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Bluelight Crew
i'm gonna post a few threads, a week or two apart, hopefully, going back through the ages. i thought it might be interesting 
based on their body of work purely in the 1990s, who are your favourite directors? and most importantly, how come?
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tarantino is definitely up there for me, with pulp fiction in my top ten films of all time (well, on most days). reservoir dogs is another favourite of mine, and jackie brown was a fantastic interpretation of leonard's book, too.
the guy just has style, and his dialogue is amazing. though in these films i don't think he'd show such artistry as he demonstrated in the cinematically brilliant kill bill, his films are amazingly entertaining. and that ear scene in rd, well, it'll be teaching people like me the potential of off-screen space for years to come
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krzysztof kiewslowski has to be up there too - his trois couleurs triolgy was released entirely in the '90s (some of the most amazing films ever made, especially bleu), as well as la double vie de veronique, in '91, which wasn't quite as good as his later work, but still better than most of the shite out there...
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but perhaps my favourite, is david fincher. all in the '90s came fight club (an absolutely brilliant and seminal film), the game (a somehow totally under-rated but really absorbing and edge-of-the-seat classic), se7en (which is rightfully recognised as a modern classic), and alien 3, which a lot of people disliked but i personally found quite good.
so yeah, very easy to see why - the guy is a visual genius, and though he's often accused of "style over substance" i think it's more that he's able to convey his films' substance through their stylistic devices. if you left fight club and you weren't thinking, i reckon it's your fault, not his.
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and...tim burton. ah, how could i not. edward scissorhands is the classic modern-day fairytale, and just *sooo* watchable. ed wood is so very very burton-esque and quirky, and even sleepy hollow was enjoyable in that ott grotesque burton fashion. and no one did batman movies like burton, batman returns is bloody great
based on their body of work purely in the 1990s, who are your favourite directors? and most importantly, how come?
--
tarantino is definitely up there for me, with pulp fiction in my top ten films of all time (well, on most days
). reservoir dogs is another favourite of mine, and jackie brown was a fantastic interpretation of leonard's book, too.the guy just has style, and his dialogue is amazing. though in these films i don't think he'd show such artistry as he demonstrated in the cinematically brilliant kill bill, his films are amazingly entertaining. and that ear scene in rd, well, it'll be teaching people like me the potential of off-screen space for years to come
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krzysztof kiewslowski has to be up there too - his trois couleurs triolgy was released entirely in the '90s (some of the most amazing films ever made, especially bleu), as well as la double vie de veronique, in '91, which wasn't quite as good as his later work, but still better than most of the shite out there...
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but perhaps my favourite, is david fincher. all in the '90s came fight club (an absolutely brilliant and seminal film), the game (a somehow totally under-rated but really absorbing and edge-of-the-seat classic), se7en (which is rightfully recognised as a modern classic), and alien 3, which a lot of people disliked but i personally found quite good.
so yeah, very easy to see why - the guy is a visual genius, and though he's often accused of "style over substance" i think it's more that he's able to convey his films' substance through their stylistic devices. if you left fight club and you weren't thinking, i reckon it's your fault, not his.
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and...tim burton. ah, how could i not. edward scissorhands is the classic modern-day fairytale, and just *sooo* watchable. ed wood is so very very burton-esque and quirky, and even sleepy hollow was enjoyable in that ott grotesque burton fashion. and no one did batman movies like burton, batman returns is bloody great
