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Friday, August 13, 2010

Directors Series Wrap-Up

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OK, so the countdown did not conclude with the exact scenario that I would have chosen, but all in all I still found it to be one of the mos...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

I AM Alive...

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Sorry for the lack of updates at the conclusion of the countdown... it was just a convergence of things - me being sick, family coming into ...
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Friday, July 30, 2010

#1: Alfred Hitchcock

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- “Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.” Perhaps it's a cop-out, or maybe I should just ...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

#2: Billy Wilder

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- “A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kebqj_grGC0 I love...
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Monday, July 26, 2010

One day delay...

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Unless things change drastically this evening, I am going to push back the countdown by one day and have it resume on Wednesday. I feel abs...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

#3: Martin Scorsese

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- “Cinema is a matter of what`s in the frame and what`s out.” The inclusion is no shocker, although the fact that he did not place #1 might ...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

#4: Preston Sturges

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- “The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.” If there was a dark horse to sneak up and steal the top slot in this countd...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

#5: Charles Chaplin

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- “I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

#6: Terrence Malick

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- “They’re not intellectual so much as they’re visceral. I don’t know how you explain it… they’re like poems, you know. You can analyze it ...
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

#7: Howard Hawks

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- “I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director.” His is the first name to come to mind when I think of the preeminen...
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