# Directors Criticisms and Praise About Other Directors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-criticisms-and-praise-about-other-directors/855632 "2020-06-13T23:16:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-criticisms-and-praise-about-other-directors/855632/1 "2020-06-13T23:16:40Z")
> **[Directors on other directors](https://www.goldderby.com/forum/movies/directors-on-other-directors/)** > > Including this noted list of course   excerpts: 1. Francois Truffaut on Michelangelo Antonioni:“Antonioni is the only important director I have nothing good to say about. He bores me; he… ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-criticisms-and-praise-about-other-directors/855632/2 "2020-06-14T00:57:39Z")
These are all interesting quotes from a lot of guys about other guys (AND about Sofia Coppola, with the quote about her of course being sexist), but shall we do with it? Debate it? There are 68 and a half things to discuss, but I don’t know where to start because it’s too extensive. What point did you want to make? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-criticisms-and-praise-about-other-directors/855632/3 "2020-06-14T01:02:56Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > These are all interesting quotes from a lot of guys about other guys (AND about Sofia Coppola, with the quote about her of course being sexist), but shall we do with it? Debate it? There are 68 and a half things to discuss, but I don’t know where to start because it’s too extensive. What point did you want to make? That had Antonioni directed a thread it would be this one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-criticisms-and-praise-about-other-directors/855632/4 "2020-06-14T01:06:47Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > That had Antonioni directed a thread it would be this one. 🙂 Oh wow, cool, I’m in a Antonioni movie! :D. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-criticisms-and-praise-about-other-directors/855632/5 "2020-06-14T01:09:29Z")
Wow. A lot of intense, creative people disagree with the approach taken by a lot of other intense, creative people. I am shocked. SHOCKED! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-criticisms-and-praise-about-other-directors/855632/6 "2020-06-14T01:30:07Z")
OK, one frequent thesis from the OP I can subscribe to wholeheartedly: Godard sucks donkey ass. I’ve seen a many of his films (don’t ask, nouvelle vague films and all (then) modern European cinema were a staple of the night program of German TV in the 80s when I was a teenager looking for movies with, ahem, juicy scenes. It’s how I became a film buff. True story). Everything he ever did was boring, except for when he accidentally documented the emergence of a musical masterpiece, “Sympathy For The Devil” in “One Plus One”. But in this case, he was just lucky to be in the right place at the right time with a camera, I don’t believe he understood the music or the Stones in any way. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-criticisms-and-praise-about-other-directors/855632/7 "2020-06-14T01:37:36Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > That had Antonioni directed a thread it would be this one. 🙂 Of course, this is only the rough edit of the thread. We will have to wait to see what it looks like after the test postings. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-criticisms-and-praise-about-other-directors/855632/8 "2020-06-14T01:41:56Z")
I wanted to like Breathless, I really did. I do give him credit for the amount of films he made in the 60s. Wow. Im not sure he gave himself enough time to develop them. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-criticisms-and-praise-about-other-directors/855632/9 "2020-06-14T01:54:28Z")
Vincent Gallo stills owes me $8.50 for my having paid to watch _Buffalo '66_. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-criticisms-and-praise-about-other-directors/855632/10 "2020-06-14T02:06:03Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > I wanted to like Breathless, I really did. I do give him credit for the amount of films he made in the 60s. Wow. Im not sure he gave himself enough time to develop them. I think that’s the only Godard film I’ve seen with at least a coherent plot and story. And what could go wrong with a young Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg? It also has the advantage of a disastrous Hollywood remake to compare with. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-criticisms-and-praise-about-other-directors/855632/11 "2020-06-14T02:25:36Z")
**[Moderating]** First of all, this thread is closed, because it’s not a discussion; it’s just a dump of a blog. If we wanted to read that blog, we’d be over there, not here. If you have something to say, say it. Second, even if you do want to discuss the content of another site, the way to do that is to give a link to the site, and possibly brief quotes of a few relevant excerpts. Copying and pasting the entire blog post is a copyright violation, which is not allowed on this board. Since this thread is without content, it is closed.