Day #23 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #23 of 30 Day Film Challenge.

The prompt is A film that you like by a director who is Dead

Hmmm...choices, choices...

Going with Billy Wilder's comedy classic:

Watch on YouTube

And you can't pick a director or film that you already chose somewhere else. (ie. If you picked Kubrick or Hitchcock already, you can't do it again - sorry. This category is too easy already, have to limit it somehow.)

Comments

[cjlasky7]

There are many great directors who have passed on after a long, storied career.

But what about a director who died after his only shot at the big chair?

Steve Gordon was a veteran sitcom writer who finally got his chance to direct a high profile movie: a throwback to the romantic comedies of the 1930s and 1940s.

Gordon's movie, Arthur (1981), won two Oscars--one for its theme song and another for John Gielgud as Arthur's butler.

Tragically, Gordon died of a heart attack at age 44. But his place in movie history is secure.

https://youtu.be/D5gABBndg-w

[shadowkat]

I didn't know the director only did one film and died afterwards. How tragic. Does explain why Arthur 2 does not work.

Arthur worked. It was funny and charming at the same time. Although I didn't see the guy who played Arthur in much after that. And outside of Cabaret, it's among the few films that I liked with Liza Minelli, who usually grated on my nerves.

[wendelah1]

Charade, directed by Stanley Donen. I loved that movie so much. I wrote fanfic for it, even.

How is it already day 23?

I guess I've been preoccupied.

[shadowkat]

Ah, I adore Charade as well. Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant - both older, and have chemistry to burn. Also a great story.

I thought it was day 22, and had to fix it. I got confused. I've been confused a lot lately. I think I'm overwhelmed and been a bit preoccupied as well.

[cactuswatcher]

The prompt didn't say it had to be a "good" film that I like from a deceased director or a good director or a director I like for that matter.

Ed Wood and not a trailer but a "glowing" review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFPq6z7quBM

[shadowkat]

Good, bad...in the eye of the beholder. You just have to like it. ;-)

Interesting choice. Tim Burton also loved it - made a movie about it.

[petzipellepingo]

I'm going with John Ford and The Searchers . There's a book about the making of the film and it's fascinating.

[shadowkat]

There is? Where? I'd be interested. I took a course in college entitled "Cinema Studies: The Western" - and on the final - there was an essay question on the Searchers, which I analyzed.

[petzipellepingo]

Here you go .

[atpo_onm]

Loved the radio show, loved this cinematic tribute to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE3TZSdjVFM

Thank you, Robert Altman, for so many great films.