the best director of all time

>>84080080
tru

>most celebrated director of all time

ftfy

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Why does Coppola never get his name in the discussion? He probably has the most impressive filmography in Hollywood

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As a confirmed pleb, I claim Billy Wilder was best director.

>>84080595
Inconceivable!

>>84080418
Because he made a lot of shit too

>>84080418
>He probably has the most impressive filmography in Hollywood

If he died in 1979 no doubt

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Kubrick is very self conscious, he's got lots of "structure" and metaphor and so on... But just having structure and metaphor doesn't make a great film, in my view. I've probably seen fewer Kubrick films than most everyone in this general, though from all his periods, but every one I have seen (possibly excepting the early and somewhat anomalous "Killer's Kiss") had what I would call a lack of visual structure. There are lots of ideas, and lots of visual tricks, but the spatial architecture, which in what I would call a great film consists of the way lines and surfaces and angles and light and movement combine to create the meaningful visual expression that I find in Ford and Hitchcock and Rossellini and Bresson and Brakhage and Kubelka, is lacking. His films have for me a curious visual "emptiness," a feeling that the imagery is a kind of vacant vessel for stylistic and thematic and plot flourishes ("redrum" and all that), and this is true from me from "The Killing" to "Full Metal Jacket" to "Eyes Wide Shut, to choose three I've seen in recent years. Their hollow core suggests "A. I." (which I also disliked) as his perfect subject, I suppose, as was HAL, but he doesn't do enough with that hollowness in his own films to make it an expression in itself.

As a war movie, "Full Metal Jacket" seemed rather predictable too -- I just *knew* it was the African-American who would get killed.

>>84080080
>pic unrelated

>>84080953
good post
in my experience, only dogshit embryos enjoy the works of stanley "reddit" kubrick