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I saw six movies this week. Coquette may not be the worst best Actress winner of all time. But the best one can say about this movie is that it's not very interesting. Fanny makes one wonder what the French original was like. While not inoffensive when listening to it in the background, one thinks that a director better than Joshua Logan could have made better use of Boyer and Chevalier. And Horst Buchholz as the eventual winner needs to be more sympathetic. The Great Waltz suggests that biopics of musicians from the thirties and forties are less successful than biopics of scientists. The latter have better actors (Tracy, Robinson, while Paul Muni is certainly better in the role he won an oscar for than in A Song to Remember). The scientist's struggles are easier to dramatize, and the often frustrating trial and effort is more true to life than imagining how musicians get their ideas. Compared to the Chopin biopic, The Great Waltz is a visually more interesting movie, but not a very thoughtful one. The three movies from last year have their virtues. Neruda deals with the poet's experience of a McCarthyist like experience in Chile in the late forties, as opposed to the dictatorship that arose in the last days of his life. The movie contrasts the proletarian poet with the lover of the high life, and has the amusing conceit of the policeman tracking Neruda as the latter flees into exile finding out he's actually a figment of Neruda's imagination two thirds of the way through the movie. A Bigger Splash offers the sight of Ralph Fiennes grooving to 'Emotional Rescue,' and the slightly stranger sight of him trying to win his former flame rock star Tilda Swinton, who can barely talk while she's recovering form vocal cord surgery. Certainly interesting, but it needs to be a bit more engaging. Moana is clearly the movie of the week, with an engaging and pretty teenage heroine, less didactic reminders than usual in this sort of Disney movie, and with considerable invention, given that most of the movie takes place on a raft in a boundless ocean.

Actor Steve Martin, The Man with Two Brains Robert De Niro, The King of Comedy Oleg Yankovsky, Nostalghia James Woods, Videodrome Woody Allen, Zelig Runner-ups: Omero Antonutti (The South), Ken Ogata (The Ballad of Narayama), Tom Cruise (Risky Business), Nick Nolte (Under Fire), Freddie Jones (And the Ship Sails On), Everett Silas (My Brother's Wedding), Peter Riegert (Local Hero), Robin Williams (The Survivors), Walter Matthau (The Survivors), GArry Cadenet (Sugar Cane Alley), Pierre Jolivet (The Last Battle), Lorenzo Music (Twice Upon a Time), Charles Martin Smith (Never Cry Wolf) Actress Jane Alexander, Testament Sonsoles Aranguen, The South* Alexandra Stewart, Sans Soleil Mia Farrow, Zelig Sumiko Sakamoto, The Ballad of Narayama *Juvenile performer of the year Runner-ups: Kathleen Turner (The Man with Two Brains), Jessie Holms (My Brother's Wedding), Sandrine Bonnaire (A Nos Amours), Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment), Barbara Jefford (And the Ship Sails On), Anne Alvaro (City of Pirates), Isabelle Huppert (Entre Nous), Miou-Miou (Entre Nous), Amanda Langlet (Pauline at the Beach), Darling Legitimus (Sugar Cane Alley), Joanna Cassidy (Under Fire), Renee Soutendijk (The Fourth Man), Sigourney Weaver (The Year of Living Dangerously) Supporting Actor Erland Josephson, Nostalghia Burt Lancaster, Local Hero Terry Jones, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Gene Hackman, Under Fire Sam Shepard, The Right Stuff Runner-ups: Michael Palin (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life), Ed Harris (The Right Stuff), John Cleese (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life), Fred Ward (The Right Stuff), Graham Chapman (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life), Feodor Atkine (Pauline at the Beach), David Warner (The Man with Two Brains), Ed Harris (Under Fire), Eric Idle (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life), Dennis Lawson (Local Hero), Marshall Efron (Twice Upon a Time), Peter Capaldi (Local Hero), Pascal Greggory (Pauline at the Beach), Tonpei Hidari (The Ballad of Narayama), Jeff Goldblum (The Big Chill), Peter Dvorsky (Videodrome), John Lithgow (Twilight Zone: The Movie), Merv Griffin (The Man with Two Brains), Supporting Actress Sissy Spacek, The Man with two Brains Junko Takada, The Ballad of Narayama Jennifer Black, Local Hero Barbara Hershey, The Right Stuff Sandra Bernhard, The King of Comedy Runner-ups: Domiziana Giordano (Nostalghia), Jenny Seagrove (Local Hero), Deborah Harry (Videodrome), Iciar Bollain (The South), Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously), Arielle Dombaisle (Pauline at the Beach), Aurore Clement (The South), Mary Jo Deschanel (The Right Stuff) Not seen: The Dresser, Tender Mercies, Reuben, Reuben, Educating Rita, Cross Creek --------Somewhat odd year, since I actually consider Fanny and Alexander a 1983 film, which means that my winners would actually be Bertil Guve (actor), Erland Josephson (supporting actor), and Gunn Wallgren (supporting actress). --------Although I've seen 79 of the 89 best actor winners, I've seen none of the best actor nominees for this year.

I have De Niro as the only lead for Once Upon a Time in America. Disagreements?

Does Blood Simple have a lead actor, or all they are supporting?

Here's the fifties: Vertigo The World of Apu

And now for the late thirties and forties: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum The Philadelphia Story Children of Paradise Colorado Territory

Here are the thirties. First Trouble in Paradise: Peter Ibbetson: The Thin Man Swing Time

More great quotes from 1982: Gandhi Lord Hunter: General, did you realise there were children – and women – in the crowd? Gen. Dyer: I did. Government Advocate: But that was irrelevant to the point you were making? Gen. Dyer: That is correct. Government Advocate: Could I ask you what provision you made for the wounded? Gen. Dyer: I was ready to help any who applied. Government Advocate: General, how does a child, shot with a .303 Lee Enfield, "apply" for help? Blade Runner It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does? Missing Consul Phil Putnam: Listen, Mr Horman, I wish there was something we could say or do. Ed Horman: Well, there's something I'm going to do. I'm going to sue you, Phil. And Tower and the Ambassador and everybody who let that boy die. We're going to make it so hot for you you'll wish you were stationed in the Antarctic. Consul Phil Putnam: Well, I guess that's your privilege. Ed Horman: No, that's my right! I just thank God we live in a country where we can still put people like you in jail.

From the twenties: first The Docks of New York: And here's one from Lonesome:

It's Valentine's Day in eight days. Here's a thread of romantic photos from the movies.We could also include TV shows and plays, though radio shows would probably be tricky. Here's my first one, from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg:

I saw seven movies last week. Hacksaw Ridge is like Gandhi in that what power it achieves arises from the nature of the protagonist, and not from Gibson's nor Attenborough's skill as a director. That does not mean that HR is remotely as good a movie as Gandhi. Quite the contrary. There is a good 40 minute movie about the conscientious objector medic who rescued dozens of soldiers in Okinawa under apparently hopeless circumstances. Unfortunately to get there we have to get through sentimental cliches about romance, unimaginative diluted training camp shenanigans, and movie violence that while genuinely visceral in its impact, is aesthetically and morally questionable in the extreme. Arrival is like Villeneuve's previous film Sicario in which portentousness serves as a substitute for thought. This works a bit better in this movie when the scientists are confronting apparently inconceivably opaque aliens. It help hides the good scientist/trigger-happy military for longer than it should. But the core of the movie is an emotional subplot that relies on a trick Lost used, and which Villeneuve does not have the insight to pull off. There is a very bad last line which Jeremy Renner is forced to speak near the end of the movie. The Racket was one of the first films nominated for best picture (it was nominated in the category Wings won, not the one Sunrise won.) Looking at it, one can't imagine why. There's something to be said about the criminal in charge, but not a lot. The Prisoner of Shark Island benefits from Ford's professionalism, and from the compelling prison drama Samuel Mudd found himself in. It also has some awkward, cringe-worthy scenes with African-Americans. The same problem arises in The Adventures of Mark Twain. On the other hand, I suppose I have a soft spot for old biopics. It doesn't show Twain at his most biting and indignant, and it guts his misanthropy into a stand-up routine. And Frederic March is certainly not my first choice to play Twain. But there's enough of interest to keep watching it. Fort Tilden is an independent movie of two awful privileged millennial twits who decide to have a day at the beach. They act selfishly and irresponsibly, have a horrible time and learn apparently nothing. There's genuine skill and realism here, but the movie seems more of a symptom of the narcissism and solipsism it's attacking. So the movie of the week is the final one. Marcello Mastroianni was indeed a great actor, and it's important to remember this even if you don't particularly care for 8 1/2. Three lives and only one death shows this to be so in Raul Ruiz's elegant and strange fantasy, where Mastroiani's own daughter plays a supporting role.

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Actor Ben Kingsley, Gandhi Bertil Guve, Fanny and Alexander* Paul Newman, The Verdict Jack Lemmon, Missing Klaus Kinski, Fitzcarraldo Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie *Juvenile performance of the year Runner-ups: Bob Geldof (Pink Floyd: the Wall), James Garner (Victor/Victoria), Kurt Russell (The Thing), Seyit Ali (Yol), Jurgen Prochnow (Das Boot), Jerzy Radziwilowicz (Passion), Harrison Ford (Blade Runner), Michael Palin (The Missionary), Hilmar Thate (Veronika Voss), Malcolm McDowell (Cat People), Robin Williams (The World According to Garp), Actress Julie Andrews, Victor/Victoria Anna Wiazemsky, L'Enfant Secret Sissy Spacek, Missing Meryl Streep, Sophie's Choice Micol Guidelli, The Night of the Shooting Stars Runner-ups: Rosel Zech (Veronika Voss), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Janet Suzman (The Draughtman's Contract), JoBeth Williams (Poltergeist), Nastassja Kinski (Cat People) Supporting Actor Erland Josephson, Fanny and Alexander James Mason, The Verdict Jan Malmsjo, Fanny and Alexander Roshan Seth, Gandhi Mickey Rourke, Diner Robert Preston, Victor/Victoria Jack Warden, The Verdict Runner-ups: Jarl Kulle (Fanny and Alexander), Tim Daly (Diner), Paul Reiser (Diner), Borje Ahlstedit (Fanny and Alexander), Herbert Gronemeyer (Das Boot), Judge Reinhold (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Allan Edwall (Fanny and Alexander), Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek 2: the Wrath of Khan), Joe Turkel (Blade Runner), Ricardo Montalban (Star Trek 2: the Wrath of Khan), William Sanderson (Blade Runner), John Gielgud (Gandhi), A. Wilford Brimley (The Thing), Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner), Charles Durning (Tootsie), Edward James Olmos (Blade Runner), Alyque Padamsee (Gandhi), Milo O'Shea (The Verdict), Donald Moffat (The Thing), Omero Antonutti (The Night of the Shooting Stars), Halil Ergun (Yol), James Earl Jones (Conan the Barbarian), Michael Keaton (Night Shift), Jose Ferrer (A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy), Dabney Coleman (Tootsie), Bill Murray (Tootsie), William Shatner (Airplane II: the sequel), Alex Karras (Victor/Victoria), Keith David (The Thing), Michel Piccoli (Passion) Supporting Actress Gunn Wallgren, Fanny and Alexander Jessica Lange, Tootsie Ellen Barkin, Diner Charlotte Rampling, The Verdict Claudia Cardinale, Fitzcarraldo Isabelle Huppert, Passion Runner-ups: Mona Malm (Fanny and Alexander), Teri Garr (Tootsie), Ewa Froling (Fanny and Alexander), Lesley Ann Warren (Victor/Victoria), Rohini Hattangadi (Gandhi), Annemarie Duringer (Veronika Voss), Serif Sezer (Yol), Harriet Anderson (Fanny and Alexander), Stina Ekblad (Fanny and Alexander), Pernilla Allwin (Fanny and Alexander), Drew Barrymore (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Pernilla August (Fanny and Alexander), Margarita Lozano (The Night of the Shooting Stars), Lindsay Crouse (The Verdict), Phoebe Cates (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Cornelia Froboess (Veronika Voss), Heather O'Rourke (Poltergeist), Candice Bergen (Gandhi), Darryl Hannah (Blade Runner), Hanna Schygulla (Passion), Sean Young (Blade Runner), Christina Schollin (Fanny and Alexander), Meral Orhonsay (Yol), Glenn Close (The World According to Garp) Not seen: Frances, An Officer and a Gentleman, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas --------10 out of the 15 Academy nominations get a nomination from me. That may be a record. --------James Mason become the first actor to get a nomination in five consecutive decades. (Charles Chaplin was the first to get one in four) --------The nominations are larger this year, since once again I consider Fanny and Alexander a 1983 film and the extra nominations are for the 1982 movies. In my view Guve, Josephson and Wallgren would have been the winners of 1983's actor, supporting actor, and supporting actress respectively. Guve is my juvenile performer of the year.

I still think the Icelandic release date for KOC is an example of Wikipedia fake news. I still don't see why the movie would be released in a market as small as Iceland, given that it is an offsetting black comedy whose virtues were not appreciated at the time. Nor does the source Wikipedia cites look like a proper movie ad.

Comparing the Oscar winners with the poll, seventies version Supporting Actress Hayes, defeated 3-1 four way tie for 2nd Leachman, winner 4-2 Heckart, no votes O'Neal, defeated 2-1 for best Actress and Supporting Actress, five way tie for 2nd Bergman, no votes Grant, no votes Straight, no votes Redgrave, Tied 2-2 Smith, at best 1/2 a vote, for sixth place Streep, Tied 2-2 Supporting Actor Mills, 1, eight way tie for 1st Johnson, 1, nine way tie for 1st Grey, no votes Houseman, no votes De Niro, winner 4-2 Burns, no votes Robards (1), defeated 2-1, five way tie for 2nd Robards (2), no votes Walker, winner 4-1 Douglas, no votes Actress Jackson (1), no votes Fonda (1), 1, eight way tie for 1st Minnelli, winner 5-1 Jackson (2), no votes Brennan, 1, six way tie for 1st Fletcher, defeated 4-3 Dunaway, tied 2-2 Keaton, tied 2-2 Fonda (2), defeated 2-1, four way tie for 2nd Field, 1, six way for 1st Actor Scott, tied 2-2-2 Hackman, no votes Brando, defeated 3-2-1, two way tie for 4th, winner Supporting 4-2 Lemmon, no votes Carney, no votes Nicholson, defeated 3-2, two way tied for 2nd Finch, no votes, defeated 2-1. five way tied for 2nd Dreyfuss, no votes Voight, no votes Hoffman, defeated 2-1, four way tie for 2nd

Here's how I would rank them: Movies that were the best picture of the year: The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King Movies I would have nominated for best picture: The Hurt Locker Movies that came close to being nominated for best picture: 12 Years a Slave Movies that are perfectly enjoyable: The Departed, Slumdog Millionaire, The Artist Movies that are perfectly reasonable: Birdman, Spotlight Movies that I'm largely indifferent to: Million Dollar Baby Irritating Oscarbait (benign edition): (tThey didn't deserve to win, and it's insulting that they gamed the Oscar voters to win, but they can be enjoyed on their own terms): Chicago, The King's Speech, Argo Irritating Oscarbait (malign edition): (They gamed the system, and they're pernicious for doing so) Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind Special Talented but Meretricious Category: No Country for Old Men (considerable cinematic talents, but also morally questionable in the extreme) Just a bad movie: Crash

My favorite quotes from 1981 Reds: If you were mine, I wouldn't share you with anybody or anything Time Bandits "And plenty of ice!" (The Titanic then hits an iceberg.)

Something's not kosher about this. Yes Wikipedia says The King of Comedy premiered in Iceland in December 1982. But that makes so little sense. Icelandic has only 350,000 speakers, so subtitling a film would be expensive, and for a small market. There's no clear connection between Iceland and Scorsese that would make him want to premier a film there. And why would you premiere a very dark comedy in a country like Iceland in the first place. It would be like premiering it in Peoria or some other not cinephiliac city. Yes, there's a link to an Icelandic newspaper. But the ad, which uses the supposedly Icelandic title imdb.com uses, makes no reference to the plot or to De Niro or Lewis, which a real ad should. (The other movie ads on the same page have photos, English titles and/or reference to actors.

I suspect that Claudia Cardinale is supporting in Fitzcarraldo and that Hanna Schygulla and Isabelle Huppert are both supporting in Passion. Any comments?

I saw five movies last week. The Love Witch is an interesting bird. It's an elaborate pastiche of a certain sort of cheesy early seventies horror film, usually involving the occult. In the case the hairstyle, fashions, chatter about the occult is so close to the seventies, that only a couple of shots of a computer and then the use of a cell phone near the end notes that its decades later. On the one hand the pastiche has been arranged with considerable care and precision. On the other hand the story it tells is of a fatuous sociopath. Silence is certainly an elaborate, beautifully filmed and morally serious production about the Japanese extirpation of Christianity in the 1600s. Andrew Garfield does a good job portraying the crisis of conscience his character faces. It's certainly a watchable and compelling film. And yet I feel slightly dissatisfied. Compared to The Passion of Joan of Arc, Diary of a Country Priest, Winter Light, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice the movie does not quite succeed. Why not? I must admit I don't fully remember the original novel, but I recall it being much more depressing. The movie emphasizes, in the final analysis, that Garfield is not broken. As I remember the novel, it emphasizes that Christianity was destroyed in Japan for two centuries, which one might think was much more important. Entre Nous is a competent drama about two French women and their unhappy marriages who meet in the fifties. The actresses are good, but I suppose I expected a bit more, since I had very good memories a quarter century earlier of C'est La Vie. Rollover is both a curiosity and interesting in its own right. In retrospect the financial crises we've seen since make the basic scheme at its heart, the Arabs cause a new Great Depression by taking all their money out of banks, causing the currency to collapse, simple minded. But that doesn't mean Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson and Hume Cronyn don't do a good job. Nor is Pakula that bad, though an early, very static opening credit sequence is admittedly very unpromising. Finally Paris Belongs to Us is the first film of Jacques Rivette. As such it shares a lot with other Rivette films. It's a very leisurely film, with lots of beautiful shots of Paris, and the characters are participating in putting on a play (in this case Pericles), Meanwhile the movie slowly concerns itself about a sinister, quasi-fascist conspiracy. It's not clear why the conspiracy deals with a handful of generally unsuccessful theatre people, but it's worth watching regardless.,

Actor Warren Beatty, Reds 1980 film nominated in 1981, Burt Lancaster, Atlantic City Harrison Ford, Raiders of the Lost Ark Sam Neill, Possession John Heard, Cutter's Way Substitute for Lancaster: Steve Martin, Pennies from Heaven Runner-ups: Jeff Bridges (Cutter's Way), Treat Williams (Prince of the City), Gerard Depardieu (The Woman Next Door), Nigel Terry (Excalibur), Craig Wasson (Four Friends), Fernando Ramos da Silva (Pixote), Anthony Quinn (Lion of the Desert), Klaus Maria Brandauer (Mephisto), Mel Gibson (The Road Warrior), Albert Brooks (Modern Romance), Mel Gibson (Gallipoli), Jeremy Irons (The French Lieutenant's Woman), Kris Kristofferson (Rollover), Robert De Niro (True Confessions), Frederic Andrei (Diva) Actress Isabelle Adjani, Possession Karen Allen, Raiders of the Lost Ark Diane Keaton, Reds 1980 film nominated in 1981: Susan Sarandon, Atlantic City Bernadette Peters, Pennies from Heaven Substitute for Sarandon: Fanny Ardant, The Woman Next Door Runner-ups: Caitlin Clarke (Dragonslayer), Jodi Thelen (Four Friends), Jane Fonda (Rollover), Meryl Streep (The French Lieutenant's Woman), Barbara Sukowa (Lola), Candice Bergen (Rich and Famous) Supporting Actor David Rappaport, Time Bandits Jack Nicholson, Reds Nicol Williamson, Excalibur Jerry Orbach, Prince of the City Terence Stamp, Superman II Runner-ups: Charles Grodin (The Great Muppet Caper), John Rhys Davies (Raiders of the Lost Ark), David Warner (Time Bandits), John Cleese (The Great Muppet Caper), Sean Connery (Time Bandits), Bruce Spence (The Road Warrior), Christopher Walken (Pennies from Heaven), Jerzy Kosinski (Reds), Ralph Richardson (Dragonslayer), Mickey Rourke (Body Heat), Ralph Richardson (Time Bandits), Ted Danson (Body Heat), Hume Cronyn (Rollover), Robert Preston (S.O.B.), Ian Holm (Chariots of Fire) Supporting Actress Maureen Stapleton, Reds Helen Mirren, Excalibur Lisa Eichorn, Cutter's Way Marilia Pera, Pixote Diana Rigg, The Great Muppet Caper Runner-ups: Kate Reid (Atlantic City), Katherine Helmond (Time Bandits), Wilhelmina Wiggins (Diva), Clare Grogan (Gregory's Girl), Julia Murray (Four Friends), Not seen: On Golden Pond, Arthur, Only When I Laugh, Ragtime --------Interestingly, there were three best actor/actress combinations from the best picture nominees this year. That's a record, especially since there were only four such combinations over the previous two decades (The Apartment, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wooll, Network and Annie Hall).

1977 Annie Hall Star Wars The Ascent Providence Killer of Sheep Hitler: A film from Germany A Grin Without a Cat The Devil, Probably Ceddo House Runner-ups: Julia, That Obscure Object of Desire 1978 Days of Heaven Death on the Nile The Lord of the Rings Watership Down The Tree of Wooden Clogs The Battle of Chile Autumn Sonata The Deer Hunter The Shout The Last Waltz Runner ups: The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Doomed Love, The Scenic Route 1979 Apocalypse Now Manhattan Monty Python’s Life of Brian Stalker Quadrophenia The Muppet Movie Being There Norma Rae Breaking Away Vengeance is Mine Runner-ups: The Human Factor, The Black Stallion 1980 Tess The Shining Airplane! The Empire Strikes Back Raging Bull Breaker Morant Berlin Alexanderplatz The Elephant Man Kagemusha Gloria Runner-ups: Melvin and Howard, From the Life of the Marionettes, Mon Oncle D'Amerique, Divine Madness, The Age of the Earth 1981 The Raiders of the Lost Ark The Great Muppet Caper Time Bandits My Dinner with Andre Reds Atlantic City Cutter’s Way Prince of the City Possession Excalibur Runner-ups: Four Friends, Pixote, The Woman Next Door

Here is theyshootpictures.com list of the 50 greatest directors. Actually it will be updated later next month. Numbers in brackets are those from the EW list that are more than 10 spots different. 1. Alfred Hitchcock 2. Orson Welles 3. Stanley Kubrick (23) 4. Federico Fellini 5. Jean-Luc Godard (31) 6. Francis Ford Coppola (21) 7. Akira Kurosawa 8. Ingmar Bergman 9. Jean Renoir 10. John Ford 11. Yasujiro Ozu (-) 12. Martin Scorsese 13. Luis Buñuel 14. Andrei Tarkovsky (-) 15. Charles Chaplin (-) 16. Billy Wilder 17. Carl Theodor Dreyer (-) 18. Robert Bresson (-) 19. F.W. Murnau (33) 20. Michelangelo Antonioni (-) 21. Howard Hawks (4) 22. Fritz Lang 23. Sergei Eisenstein 24. François Truffaut 25. Steven Spielberg (11) 26. Kenji Mizoguchi (-) 27. Woody Allen 28. Roberto Rossellini (-) 29. David Lean 30. David Lynch (-) 31. Vittorio De Sica (-) 32. Alain Resnais (-) 33. Luchino Visconti (-) 34. Roman Polanski 35. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (22) 36. John Cassavetes (-) 37. Sergio Leone 38. Satyajit Ray (25) 39. Wong Kar-wai (-) 40. Jean Vigo (-) 41. Ernst Lubitsch (16) 42. Ridley Scott (-) 43. Robert Altman (17) 44. Max Ophüls 45. Werner Herzog 46. Abbas Kiarostami (-) 47. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (-) 48. Dziga Vertov (-) 49. D.W. Griffith (15) 50. Chris Marker (-)

More great quotations from 1980: The Shining I'm sorry to differ with you, sir... but you are the caretaker. You've always been the caretaker. I should know, sir. I've always been here. Give me the bat, Wendy Airplane! Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines! Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue! I am serious and don't call me Shirley. Oh, stewardess! I speak jive. Breaker Morant Shoot straight you bastards! Don't make a mess of it.