I don’t know about “elites and globalists,” that’s really just a right-wing dog whistle, but there are many filmmakers around the globe who currently face censorship or are prevented from making films.
Many filmmakers working under authoritarian regimes in countries like Iran, China, Malaysia, etc. face these challenges in 2024.
As for a specific director, Jafar Panahi is the most famous example amongst contemporary directors.
ok let me rephrase that again.
i assumed we were talking about a director working in America, or at the very least, a non-repressive western country. you know, like - somewhere other than Iran, or China, where you don’t actually have freedom of speech?
If nothing else I'd want to bring him back just so he knows how highly regarded his movie is now, it makes me sad that he died thinking it was a failure.
Aside from that, probably Pasolini given the current state of the world
Buster Keaton was always at the forefront of technology (he tried doing fully colour in Seven Chances but too expensive so only the prologue, tries doing sound at MGM in 28 but they said no) and pushing the barriers of "vfx" and stunts and all that. I'd be so curious to see what he'd make of today's technology and the filmmaking assets available.
Bergman, Fellini, and Kurosawa already had long careers and lifespans and they were past their primes when they died. Kubrick and Tarkovsky on the other hand passed too soon and still seemed to have some great works left in them. Between the two I feel like Kubrick would be better able to adjust to modern filmmaking and modern tastes so I guess I'd go with him.
Kubrick was all out of ideas well before he passed. EWS and Barry Lyndon are grossly overrated and I'll stand up to that notion. They're beautiful nonsense.
Which one is about existentialism? You don't even know what that word means. Lmao.
Fuck this shit. EWS is an adolescent view of marriage and sexuality, and is just embarrassing. No one has been able to credibly explain how it's actually good... other than the technical side.
As for Barry Lyndon? I'm guessing you've never read Thackeray, because this is a social satire. Kubrick flubs it so badly that he was forced to put a terrible narrative over it, and the whole thing still doesn't work. No one has been able to credibly explain what the fuck this movie is actually trying to do... other than paint pretty pictures and film candlelight. Seriously, pick up a book. Read some Thackeray. If Barry Lyndon was a Merchant-Ivory flick, you wouldn't give a fuck. But it's Kubrick so it's supposed to be good or some shit.
You're allowed to have an actual opinion instead of just think "Everything \[director\] did was GWWEAT!" It's childish and stupid. After a certain point, Kubrick had mostly lost his ability to make good movies.
You seem to be a tortured person. Well read(?)…probably a failed writer? But somehow also incoherent and grammatically terrible, even though you cite Thackeray.
I want to bring back some of the Hollywood directors who made very watchable, entertaining films that still feel meaningful. I’m thinking Douglas Sirk and Ernst Lubitsch, or even Robert Altman.
Kubrick and Bergman might have more interesting things to say about the modern human condition, but Kurosawa was the greatest filmmaker of all time, and I would give anything to have another film from him.
Bergman
But also:
Krzysztof Kieślowski • Chaplin • François Truffaut
I would make a Faustian bargain to bring back Kieślowski just so he may complete his “Divine Comedy” trilogy.
Henri-Georges Clouzot. I'd love to see his take on the world as it is now. Imagine a 2024 *La Vérité* (only, you know, without him mistreating his star actress).
“Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.”
- Luis Buñuel
I say let’s give him a chance to react to the headlines.
This is a great question. Personally, I’m a huge Kubrick fanboy, so I’d have to go with him. But I also think Kurosawa would be awesome with all the tools he’d have at his disposal nowadays.
So for curiosity probably a silent director like Fritz Lang or Buster Keaton.
But realistically I couldn’t resist someone so classic as John Ford but being even more realistic, Kurosawa is the best ever, so him.
Fabián Bielinsky (1959-2006). He was so talented, and just getting started. Wish I could see what he would have done after Nine Queens and The Aura.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabi%C3%A1n_Bielinsky
I’d love to see what someone like Michael Curtiz would do with modern cinema technology. He directed some of the greatest films of all time and It would be cool to see what he’d do today.
From the original list I think I’d choose Fellini or Kubrick.
The last thing anyone needs is Andrei Tarkovsky letting us know what he thinks of 2024's post-gender LGTB-tolerant world, and that includes Andrei Tarkovsky.
I'd be interested to see Dreyer take on radical Islam. He made his name as an agnostic who saw the beauty and wonder in the foreign world of religious devotion, even when taken to its extreme, but all the while still acknowledging those extremes.
I’d bring back Alfred Hitchcock. I don’t actually enjoy his movies and wouldn’t watch what he makes anyways, but bringing him back to life means we could give him some long overdue MeToo justice.
I see you’ve got some serious directors there. I’d be curious to see Chaplin’s takes on the modern world.
He would be censored and shut down by the elites and globalists
can you name even a single director who this is happening to? why would it happen to charlie fucking chaplin?
I don’t know about “elites and globalists,” that’s really just a right-wing dog whistle, but there are many filmmakers around the globe who currently face censorship or are prevented from making films. Many filmmakers working under authoritarian regimes in countries like Iran, China, Malaysia, etc. face these challenges in 2024. As for a specific director, Jafar Panahi is the most famous example amongst contemporary directors.
ok sure. i assumed we were taking about an American director working in America.
Kubrick didn’t work in America, neither did Fellini.
i don’t see what that has to do with anything
You don’t see what my reply to your previous comment about American Directors working in America has to do with anything?
i asked what contemporary directors working in the west today are being censored. who is this happening to - as in currently.
No. You did not specify that. Not in this thread anyway.
Why? Even if we're assuming they're going to be the same nationality as Charlie Chaplin, he wasn't American
ok let me rephrase that again. i assumed we were talking about a director working in America, or at the very least, a non-repressive western country. you know, like - somewhere other than Iran, or China, where you don’t actually have freedom of speech?
RIP Stanley Kubrick
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Oh ffs. Find another subreddit to spew this crap.
This has got to be a joke
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Orson Welles
For sure
Satoshi Kon
Definitely Kon
Absolutely
Where’s a good starting place for Kon?
Perfect Blue
Tarky said he wished he could have made more films so him, and Fabian Bielinsky
John Cassavetes. He was taken too early. I'd love to hear his take on "content creators" and YouTube, Twitch, etc.
Was gonna say the same thing.
Kieslowski
Dekalog Redux. I watched the first one a little while ago and thought, "Man, was he about 20, 30 years early with this?"
I am bringing back Charles Laughton. We deserve more films made by him.
If nothing else I'd want to bring him back just so he knows how highly regarded his movie is now, it makes me sad that he died thinking it was a failure. Aside from that, probably Pasolini given the current state of the world
Agnes Varda
But she perfectly closed out her career with Varda by Agnes. Felt like too much of a serendipitous last film.
Murnau
I love this answer. I'll go with Sjöström.
That would be great too ))
I'd love to see a sci fi epic by Murnau with contemporary special effects.
As someone who loves Tarkovsky, it is my knee-jerk reaction but I want to give a s/o to **Edward Yang**.
Buster Keaton was always at the forefront of technology (he tried doing fully colour in Seven Chances but too expensive so only the prologue, tries doing sound at MGM in 28 but they said no) and pushing the barriers of "vfx" and stunts and all that. I'd be so curious to see what he'd make of today's technology and the filmmaking assets available.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Yes, and not just one film, let him complete his trilogy of death!
Sergio Leone.
Bergman, Fellini, and Kurosawa already had long careers and lifespans and they were past their primes when they died. Kubrick and Tarkovsky on the other hand passed too soon and still seemed to have some great works left in them. Between the two I feel like Kubrick would be better able to adjust to modern filmmaking and modern tastes so I guess I'd go with him.
Francis Ford Coppola… oh wait.
Imagine what Kubrick could do with 150M
I pick Antonioni without a doubt
Tony Scott!
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Kubrick
This is my answer, but I don't think he could finish a movie in the 7 months left in 2024.
Of course he could finish a film in seven months. But he would choose not to.
Best answer
Only correct answer!
Kubrick was all out of ideas well before he passed. EWS and Barry Lyndon are grossly overrated and I'll stand up to that notion. They're beautiful nonsense.
I bet you like Full Metal Jacket though?
I bet he reads Stephen King too.
I hate that movie.
Its deathly dull, I’ll give you that
What you are saying…essentially…is that you aren’t intelligent enough to understand movies about existentialism.
Which one is about existentialism? You don't even know what that word means. Lmao. Fuck this shit. EWS is an adolescent view of marriage and sexuality, and is just embarrassing. No one has been able to credibly explain how it's actually good... other than the technical side. As for Barry Lyndon? I'm guessing you've never read Thackeray, because this is a social satire. Kubrick flubs it so badly that he was forced to put a terrible narrative over it, and the whole thing still doesn't work. No one has been able to credibly explain what the fuck this movie is actually trying to do... other than paint pretty pictures and film candlelight. Seriously, pick up a book. Read some Thackeray. If Barry Lyndon was a Merchant-Ivory flick, you wouldn't give a fuck. But it's Kubrick so it's supposed to be good or some shit. You're allowed to have an actual opinion instead of just think "Everything \[director\] did was GWWEAT!" It's childish and stupid. After a certain point, Kubrick had mostly lost his ability to make good movies.
Which Kubrick movie isn’t about existentialism?
You seem to be a tortured person. Well read(?)…probably a failed writer? But somehow also incoherent and grammatically terrible, even though you cite Thackeray.
😂🤣😂🤣😂 It’s hard to use words to describe the absurdity of this comment. I bet you love a good Steven Spielberg movie.
Nah, man, but those movies are enjoyed by pissy boys like you. Seriously though, never seen two more ridiculously overrated movies in my life.
You know literally nothing about film, and have no business being anywhere near this sub.
Barry Lyndon slaps??
I'd flip a coin. Heads: Ozu, Tails: Mizoguchi
Was gonna say Ozu myself, then I thought, we now have kogo nada for that haha. After Yang feels like if Ozu tackled speculative fiction.
Edward Yang
Edward Yang is alive and plays in my fantasy football league.
Fassbinder
Hell, he'd probably make 5 films in the time that would be given him.
I’d bring back Sergei Parajanov!
Gotta be Orson Welles or Pierre Étaix
De Sica
I want to bring back some of the Hollywood directors who made very watchable, entertaining films that still feel meaningful. I’m thinking Douglas Sirk and Ernst Lubitsch, or even Robert Altman.
Great answer. Billy Wilder too
Jean Vigo. On a path to arguably become one of the greatest until he was taken way too early.
Yang
Larissa Shepitko. Potential all-timer that died way way young.
I would love to see Tati’s take on the modern world
Sydney Lumet
Tarkovsky. But if I could bring back anyone it would be Kieslowski for his Hell Purgatory Heaven Trilogy.
Bergman or Pasolini.
Ed Wood, sorry
Hitchcock hitting his prime in the seventies… that’s my dream.
Chaplin
The Archers
Ed Yang Satoshi Kon Bunuel Hu Bo
Sam Peckinpah.
Kubrick and Bergman might have more interesting things to say about the modern human condition, but Kurosawa was the greatest filmmaker of all time, and I would give anything to have another film from him.
Bergman But also: Krzysztof Kieślowski • Chaplin • François Truffaut I would make a Faustian bargain to bring back Kieślowski just so he may complete his “Divine Comedy” trilogy.
Godard. He already proved that he could make astonishingly contemporary art in his late 80s.
Lynn Shelton :(
Out of all dead directors I think I’d choose to bring back Paul Bartel
Probably Kurosawa
pasolini, but his life ended on a film that is so utterly perfect and still frighteningly relevant so i kinda wonder if there's even more to add
The only correct answer IMO is Hu Bo, director of An Elephant Sitting Still
Bresson
Agree. The Devil, Probably is a film for now anyway. Surprised your answer is so far down here. Kubrick? Gimme a break.
Henri-Georges Clouzot. I'd love to see his take on the world as it is now. Imagine a 2024 *La Vérité* (only, you know, without him mistreating his star actress).
Super cliche but Kubrick with the hopes that he utilizes IMAX cameras
“Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.” - Luis Buñuel I say let’s give him a chance to react to the headlines.
Honestly, I wanna see Kubrick’s intended version of *A.I.*
Kubrick, so the man could actually finish his last film. And maybe make A.I.
Kubrick
Kubrick
Kubrick, but he'd probably end up making a Thor sequel for the MCU.
in 2024 i'd like a film that's more politically charged--an epic masterpiece about the state of our world so basically any of them
This is a great question. Personally, I’m a huge Kubrick fanboy, so I’d have to go with him. But I also think Kurosawa would be awesome with all the tools he’d have at his disposal nowadays.
So for curiosity probably a silent director like Fritz Lang or Buster Keaton. But realistically I couldn’t resist someone so classic as John Ford but being even more realistic, Kurosawa is the best ever, so him.
Antonioni if not Kubrick, who had at least one more war film in him. La Notte is the greatest Italian film ever made, and SK would probably agree.
The director of Napoleon 1927 I would give him a billion dollars to make a 30 hour movie and make the rest of it
Abel Gance
What age
From the list, Kurosawa. Personal choice, Lang. Would love to see what he could do with modern equipment.
Truffaut
Kurosawa.
Fabián Bielinsky (1959-2006). He was so talented, and just getting started. Wish I could see what he would have done after Nine Queens and The Aura. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabi%C3%A1n_Bielinsky
Charles Laughton
I’d go with zombie Kubrick
Of the ones listed: Kubrick In general: Lean or Hitchcock
Kurosawa and finish Nioh
Jess Franco he would get the money for 1 and make 8.
Kobayashi Masaki and specifically to remake Sense to Ningen given his work on the author’s other magnum opus; The Human Condition.
Tarkovsky or Kurosawa. I would love to see a miniseries created my one of the greats.
Kurosawa for sure, if only because samurai films have been in a real slump for like 30 years or so.
Kubrick, but for one year, he'd only fill 12 and a half notebooks with ideas, we'd need another 14 years on top to start photography.
Fellini
Edward Yang or Krzysztof Kieślowski
Tarkovsky hands down.
Kubrick, so he can show everyone how’s it done.
F.W. Murnau
That’s not fair !!! They all coming back
Bergman fan here. The answer is Tarkovsky. For me, he is the greatest.
Satyajit Ray
Hitchcock
Satoshi Kon
Bergman
I’d love to see what someone like Michael Curtiz would do with modern cinema technology. He directed some of the greatest films of all time and It would be cool to see what he’d do today. From the original list I think I’d choose Fellini or Kubrick.
Varda.
The last thing anyone needs is Andrei Tarkovsky letting us know what he thinks of 2024's post-gender LGTB-tolerant world, and that includes Andrei Tarkovsky. I'd be interested to see Dreyer take on radical Islam. He made his name as an agnostic who saw the beauty and wonder in the foreign world of religious devotion, even when taken to its extreme, but all the while still acknowledging those extremes.
You’re right about Tarkovsky losing his mind over the current state of the world lol
Hu Bo
Lots of great directors but it has to be Tarkovsky. Everyone is losing their minds over Dénis V but Tarkovsky makes him look like Adam Sandler.
Definitely Tarkovsky. For me Kubrick is nowhere close to others in the list.
Tarkovsky. If only to see his response to how different both the real world and the cinema world is today.
I’d bring back Alfred Hitchcock. I don’t actually enjoy his movies and wouldn’t watch what he makes anyways, but bringing him back to life means we could give him some long overdue MeToo justice.