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post #1 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:01pm
Thread Starter 
Who have you found to be an exceptional American Female Director?
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post #2 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:03pm
Too easy:

Sofia Coppola
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post #3 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:04pm
Otto Preminger
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post #4 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:07pm
Takashi Miike!
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post #5 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:08pm
Miike
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post #6 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:08pm
CONSARNIT.
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post #7 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:08pm
Yea...gonna take Coppola awhile to reach the 60 films (those listed on IMDB) of Takashi Miike.

No one does women issues like Miike!
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post #8 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:09pm
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Originally posted by Donald Wiskerando III
CONSARNIT.
Did I beat you to the punch?
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post #9 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:10pm
No, Consarnit is my favorite American Female Director.
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post #10 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:11pm
I liked her video for the new Blink 182 tune, sure, but best?
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post #11 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:14pm
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Originally posted by Andre Dellamorte
Takashi Miike!
I was drinking Dr. Pepper when I read that. Now I have to clean my keyboard. Pure hilarity there.
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post #12 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:15pm
What about Nancy Meyers? I think she has the potential to be a good female director, especially since she's such a great writer. Something's Gotta Give is a very decent first effort.
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post #13 of 28
12/22/03 at 8:25pm
Kat Bigelow. She has balls like Miike has ovaries...
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post #14 of 28
12/22/03 at 10:11pm
Don't forget Julie Taymor.

And I don't get the Miike jokes, if that what they are. He IS a dude, right?
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post #15 of 28
12/22/03 at 10:18pm
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Originally posted by alfalfa
What about Nancy Meyers? I think she has the potential to be a good female director, especially since she's such a great writer. Something's Gotta Give is a very decent first effort.
Something's Gotta Give is not her first effort. She also directed What Women Want and the Parent Trap remake. She's been a writer/producer since the early 80s (Private Benjamin, Baby Boom, Father of the Bride remakes) and I think she used to be married to Charles Shyer, who is a writer/director/producer himself.

Check out her filmography here.
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post #16 of 28
12/22/03 at 10:25pm
You forgot the picture andrew!!!!!
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post #17 of 28
12/22/03 at 10:28pm
Blunt wins.

And so does Django. For Near Dark alone.
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post #18 of 28
12/22/03 at 10:31pm
Yeah, I third the Bigelow love. Always been my first choice for a Preacher adaptation.
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post #19 of 28
12/23/03 at 6:31am

...

Takashi Miike...

Though I'm not a fan of her endings and once you've seen on of her action movies, it feels as if you seen them all.

(All as in all her action movies)
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post #20 of 28
12/23/03 at 8:27am
Ida Lupino made some pretty fantastic pictures...

...and of course some wouldn't want to forget Doris Wishman.
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post #21 of 28
12/23/03 at 10:08am
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Originally posted by The Prankster
And I don't get the Miike jokes, if that what they are. He IS a dude, right?
They are still making fun of me cause I posted Miike as the #1 director of all time in some other thread. They are all heathens!
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post #22 of 28
12/23/03 at 10:11am
I have to agree with Sofia Coppala here. I'm sure she'll make many more great films in the future ...

Bigelow did a great job with STRANGE DAYS but everything else she's done is pretty bland. I also dug Antonia Bird's RAVENOUS but she's only made craptastic TV movies since that ...
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post #23 of 28
12/23/03 at 10:18am
Near Dark and Blue Steel are anything but bland...The Weight Of Water is about the only mistep in her career thus far - though The Loveless was, how you say, pretty artsy-wank, but had a charm.
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post #24 of 28
12/23/03 at 11:27am
Yeah, you have a point. BLUE STEEL is a good film and NEAR DARK is fucking great. Let's just say it was really early in the morning when I posted this and I was thinking of K-19 - THE WIDOWMAKER and POINT BREAK ...
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post #25 of 28
12/23/03 at 3:48pm
Antonia Bird.
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post #26 of 28
12/24/03 at 5:52pm
I've always wondered about the lack of female directors doing action films, thrillers etc aside from Kat Bigelow, I know there are barely any female directors as it is but they either make rom-com's or drama's.
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post #27 of 28
12/24/03 at 7:36pm
Fran Walsh. Well she did direct bits and pieces from the LotR trilogy, didn't she?
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post #28 of 28
12/26/03 at 1:03am
Kathryn Bigelow.
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