The Humorous Guys: Woody Allen, Rob Reiner, Albert Brooks, Barry Sonnenfeld, Harold Ramis, Frank Oz.
Artists: Jane Campion, Ang Lee, Giuseppe Tornatore, John Gross sales, Mike Lee, Wim Wenders, Luc and Jean-Pierre Darden, Pedro Almodovar, Hirokazu Kore-eda, David Mamet, Anthony Minghella, Mike Figgis.
The Freaks: David Cronenberg, Hayao Miyazaki, David Lynch, Sam Raimi.
The Cool Children: Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Paul Thomas Anderson, David O. Russell, David Fincher, Michael Mann, Nancy Savoca, Lana and Lily Washowski.
The New Children: Shyamalan, Christopher Nolan, Man Ritchie, Spike Jonze, Alexander Payne, Julie Taymor, Sam Mendes, Tom Tykwer, Trey Parker.
Inside two November weekends of one another: Wayne Wang, Kevin Smith, Atom Egoyan, Luc Besson, Barry Levinson and Tim Burton.
Few of their movies are what one would classify as pinnacle. Many of those names took detours, broke character, tried one thing. Spike Lee made a thriller with a serial killer (“Summer season of Sam”); Mike Lee, comedy for Gilbert & Sullivan (“Upside Down”); Ang Lee, Civil Battle Western (“Journey With the Satan”). Wes Craven tried Kleenexploitation and made a film about Meryl Streep. In the event that they did not make their “finest” film, lots of them most likely made your favourite of theirs.
