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BEE_REAL_ t1_je5n1gd wrote

Reply to FavouriteDirector? by A_C_B_90

Kubrick and Bergman.

Bergman's ability to make incredibly engaging, engrossing movies about depressed people who sit around having conversations is unreal.

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BEE_REAL_ t1_je5mayv wrote

Reply to comment by unitedfan6191 in Of all the movies that were rushed through production and released very quickly, which ones amazed you most with the final product? by unitedfan6191

By all accounts the cast and crew were very up to it (the cast had to lobby the studio to let him direct, because he was essentially blacklisted at the time from directing), but Welles was probably the most talented director in the world at that point yeah. The Citizen Kane of directors, some would say lol

His previous few movies were actually the opposite: because of extreme budget and production constraints, they were shot over a period of years in bits and pieces and had to be cobbled together later. Orson was already very used to making films with extreme limitations

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BEE_REAL_ t1_je5k50n wrote

Reply to Of all the movies that were rushed through production and released very quickly, which ones amazed you most with the final product? by unitedfan6191

Touch of Evil is an all-time great movie, and it was made on a famously insane, impossible schedule. Orson Welles, who was cast as the villain, took over the role of director three weeks before filming was supposed to end, and it had not even started yet. He rewrote the script in a week and then filmed the whole thing, on location, in two weeks (while still starring in the movie).

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BEE_REAL_ t1_jdoilx1 wrote

Reply to What are some movies with a consistent tune? by baklavabaddie

> I can only think of taxi driver

This is a thing for most other movies Bernard Herrmann did the score for too

The Long Goodbye's score is literally just one song played in different arrangements

Stalker and L'Intrus are a couple other movies I can think of with basically just one tune as the score, sometimes shifting a little bit or adding/subtracting

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BEE_REAL_ t1_jaba7sx wrote

Reply to Movies like First Reformed, Aftersun, or Taxi Driver? by InfiniteWar

First Reformed is basically a combo of Winter Light, Diary of a Country Priest, and Ordet. The first half is a straight remake of Winter Light (although I like First Reformed better)

> but I’m not familiar with his other works

Schrader has written/directed quite a few other great movies, most notably Raging Bull and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. Definitely recommend

Basically any Ingmar Bergman movie (Winter Light included). Wild Strawberries and Hour of the Wolf are good places to start

Ozu movies, particularly Tokyo Story, Late Spring, and An Autumn Afternoon

Andrei Rublev

In a Lonely Place

The Deer Hunter

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BEE_REAL_ t1_j6d4of1 wrote

Reply to comment by Kitahorror in Why is the foodie archetype the worst person in "The Menu"? by happyposterofham

> Like there could be a director out there who really wants to make a Dwayne Johnson shooty bang film but their entire reputation is now staked to producing three-hour black and white misery-fests about poverty stricken Polish farmers.

You are pretty much describing what happened to Chantal Akerman when she tried to get funding for her musical comedy Golden Eighties. She ended up cobbling together enough money though and it turned out awesome.

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BEE_REAL_ t1_j2f1kqx wrote

Reply to Which should I watch first? by im_a_hedgehogg

The Seventh Seal is a much better movie than Se7en,

> or is it really a movie that I need to be very focused on?

It is, although I don't think it's especially difficult or confusing. Mostly it says what it has to say quite openly

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BEE_REAL_ t1_j293qsw wrote

Reply to Good movies for people with attention-deficit? by haleyellis

I have very bad ADHD that I need to take meds for and have no issue paying attention to movies even if they're really slow. It's gonna be different for each person obviously, but you can just give a good faith try to sitting down and watching the movie

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