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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :

He directed "The Motion Picture". Love it or hate it, he directed the first. [Smile]

Oh, and "The Sound of Music", too.

Mark

Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :

And "Day the Earth Stood Still." Can't forget one of the pillars of the genre.

Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :

Which reminds me that I just finished my review of this very DVD for a German DVD review site.

The Special edition features an audiocommentary by Robert Wise and Nicholas Meyer (!) as well as various interviews with the late great director.

Oh and don't forget he also did West Side Story!

Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :

And The Sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough. Awesome film.

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

And The Andromeda Strain. . . and The Haunting. . . And - I never knew this - his first film as director was one I absolutely love, Curse of the Cat People (the most out-of-leftfield sequel ever, until we found out Connor MacLeod came from planet Zeist). He also edited Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons - Since he did the former, I presume he did Welles' original cut of the latter, and had nothing to do with the execrable studio cut.

Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :

Day the Earth Stood Still remains the sci-fi movie.
Everything else pales by comparison.

Even Iliea's giggling boobs from TMP.

Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :

Giggling? I didn't know Deltans had THAT ability...

Mark

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I was a bit disappointed when I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still and discovered that, in fact, the Earth didn't stand still any longer than lunchtime.

Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :

Well,as opposed to all those other days when it stood still.

I've lived my own version of that movie:
The Day that Work Dragged Ass.

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

In case anyone is interested, Turner Classic Movies is showing Robert Wise films all day Friday, the 23rd. And Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, for that matter.

Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :

Sweet.
I wish I could see them all (gotta work a double).

Still, they're worth buying...

Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Listen here to an interesting NPR story about Rober Wise.