that in mind, having seen all of Woody Allen’s 39 features, or Wyler’s 40-plus (I don’t include the shorts made before 1931), and so on, is actually not a grand accomplishment. I think you could argue that it was inevitable.
And yes, it’s a bit of a drag trolling the TCM guide for something, anything, I have not seen.
So now I spend a lot of time with world cinema, lost trash and psychotronic wonders, and current cinema.
Wes Anderson, JIm Jarmusch, Stanley Kubrick, Sean Penn,
i think any, theres always that one or two films that i never got around to seeing. the only one that comes close though is probably Wong Kar Wai and Takeshi Kitano.
I am much older than you and, therefore, have been able to see all of Hitchcock’s films except his second film, The Mountain Eagle. Could you share with me where you found of copy of that film, or have you excluded that film from your list?
I definitely do NOT include The Mountain Eagle. I thought that film was lost during the 1930s (or maybe destroyed).
Has it been found?
I was hoping the film had been found, and I was unaware of it. There is a brief discussion of the film on the following site: http://doctorwilson.blogspot.com/2007/04/hitchcock-project-2-mountain-eagle-sort.html
Kubrick and Spike Jonez are the only ones I can think of.
Seen ’em:
Tim Burton
Stanley Kubrick
George Lucas
Trying for:
Orson Welles
Wes Anderson
Terrence Malick
Wong-Kar Wai (well I am going to be seeing my blueberry nights very soon, but after that…)
Charles Laughton
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu
Closing in on:
Spielberg
Hitchcock
Truffaut
Deschplin
I don’t believe any, though with Scorsese, Kurosawa, Woody Allen there’s only a handful of omissions. Several more recent – Kore’eda, Tsai Ming-liang, Apichatpong Weerasethakul there’s only one or two I haven’t seen. Getting even to the halfway mark with Satyajit Ray and Nagisa Oshima was an arduous accomplishment.
I’ve seen all the works of a lot of directors, actually, so I’m limiting myself to directors I own every feature of (excluding ones not yet available).
Christopher Nolan
Julie Taymor
Hayao Miyazaki
Spike Jonze
Fabián Bielinsky
Sam Mendes
Trey Parker
Alexander Payne
Sergio Leone
Zack Snyder
Judd Apatow
Quentin Tarantino (if you don’t count My Best Friend’s Birthday)
Edgar Wright
Brad Bird
Jason Reitman
Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch. All of Hayao Miyazaki and Coen Bros except one for each.
yeah, Laughton and Aleksandr Askoldov.
Chicago, Fear and Desire is on YouTube last time I checked.
Pasolini
Cassavetes
Leone
Anger
Kubrick
Antonioni
Jarmusch
Peckinpah
Ed Wood Jr.
Malick
Wong
Laughton
David Gordon Green
Herzog
Welles
Tim Burton
Kubrick
Coen Bros.
Judd Apatow
Cronenberg
Tarkovsky
Working on Godard, Antonioni, Bergman, Hong Sang-Soo, Rivette, etc…
Well not showing the shark for most of it could be auterish but it was done in Cat People so it isn’t fully original. But it at times is shown from the sharks point of view mixed with Williams score creates suspense. Spielberg makes blockbuster films that are popular with the general public but manages to make them artistic.
Dude posting this on every topic is a tad annoying. Why didn’t you just start a new topic?
mmoore – regarding Barbara Loden, are you referring to her two shorts as well as “Wanda”? I was trying to come up with a director who made only one great film, and no others. She’s as close as I could get.
anyway, some directors I’m only missing a couple;
- John Cassavetes – his studio picks, “A Child is Waiting” and “Too Late Blues”
- Jim Jarmusch – “Coffee + Cigarettes”
- Robert Bresson – “Four Nights of a Dreamer” + “Lancelot Du Lac”; and his first one (forget the title). Ok that’s not so good especially considering at least one is on DVD.
Paul Thomas Anderson, terence Malick, the coens, Tarkovsky, Fellini (minus the white sheik) and Sofia Coppola. And charles Laughton and Wes Anderson.
Segio Leone, Sam Peckinpah
Even with directors I’m particularly keen on, there’s usually a few films that have been impossible to track down (like terence Fisher’s 1950s quota quickies, James Whale’s non-horrors).
But I have seen all of Welles’ films.
Thanks to those mammoth PD collections I’ve seen almost all of Hitchcock’s … UNDER CAPRICORN continues to elude me.
I believe I’ve seen all of Wes Andrson’s films.
Assuming TCM showed all of them during their salute, I’ve seen all of Tarkovsky’s.
That’s probably it…
Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, David Lynch, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Smith,Kubrick, William Shatner, James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Sydney Pollack, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Ed Harris
Coen bros.
Sergio Leone
Wes Anderson
Darren Aronofsky
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
P.T. Anderson
Martin Scorsese
Satyajit Ray
David Lynch
Sofia Coppola
Mira Nair
Working on Kobayashi & Bergman
fo now :Stanley Kubrick, Kim Ki-duk and Jim Jarmusch
for the future: Jean-Luc Godard and Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Polanski, Death and the Maiden was outrageously disturbing.
I fogot one. Let me revise that: Kubrick,Spike Jonez, and David Lynch.
Wow – Kobayashi is another tough one. I’ve managed to see Kosheki, Inn Of Evil and Human Condition and the first two of those were really tough to locate. I was only able to see HC in a lousy video edition.
Todd Field
Wes Anderson
PT Anderson
David Fincher
Quentin Tarentino
I can only think of newer filmmakers who have only made a handful of films. Regarding most of the giants, there are still some films I’ve missed. Even John Cassavetes, I haven’t see Minnie & Moskowitz, Gloria, and Love Streams. It’s hard because I’m more interested in watching great films rather than crappy films by great directors.
cinemisfit
Andrei Tarkovsky, including “Steamroller”. That’s the only one I can think of; every other I’ve missed at least one.