PSIFONIAN AWARDS - BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION (1925-2010)

[GoDiegoMcarthurGO]

These are By Far The Best Choices i Have Scene!!!

Although, I'd Choose Tarantino for '09, Gondry for '04,

Scorsese for '02, Anderson for '01, Coen for '00.

[Psifonian2]

@GoDiegoMcarthurGO Tarantino's my #2, Gondry my #4, Scorsese my #2, Anderson my #3, and Coen my #2. So fairly close.

[raghavthetruman]

Adding micheal mann in this list is a masterstoke :) :) Btw whats the movie after LA Confidential :) :)

[Psifonian2]

@raghavthetruman The Thin Red Line.

[raghavthetruman]

What were the movies before chinatown and who framed the roger rabbit ????

[Psifonian2]

@raghavthetruman "Badlands" and "Full Metal Jacket."

[raghavthetruman]

Whats the soundtrack used in this montage ????

[Psifonian2]

@raghavthetruman It's the remix of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from The Social Network.

[verchotaman]

what's the one before goodfellas?

[Psifonian2]

@verchotaman Born on the Fourth of July.

[koook160]

I was personally a little bored by Collateral. I do admit, the direction was the strongest element. However, Gondry added more to Eternal Sunshine than you give him credit for. I would have nominated Tarantino on the grounds he made a sequal ten times better than the original.

[koook160]

Man, we agree on a lot of choices. I gave Best Picture to A christmas Story in 83, but gave Videodrome Best Director. You Cronenberg fan too?

[Psifonian2]

@koook160 1983's the exact same deal for me - Picture to "A Christmas Story," Director to Cronenberg. And I'm a huge Cronenberg fan.

[koook160]

@Psifonian2 Same. I honestly think you should have kept Goldblum for Best Actor in 86.

[Psifonian2]

@koook160 It pains me, but man, Hoskins blew me away. Have you seen "Mona Lisa"?

[koook160]

@Psifonian2 No. It's in my Netflix que along with 450 other films. I have a question: Why Collateral in 2004? What about Michel Gondry or Tarantino?

[Psifonian2]

@koook160 Simply put, I felt Mann's direction far outstripped any others that year. Gondry's film worked because of the writing and acting - direction was the least impressive thing about it. Ditto Tarantino. "Collateral" had all of these elements, but Mann's direction racked the tension level to eleven.

[Psifonian2]

@Psifonian2 Fair enough - to each his own. I do nominate Gondry and Tarantino, though.

[w19721]

Oh year.Thank u very much.



[Wired4Life2]

Phew!! For a sec, I thought the video wouldn't fit the music on time....

Good work!!!!

[Psifonian2]

@Wired4Life2 I wasn't going to let you guys down! :)

[w19721]

thanks but i want the movie next galipoli

[Psifonian2]

@w19721 Oh. "Blade Runner."

[w19721]

The Movies in 1:11 and 1:30 please

[Psifonian2]

@w19721 1:11 is Gallipoli. 1:30 is Mulholland Drive.

[eniben4]

Stop going by when they debuted at a film festival no one could see and go by the academy date moron. There's reason the academy picks the year they entered theaters. Memento debuted at a film festival in late 2000 moron but 99 perecent of the public couldn't see it until 2001, same with The Hurt Locker. So according to your logic you shouldn't do your 2010 montage until every film festival acquistion debuts even if it is 2011.

[Psifonian2]

@eniben4 "Hurt Locker" first premiered in wide release in Italy in October of 2008. Ergo, it's a 2008 release.

"Memento" started out at Venice, then they released it in several theaters across Europe as part of a strategy to generate buzz. But it was available to the public, so ergo it's a 2000 release.

[Psifonian2]

@eniben4 I should also point out that, as I explained before, I do not go by Academy eligibility. I am not the Academy. So why should I go by the Academy's rules? I shouldn't have to decide a film is eligible because a film had a qualifying release in L.A. for one week. That's just retarded. The year they are released originally is the year I go by, because I am deciding the best in that particular year.

[whiskeypriest1]

Sympathetic as I am to awarding Best Director to both The Third Man and Sunset Blvd., they were both Oscar eligible for 1950 - The Third Man won B&W Cinematography for that year.

[Psifonian2]

@whiskeypriest1 Ah, but I go by original release date, not Oscar eligibility. Makes things easier for me, because I'm not viewing films for a qualifying week of release, as international films are eligible for my Best Picture category (which is why I don't have a Best Foreign Language award).

[okonh0wp]

pretty amazing....i like that you make us have to guess what the pictures are, i saw high noon, from here to eternity, 2001, easy rider, bonnie and clyde, clockwork orange, rebecca, , fargo, la confidential, did you have bringing out the dead for 99? ....66 was something with clint eastwood, 78 was terrence malick? 72 don't know, 79 and 81 also confused me

[Psifonian2]

@okonh0wp 1999 is "Magnolia." 1966 is "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." 1978 is "Days of Heaven." 1972 is "Deliverance." 1979 is "Apocalypse Now" (really, you didn't recognize it?). And 1981 is "Gallipoli."