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Month 1: Steven Spielberg
Month 2: Martin Scorsese
Month 3: Billy Wilder
Month 4: Denis Villeneuve
Month 5: George Miller
June is 80s' birthday month, so he picked the director. What is interesting is that this time he has only seen 10% of the director's movies. In a way, we have the opposite of Miller here. As I was listening to the making of Fury Road there was some quote by Miller that he liked to make movies that people don't need subtitles to understand in a foreign language. Here we have a guy that is much more at home letting the camera linger while the actors bs about life and philosophy. We also have a so many themes and movies that are perfect for this time of year. We have a lot of walking and talking (set in June, no less), we have a bit of baseball, we have the last day of school, and like Miller we have a director with a new movie being released during the month. He even has a movie that was listed on the last director's list of top 10 movies!
Month 6: Richard Linklater
I am not sure how to separate the discussion this month. It seems like he has a big bucket of movies that I have in my mind as I described above: walking and talking/philosophizing and school/baseball. My lean is to suggest watching one from there, and watch one of his others. The others lean drama and biographies.
Influences:
HERE is a list of his 10 favorite movies. I like how much these lists feature past DotM's or future ideas.
It's summer, so I suggest having some fun with other baseball movies or another High School or coming of age movie.
Month 2: Martin Scorsese
Month 3: Billy Wilder
Month 4: Denis Villeneuve
Month 5: George Miller
June is 80s' birthday month, so he picked the director. What is interesting is that this time he has only seen 10% of the director's movies. In a way, we have the opposite of Miller here. As I was listening to the making of Fury Road there was some quote by Miller that he liked to make movies that people don't need subtitles to understand in a foreign language. Here we have a guy that is much more at home letting the camera linger while the actors bs about life and philosophy. We also have a so many themes and movies that are perfect for this time of year. We have a lot of walking and talking (set in June, no less), we have a bit of baseball, we have the last day of school, and like Miller we have a director with a new movie being released during the month. He even has a movie that was listed on the last director's list of top 10 movies!
Month 6: Richard Linklater
I am not sure how to separate the discussion this month. It seems like he has a big bucket of movies that I have in my mind as I described above: walking and talking/philosophizing and school/baseball. My lean is to suggest watching one from there, and watch one of his others. The others lean drama and biographies.
Influences:
HERE is a list of his 10 favorite movies. I like how much these lists feature past DotM's or future ideas.
It's summer, so I suggest having some fun with other baseball movies or another High School or coming of age movie.