Message from sfederico1

[Anonymous]

I am in full agreement that the Seven Samurai is one of the greatest films produced by the human mind. I also agree that Kurosawa is one of the best film directors. I do not agree with the statement that, and think it too closed minded, Kurosawa is the by fsr the greatest film director of the 20th century... further, much the less would I place Star Wars in the same category as Kurosawa's films. We have had, in the 1940's, '60's, 70's excellent film directors of the highest caliber representing pressing and universal human issus on an individual and on a social context perspective. The problem with mentioning names is that it automatically becomes and "excluding" list.. therefore, in order to avoid this exclusion deficiency of my statement, I will end the statement with .... These directors are Burnel, Almador, Bergman (whom you mentioned), Pasolini, Fellini, DeSica, Polanski, Méliès, Melville, Jean Renoir,François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Alfonso Cuaron, )Guillermo del Toro, Antonio Banderas, Pedro Almodovar, Luis Bunuel, Robert Rodriguez, Carlos Saura .....
All of these and plenty more directors are true artists performing a universal service to humanity by representing art in such a way that it exilerates emotions and passions of a sensitivity not easily aroused. Alas, however, the Hollywood cinematographic conglomerate builds gargantual walls around the US markets preventing any incursion into its super-controlled movie-theatre markets... all to the continuing poverty and regressive, conservative forces of our population.