spence Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Wrote about this a couple of yrs back Famous directors picks as their own best, or favorite movie *John Ford-(l894-l973) loved "The Sun Shine's Bright" (l953 remake of his own 1935 "Judge Priest" w/Will Rogers) *Frank Capra-(l897-l99l) of course "It's a Wonderful Life" (l946-RKO Radio)-(TRIVIA: *Welles loathed *Capra's films as being too corny) Alfred Hitchcock (l899-l980) "Shadow of a Doubt" (l943-*Selznick/UA) *Woody Allen-(l935-) always used to choose his 1980 "Stardust Memories' But in recent yrs he picks both "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (l989) & "Midnight in Paris" (2010) *Steven Spielberg-(l946-) cites *"Schindler's List" (l993) *Billy Wilder-(l906-2002) *"The Apartment" (l960-UA)-(In which he took home 3 "statuettes") *Leo McCarey-(1898-l969) "Make Way for Tomorrow" (l937) *William Wyler=-(l902-8l) *"Best Years of 0ur Lives" (l946-*Goldwyn/RKO) *Joseph L. Mankiewicz-(l909-93) *"All About Eve" (l950-Fox) *Martin Scorsese's-(l942-) not entirely certain, though you'd think it's "R. Bull" (l980) however, he now has immense fondness for 2011's "Hugo" *John Huston's-(l906-87) always voted for 1951's "Red Badge of Courage"-(despite it being chopped up so badly) *Preston Sturges-(l898-l959) ??? Ernst Lubitsch-(l892-l947) ??? *Orson Welles-(l9l5-85) actually always ranked 1942's "Magnificent Ambersons" (RKO) over his legendary "Kane" despite it was thee project that broke his heart in HOLLYWOOD, when RKO brass chopped it up incredibally badly-(approx. 40-45 minutes) Sam Peckinpah's-(l925-83) was "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" (l973) *Stanley Kubrick-(l928-99) is like him, pretty-much an enigma. Though I've heard in the past that 1964's "Dr. Strangelove" was his personal favorite) Same kind of goes for *Francis Ford Coppola-(l939-) (TRIVIA: He was never a fan of old Gangster movies & only cared about the family aspect of his *"Godfather- Trilogy") King Vidor-(l894-l982) "Hallelulah" (l929) & "The Citadel" (l938)-(1 of his 5 BD *Oscar losses too) *Vincente Minnelli-(l903-86) "Meet Me in St. Louis" (l944-MGM) though "The Clock" was very personal for him *George Stevens-(l904-75) "A Place in the Sun" (l95l-Paramount) & "Diary of Anne Frank" (l959-Fox) *Clint Eastwood's-(l930-) ???-(any info on others, please assist!?) *George Cukor-(l899-l983) ??? Don't yet have any info on: D.W. Griffith, *DeMille, *Victor Fleming, *Michael Curtiz & many others? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 At the 24th Cinematheque Awards, Clint Eastwood listed the favorite movies he starred in / directed, in order. "Bird" (1988) "Letters From Iwo Jima" (2006) "Million Dollar Baby" (2004) "Mystic River"' (2003) "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976) "Unforgiven" (1992) (Ok, what got bleeped out in the thread title?) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Hitchcock - Shadow of a Doubt Negulesco - Johnny Belinda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spence Posted July 10, 2016 Author Share Posted July 10, 2016 THANX FOR THE INFO! & not very surprised that *Clint picks "Bird" because he adores that music & to anybody, if you have info on the favs of Sturges, *Curtiz, *Fleming, *Cukor-(kinda' think it might be his 1933 version of "Little Women" (RKO) Griffith-(likely "Intolerance" (l9l6) but I only post what I'm positive of & others i.e. *M. Nichols, *Coppola, *Kazan & the rest please let me/us know?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spence Posted July 10, 2016 Author Share Posted July 10, 2016 But there's no doubt that *Bob Fosse-(l927-87) loved 1979's "All That Jazz" the most. & there's a current docu & in EW magazine thing on Brian De Palma-(l940-) but don't yet have that info? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spence Posted July 10, 2016 Author Share Posted July 10, 2016 Man, how could I neglect to include: Howard Hawks-(l896-l977) the only director of that glorious era "The Studio-System" (circa 1925 to 1960) that could handle any film genre! He always preferred his 1941 bio "Sergeant York" (Warner Bros.) (TRIVIA: As all know *"The Master" as *0rson called him *John Ford, won another of his *Academy (AMPAS) Award record holding BD victories for the same yrs magnificent *"How Green Was My Valley" (Fox)-(by the way that's *Clint's favorite film) But, *Ford thought that Hawks shoulda' won instead for 1941 & not him. Outrageously, that was Hawks 1 & only BD nod??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spence Posted July 10, 2016 Author Share Posted July 10, 2016 As for "Cinema's All-Around, All-Time Genius: *Charles (Spencer) Chaplin"-(l889-l977) he always & until he passed away on Christmas day 1977 Admired "City Lights" (l93l) (UA) the most. & as for Buster Keaton-(l895-l966) he loved his 1927 silent comedy masterpiece "The General" more than any other he helmed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spence Posted July 10, 2016 Author Share Posted July 10, 2016 Another I'm not as yet certain of, is *Oliver Stone's-(l946-) You'd think it would be his 1986 *Oscar sweeping *"Platoon" though, but am not sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 Another I'm not as yet certain of, is *Oliver Stone's-(l946-) You'd think it would be his 1986 *Oscar sweeping *"Platoon" though, but am not sure The Hand. It's just gotta be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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