There's been a good many tempests directed at Ben Shapiro's Big Hollywood post "Top 10 Most Overrated Directors of All Time." Personal favorite response is from Victor Morton of Rightwing Film Geek—a rebuttal entitled "I blame Sonny."
Amy Taubin's Times article, "One Singular Auteur, Through Another," is all about Steven Soderbergh's upcoming documentary on Spalding Gray, a must-see for those fans (myself included) of the duo's 1996 collaboration, Gray's Anatomy.
And whose is that German cadence (but not really) reading a childhood favorite? (Hattip: Jason Bellamy)
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I'm so tired of Conservatism.
Any list of overrated directors that does not include James Cameron is pure bullshit.
On the subject of Herzog, I'd like to point out that it hadn't dawned on me what a misanthropist he was until I saw Grizzly Man. Herzog has the capacity to direct our attention as well as say, Spielberg. Yet, as naturalist Charlie Russell put it: "Herzog has a long, established reputation for making movies about bizarre people. He fell upon a bonanza when he met with Jewel Palovak, Timothy’s ex girlfriend. She is President of Grizzly People, a non-prophet organization dedicated to protecting bears, studying them, and educating people and she was the beneficiary of all of Timothy’s recordings. Supposedly, without researching anything about Herzog she let him have all Timothy’s very private videotapes. They were like his personal diary and should have been respected in that way. If I am upset about the aftermath of Tredwells death, I can’t be too angry with Werner Herzog. He just did what he does."
That Shapiro looks like he's about twelve speaks to the maturity of his post.
"Big Hollywood" is such lowbrow garbage, it warrants no attention at all. Skipped.
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