i agree.

I'm the same way. I watch movies from that era over and over. I don't even bother going to the theater anymore because movies today seem so bland it's all remakes and already established franchises and even if a different kind of movie does come out, we don't hear about it.

And Altman

BECINE93 You're good to go!

I would say that the 50's early 60's was the greatest era for the cinema. It's a tough call, but Hitchcock (Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho), John Ford (The Searchers, Cheyenne Autumn) Huston, Hawks were at their peak. The amazing work of Kazan and Brando (Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront) I could go on to list master works by Preminger, Zinnemann, Budd Boeticher etc. The great foreign masters Bergman (The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring) Fellini (La Strada, La Dolce Vita), Kurosawa ( Seven Samurai, Rashomon), the British directors David Lean and Oliver Reed. I'm just touching the surface. I respect the directors you mentioned but not quite as good.

Don’t forget De Palma!

You’re so right about Hal Ashby. He needs to be as known as Scorsese and Coppola.

Wtf would u bring that up

@@jasonpeng33 a connection to Godfather cause Friedkin wrote and directed Cruisin is my guess

well said.

Friedkin isn't lesser known. "The Exorcist" still ranks as # 9 all time money-maker on the domestic charts adjusted for infaltion. Roeg isn't even in the conversation. "Taxi Driver" blows away Godfathers, plus the quirky post-Antonioni "Conversation." Apocalypse Now" has always been a bombastic ego trip.

@@johnmolina3284 dude...get your snobbish delusional "i'm THE film buff" head out of your a$$. Taxi Driver blows away the Godfather movies...IN YOUR MIND..sure... But, i wasn't talking bout YOU. i don't give a s**t bout your stoopid as$. i don't even f-ing know you. so, if you've got your head outta your butt, then let's talk sense here. Friedkin, while he made GREAT f*ing movies..Exorcist is one of my all time faves..is NOT Spielberg...or Scorsese or Coppola..whom are widely known film icons..household filmmaker names/brands. heck! even for those crowd, nowadays, they might not even know who Coppola is..let alone a William Friedkin. but, my point is Coppola WAS the film guy of the 70's, despite what YOU... PERSONALLY think. it's been widely and officially recognized that he'd made the most revered and one of the most well known films of that decade. it's INARGUABLE...even by the likes of you. Taxi Driver..while also a classic..is IN NOW WAY comparable, let alone "blows" a film like The Godfather, which sequel is, again, widely or commonly considered BY MANY to be THE very example of when a sequel exceeds the original film. Apocalypse Now, while not my personal favourite..IS, AGAIN..widely, or commonly considered to be one of the best and most well known war film classics..by MANY. and back to Friedkin...having two great movies doesn't guarantee fame outside film fandom. THAT was MY point. so, knock it off with your silliness.

@John Molina you seem to not understand Apocalypse Now! I see the film as realistic but I suppose we’ve had much different life experiences. Part of my life experience has included a journey like the film.

Add in Altman and Bob Fosse as well.

​@@johnmolina3284you're utterly clueless 🤦 Moron.

Well, you just cancelled him then.

Leftoids trying any possible way to spew their ignorance into everything. What a ridiculous comment.

Well one is from Chicager the other from Queens.

This Gentleman is far away from that.

Frankly, it was wonderful

Bobbleheads.

I don't think he sounds anything like him, and he is about a hundred times more articulate than Trump.