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-one years ago)

Robert Bresson:

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

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

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-one years ago)

bruce robinson

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

Manoel de Oliveira:

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

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

Frank Borzage:

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

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

Ida Lupino:

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

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

William Wellman:

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

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

Samira Makhmalbaf:

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

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

http://www.midatlantic.net/8x10/douglas-fairbanks-jr.jpg Fairbanks!

The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Andy Lau :

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

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

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

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

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-one years ago)

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

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

http://www.berlinale.de/assets/en/presse/boulevard/2003_02_10/Thomas_Vinterberg.jpg

HOTTT

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

George Kuchar:

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

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

Very impressive.

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

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-one years ago)

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-one years ago)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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-one years ago)

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

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

(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-one years ago)

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-one years ago)

Nicholas Ray:

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

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

Victor Sjostrom:

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

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

Spiffy bowtie.

(Sjostrom is great, btw)

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

http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/02/12/22/faceinside.jpg

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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-one years ago)

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-one years ago)

Leni Riefenstahl:

http://www.planet.nl/upload_mm/3/3/3/1896371270_1999995774_leniriefenstahl_sosiceburg_337x253_universal.jpg

amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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

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

and inevitably:

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

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

well, she's got something.

and also

http://www.showcase.ca/images/festivals/tiff_press_thurs_12_02.jpg

and of course

http://www.cinema-francais.kiev.ua/festival/img/berlin_2003/spike_jonze.jpg

jed_ (jed), Saturday, 1 May 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

spike jonze is hott!

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

Maya Deren:

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

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

F.W. Murnau:

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

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

Allison Anders
http://www.dga.org/news/v27_5/images/indies_jan03/collaborations_anders_full.jpg

cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Sunday, 2 May 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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-one years ago)

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

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

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

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

http://www.palicfilmfestival.com/2003/slike/reditelji/Caroline-Link.jpg

Frühlingsj4n (Wintermute), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.upress.state.ms.us/img/books/fall2001/jim_jarmusch.jpg

El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.verlag-der-autoren.de/htdocs/feature/pix/cassavetes-j_feature-cover_.jpg

Mary (Mary), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't see it.

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

http://www.dnp.co.jp/museum/nmp/artscape/recom/9910/tokyo/images/pasolini.jpg

Mary (Mary), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

am!st you're joking!

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

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000063KMR.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Mary (Mary), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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

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

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)

"marvelous cologne" sounds like a morrissey song title

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

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)

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)

on that note

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

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

Vera Chytilová
http://visual404.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/chytilova_03.jpg

gate gate paragate parasamgate (Sanpaku), Thursday, 1 October 2015 20:32 (nine years ago)

Barbara Loden
https://40.media.tumblr.com/eb64eee1e090d8a0b1ff8d7513350ee4/tumblr_nrbym5htpE1rce5tlo1_500.jpg

gate gate paragate parasamgate (Sanpaku), Thursday, 1 October 2015 20:35 (nine years ago)

Roger Corman protégé Stephanie Rothman
http://www.mrpevney.com/images/pictures/stephanieRothman_main.jpgon set:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jn3wqBuACjw/TKxFpjmWfDI/AAAAAAAABhA/cKl3AwASY_4/s1600/Stephanie_Rothman.jpg

gate gate paragate parasamgate (Sanpaku), Thursday, 1 October 2015 20:40 (nine years ago)

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

Was gonna say Akerman too. Oh God.

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

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)

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

Derek Jarman

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

otm re fassbinder
(& assayas lol)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Susan Seidelman

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

who is this guy?

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

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

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)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Charlie_Chaplin_portrait.jpg

Brad C., Friday, 2 October 2015 01:33 (nine years ago)

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)

Mack Sennett
https://underthehollywoodsign.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/archival-stills-010.jpg

Charlie Chaplin Challenge (j.lu), Friday, 2 October 2015 02:38 (nine years ago)

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)

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)

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)

nine years pass...

FFS!

Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 22 April 2025 19:44 (three months ago)

Just take it from me, PPP was hothothot

Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 22 April 2025 19:44 (three months ago)

Ulli Lommel

https://www.filmportal.de/sites/default/files/styles/gal_image/public/Lommel%2C%20Ulli%2003.jpg?itok=xq9tG43q

Nuts, whole hazelnuts (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 April 2025 20:02 (three months ago)


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