<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 29, 2013, at 11:25 PM, David H. Adler <<a href="mailto:dha@panix.com">dha@panix.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 02:52:26PM -0700, John Haugeland wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Also, his bad movies are actually really good. They're like movies that<br>someone was dared to make. Give them a chance. It's not like we're<br>talking about Hammer Films here. :) If you think Plan 9 from Outer Space<br>is the worst movie of all time, I recommend a good solid showing of Legend<br>of the Seven Golden Vampires, or other unrelated classics like Attack of<br>the Killer Tomatoes Part 3 and Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD.<br></blockquote><br>I had an argument once with a friend who taught film about Ed Wood being<br>an auteur. I claimed he was, as his films had a clear stylistic and<br>thematic consistency. He claimed he wasn't because his films were awful.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>David,</div><div>We can have another argument in the same fashion if you want to.</div><div><br></div><div>I worked as professional film critic for more than 10 years and I am still going </div><div>to the major festivals. </div><div>Both of you are right.</div><div>Clear and consistent style and themes are okay, but this doesn't make you</div><div>a good filmmaker per se. </div><div>To be a good filmmaker you need to make good films also :)</div><div>Or least certain parts of a film must be good enough. </div><div>Story, working with the actors, technical, marketing, ...</div></div><br><div>The current cult worst director is btw. Tommy Viseau with "The Room". </div><div>This is so bad that it is legendary already. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film)</a></div><div>I believe he is german. With Uwe Boll this makes two.</div><div><br></div><div>Reini</div></body></html>