Direct Hit

Here's a pretty amusing piece--"The 30 Harshest Filmmaker-on-Filmmaker Insults In History." My only complaint is four of the thirty are from Vincent Gallo.  Who cares what he thinks?  But the rest are fun.  It's nice to see big names like Antonioni and Godard taken down a notch.  Though where's the anti-Bergman stuff--he gets off three insults and no one has anything nasty to say about him?

Some of my favorites. (It's so easy to write a post by quoting others):

Jacques Rivette on James Cameron:
Cameron isn’t evil, he’s not an asshole like Spielberg. He wants to be the new De Mille. Unfortunately, he can’t direct his way out of a paper bag.

Werner Herzog on Jean-Luc Godard:
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung-fu film.

David Gordon Green on Kevin Smith (though making fun of Kevin Smith as a director is too easy):
He kind of created a Special Olympics for film. They just kind of lowered the standard.

David Cronenberg on M. Night Shymalan:
I HATE that guy! Next question.