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In no particular order:
Hitchcock Ozu Kurosawa Lynch Lean Tati Cocteau Kubrick Wilder Fellini |
Kubrick - Have most of the Kubrick collection, want Spartacus: CC
Lynch - Have my favorites, would like to pick up Dune and The Elephant Man at some point, and waiting for a good Lost Highway DVD Altman - Have most of his seventies output, need to get his more recent work Spielberg - Have all the ones that I love, need a few more (Empire of the Sun, Duel) that I like Herzog - Have the Anchor Bay set, looking forward to the next one Tarantino - Have all his features, could probably pass on Four Rooms Bergman - Have six of his, including the great CC Film Trilogy set, but he's done so much great work that I'm still catching up Scorsese - Same as Bergman. August can't come soon enough. Hitchcock - Have a lot of of his fifties and sixties films, still want a lot of his earlier work. John Carpenter - Kind of the odd man out, but his movies are addictive. Have most of his seventies and eighties output, need Assault on Precinct 13. |
These are the ones that come to mind -- or at least the ones that seem to be best represented in my collection...
Akira Kurosawa Alfred Hitchcock Sergio Leone Orson Welles Fritz Lang Charlie Chaplin Steven Spielberg Francis Ford Coppola Billy Wilder The Coen Brothers Also, I know he's not for everyone (or even most people), but my collection wouldn't be complete without: Jim Jarmusch Also worth mentioning, simply because no one else has: Jean-Pierre Melville OK, that's actually twelve (or, rather, thirteen if you count Joel and Ethan), not ten. Ah well... |
I can't believe no one has mentioned Cameron Crowe!!!!!!
Say Anything Singles Jerry Maguire Almost Famous Vanilla Sky Fast Times (Screenwriter) |
Orson Welles:
Touch of Evil Citizen Kane The Stranger Carl T. Dreyer: Passion of Joan of Arc Ordet Day of Wrath Gertrude Akira Kurosawa: Throne of Blood Stray Dog Roshoman Ran Red Beard Seven Samurai Yojimbo Sanjuro Hidden Fortress Alfred Hitchcock: To Catch a Thief Rear Window North by Northwest The Birds Notorious The 39 Steps Rebecca The Lady Vanishes Spellbound Coen Bros: Miller's Crossing Barton Fink Fargo The Big Lebowski Intolerable Cruelty Tim Burton: Big Fish Edward Scissorhands Pee Wee's Big Adventure Sleepy Hollow Mar's Attacks Michael Curtiz: Casablanca Adventures of Robin Hood Yankee Doodle Dandy John Ford: Grapes of Wrath How Green Was My Valley? My Darling Clementine Jim Jarmusch: Ghost Dog Mystery Train Dead Man Stanley Kubrick: The Shining A Clockwork Orange Dr. Strangelove So many more... |
Ten MUST-HAVE Director's in Your Collection
Why just ten? :)
Woody Allen - Bananas Paul Thomas Anderson - Hard Eight John Boorman - Excalibur Mel Brooks - Young Frankenstein Luis Buñuel - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Frank Capra - It Happened One Night Charlie Chaplin - City Lights Jean Cocteau - Beauty and the Beast George Cukor - A Star is Born Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation Stanley Donen - Singin' in the Rain John Ford - My Darling Clementine Howard Hawks - The Big Sleep Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho Alejandro Jodorowsky - El topo Chuck Jones - Duck Amuck Terry Jones - Monty Python's Life of Brian Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange Akira Kurosawa - Ikiru Fritz Lang - Die Nibelungen David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia Spike Lee - 4 Little Girls Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in the West David Lynch - Eraserhead Michael Mann - Thief Hayao Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke F.W. Murnau - The Last Laugh Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - The Red Shoes Godfrey Reggio - Koyaanisqatsi Nicolas Roeg - The Man Who Fell to Earth Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark Wladyslaw Starewicz - The Story of the Fox Preston Sturges - Sullivan's Travels Jacques Tati - M. Hulot's Holiday Jacques Tourneur - Night of the Demon Orson Welles - Touch of Evil Billy Wilder - One, Two, Three Edward D. Wood Jr. - Glen or Glenda? William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives Yes, I *must* have these directors. Paycheck minus bills kind of holds me back though. |
Sergio Leone
Fistful of Dollars For A Few Dollars More The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Once Upon a Time in the West A Fistful of Dynamite Once Upon a Time in America Sam Raimi Evil Dead Evil Dead 2 Army of Darkness Spider-Man Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones Trilogy Close Encounters of the Third Kind Jaws Catch Me if You Can Schindler's List Empire of the Sun E.T. Minority Report Saving Private Ryan Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings Trilogy Dead Alive Bad Taste The Frightners Tim Burton Batman Batman Returns Sleepy Hollow Big Fish Edward Scissorhands Ed Wood Peewee's Big Adventure Terry Gilliam Brazil Monty Python and the Holy Grail Adventures of Baron Munchausen Jaberwocky 12 Monkeys Ridley Scott Gladiator Alien Black Hawk Down Duelists Legend David Cronenberg Naked Lunch Videodrome Spider Mel Brooks Spaceballs The Producers Young Frankenstein Blazing Saddles Steven Chow Shaolin Soccer Fight Back to School Forbidden City Cop God of Cookery King of Comedy Not alot of classic directors on there I know, but this isn't exactly the 10 directors that I think are the best directors ever. These are simply the 10 whose work I enjoy the most and who I am most likely to intentionally seek out other movies by based on name alone. |
more than ten, but going through my collection, these are ones that i'm consistently happy with.
Coen Brothers Wes Anderson Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick John Sayles David Lynch John Carpenter Dario Argento Otto Preminger Peter Jackson Christopher Guest Tim Burton Mel Brooks Larry Cohen Terry Gilliam George A. Romero Terry Zwigoff Robert Wise Terence Fisher Elia Kazan Charles Chaplin P.T. Anderson Meir Zarchi F.W. Murnau Robert Altman Martin Scorsese Akira Kurosawa Roman Polanski Alejandro Jodorowsky Krzysztof Kieslowski |
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Wages of Fear Diabolique Le Corbeau Lina Wertmüller Seven Beauties Swept Away Love and Anarchy The Seduction of Mimi Werner Herzog Even Dwarfs Started Small Aguirre: The Wrath of God Enigma of Kaspar Hauser Heart of Glass Stroszek Woyzeck Cobra Verde Lessons of Darkness Invincible Jean-Pierre Melville Bob Le Flambeur Le Cercle Rouge Un Flic Preston Sturges The Lady Eve Sullivan's Travels John Carpentar Assault on Precinct 13 The Thing They Live Roman Polanski Knife on the Water The Tenant Rosemary's Baby Chinatown Luis Bunuel Diary of a Chambermaid Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise That Obscure Object of Desire Takashi Miike Audition Happiness of the Katakuris Visitor Q Ichi the Killer Roberto Rossellini Open City Germany Year Zero |
(To save space, I've only listed my favorite film by the director that is available in R1)
Top Ten: Woody Allen: Annie Hall Mel Brooks: The Producers Charles Chaplin: Modern Times Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now Stanley Donen: Singin' in the Rain Alfred Hitchcock: North by Northwest Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange Ernst Lubitsch: Trouble in Paradise Preston Sturges: Sullivan's Travels Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three Honorable mentions: Robert Altman: M*A*S*H* Ingmar Bergman: The Seventh Seal Frank Capra: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Blake Edwards: A Shot in the Dark Fredorico Fellini: 8 1/2 John Ford: The Quiet Man Bob Fosse: Cabaret Howard Hawks: Rio Bravo Elia Kazan: On the Waterfront Buster Keaton: The General Akira Kurosawa: Yojimbo Richard Lester: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia Roman Polanski: Chinatown Jean Renoir: The Rules of the Game François Truffaut: Day for Night Orson Welles: The Trial |
1. Alfred Hitcock: North by Northwest
2. Billy Wilder: Some Like it Hot 3. John Huston: Maltese Falcon 4. Speilberg: Jaws 5. Lucas: Star Wars 6. Michael Mann: Last of the Mohicans 7: Kubrick: 2001 8: Martin Scorsese: Good Fellas 9. Orson Wells: Citizen Kane 10. Frank Capra: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
Directors I currently collect or plan to collect. Check my dvdaf list for title listings.
Mario Bava Fritz Lang David Cronenberg Sam Peckinpah Sam Fuller Nicholas Ray Hitchcock William Castle George Romero ...and last but not least: Don Knotts movies!:D |
Unfortunately my two favourite director's don't have alot of their films on DVD:
Peter Greenaway: [Have) - Early Films + The Falls - Zed and Two Nougths - Draughtsmen Contract (Want) - Prospero's Books - Baby of Macon (I am not buying the Region 4 fullscreen version) Ken Russell (Want) - The Devils - The Boyfriend Other favourite directors: Hayao Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke - Kiki's Delivery Service - Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind - Porco Rosso - My Neighbor Totoro Ken Loach - My Name is Joe - Riff Raff Joe Dante - Gremlins - Innerspace - The Howling John Waters - Hairspray - Pecker Dario Argento - Sleepless - Phenomena - Suspiria - Deep Red - Tenebrae - Opera Lucio Fulci - Zombie 2 - Gates of Hell - New York Ripper - House by the Cemetary - The Beyond Terry Gilliam - Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Criterion LD/Japanese Superbit edition) - Brazil Ridley Scott - Blade Runner (Criterion LD/WB DVD) - 1492 (Japanese laserdisc) - Legend - Black Rain - Alien James Cameron - Titanic - Aliens - The Abyss - Terminator 2 Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List - ET - Saving Private Ryan - Empire of the Sun - Jurassic Park - Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Jaws - Indiana Jones Trilogy _________________________ |
My collection doesn't really revolve around directors. The only exception is Terry Gilliam.
I have: 12 Monkeys Brazil: Criterion Monty Python films Jabberwocky (not his finest moment; I bought it sight-unseen) I've been tempted to get some Kurosawa and Chaplin though. It just hasn't happened yet. |
Joel & Ethan Coen
Raising Arizona Blood Simple Fargo John Carpenter Halloween The Thing Francis Ford Copola The Godfather trilogy Apocalypse Now Cameron Crowe Fast Times at Ridgemont High Almost Famous Alfred Hitchcock Rear Window Psycho Notorious James Cameron Terminator 1 and 2 Stanley Kubrick A Clockwork Orange Dr. Strangelove 2001 Space Odyssey Buster Keaton The General Sherlock Jr. One Week David Lean Lawrence of Arabia Bridge on the River Kwai Sergio Leone Fist full of Dollars For A few Dollars more The Good, The Bad & the Ugly Martin Scorcese Taxi Driver Good Fellas Casino Steven Spielberg Jaws E.T. Close Encounters of Third Kind Raiders of the Lost Ark Jurassic Park Saving Private Ryan Schindler's List Steven Soderberg Traffic Quentin Tarantino Reservoir Dogs Pulp Fiction Jackie Brown Kill Bill V1 & 2 True Romance (writer) Guy Ritchie Snatch Orson Welles Citizen Kane |
Oliver Stone
Quentin Tarantino Stanley Kubrick Sergio Leone Akira Kurosawa Terry Gilliam Takashi Miike Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Brian De Palma |
Alfred Hitchcock
M. Night Shyamalan Peter Jackson ~Tricia |
Martin Scorcese
Arkira Kurosawa Terry Gilliam Stanley Kubrick Quentin Tarantino Kevin Smith George Lucas David Fincher Bryan Singer P.T. Anderson Coen Bros. Steven Soderbergh Brian DePalma Wes Anderson edit: M. Night Shyamalan and Peter Jackson (reminded of by previous poster) And more I'm sure but thats just off the top of my head. Great thread by the way. |
Not gonna bother listing all the films I own of theirs, since I own all of them in most cases.
Coen Brothers Stanley Kubrick Alfred Hitchcock Steven Spielberg PT Anderson Wes Anderson Spike Lee Martin Scorsese Akira Kurosawa Quentin Tarantino |
Originally posted by The Exister Mario Bava |
Serigo Leone
Dario Argento George Romero Larry Cohen Werner Herzog Charlie Chaplin Paul Verhoeven Mario Bava Clint Eastwood Sergio Corbucci |
No real order here..
Ingmar Bergman Federico Fellini David Lynch Stanley Kubrick Wes Anderson Akira Kurosawa Paul Thomas Anderson Spike Jonze Jim Jarmusch Alfred Hitchcock Other mentions to Tarantino, Leone, Renoir, Welles, Chaplin, Coens, Coppola, Gilliam, Scorsese, Lang, Ford, Cronenberg so many to list as others have. Missing many I am sure. |
If anyone still bothers to read these things, here are mine. . .
Godard Kurosawa Cronenberg Gilliam Fulci Sergio Leone Dario Argento David Lynch Sergio Corbucci Spielberg - Only for Jaws. |
Originally posted by Sessa17 ......... Spielberg - Only for Jaws. |
Alejandro Jodorowsky - Santa Sangre
Mario Bava - Black Sunday George A.Romero - Martin Lucio Fulci - The Beyond David Cronenberg - The Fly John Carpenter - Halloween Peter Jackson - Heavenly Creatures Wes Craven - A Nightmare On Elm Street Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List Federico Fellini - 8 1/2 |
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