This, and its sister show Discovering Film (which concentrates on acotors), are both going downhill now the show has moved on from classic Hollywood.
A lot of the modern directors, such as Jonathan Demme, don't have much weight, or they've literally made ONE highly acclaimed film and laughably get an episode (John Singleton & Antoine Fuqua). If one masterwork is really enough, there are hundreds of directors who've been overlooked by the series. Another problem is there are too many clips and not enough context.
I'm also puzzled as to why the show has become so narrowly focused on Hollywood. They used to explore world cinema, with diverse shows on the likes of people from Sergei Eisenstein to Claudia Cardinale. Now they seem to bypass legends like Wener Herzog to focus on middle-of-the-road, at best, modern Hollywood filmmakers. They have skipped too many legends, too much of the world, and we're left with a show that recounts the last few decades of an increasingly narrow film world. There's little left to discover in these shows, but the magic is still out there if they could find it again. . .
A lot of the modern directors, such as Jonathan Demme, don't have much weight, or they've literally made ONE highly acclaimed film and laughably get an episode (John Singleton & Antoine Fuqua). If one masterwork is really enough, there are hundreds of directors who've been overlooked by the series. Another problem is there are too many clips and not enough context.
I'm also puzzled as to why the show has become so narrowly focused on Hollywood. They used to explore world cinema, with diverse shows on the likes of people from Sergei Eisenstein to Claudia Cardinale. Now they seem to bypass legends like Wener Herzog to focus on middle-of-the-road, at best, modern Hollywood filmmakers. They have skipped too many legends, too much of the world, and we're left with a show that recounts the last few decades of an increasingly narrow film world. There's little left to discover in these shows, but the magic is still out there if they could find it again. . .