Blocked Cocks and Melted Wings

[LazerRanger]

Originally Posted by Blunt

On topic, Drive being one of my favorite B-movies, it kinda saddens me that Steve Wang hasn't stepped behind the director's chair again after this one.

This a million times over, it's shame that the team all showed so much promise in this movie and never got a chance to work together again or reach the hieights of this movie again. Still my favourite American Martial Arts movie and Mark Dacasco's star turn imho (though Brotherhood of the Wolf comes close).

[Fat Elvis]

Yeah, Ratty, he was supposed to be the next wunderkind. He did have his chances. You're forgetting Final Analysis & Heaven's Prisonors. Luckily, he came storming back with The Gridiron Gang!

(When did Rattle & Hum get re-appraised positively? I missed the memo)

[Jonathan Banks is my hero]

Until he made DOUBT I would have said John Patrick Shanley. JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO is a fucking masterpiece.

Maybe he still belongs. Who knows if DOUBT will be his last picture as a director. In an interview he did when that movie came out, he didn't sound all that interested in doing it except in rare cases.

[Malmordo]

Milton Moses Ginsberg - writer/director of COMING APART (1969), a drama about a self-destructive psychiatrist (Rip Torn) shot entirely in b&w from the perspective of a hidden camera in the protagonist's apartment. A novel idea and an impressive debut overall, but Ginsberg followed it with an unsuccessful comedy (THE WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON) and then, for whatever reason, never directed another feature.

Bill Gunn - a brilliant playwright, screenwriter (Hal Ashby's THE LANDLORD) and director of my favorite horror film of the '70s, GANJA AND HESS. His first feature as director, STOP, was backed by Warner Bros. but never distributed and has only been screened (once) at the Whitney Museum of Art. Gunn died in 1989.

[Humanoid]

Originally Posted by Troy Nixey

Mike van Diem. His only movie, CHARACTER, won the Oscar for best foreign film in 1997. He hasn't directed a movie since, a shame really considering how incredible CHARACTER is.

Fuckin' A. One of the best foreign films I've ever seen. He was attached to Spy Game for a while and suddenly dropped out and decided he's more interested in commercials.

[Fat Elvis]

Originally Posted by Malmordo

Milton Moses Ginsberg - writer/director of COMING APART (1969), a drama about a self-destructive psychiatrist (Rip Torn) shot entirely in b&w from the perspective of a hidden camera in the protagonist's apartment. A novel idea and an impressive debut overall, but Ginsberg followed it with an unsuccessful comedy (THE WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON) and then, for whatever reason, never directed another feature.

Bill Gunn - a brilliant playwright, screenwriter (Hal Ashby's THE LANDLORD) and director of my favorite horror film of the '70s, GANJA AND HESS. His first feature as director, STOP, was backed by Warner Bros. but never distributed and has only been screened (once) at the Whitney Museum of Art. Gunn died in 1989.

Interesting picks, Malmordo! Feel ya on Bill Gunn especially.

[Barkatthemoon]

Harrison Ford's wings are melting. His last movie, Crossing Over went pretty much DTV. He needs to cock block Bruce Willis, and grab some of those cookie cutter action roles, like when he did Air Force One. He would have made a great Hannibal for The A-Team.

I want to see Ford smack people around dammit!!

[Phil]

Gunn's a nice call. And Richard Stanley is pretty much the patron saint of this thread. Any making-of story which features Marlon Brando as the calm voice of reason is pretty special.

[Chris Spider]

Originally Posted by BobClark

Alex Winter.

Heh, just caught this. Winter has actually worked in television for a good while, directing two live action TV movies based on the Cartoon Network series Ben 10, and he apparently has a horror film called The Gate planned for next year. Just thought you might want to know.

Anyway, my pick is Kerry Conran. Conran directed Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, one of the best adventure serial throwbacks in recent memory, and he hasn't done a damn thing since because of the mediocre box office take, though he was briefly attached to the John Carter of Mars project.

[Malmordo]

What about Jonathan Glazer?

No features in 5 years, since BIRTH.

[Kreeper]

Steve DeJarnatt.

Never saw Cherry 2000 but Miracle Mile scared the shit out of me. The last thing he did was write an X-Files episode.

Oh, and a second vote for Kerry Conran.

[Fat Elvis]

Revisiting FADE TO BLACK recently, reminded impossibly cute Linda Kerridge deserved another shot at something resembling a good role.

[Hammerhead]

Originally Posted by Fat Elvis

Searching for Vincent Spano

Spano may never have broken through to the big time, but during his run he got to do hot sex scenes with Virginia Madsen, Rebecca DeMornay, Rosanna Arquette, and Moira Kelly. Plus some canoodling with a young Marisa Tomei. If he's dissatisfied with his career, he can bite me.

Originally Posted by Kreeper

Steve DeJarnatt.

Never saw Cherry 2000 but Miracle Mile scared the shit out of me. The last thing he did was write an X-Files episode.

Cherry 2000 is a less accessible film but it's worth a look for its sincere heart and offbeat weirdness. Speaking of: Tim Thomerson, who gives something like the performance of a lifetime in it.

Deborah Foreman.

Ate de Jong.

[Cameron Hughes]

Michael Patrick Jann.

Its been ten years since the really funny small town beauty pageant satire Drop Dead Gorgeous. I thought that was the start of a very promising comedy director.