Actually, to me 'admire' means 'wish I could do that' <g> Not faint at all. And I just added the three DVDs of Decalog, Blue and the Double Life of Veronique to my Netflix.

( and stumbled across an old Truffaut I'd forgotten about - if you haven't seen Adele H you are in for a treat )

Another director I'd have to put on the list on the strength of one film is Sean Penn. Ever see The Pledge ? I think it is the best performance Jack Nicholson has ever given. ( of course if Penn also directed 'All the Kings Men' I guess than cancels out <s> )


I have to admit i haven't seen any of his stuff for a long time. Now you've inspired
>"Admire" is faint praise <g>. That's OK. We all have our own tastes and that's part of what makes life interesting. Personally my Kieslowski favorite is the Decalogue. (Alternate spelling = Dekalog). It blows me away that the parts of it originally aired on Polish television.
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>>I only know the Three Colors and Double life of Veronique but admire them.
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>>>We have some favorite directors in common. Here is another I think you will like: Kieslowski. His movies are absorbing in their own right. I also admire him for creating art in the most inhospitable of climates. He was a tough old bird. He had something to say and he said it.
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>>>>"Greatest" is tough. Great is easier - can do it pretty much by director :
>>>>Kurosawa, Altman, Scorcese, Coppola, Riddley Scott, Polanski, Howard Hawks, Tarantino, Peckinpah, Zhang Yimou, Louis Malle, Chabrol, Resnais, Truffaut ... there have been some pretty great movies
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>>>>( and I agree the Red Violin is a great movie. )
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>>>>>Now that you've posted the dumbest movie of all time, what would be your idea of the greatest movie of all time? Mine is probably The Red Violin.
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>>>>>>Sure, there are lots of bad movies. Top Gun is one. Shrek 3 is another. And then there's the Piano....
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>>>>>>But on Friday night, I saw the absolute worst movie of all time.
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>>>>>>I was training and driving back and forth from NJ all week, so by Friday evening I was wiped out. I fell asleep watching the Braves game on TBS, and woke up around 1 PM. I was too tired to get off the couch, so I just stayed there and watched the late movie on TBS.
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>>>>>>Oh, god, I wish I'd gone to bed.
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>>>>>>The movie was "Cocktail", with Tom Cruise. I want to hurt this film, but will never be able to hurt it as much as it hurt me.
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>>>>>>I wanted to change the channel, but my cat had knocked the remote away, and I was too lazy to reach for it. So I just vegged out on the couch some more, and was subjected to this piece of cinema trash. I was creating limericks in the third grade that were better than Cruise's bartender poetry. Cruise has come full circle - he started out making idiotic films, and now his life is an idiotic film.
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>>>>>>If there were indeed a God, I'd pray for him to wipe out the culture of the 1980's, which produced the worst films of all time (except for Judd Nelson, he was harsh)