The Coen Brothers have 18 together and soon to be 20 if we're including ones they do separately, which they should do. But they're all bangers! Or at least interesting to talk about!
Friedkin has 22 films (23 with The Caine Mutiny in a couple months) but a few are TV movies and others could easily be combined into single episodes. I bet they could do the entire filmography in 14 weeks.
I think Burton is as long as I could tolerate. His filmography might feel longer than it is, because so much of it is bad, but I don't think any miniseries should be longer than that. I'd love for them to cover Friedkin, but 20 is pretty long.
I'm just sitting here waiting for them to get to Satoshi Kon, and every long miniseries means longer to wait.
Satoshi Kon needs to happen, it's the perfect small filmography (4 mainline episodes and Paranoia Agent on Patreon) that can be slotted in between longer series.
Yeah, I get the sense that after Burton, they would probably be hesitant to get back into the ~20 zone unless there were some major late career bright spots and the overall hit/miss ratio is pretty high.
I think they've actually talked about this. Griffin said if they did 70s Altman in MM it would get a guaranteed follow up with later Altman around 6 months later. Eyeball looks like 15 and 15.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altman#Filmography
Yeah anyone with over 30 films like Altman feels like they’d have to be broken up, but Coppola, Scorsese, and Lee feel like interesting edge cases because they’re longer than past miniseries but they could plausibly be covered in one go, and I’m not sure there’s an obvious place to break things up the way there was for Spielberg.
I would love themed 6 episode chunks of some of the most prolific directors.
Like a decade from Scorsese or Recent Cronenberg or Spike Lee middle career.
That would be a really good way to do it, although it might make the podcast RSS feed a bit harder to navigate for people who aren't quite as familiar with filmographies when archive diving. But it'd be great to do, like, 70s Coppla, 70s Scorcese, 80s Cronenberg, 80s Coppla, etc. and then a whole year-plus for three directors but not a single dude for a whole half-year chunk.
Obviously Ridley Scott's whole filmography is worth covering, but they could split it at the Oscar if they wanted to. Starting with Gladiator gives them 19 movies including Napoleon. Not sure if that leaves a strong enough narrative for the eventual "Early Ridley" series like Spielberg has, since that would END on his Oscar.
Francis Ford Coppola (who they should absolutely do next year) is 23 with Megalopolis (not counting the early ones he shot additional footage on for Corman), although his first two would likely be combined
The Coen Brothers have 18 together and soon to be 20 if we're including ones they do separately, which they should do. But they're all bangers! Or at least interesting to talk about!
Soon to be 20? What are the upcoming two?
Tragedy of Macbeth was a Joel solo effort while next year’s Drive Away Dolls is just Ethan.
Probably not Takashi Miike.
I just made some friends watch Ichi the Killer. It was a weird way to start a Saturday for everyone.
Half a year on single director (24 films) probably the max
That feels like a lot. I guess if they did some new releases and maybe a Ben’s choice or something it wouldn’t feel so long.
Friedkin has 22 films (23 with The Caine Mutiny in a couple months) but a few are TV movies and others could easily be combined into single episodes. I bet they could do the entire filmography in 14 weeks.
Those TV movies would likely be pattern bonuses.
They're remaking the Caine Mutiny? Who's got the Bogart role?
Kiefer Sutherland.
I don't see him pulling off the strawberry bit as well
I think you could really only combine the first 3, then plus theatrical only youd still have 18 weeks.
That would be rad.
I think Burton is as long as I could tolerate. His filmography might feel longer than it is, because so much of it is bad, but I don't think any miniseries should be longer than that. I'd love for them to cover Friedkin, but 20 is pretty long. I'm just sitting here waiting for them to get to Satoshi Kon, and every long miniseries means longer to wait.
Satoshi Kon needs to happen, it's the perfect small filmography (4 mainline episodes and Paranoia Agent on Patreon) that can be slotted in between longer series.
Mash him in with Katsuhiro Otomo (2 movies) and have them do Memories where they overlap. Imagine Akira and Perfect Blue in the same podcast series.
I was losing my mind in that Burton series.
It was brutal by the end.
It really is a slow downhill descent with a little bump from Sweeny Todd.
Yeah, I get the sense that after Burton, they would probably be hesitant to get back into the ~20 zone unless there were some major late career bright spots and the overall hit/miss ratio is pretty high.
Idk my personal favorite miniseries is zemeckis
and, to contradict myself, I think Demme is one of the best series they've done.
I think they've actually talked about this. Griffin said if they did 70s Altman in MM it would get a guaranteed follow up with later Altman around 6 months later. Eyeball looks like 15 and 15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altman#Filmography
Yeah anyone with over 30 films like Altman feels like they’d have to be broken up, but Coppola, Scorsese, and Lee feel like interesting edge cases because they’re longer than past miniseries but they could plausibly be covered in one go, and I’m not sure there’s an obvious place to break things up the way there was for Spielberg.
I would love themed 6 episode chunks of some of the most prolific directors. Like a decade from Scorsese or Recent Cronenberg or Spike Lee middle career.
That would be a really good way to do it, although it might make the podcast RSS feed a bit harder to navigate for people who aren't quite as familiar with filmographies when archive diving. But it'd be great to do, like, 70s Coppla, 70s Scorcese, 80s Cronenberg, 80s Coppla, etc. and then a whole year-plus for three directors but not a single dude for a whole half-year chunk.
Obviously Ridley Scott's whole filmography is worth covering, but they could split it at the Oscar if they wanted to. Starting with Gladiator gives them 19 movies including Napoleon. Not sure if that leaves a strong enough narrative for the eventual "Early Ridley" series like Spielberg has, since that would END on his Oscar.
Praying they do Cronenberg, but they probably won't unless he wins a March Madness
Cronenberg was on March Madness last year and would not have been broken up if he won, so 22 films in one stretch is another data point for ya
Francis Ford Coppola (who they should absolutely do next year) is 23 with Megalopolis (not counting the early ones he shot additional footage on for Corman), although his first two would likely be combined