Universally acknowledged as the greatest film ever made although I haven't seen it from start to end in a single sitting due to nodding off in front of it. It's a riveting piece of cinematic art when I'm not falling asleep.
F'n amazing film, as is Casablanca, The Third Man, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, White Heat, High Noon, a few Hitchcock flicks, and a shitload of other old school b&w classics. Ask Wes.
Modern best, just watch the entire Coen's catalogue. Their worst is 10X better than most directors' best: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn't There, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou? A Serious Man, Burn After Reading, No Country For Old Men, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis, and all their also rans = perfect, or damn close.
No better living filmmakers, without question.
Kubrick, Polanski, Scorsese, Jewison, Lumet, Friedkin, DePalma, Spielberg, Fincher, Tarantino, Nolan, Mann, Demme, Aranofsky, PT Anderson, Bennett Miller, John Hillcoat, Andrew Dominik, Sam Mendes, Eastwood (at times), et al. - these are the more recent masters. Coppola was a limited genius, four or five masterpieces but blew his wad pretty quick. Nothing special since Apocalypse or Dracula, it's been decades. Adding Brad Anderson as a personal fave, more hits than misses.
So stop with these silly second-rate Arnold moneygrabbers. They're dogshit, all things considered. Credit for his Cameron collaborations, though, quality efforts. The rest are retarded popcorn jerkoffs, deal with it.
