Directors Before Their Time

[Senator Jack]

If certain directors, writers, artists weren't of their time, then there would have been another visionary who came up with the ideas that made them ahead of their time and then that person would be ahead of his/her time. Example, James Joyce comes up with stream of consciousness writing. If he didn't do it, someone else would have - perhaps Kerouac or Burroughs - who knows? It doesn't matter if the public didn't appreciate or 'get' Joyce when he was around, all that matters is that he changed the course of literature. He was a genius of his time and that's what made him great. If he were around now, he'd just be another guy 'typing' as Capote put it, and the hypothetical innovator would have been someone else 'ahead of his time'

Regards

SJ

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Coleman Francis.


Perhaps his most famous work: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0054673/usercomments


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[Feraud]

Robert Wise directed a great boxing film called The Set-Up in 1949.
The film is 72 minutes long and takes place in real time. "24" is 52 years late with their gimmick.

 

[HadleyH]

F.W Murnau- (1888-1931)

Among the emigres who went to Hollywood in the 1920s and early 1930s was the extraordinary german director F.W.Murnau an ex-historian, he was certainly ahead of his time.. He created an alternative to the heavy Expressionism of those early years. He directed "Nosferatu The Vampire" (1922), "The Last Laugh" (1925), "Faust"(1926) and later in Hollywood "Sunrise" (1927) among others other films.
Sadly his life was cut short when he died on a fatal car crash near Santa Barbara travelling with his chaffeur. Rumours have it that funny goings-on were taken place inside, when the car leaped off the road [huh]
Whatever - the man was a genius!

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

I'd say D.W. Griffith. He defined the motion picture!

and Sidney Lumet. At least for a few films.

 

[Quigley Brown]

Does Ken Burns count? He set the standard for documentaries since his Civil War series.