RIP Ingmar Bergman
We all lose that game 'o chess in the end.
I have personally long considered Bergman to be the greatest living director in the world. With him gone, I wonder who would take over that title? Sadly, the vast majority of his contemporaries of comparable skill - Fellini, Bresson, Ozu, Tarkovsky - have already died over the last fifteen years or so.
I think Godard would be the natural choice. Anyone else care to venture an opinion?
We all lose that game 'o chess in the end.
I have personally long considered Bergman to be the greatest living director in the world. With him gone, I wonder who would take over that title? Sadly, the vast majority of his contemporaries of comparable skill - Fellini, Bresson, Ozu, Tarkovsky - have already died over the last fifteen years or so.
I think Godard would be the natural choice. Anyone else care to venture an opinion?
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I also think Walsh will one day be the crowning jewel of the director world (Entourage reference ahoy).
<---Although he did it pretty damned interestingly in that film.
Style = substance
I thought about that question too, and I have to say it completely slipped my mind that Antonioni was still alive. I picked Godard, who, the way this week is going, had better be keeping a close watch on his health.
I saw Eros recently, which was the only reason I knew he was alive. Godard was another name that several of us mentioned. The unofficial, unranked list we came up with: Godard, Jacques Rivette, Claire Denis, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Agnes Varda, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Takeshi Kitano, Werner Herzog, Wong Kar Wai, Tsai Ming Liang, Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Manoel de Oliveira, Kon Ichikawa, Abbas Kiarostami, Zhang Yimou, Isao Takahata...
My personal favorite is Lynch, but I would say JLG as well. Outside of Resnais, Oliveira, and Ichikawa we are pretty much talking about people whose careers have been built post-1960 at this point.