Dark Whimsy Favorites: The Directors
Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #3: 51 Dark Whimsy Favorites in 80 Days, Ranking the Directors.
We’ve added in to our list of Dark Whimsy Favorites the seven A+ Dark Whimsy Christmas favorites that we've already reviewed (###). Now we’re looking at the list to see what the 58 films have in common.
We’ve looked at the decades they were released in, the nationalities of origin and the production studios.
What about the people involved? Who are our Dark Whimsy creators and stars?
We’ve looked at the producers and writers. Let’s look at the directors:
Directors
1 Joel Coen 3 (JC)
2 Andrew Adamson 2 (AA)
-- Blake Edwards 2 (BE)
-- Rob Reiner 2 (RR)
-- Robert Zemeckis 2 (RZ)
#3 (1963) The Pink Panther /BE
#5 (1965) The Great Race /BE
#18 (1984) Romancing the Stone /RZ
#22 (1986) Stand by Me /RR
#24 (1987) Raising Arizona /JC
#26 (1987) The Princess Bride /RR
#29 (1988) Who Framed Roger Rabbit /RZ
#36 (1996) Fargo /JC
#39 (2000) O Brother, Where Art Thou? /JC
#40 (2001) Shrek /AA
#46 (2005) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe /AA
Next up... the actors and actresses...
Originally posted to text group 2025-01-23
Last updated 2025-02-06