Follow my name here to the obvious conclusion. So many superb directors born in the 1890s!
That i’ve heard of……
Nov. 9
Born
Anthony Asquith
Fernando Meirelles
Dorothy Dandridge
Hedy Lamarr
Died
Yves Montand
ok got it Kenji.
you can go to nndb thats where i found mine
Feb 6th François Roland Truffaut – god i wish i’ve seen more of his work. he did so much for the re-invention of french film. Jules et Jim anyone? he was not just simply a great director but an paramount in film philosophy!
you can go to nndb thats where i found mine
Feb 6th François Roland Truffaut – god i wish i’ve seen more of his work. he did so much for the re-invention of french film. Jules et Jim anyone? he was not just simply a great director but an paramount in film philosophy!
Feb 7th – the only person I know that I share this with would be Charles Dickens
ooh, cinesnag and Mathias come very close, and same week as me. Feb 7 also has old twinkle toes Gerald Davies the finest wing Welsh Rugby’s had.
I’m gonna take the liberty of bumping my own thread up, as tomorrow it’s my wife’s and Orson Welles’ birthday, and there may be new people interested in the subject . Also as i’ve seen my birthday guy Iosseliani’s very appealing Gardens in Autumn (see other thread) 2 days ago and i’m taking ever more of a liking to his approach and i think he deserves extra promotion.
No directors born on March 9, though Stan Brakhage did die on my 15th birthday.
May 5th (today, yeah!)
Director: Peter Howitt
Actors: Tyrone Power, Lance Henriksen, John Rhys Davies, Michael Palin, Richard E. Grant. . . and Chris Brown (oh dear).
According to Wikipedia: Philip Kaufman, Ang Lee, Sam Raimi. Kind of lame.
not much:
Gérard Brach (who was really more a screenwriter than director)
Claude Fournier
Theo van Gogh
In deaths though I get D.W. Griffith
Not a big day for film. I had a few cricketers, some activists…lots of sportsmen actually
Michael Palin is a wonderful guy to share a birthday with, Salter. Very affable, and it was a shock to see what sort of person he turned out as in Brazil (the film, not on his travels i mean). And you can’t beat a name like John Davies. But you can beat an egg.
Nobody. :-(
oct 31st, peter jackson
Anthony Minghella – he was quite a good director but not one of my faves
It was a tough search – for awhile I thought there were none worth mentioning, but then I found Pen-Ek Ratanaruang!! (March 8)
hurrah!
Nobody of any importance whatsoever on your birthday, wildfire? Pray, do divulge the blessed day and we can surely conjure up someone of the grandest stature
December 19th. Cyril Collard, John Gulager and Gary Fleder. Source: Wikipedia.
I got Humphrey Bogart, Sissy Spacek and Lew Grade.
April 22:
No directors of much note, but the day of the birth of Jack Nicholson. And Bettie Page.
None, but Lindsay Anderson died on my b-day (Aug. 30)
If we’re going to include actors too, December 19th also
Alyssa Milano
Jake Gyllenhaal
Yeah, I know. December 19th nothing to get excited about.
August 8th:
1852 – Barend Barendse, actor/director (Wandering Jew)
1912 – Daniel Mann, Brooklyn, director (Willard, Butterfield 8)
1951 – Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
1967 – Lee Unkrich, American director and film editor
1974 – Nixon resigns (and I am born)
Good day to be born, with Nixon going, Josh!
Well today is the holy day itself, May 16th, and Mizoguchi was born 111 years ago today. This should be a time for universal celebration and rejoicing. Anyway, Tales of the Taira Clan is a relatively neglected film by him that i especially like, about the rise of the Samurai class at the end of the Heian era in 12th century Japan, when there were 2 rival courts and warrior monks- enemies of the Taira- held the reins of power too, with the people expected to kowtow to their holy palanquins. This was Mizoguchi’s penultimate film and second in colour, strangely undervalued; there’s vivid historical colour, the costumes have a jewel-like glow, there’s a charming little romantic courtship, issues of confused identity (the young hero is unsure if his father is the Samurai who raised him, the former Emperor or a dreaded monk) are handled very effectively. There’s a superb scene with the monks in torchlit procession through a forest, and an upbeat sense of destiny, linked no doubt to the situation in Japan in the 50s when they had 2 rulers, one American, and a better democratic future beckoned.
July 15th – Henri Colpi and Denis Héroux
Kenji:
“Good day to be born, with Nixon going, Josh!”
For a second, I thought you meant me. I was born the day Nixon died.
Does that make you the 2nd youngest here?
Heh! Well, I recall a 13-year-old Godard fan on here, so I wouldn’t say that.
Justin Biberkopf
May 16 is Fassbinder, isn’t it? Or no, I’m wrong, he was May 30 or 31, solid Gemini.