The Silver Screen

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Ken Domon

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The Greatest Minds in Cinematic History

I’m not denying how great these filmmakers are, but, honestly, where is Jean Renoir in this list? Federico Fellini? Ingmar Bergman? Charlie Chaplin? Fritz Lang? Akira Kurosawa? Orson Welles? Francois Truffaut? Jean-Luc Godard? Howard Hawks? They made the films these men were inspired by and based their work on. Just cause they made great work within the past three decades or so (with the exception of Hitchcock whose films are still popular today) that this generation was touched by doesn’t make them “The Greatest in History”. Cinema as an artistic medium is just over a century old; for someone to be one of the greatest at a particular time in its life doesn’t make them the greatest in history. Let’s not forget the classics, people.

Also, since I believe that every film has something to offer in a certain magnitude and respect - which for me means that essentially there aren’t bad films if you gain a little something from each of them - then I don’t think there should be any such thing as “the greatest filmmakers”. They all did great work, which goes without saying, and their films were great in their own unique ways. But throwing them in one big batch and naming them the “greatest” is, in my view, disrespectful to them and to all other filmmakers of past and present.

They had a big influence on today’s generation, but all the filmmakers of the past built cinema on their own and pushed its boundaries and explored its potential, a potential that many of these guys reflected on and went on to explore themselves. The above listed guys pushed the boundaries of their art form, but not as much as the filmmakers before them. Let’s not jump to conclusions, alright? Alright.

“My first acting interview for a job, Nicholson recalls, “the man says to me, ‘Well, Jack, you’re such an unusual person that I don’t know exactly how we would use you, but when we need you, we’ll need you very badly.’”  He half smiles.  “To a guy who’s 20 years old and doesn’t understand much of what’s being said to him, that’s kind of an odd slap in the face —‘You’re too strange for almost anything.’  I did not, quite frankly, think of myself as that strange, just as I don’t today.” —Jack Nicholson

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Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali 1966

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Always be thankful for what you have.

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To the impressionists!

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