Because YOU demanded it!
Fiona complains: “That’s RUBBISH! They look like FLOWERS!”
By request of Andreas. I think he looks quite splendid and dignified.
By request of Paul Duane. Surprisingly little rhymes with “Jordan”, but fortunately I remembered Rudolph’s less-celebrated cousin.
Anne Billson wanted a Von Trier.
By request of David E and Anne Billson. Anybody with more than three syllables per name is going to get shortened. But “Joe” seemed too easy.
December 22, 2010 at 7:56 pm
What fun! Bet you can’t do David Mamet …
December 22, 2010 at 8:28 pm
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December 22, 2010 at 9:20 pm
The Neil Jordan one is going straight to my entire email address book now.
December 22, 2010 at 10:06 pm
David Mamet, David Mamet… David Mamet ought to clam it?
December 23, 2010 at 1:50 am
When he was awarded his special oscar Satyajit Ray was on his deathbed. All he could talk about after getting the award was his favorite actress. . .
Deanna Durbin.
December 23, 2010 at 2:00 am
God, all those pitiful withered arms. It’s…. a good look.
December 23, 2010 at 3:00 am
Did Satyajit ever get to meet Deanna? That would have been lovely. The academy allowed Tati to meet his heroes, Stan Laurel etc.
December 23, 2010 at 4:52 am
Ray did visit Hollywood in the 50s where he met Billy Wilder and Stanley Kubrick, but sadly not Deanna. He was a huge cinephile and like the New Wave he made movies by seeing, re-seeing films. He loved musicals like any intelligent person. He would hang around with American GIs stationed at Calcutta trying to see as many films as he could through them, which were fairly different from the movies playing commercially in Indian theatres. He also liked gangster films which he homages in one of his children’s films.
December 23, 2010 at 7:37 am
I thought of trying one with von Sternberg, but it defeated me. I was even going to go so far as to have him called Joe Sternberg and have Robert Mitchum as a faithful elf. Ah, well.
December 23, 2010 at 2:31 pm
The Master of Suspense / Is friends with King Wence.
December 23, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Hands off Herzog! / That’s not your Yule Log!
December 23, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Jean Cocteau
stands beneath mistletoe
Kenneth Anger
is a mistletoe dangler
While F.W. Murnau
helps hold the bough
And Jim Jarmusch
hides in a Christmas bush
Samuel Fuller
is a sleigh puller
Along with his cronies
like Sergio Leone
“On Maddin, on Tashlin, on Nicholas Ray!
On Wong Kar-Wai, Todd Haynes and Joe Dante
On Abbas Kiarostami and on Edgar Wright
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night”
Nothing can possibly top “Gaspar Noe likes it when it’s snowy” – that photo is perfect.
Panahi, Jafar
Spends Christmas behind bars
:(
December 23, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Oh I wrote two before I used these guys as sleigh-pullers instead:
Joe Dante
enjoys a holiday entree
Todd Haynes
plays reindeer games
December 23, 2010 at 6:32 pm
To the tune of “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas”
I’m dreaming of a Mike Curtiz
A Yasushiro Ozu too.
Where there’s Jackie Gleason,
And Liam Neeson,
Julian Schnabel, Michael Snow.
I dream of Carol White, Chris Morris,
With Evelyn Keyes and Edgar Wright,
Michael Bay is nowhere in sight,
Andy Warhol/Crispin Glover: nice.
December 23, 2010 at 8:08 pm
At the risk of being a spoilsport, I think the correct rhyme is…
Satyajit Ray
Wants another mince pie
At least, I think that’s how you pronounce his name.
Or what about…
Robert Wise
Just ate all the mince pies
But Richard Fleischer
Says the eggnog tastes neischer
December 23, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Pinter Wonderland
Schnabel, Ritt, Ashby, Leisen,
Dan Salitt, Snow and Wise and
Araki, Forsyth
Weerasethakul, Wright,
Walken in a Pinter wonderland.
Gondry, May, Istvan Szabo,
Herzog, Quay, The Great Gabbo,
John Singleton, Bong
Jean Vigo and Wong,
Walking in a winter wonderland.
With Shane Meadows we can build a snowman,
Then pretend that he is Clarence Brown
He’ll say: You Jean Marais?
We’ll say: Roman,
Is working on a script
With Robert Towne.
Lattuada, Ichikawa,
CT Dreyer,Kurosawa,
Duras, Ulmer, Frears,
Chaplin and Von Trier,
Walken in a Pinter wonderland.