Director Retrospective: Guillermo del Toro After a break for traveling and visiting family and not watching many movies, it’s time for another retrospective in my ongoing project. And hot off the heels of declaring his most recent film as my favorite of 2017 (so far) and his win for “Best Director” at the Golden Globes, Read more about Director Retrospective: Guillermo del Toro[…]
Director Retrospective: Hayao Miyazaki So…for this next installment of my ongoing “Director Retrospective” project, we’re doing something a bit different. Per a suggestion from a friend of mine, we’re looking at (a.) a foreign-film director, (b.) an animated-film director, & (c.) a director whose work I was totally unfamiliar with. [Actually…I’d seen one of his movies Read more about Director Retrospective: Hayao Miyazaki[…]
Director Retrospective: David Fincher After the mega-sized previous installment on the work of Billy Wilder, I thought that I’d try something a bit easier this time by looking at a director with a smaller filmography and one whose works I’ve seen several times before. Moreover, as it turns out, I also just recently watched the Read more about Director Retrospective: David Fincher[…]
Director Retrospective: Billy Wilder After doing a few retrospectives on talented and/or influential directors with smaller catalogs, I decided to watch and write about a very prolific director — one who created some of the best examples and most enduring films in a couple different genres and who garnered immense respect during his lifetime for Read more about Director Retrospective: Billy Wilder[…]
Director Retrospective: Stanley Kubrick For this installment of my ongoing “Director Retrospective” project, I thought that I’d try to tackle a director who many film critics, historians, and fans consider to be one of the greatest — perhaps THE greatest — director of all time, a man whose career encompasses nearly 50 years of challenging Read more about Director Retrospective: Stanley Kubrick[…]
Director Retrospective: Kevin Smith For my last director retrospective, I looked at the work of a director (John Carpenter) who I associate with the 1980s. So for this retrospective, I thought it might be interesting to revisit the films of a director that I mostly associate with the 1990s: Kevin Smith. The Big List So Read more about Director Retrospective: Kevin Smith[…]
Director Retrospective: Michael Mann Continuing a look at a few filmmakers who I associate with a particular decade (e.g. John Carpenter and the 1980s, Kevin Smith and the 1990s, etc.), I thought it might be fun to look at a director whose work feels very 1980s-ish (at least to me) but who experienced his greatest successes Read more about Director Retrospective: Michael Mann[…]
Director Retrospective: John Carpenter It’s been awhile since I wrote one of these director retrospectives (*moving!*), but I thought that I’d sit down and try to compose another one. This time, I’m looking at the filmic work of one of my favorite directors — albeit one whose work I have to admit is extremely hit-or-miss. I’m Read more about Director Retrospective: John Carpenter[…]
Director Retrospective: Danny Boyle I’m taking a break for awhile from these director retrospectives, while I relocate to a new place, a new home, a new job, etc. etc. etc. (Mostly…for the next few weeks I won’t have much access to movies — at least not at the rate that I’ve enjoyed this Summer — Read more about Director Retrospective: Danny Boyle[…]
Director Retrospective: David Lynch On a sort of whim, I decided to do another retrospective this week — right when I ought to be busying myself with other, more practical things. And of course, it was a bit stupid on my part because this “whim” involved thinking about and writing about the films that comprise Read more about Director Retrospective: David Lynch[…]