Let's list some Old Film Directors who are still alive1

Three of the seven I listed in the first post all died this year :-(

...and Manoel de Oliveira is still alive! He'll be 102 in about a month.

Yeah I saw his latest film about a month ago. It seemed very much like a movie a 102-yr-old would make.

rumor has it MdO is even older than his official age...

Kev, have you ever seen Donen's Staircase? Have always heard it is horrendous (Vito Russo), but it's in this retro.

I have and even though Vito is a hero of mine, he got a lot of films wrong, chief amongst them The Gay Deceivers. Staircase was much more progressive than I anticipated. Give it a try.

well, it showed last night, so too late

Theodoros Angelopoulos

never seen a film by this guy -- can anyone recommend his latest The Dust of time? Love the title.

Not sure if you're meant to see The Weeping Meadow first. Dust Of Time is the second part of a trilogy but might stand alone - i haven't seen it yet. The first film is good, though. Quite a lot of heavy melodrama but some imagery that will stay with you forever.

wrt the thread theme, Jancso turned 90 quite recently and is still working.

ha i was just thinking about jancso via malick

thx -- yeah don't know if you need to know any bits about the 1st part of the trilogy. I'd guess not, from reading about him it doesn't look like he does plot.

What has jancso done lately?

He had a historical film called So Much For Justice on the festival circuit last year but i don't think it was well received.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/11/16/quentin_tarantino_final_four_films_are_typically_directors_worst_really.html

Good subject for debate. I bet Tarantino himself is headed for the list.

It'd be almost a Kael (yes) vs. Sarris (emphatically no) debate verbatim.

One of the most obvious counters would be John Huston, who finished with Under the Volcano, Prizzi's Honor, and The Dead.

James Ivory

bet Tarantino himself is headed for the list.

broke the streak!

John Waters, or is he too young for this category?

he's 73! not in this company is he old.

CLINT is still working at 89 (six months older than Godard).

“Directors don’t get better as they get older,” said Tarantino to Scorsese.

Alexander Kluge
Edgar Reitz
Jean-Marie Straub

... all born within a year of one another.

Michel DeVille (Nouvelle Vague-era but non-Nouvelle Vague dude)

Claude Lelouch

Paul Verhoeven is 81.

Woody Allen will be 84 in December, and they'll keep releasing his films overseas.

Roman Polanski's still going too. 86.

Marco Bellocchio, 80 next month

John Boorman is 86

Carlos Saura is 87

Richard Lester is 87, though hasn't made a film since his 50s

^ neither has Waters

Forgot that A Dirty Shame was that long ago.

Corman 93, hasn’t directed since 1990 but been active as a producer (although practically retired by his standards)

Jodorowsky is 90 btw

(Also I noticed he has a son called Brontis, which reminded me that a friend of mine - surname, Harris - always used to say he would name his first born son, Brontis or Tyrannis.)

sic semper brontis

Lina Wertmüller (first feature in 1963, was also an A.D. for Fellini on 8 1/2)

what does she think about the mcu?

Not sexist enough, probably.

haha, i read Lina Wertmuller as "Leni Riefenstahl"

HER take on Marvel i can imagine

Alain Tanner, 89.

Michael Snow will be 91 next month. He introduced Wavelength at MoMA yesterday.

wau

ive seen it several times so didnt go

Happy 90th Birthday to Carlos Saura!

Here's an IMDB list that seems to be up-to-date (except for Lina Wertmüller):

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000963382/

Oldest living director not mentioned in this thread: Bert I. Gordon, 99
Oldest living director already mentioned in this thread: Peter Brook, 96
Mentioned by me in another thread: Ruy Guerra, 90
Probably should not have been mentioned: Theo Angelopoulos, 72 at the time (and died at 76)

Happy 90th Birthday to Richard Lester!

(Also raise a glass to John Boorman, who turned 89 yesterday!)

Thanks! Don't forget about The Running Jumping Richard Lester Thread
(Note: that thread has a Jesse Garon Presley twin for some reason)

I want to think Lester and Boorman partied together, but Boorman lives in Ireland and Lester in England presumably

Costa-Gavras, 88

Inspired by a reference to a 2019 film of his.

Alejandro Jodorowsky is 93 today. ¡Feliz cumpleaños, señor!

Kenneth Anger recently turned 95. Is anyone else living who made films in the 40s?

Sidney Lumet died 2011
Roger Corman died 2024
Claude Chabrol died 2010
Jean-Luc Godard died 2022
Eric Rohmer died 2010
Arthur Penn died 2010
Nagisa Oshima died 2013

With Roger Corman dead C. Grisso/McCain's original list is all done.

Worst bingo game ever.

Is anyone else living who made films in the 40s?

Michael Roemer is 98 and directed a film (albeit a student film) in 1949.

"Roemer’s film, A Touch of the Times (1949), is considered the first student film ever made in America. It was featured in TIME Magazine, who described it as 'a string of imaginative, rather cockeyed episodes about four individualists whose innocent pastimes, like flying kites, somehow set off vast conflicts between businessmen and workers.'"

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/the-nonconformist-a-conversation-with-michael-roemer

dammit, i was just going to post him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Roemer

already in his mid-thirties when Nothing But a Man was released. just watched The Plot Against Harry on Criterion (wonderful)