Ever notice that as film directors get older they all tend to look similar?

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What's up with that?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:14 (twenty years ago) link

Cases in point...

Robert Altman

http://www.poster.net/altman-robert/altman-robert-photo-robert-altman-6203721.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago) link

George Romero

http://www.creationent.com/past_events/fangoria2002/fango1.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link

Spielberg

http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/movie/catch_me_if/37.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:17 (twenty years ago) link

lucio fulci:

http://www.tumbaabierta.com/cripta/img/fulci_1.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago) link

Is Cesar Romero still alive?

― Huck, Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago) link

Cameron

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/cannes/cannes_2003_photos/james_cameron/cannes3.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago) link

kubrick:

http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/rihss/kubrick.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago) link

Is Cesar Romero still alive?

No.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago) link

not Hal Hartley! My Hal will never grow fat and beardy, nyahh

http://www.sospeso.com/images/hartley.gif

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:42 (twenty years ago) link

Sergio Leone

http://www.holdenlab.it/capitani/im/leone.gif

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/ce/0210/jdemme_150x.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:48 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.cyranos.ch/doppashb.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.disinfotainmenttoday.com/emulsionalproblems/ashby3.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:50 (twenty years ago) link

Ashby is so cool he needs to be here twice.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago) link

http://ffmedia.ign.com/filmforce/image/wellesheadshot3.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:52 (twenty years ago) link

How do you explain

http://www.hastypudding.org/scorsese.jpg

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:55 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.lumiere.org/realisateurs/images/carpenter-john.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

Scorcese keeps his beard in a vat next to the bed for Victorian era projects.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.nocturne.org/~leia/sw8.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link

Jackson is well on his way, o' course:

http://ffmedia.ign.com/filmforce/image/twotowers-jackson.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9808/06/snake.eyes/link.brian.depalma.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link

OK, he's not grey yet but you just KNOW this guy will have "the look"

http://ffmedia.ign.com/filmforce/image/twotowers-jackson.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

DOH! x-post!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

Haha!

Though I suppose Burton isn't here yet:

http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/ce/0210/tburton_150x.jpg

Anyway, I sorta have to note that I suspect folks like Jane Campion and Kathryn Bigelow aren't going to look like this when they get older, for instance.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/ff-coppola.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

linklater:

http://www.movieforum.com/features/festivals/tiff01/images/wakinglife/richardlinklater.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

Fortunately this guy isn't there yet either

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/cannes/cannes_film_festival_2002_photos/david_lynch/cannes2.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:03 (twenty years ago) link

and of course

http://www.newsaskew.com/dogmadoc/kevin_smith.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago) link

David, Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch gotta form the Wacked-Out Hair Club For Men business.

You know, I gotta give Coppola some credit for going all the way with the damn beret.

"I AM the artist winemaker raconteur of the ages! I WON OSCARS FOR TWO CLASSIC AMERICAN FILMS DAMMIT. So I can look like Paul Gauguin if I want to."

"But what about Jack?"

"SHADDAP!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:05 (twenty years ago) link

Jodorowsky's got the look in a way:

http://www.socal.com/artman/uploads/alexandro-jodorowsky.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago) link

ARGH I just saw the photo before Alejandro. Can I cry now?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:06 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.beingcharliekaufman.com/images/jonzecoppolapremiere.jpg

Spike is well on the way

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago) link

WAAAAAH. He could start in Andrei Rublev.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

Star, rather. But anyway.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

Vincent Gallo, meanwhile...oh, is he ever on his way.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1053585644363_2003/05/22/c_gallo_sevigny2305,0.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:10 (twenty years ago) link

http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/ce/may/robertrodriguez_150x207.jpg - I don't see it happening here

xpost - Gallo looks like he's bragging about the Brown Bunny blowjob again

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:12 (twenty years ago) link

http://dess-gla.infop6.jussieu.fr/~grenon/Lagalerie/AutreRealisateur/Galerie/peckinpah.jpeg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.fabbri.it/John-Milius-Web.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:40 (twenty years ago) link

scary

Phil Kaufmann is close but less cigar

http://img.stopklatka.pl/filmowcy/02600/02605/0.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 1 May 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago) link

Did someone already mention John Huston?

http://www.galway.net/galwayguide/news/2003/01/nuig20030127/john-huston.jpg

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Saturday, 1 May 2004 03:44 (twenty years ago) link

looks like Alec Guinness there...

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Saturday, 1 May 2004 04:22 (twenty years ago) link

OMG! Old white men with wrinkles and beards!

Nevermind that a good number of these photos are selected from people who frequently go between beardness and not.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 1 May 2004 09:13 (twenty years ago) link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39634000/jpg/_39634793_chin203.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

Ridley Scott :
http://www.usatoday.com/life/gallery/oscar2001/nominees/ridley-scott.jpg

Martin Scorsese, when he was younger :
http://www.nextpix.com/v1_1/salon/images/maestros/scorsese.jpg

― Frühlingsj4n (Wintermute), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago) link

http://english.pravda.ru/img/2003/06/oliver-stone-castro.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

this is amazing

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

also:

http://www.autographedtoyou.com/xq/asp/parentid.23/id.35/Butch+Patrick/qx/celebpics/butch.jpg
and http://www.hastypudding.org/scorsese.jpg

― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, undoubtedly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

Billy Wilder: never grew a beard

http://www.screenwritersutopia.com/images/new/billy_wilder.jpg

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

I am surprised this thread has gone on so long without the archetype getting a mention:

http://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/actor/attenborough/attenborough_1.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think Wes Anderson COULD grow a beard

http://www.screenwritersutopia.com/images/new/anderson_wilson_.jpg

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

Lars is on his way:

http://www.filmkultura.iif.hu:8080/2000/articles/essays/images/dogma/dogma06.jpg

And when he gets old and fat, he'll just blame America for that too and make a smug film about it.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago) link

Nanni Moretti:

http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/calendars/01sepoct/images/directors/nanni_moretti.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 2 May 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago) link

Terrence Malick:

http://membres.lycos.fr/hobin/Images/Malick.jpg

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago) link

Larry Clark has a beard and often the baseball cap, but I'm not sure if he really has this look. But what the hell, I'll just say he does anyway.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Sunday, 2 May 2004 02:29 (twenty years ago) link

m.e.a. o.t.m.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 2 May 2004 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/vsda2000/panelgfx/landis.jpg

― Frühlingsj4n (Wintermute), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

quintin tarantino. what a clever man

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

"And when he gets old and fat, he'll just blame America for that too and make a smug film about it."

i think there is already a serious vein of self-hatred in his work

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

not him

http://www.odarainternet.com.br/supers/cinema/imagens/john-waters.JPG

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

Like he could grow a beard....

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

Paul Thomas Anderson is SO gonna wind up like this

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

sorry. he IS like this.

http://images.toronto.com/feature/12522/paul-thomas-anderson_400.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

And I'm trying really, really hard not to put up a picture of Bruce Vilanch

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

five months pass...

walter hill:

http://www.filmmonthly.com/Profiles/Articles/WHill/hill.gif

― Cynthia Nixon Now More Than Ever (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago) link

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