1. Lost in Translation
2. 2046
3. In the Mood For Love
4. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
5. Marie Antoinette
6. Miami Vice
7. The New World
8. Collateral
9. Far From Heaven
10. Before Sunset
11. Three Times
12. Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles
13. Lilya 4-ever
14. Spirited Away
15. Mulholland Dr.
16. Mystic River
17. Hero
18. Millenium Mambo
19. Dancer in the Dark
20. Clean
21. Brokeback Mountain
22. March of the Penguins
23. Match Point
24. Mysterious Skin
25. The Fountain
26. Beijing Bicycle
27. Sex and Lucia
28. 3-Iron
29. Nowhere in Africa
30. Y Tu Mama Tambien
31. Pride and Prejudice
32. Cache
33. Catch Me If You Can
34. The Child
35. The Departed
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How are the three Chinese directors being the most important in modern Asia? Probably the most westernized though.
Hou was important in the 80s, Zhang in the 90s. I don't think Wong is important.
That was kind of a fananaticism label? Since I've just realized that those four directors are my four favorite Asian directors by far. Probably the most westernized is true, but I've seen obscure Asian stuff and I don't like them nearly as much as movies from Zhang, Hou, and Wong. Notice 7 out of 9 Asian films are from the four direcotrs I listed.
Hou was important in the 80s, and the 90s, and the 00s. Followers of him follow his films through all decades, as does followers of Zhang, Wong, and Miyazaki.
All decades he was making films, that is.
And how is Wong not important?
I think importance is more of a cultural thing - Wong isn't that highly respected in HK, he's a love-or-hate and too much for their taste. Zhang lost his credit in this decade. Image when people see Hal Hartley makes a Spielberg film. Hou I would partly agree. But I had never heard of MM and Three Times before I saw someone's recommendation list in IMDB. I read about CL and Flowers of Shanghai in some article on Ozu and Raise the Red Lantern. The funny thing is Hou's 80s films are his most talked about. I feel that Edward Yang is the more accepted one (Yiyi and A Brighter Summer Day sound like the best Chinese films ever). If you mean from 80s to now, I'll say Miyazaki and John Woo. But I agree the fans are always there.
Hmm...Hal Hartley is not a good comparison.
Tea said The Queen and Mirren were real snooze fests, you might wanna know that.
Hey, what's all that about me not being a good comparison? Shang, ur a bit rude. : (
My sense of humour is priceless.
"Wong isn't that highly respected in HK, he's a love-or-hate and too much for their taste. "
Doesn't matter. He's still important. No self-respecting Asian cinema fan would consider himself a fan of Asian cinema and not see any Wong movies.
"Zhang lost his credit in this decade."
And he's still making "good" movies. Actually I might be in the minority who thinks he's still making great movies, doesn't touch his 90s pictures, but he's hardly off-the-grid.
"I feel that Edward Yang is the more accepted one (Yiyi and A Brighter Summer Day sound like the best Chinese films ever). If you mean from 80s to now, I'll say Miyazaki and John Woo. But I agree the fans are always there. "
It's a hard-pressed task to determine who truly is more important. We know who are the most westernized (Hou, Yang, Wong, Zhang) everyone talks about them. They all have significant impact to Asian cinema, however, it's hard to truly determine which one of those is "more" important. I would imagine Wong is much more important than [insert Asian director who's made only one well-known Asian film], but compared to Zhang, when it cannot be argued who has more influence, they're both significant.
I was just being fanatic by narrowing-down the "only" important directors. But I definitely disagree with a few things you say here.
Bird, that was still the worst imitation of ally I've ever seen. Sol I believe... lol, when did he become a Wong fan? (his vote on the classic board)
Well, TBP knows his good movies, doubt he'll fall for simple-minded, play-it-safe, Oscar bait.
"Bird, that was still the worst imitation of ally I've ever seen."
I'll just say "LOL!" and leave it at that.
2046 is so sexy.
Good call on Miami Vice. And people say Borat is the funniest movie of 2006...
[insert yawn icon]
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