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maxwellmcphee
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One weird thing about me is that my rating for a film is almost never more than three stars away from its average rating.
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One Hit Wonder Directors
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This is a list of directors in order of birth date who directed only one popular or successful feature length film. It is NOT a list of directors who made only one "good" film or only one film. Directors with no birth date listed are in alphabetical order at the end.
Favorite Film From Every Year I've Been Alive
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Continued from this list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls044641435/
I'm always watching new movies, so this is subject to change.
I'm always watching new movies, so this is subject to change.
Silent Generation Directors
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Directors born from 1928-1945, in order of birthdate.
Some of the most notable directors on this list: 1928 (6) Jacques Rivette Alan J. Pakula Agnes Varda James Ivory Stanley Kubrick Nicholas Roeg 1929 (5) Sergio Leone Alejandro Jodorowsky Peter Yates Hal Ashby John Cassavetes 1930 (7) Frederick Wiseman John Frankenheimer Richard Donner Clint Eastwood Claude Chabrol Kinji Fukasaku Jean Luc Godard 1931(4) Leonard Nimoy Ted Kotcheff Jacques Demy Mike Nichols 1932 (8) Richard Lester Francois Truffaut Milos Forman Andrei Tarkovsky John Glen Mike Hodges Yash Chopra Louis Malle 1933 (4) John Boorman Costa-Gavras Roman Polansky Noriaki Yuasa 1934 (2) Sydney Pollack Garry Marshall 1935 (6) Theodoros Angelopoulos William Friedkin Jules Bass Isao Takahata Woody Allen John G. Avildsen 1936 (4) Ken Loach Robert Redford Jim Henson Philip Kaufman 1937 (3) Warren Beatty Don Bluth Ridley Scott 1938 (6) Lewis Teague Richard Benjamin Tommy Chong Paul Verhoeven Ralph Bakshi Michael Ritchie 1939 (10) Michael Cimino Glauber Rocha Lino Brocka Francis Ford Coppola Peter Bodganovich Wes Craven Bob Clark John Badham Joel Schumaker Jeannot Szwarc 1940 (6) George A. Romero Abbas Kiarostami James L. Brooks Dario Argento Brian De Palma Terry Gilliam 1941 (9) George P. Cosmatos Hayao Miyazaki Michael Apted Adrian Lyne Wolfgang Petersen Bernando Bertolucci Nora Ephron Stephen Frears Krzysztof Kieslowski 1942 (8) Walter Hill Terry Jones Michael Haneke Mike Newell Barry Levinson Rod Daniel Werner Herzog Martin Scorsese 1943 (18) Simon Wincer Tobe Hooper Michael Mann Mike Leigh David Cronenberg Roy Andersson Jonathan Lynn Emile Ardolino Tom Holland Peter Hyams Robert De Niro Hugh Wilson Jean-Jacques Annaud Mick Jackson Penny Marshall Jan de Bont Martin Campbell Terrence Malick 1944 (12) Alan Parker Jonathan Demme John Milius Jim Abrahams George Lucas Frank Oz Tony Scott Peter Weir Danny Devito Harold Ramis William Dear Taylor Hackford 1945 (9) George Miller Curtis Hanson Rainer Werner Fassbinder Roger Donaldson Penelope Spheeris Nicholas Meyer Wim Wenders Ron Shelton Lloyd Kaufman
Some of the most notable directors on this list: 1928 (6) Jacques Rivette Alan J. Pakula Agnes Varda James Ivory Stanley Kubrick Nicholas Roeg 1929 (5) Sergio Leone Alejandro Jodorowsky Peter Yates Hal Ashby John Cassavetes 1930 (7) Frederick Wiseman John Frankenheimer Richard Donner Clint Eastwood Claude Chabrol Kinji Fukasaku Jean Luc Godard 1931(4) Leonard Nimoy Ted Kotcheff Jacques Demy Mike Nichols 1932 (8) Richard Lester Francois Truffaut Milos Forman Andrei Tarkovsky John Glen Mike Hodges Yash Chopra Louis Malle 1933 (4) John Boorman Costa-Gavras Roman Polansky Noriaki Yuasa 1934 (2) Sydney Pollack Garry Marshall 1935 (6) Theodoros Angelopoulos William Friedkin Jules Bass Isao Takahata Woody Allen John G. Avildsen 1936 (4) Ken Loach Robert Redford Jim Henson Philip Kaufman 1937 (3) Warren Beatty Don Bluth Ridley Scott 1938 (6) Lewis Teague Richard Benjamin Tommy Chong Paul Verhoeven Ralph Bakshi Michael Ritchie 1939 (10) Michael Cimino Glauber Rocha Lino Brocka Francis Ford Coppola Peter Bodganovich Wes Craven Bob Clark John Badham Joel Schumaker Jeannot Szwarc 1940 (6) George A. Romero Abbas Kiarostami James L. Brooks Dario Argento Brian De Palma Terry Gilliam 1941 (9) George P. Cosmatos Hayao Miyazaki Michael Apted Adrian Lyne Wolfgang Petersen Bernando Bertolucci Nora Ephron Stephen Frears Krzysztof Kieslowski 1942 (8) Walter Hill Terry Jones Michael Haneke Mike Newell Barry Levinson Rod Daniel Werner Herzog Martin Scorsese 1943 (18) Simon Wincer Tobe Hooper Michael Mann Mike Leigh David Cronenberg Roy Andersson Jonathan Lynn Emile Ardolino Tom Holland Peter Hyams Robert De Niro Hugh Wilson Jean-Jacques Annaud Mick Jackson Penny Marshall Jan de Bont Martin Campbell Terrence Malick 1944 (12) Alan Parker Jonathan Demme John Milius Jim Abrahams George Lucas Frank Oz Tony Scott Peter Weir Danny Devito Harold Ramis William Dear Taylor Hackford 1945 (9) George Miller Curtis Hanson Rainer Werner Fassbinder Roger Donaldson Penelope Spheeris Nicholas Meyer Wim Wenders Ron Shelton Lloyd Kaufman
Acclaimed Directors With No Films In the Top 250
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Not including people known mostly for TV shows, documentaries and/or short films.
Some of the most surprising:
1880s
F.W. Murnau
1890s
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Sergei M. Eisenstein
1900s
Luis Buñuel
Robert Bresson
1910s
Michelangelo Antonioni
Jean-Pierre Melville
1920s
Federico Fellini
Robert Altman
John Cassavates
1930s
Jean-Luc Godard
Mike Nichols
Woody Allen
Peter Bodganovich
1940s
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Michael Haneke
Werner Herzog
Terrence Malick
1950s
Lars Von Trier
Brad Bird
1960s
Alfonso Cuarón
Satoshi Kon
Spike Jonze
1970s
Edgar Wright
Taika Waititi
Favorite Film From Each Year: 1911-1999
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I'm always watching new films, so this is subject to change.
Not including documentaries or short films.
Continued in this list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls044638564/?ref_=otl_2
Not including documentaries or short films.
Continued in this list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls044638564/?ref_=otl_2
2000 Ranked
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2006 Ranked
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The List of Shame
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This is my list that makes you go "You haven't seen that yet!?"
1988 Ranked
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Quadrophenia (1979)
Basically the British version of Mean Streets
26 January 2021 - 2 out of 3 users found this review helpful.
This is basically the British version of Martin Scorsese's film Mean Streets. They're both 70's films about young gang members in a major city taking drugs, partying, getting into fights etc. Also, they both don't have much of a storyline, taking more of a slice of life approach. They even have similar soundtracks. And of course, (minor spoilers) things don't go well for the protagonists at the end, but the endings are a bit ambiguous.
There are some differences though. Mean Streets is a bit more experimental, feels more like a documentary, and it's scenes feel a bit more disconnected with each other.
But overall I'd say I liked them about the same, so if you liked Mean Streets you may like Quadrophenia, and vice versa.
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