If you could be the apprentice of any filmmaker in their prime, who would you choose?

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I was stuck between Roger Corman, Larry Cohen, or Cassavettes. Then I realized working with Godard in the 60's would be absolutely thrilling. If only time travel existed...

― Anthony (Anthony F), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

HERZOG

call it a death wish.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Kieslowski, Fassbinder, Sayles, or Nick Ray.

And I'll probably have completely different answers tomorrow. Brakhage. Shit, that was quick.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't imagine brakhage letting anyone work with him, but it would be wonderful to watch him with his camera all scrunched up to his eye, bobbing and swooping around.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Buster Keaton - for all-around fun hangout factor

Nicholas Ray would have been cool and Jacques Rivette.

Sam Peckinpah if I was feeling especially masochistic.

If I had to choose one today it would probably be Bob Altman.
He's just got too much to share and there's probably not too
much time left.

― The Narwhal (the narwhal), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Russ Meyer

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

jean luc GODard

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Sergio Leone, easily

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

already mentioned Cassavettes and Herzog

also Murnau, Lang, Wilder, Argento, Roeg

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Murnau for me, in the 20s and especially around something like "Sunrise". But even someone like Rouben Mamoulian, too... primarily because I am ever astonished when thinking of his "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" from 1932; one of the few most visually playful and astute of all films I've seen.

― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

already mentioned: Godard, Altman, Wilder, Ray, and Meyer.

Would add:Scorsese, Wiseman, Pennebaker, and Ashby.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

What about the Maysles Brothers?

Having an apprentice around might have destroyed
their aesthetic, though...

― The Narwhal (the narwhal), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Definitely Godard.

Brakhage would be interesting, but as spectator bird mentioned, it would be highly unlikely that he would have ever took on an apprentice. He was also prone to fits of rage & depression when he worked, so that wouldn't be much fun.

Jem Cohen or Kenneth Anger would be interesting as well.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Sunday, 30 May 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I would add Anthony Mann and Kurosawa to this

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 30 May 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Godard, Fosse, Anger, Friedkin, Warhol, Kairostami

― theodore fogelsanger, Sunday, 30 May 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Andy Sidaris

― PVC (peeveecee), Sunday, 30 May 2004 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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