Film directors who are/were good looking

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To counter that other thread (Ever notice that as film directors get older they all tend to look similar?)

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 09:24 (twenty years ago) link

Robert Bresson:

http://www.movieconnection.it/pagine_speciali/bresson.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 09:25 (twenty years ago) link

apologies for not having embedded that image:

http://www.movieconnection.it/pagine_speciali/bresson.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 09:26 (twenty years ago) link

bruce robinson

the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 1 May 2004 09:28 (twenty years ago) link

Manoel de Oliveira:

http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/bases/oliveira/bio23.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 09:29 (twenty years ago) link

Frank Borzage:

http://silentgents.com/Annex/BorzageFrank.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 09:30 (twenty years ago) link

Ida Lupino:

http://www.tgforum.com/hllywood/ida.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 09:31 (twenty years ago) link

William Wellman:

http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2002-2/images/p169.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 09:34 (twenty years ago) link

Samira Makhmalbaf:

http://www.sinema.com/pic/yazilar/eylul03/samira_makhmalbaf_1.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 09:38 (twenty years ago) link

Andy Lau :

http://www.firstuniversal.clara.net/andylau.jpg

udu wudu (udu wudu), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.sufoi.dk/billeder/a-g/aug-02b.jpg

tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

orson was hott!

david fincher has a bit of both:
http://images.digitalmedianet.com/2002/08_aug/features/fincher/fincher175.jpg

rgeary (rgeary), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago) link

Raoul Walsh :
http://silentgents.com/Directors/WalshRaoul.jpg

Frühlingsj4n (Wintermute), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago) link

George Kuchar:

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/26/26_images/kuchar_chest.jpg

brian patrick (brian patrick), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

Very impressive.

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, I would have said orson, too.

http://www.cas.usf.edu/~sipiora/6934/lynch.jpg

RJG (RJG), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

He may never direct again, but - http://www.cine-home.com/Extrait_Dbo/Artistes/george%20clooney.JPG

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.eagleartdesign.com/charcoal/mel_gibson_drawing.jpg

RJG (RJG), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.cannes-fest.com/images/shes1.jpg

ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.newcastlefilmfest.org/pictures/yahoo.jpg

RJG (RJG), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

Vincente Minnelli (In this pic, he's with Kate Hepburn, couldn't find a solo)

http://i.imdb.com/mptv1.gif

Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 1 May 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

http://i.imdb.com/mptv1.gif

Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 1 May 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

(Dammit. Didn't come out. Click on, to see his elfin looks for yourself)

Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 1 May 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

Chris Weitz (of the Weitz Bros.):
http://glsplanet.terra.com.br/filmes/imagens/chucknbuck3.gif

I actually met him in a tube station when I was in London in December. Really nice guy!

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 May 2004 18:19 (twenty years ago) link

Nicholas Ray:

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/27/nickray/nick_ray.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

Victor Sjostrom:

http://www.sea.fi/foto/sjostrom.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago) link

Spiffy bowtie.

(Sjostrom is great, btw)

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link

I apologize for the garish pic I used (it kind of mussies up the thread), but it's the only close-up of Weitz I could find.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago) link

Claire Denis:

http://www.reel.com/Content/Reelimages/features2002/denis/denis.jpg


(i also want to share with you a photo that came up after i searched "claire denis" on google: http://scscc.com/REPEAT/SCSCC_Pictures/hughesweb.jpg)

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago) link

(god help me she is so hot in "the white hell of pitz palau")

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

and inevitably:

http://www.gwiezdne-wojny.pl/grafika/2003/wrz/sofia_coppola.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

spike jonze is hott!

jed_ (jed), Saturday, 1 May 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link

Maya Deren:

http://www.geraldpeary.com/essays/def/deren.jpg

c. (synkro), Saturday, 1 May 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link

F.W. Murnau:

http://www.leffa-arviot.com/artikkelit/murnau2.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356910/


oh, and John Paizs, Canadian director god

http://www.angelfire.com/movies/CrimeWave/KIMSTEVEN.JPG
(on the left)

Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 2 May 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago) link

(imagine a Hal Hartley picture in the broken link area)

Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 2 May 2004 03:53 (twenty years ago) link

i love hal hartley. he is charming, but not really good looking.

amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 10:58 (twenty years ago) link

i don't see it.

amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link

am!st you're joking!

jed_ (jed), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

I'm just glad someone cited Jarmusch, as he's one cool fuckin' cat.

And what about....

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/directors/02/antonioni.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:40 (twenty years ago) link

oh yeah, he was a handsome devil. i didn't know until recently that he and monica vitti had been married, either.

amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 May 2004 07:05 (twenty years ago) link

for good measure:

http://www.moviestar-photos.com/graphics/220/220782.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 May 2004 07:08 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.italica.rai.it/cinema/film/avventura/avv152_3.jpg

the official theme music of this thread is the opening bars of "l'avventura"


doo doo doo, doo doo doo
doo doo doo, doo doo doo

amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 May 2004 07:13 (twenty years ago) link

first response to El Diablo Robotico's Truffaut pic: " did Jack Kerouac direct movies?"

jed_ (jed), Monday, 3 May 2004 08:30 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...
http://www.tretipol.cz/img/pic/3/lynch01.jpg

amateur!!st, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

That Murnau pic doesn't do him justice. He really was among the most attractive directors ever.

Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link

eleven years pass...

http://www.silentsaregolden.com/photos2/kingvidor.jpg

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link

Vittorio De Sica (there was a gorgeous picture of him in a recent Sight and Sound, can't find the image online)

http://www.cinemagebooks.com/shop_image/product/004394.jpg

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 1 October 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link

he's a grey fox in "madame de..."

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link

in Madame De... he looks as if he exudes marvelous cologne.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 October 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link

"marvelous cologne" sounds like a morrissey song title

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link

de sica was a superstar first, the 'italian cary grant'

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 October 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link

yup... in those "white telephone" movies.

http://www.cinetecadibologna.it/files/festival/CinemaRitrovato/2013/foto/max.jpg

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link

on that note

http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/images2/GHI/idalupino.jpg

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link

http://md1.libe.com/photo/624581-resnais1.jpg
resnais

drash, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Mikhail_kaufman.jpg
mikhail kaufman (younger brother of dziga vertov)

drash, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link

http://www.doclisboa.org/2012/contents/movie/13489302499414.jpg
chantal akerman

drash, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link

sadao yamanaka

http://150597036.r.cdn77.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/yamanakasadao31.jpg

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link

Was gonna say Akerman too. Oh God.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link

i follow her on facebook, she sounds like any other cranky baby-boomer lady and posts a lot of huffpo links and that sort of thing. :)

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link

https://media.timeout.com/images/101380767/617/347/image.jpg

Derek Jarman

soref, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link

I saw her give a talk last year - cranky but on amazing form. Still hot. xp

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:39 (nine years ago) link

http://camerimageblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mia-hansen-love-eden.jpg
mia hansen-løve

drash, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link

andre de toth

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2rxf2wVuu1qiosrfo1_500.jpg

here with wife veronica lake who, it is alleged, he abused

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link

xpost

so like a frenchie film director (assayas) to get with the teenage girl he cast in a film about an older artist hooking up with jailbait

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link

Fassbinder probably not conventionally good looking, but I've never seen a picture of him where he doesn't look good

http://www.fassbindermovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/RWF-2.-Foto_Dino-Raymond-Hansen.jpg

soref, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link

Douglas Sirk always looked cool as well, I can't find any photographs of the young Sirk, was he handsome?

http://fr.web.img2.acsta.net/cx_160_213/b_1_d6d6d6/pictures/14/05/16/12/54/098740.jpg

soref, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link

i believe that fassbinder photo is next to the phrase "like a boss" in the dictionary

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link

otm re fassbinder
(& assayas lol)

drash, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link

http://irishamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Ingram-Harp-to-a-Harp.jpg
rex ingram

drash, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:49 (nine years ago) link

Tony Richardson

http://lowres-picturecabinet.com.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/38/main/25/39201.jpg

soref, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link

I feel kind of bad for all the non good looking film directors, feel like there should be a thread for photos of them as well

soref, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link

another actor turned director: mai zetterling

https://markisinnan.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/mai-zetterling.jpg

no lime tangier, Thursday, 1 October 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link

surely already posted in one of the sadly broken links
https://chainedandperfumed.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/antonioni.jpeg
antonioni

drash, Thursday, 1 October 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link

Susan Seidelman

http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/106969/106969_small.jpg

soref, Thursday, 1 October 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link

I feel kind of bad for all the non good looking film directors, feel like there should be a thread for photos of them as well

― soref, Thursday, October 1, 2015 5:55 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

here you go:

http://www.1worldfilms.com/renoir.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Sergei_Eisenstein_02.jpg

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link

frankly the ugly directors can field a better team: eisenstein, renoir, ford...

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link

xp I feel kind of bad for all the non good looking film directors, feel like there should be a thread for photos of them as well

aw, agree

here you go:

:) renoir is adorable

drash, Thursday, 1 October 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link

i love how eisenstein's cranium is fucking huge, probably because his brain is fucking huge

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 October 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsC/2875-5040.jpg
john cassavetes

new noise, Thursday, 1 October 2015 23:11 (nine years ago) link

who is this guy?

http://www2.sundance.org/festivalhistory/assets/img/1991/John.jpg

soref, Thursday, 1 October 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link

Henri-Georges Clouzot

http://www.rialtochannel.co.nz/Portals/0/Images/Blogs/Henri-Georges-ClouzotB.jpg

soref, Thursday, 1 October 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link

Fassbinder is an armpit sweat stain in human form.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 October 2015 01:35 (nine years ago) link

Marjane Satrapi:

http://www.babelio.com/users/AVT_Marjane-Satrapi_4104.jpeg

Spielberg wasn't bad either, before he went for the whole "middle-aged serious movie director" look:

http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/i/2015/06/20/jaws-spielberg.jpg

Tuomas, Friday, 2 October 2015 10:30 (nine years ago) link

I'd never seen a picture of young Spielberg before. he looks like Chris O'Dowd!

soref, Friday, 2 October 2015 10:33 (nine years ago) link

Margarethe von Trotta (w/ Fassbinder)

http://de.web.img2.acsta.net/pictures/14/01/27/14/59/026457.jpg

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 2 October 2015 12:48 (nine years ago) link


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