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Post by petrolino on Jul 22, 2023 1:54:18 GMT
Michael Winner & Diana Dors
Mary Whitehouse
Mrs. Merton
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Post by Power Ranger on Jul 22, 2023 18:08:42 GMT
He seems to have been involved in more than one of these types of debates. I was familiar with this one.
He’s an odd chap. I have heard some unflattering rumours about him. But I liked many of his films and I consider him to be undeserving of the criticism he gets as a director.
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Post by petrolino on Jul 23, 2023 1:13:18 GMT
He seems to have been involved in more than one of these types of debates. I was familiar with this one. He’s an odd chap. I have heard some unflattering rumours about him. But I liked many of his films and I consider him to be undeserving of the criticism he gets as a director.
I agree. I think he was a really exciting director, always worked the camera, very technical (of that generation). I miss when England produced eccentric, outspoken directors whose personalities were reflected within their work. There's still some of the old guard around who fit the bill, like Pete Walker, but many have left us.
Michael Winner was a real character, larger-than-life like Ken Russell, Alan Parker, Norman Warren ... today's directors on the whole, at least here in England, are more professional, conservative, businesslike, reserved. Winner had Led Zeppelin members composing music for genre movies, how cool is that.
Not just England though. Great Scots like Sidney Hayers and John Mackenzie are a far cry from 'PR' Danny Boyle. Thankfully, Peter Greenaway's still flying the flag for Wales. |
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Post by Power Ranger on Jul 23, 2023 1:22:29 GMT
He seems to have been involved in more than one of these types of debates. I was familiar with this one. He’s an odd chap. I have heard some unflattering rumours about him. But I liked many of his films and I consider him to be undeserving of the criticism he gets as a director.
I agree. I think he was a really exciting director, always worked the camera, very technical (of that generation). I miss when England produced eccentric, outspoken directors whose personalities were reflected within their work. There's still some of the old guard around who fit the bill, like Pete Walker, but many have left us.
Michael Winner was a real character, larger-than-life like Ken Russell, Alan Parker, Norman Warren ... today's directors on the whole, at least here in England, are more professional, conservative, businesslike, reserved. Winner had Led Zeppelin members composing music for genre movies, how cool is that.
Not just England though. Great Scots like Sidney Hayers and John Mackenzie are a far cry from 'PR' Danny Boyle. Thankfully, Peter Greenaway's still flying the flag for Wales. Yeah, those types of British directors were a trope back then. They inspired characters like Burke Dennings in The Exorcist. Maybe those kinds of characters are largely a thing of the past no matter where they’re from. Sam Peckinpah wasn’t too different himself, just a Southern version. |
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Post by petrolino on Jul 23, 2023 1:29:10 GMT
I agree. I think he was a really exciting director, always worked the camera, very technical (of that generation). I miss when England produced eccentric, outspoken directors whose personalities were reflected within their work. There's still some of the old guard around who fit the bill, like Pete Walker, but many have left us.
Michael Winner was a real character, larger-than-life like Ken Russell, Alan Parker, Norman Warren ... today's directors on the whole, at least here in England, are more professional, conservative, businesslike, reserved. Winner had Led Zeppelin members composing music for genre movies, how cool is that.
Not just England though. Great Scots like Sidney Hayers and John Mackenzie are a far cry from 'PR' Danny Boyle. Thankfully, Peter Greenaway's still flying the flag for Wales. Yeah, those types of British directors were a trope back then. They inspired characters like Burke Dennings in The Exorcist. Maybe those kinds of characters are largely a thing of the past no matter where they’re from. Sam Peckinpah wasn’t too different himself, just a Southern version.
There's a top 25 war films list that's just been published at 'The Times' to coincide with the release of Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' (2023). Nolan is a fine director but very much epitomises the new school.
One of the contributors to the list is Dutch madman Paul Verhoeven who's as lively as Sam Peckinpah and turned 85 this week. He selects 2 films from the same English director, David Lean, and says he's just crazy about Lean's work. Now there was a man who wasn't afraid to go crazy on a film set and that's surely part of why Lean's work is as powerful today as it was then.
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