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gutwrencher 06-17-04 11:40 PM


Originally posted by steelpotato
Alejandro Jodorowsky - Santa Sangre
Mario Bava - Black Sunday
George A.Romero - Martin
Lucio Fulci - The Beyond

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Afandi 06-18-04 12:03 AM

- WONG KAR-WAI (Love his movies, all of them)
- JULIE TAYMOR (She's such a smart & brilliant director)
- ROBERT ALTMAN (Love him, love him, love him)
- Q.T.
- COEN BROTHERS
- ATOM EGOYAN
- FRANCOIS OZON
- YASUJIRO OZU
- DAVID CRONENBERG
- P.T. ANDERSON

Mutley Hyde 06-18-04 01:40 AM

Nice thread! Here are mine...

John Carpenter
-Assault on Precinct 13
-Halloween
-The Fog
-The Thing
-Big Trouble in Little China
-In the Mouth of Madness

Francis Ford Coppola
-Dementia 13
-The Godfather Collection
-The Conversation
-Apocalypse Now

Terence Fisher
-Four Sided Triangle
-Curse of Frankenstein
-Horror of Dracula
-Revenge of Frankenstein
-Hound of the Baskervilles
-The Mummy
-Dracula: Prince of Darkness
-Frankenstein Created Woman
-The Devil Rides Out
-Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
-Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Alfred Hitchcock
-The 39 Steps
-The Lady Vanishes
-Rebecca
-Spellbound
-Notorious
-Vertigo
-North by Northwest
-Psycho
-The Birds
-Marnie

Stanley Kubrick
-Paths of Glory
-Spartacus
-Lolita
-Dr. Strangelove
-2001: A Space Odyssey
-A Clockwork Orange
-Barry Lyndon
-The Shining
-Full Metal Jacket
-Eyes Wide Shut

Akira Kurosawa
-Stray Dog
-Rashomon
-Ikiru
-The Seven Samurai
-Throne of Blood
-The Hidden Fortress
-Yojimbo
-Sanjuro
-High and Low
-Red Beard
-Dersu Uzala
-Ran
-Dreams

Fritz Lang
-Destiny
-Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
-The Nibelungen
-Metropolis
-M
-The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Sergio Leone
-The Good the Bad and the Ugly
-Once Upon a Time in The West
-Once Upon a Time in America

Roman Polanski
-Knife in the Water
-Rosemary's Baby
-Macbeth
-The Tenant

John Woo
-Bullet in the Head
-Hardboiled
-The Killer

Mutley Hyde 06-28-04 06:39 PM

Bump because I had to update my list after the DDD sale... got a bunch of Kurosawa Criterions, a Lang Criterion and a Fisher, woot!

Plus, I don't want to be the one to kill the thread. :)

jkester 06-28-04 06:50 PM

Kurosawa
Tarantino
Fincher
Hitchcock
Gilliam
Coen Bros.
Bu–uel
Kubrick
Truffaut
Spielberg

Well, that's 11, but whatever.

Chad 06-28-04 07:12 PM

No particular order:

David Cronenburg
John Carpenter
Quentin Tarantino
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurasawa
Dario Argento
Mario Bava
George Romero
Lucio Fulci
P.T. Anderson
Coen Brothers

...There's just too many to list.

flyboy 06-28-04 07:44 PM


Originally posted by PopcornTreeCt
For me, I must own every title by these guys:

Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
High & Low
Rashomon
Red Beard
Hidden Fortress
Ikiru
Ran

Federico Fellini
8 1/2
Amarcord
La Strada
Juliet of the Spirits
Variety Lights
And the Ship Sails On
Nights of Cabria

Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo
Rear Window
Psycho
North by Northwest
Notorious
Rebecca
Lady Vanishes
39 Steps

David Lean
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
Bridge on the River Kwai
8-Movie Box Set on Pre-Order

Joel & Ethan Coen
Barton Fink
Miller's Crossing
Blood Simple
Fargo
Big Lebowski
O Brother Where Art Thou
Man Who Wasn't There
Hudsucker Proxy
Intolerable Cruelty (ehh...)

Steven Spielberg
Jaws
AI
E.T.
Close Encounters of Third Kind
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jurassic Park
Catch Me If You Can
Saving Private Ryan
Minority Report
Schindler's List

Steven Soderberg
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Limey
Traffic
Ocean's Eleven
Out Of Sight
Schizopolis

Paul Thomas Anderson
Hard Eight
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Punch Drunk Love

John Huston
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Misfits
Key Largo
The Maltese Falcon

Sergio Leone
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good, The Bad & the Ugly

John Ford
The Grapes of Wrath
My Darling Clementine
How Green Was My Valley



No "La Dolce Vita" by Fellini?

PopcornTreeCt 06-28-04 09:40 PM


Originally posted by flyboy
No "La Dolce Vita" by Fellini?
Looking forward to getting it as long as Koch-Lorber doesn't screw it up.

This thread was extremely helpful during the DDD sale. I looked through just about every post for great movies that I had been missing. This thread should always be available.

movie diva 06-28-04 09:58 PM

Not in any Order

The Coen Brothers
PT Anderson
Coppola
Tarantino
Hitchcock
Billy Wilder
James Cameron
Ridley Scott
Michael Curtiz
Kevin Smith
John Carpenter

Monica Clinton 06-28-04 11:31 PM

Steven Speilberg
A.I.
Catch me if you can
The Color Purple
E.T.
Indy Trilogy
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Minority Report
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List

Ron Howard
Apollo 13
Backdraft
Beautiful Mind
Splash

Michael Mann
Heat
The Insider
Last of the Mohicans

Robert Zemeckis
Back to the Future Trilogy
Cast Away
Forrest Gump
Romancing the stone
Who framed Roger Rabbit?

Alfred Hitchcock
The Birds
North by Northwest
Psycho
Rear Window
Rope
Vertigo

Milos Forman
Amadeus
Man on the Moon
One flew over the Cuckoo's nest

Francis Ford Coppola
Godfather Trilogy
Rainmaker

David Lean
Bridge on the River Kwai
Doctor Zhivago
Great Expectations
Lawrence of Arabia

flyboy 06-28-04 11:52 PM


Originally posted by Monica Clinton
Steven Speilberg
A.I.
Catch me if you can
The Color Purple
E.T.
Indy Trilogy
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Minority Report
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List

Ron Howard
Apollo 13
Backdraft
Beautiful Mind
Splash

Michael Mann
Heat
The Insider
Last of the Mohicans

Robert Zemeckis
Back to the Future Trilogy
Cast Away
Forrest Gump
Romancing the stone
Who framed Roger Rabbit?

Alfred Hitchcock
The Birds
North by Northwest
Psycho
Rear Window
Rope
Vertigo

Milos Forman
Amadeus
Man on the Moon
One flew over the Cuckoo's nest

Francis Ford Coppola
Godfather Trilogy
Rainmaker

David Lean
Bridge on the River Kwai
Doctor Zhivago
Great Expectations
Lawrence of Arabia

No "The Conversation" by Coppola?

phos 06-29-04 12:43 AM

Looking at DVDs I get based on director, right now, the 10 directors that have the ability to pull me in and get me to buy/watch whatever they put out:

david fincher [fight club, se7en, the game]
bryan singer [the usual suspects, x-men 1&2]
guy ritchie [lock, stock & two smoking barrels, snatch]
kevin smith [clerks, mallrats, chasing amy]
park chan wook [joint security area, sympathy for mr.vengeance, oldboy]
wong kar wai [chungking express, fallen angels, in the mood for love]
ryu kitamura [versus, azumi]
takeshi kitano [zatoichi, hana-bi]
akira kurosawa [seven samurai, ikiru]
steven spielberg [many films ....]

...also would like to see more miyazaki films.

Mod-Mod-World 06-29-04 01:08 AM

John Waters

Pink Flamingos
Hairspray
Female Trouble
Desperate Living
Serial Mom
Pecker
Cecil B. Demented
Polyester


George Cukor

The Philadelphia Story
My Fair Lady
The Women
Gaslight
Adam's Rib
A Star Is Born (1954)
Little Women (1933)
Pat and Mike
Born Yesterday (1950)
It Should Happen to You (1954)

jimbo w 06-29-04 01:17 AM

Leone
Kirusawa
Carpenter
Coen
Kubrick
Hitchcock
Tarantino
Ford
Welles
Jackson

rockinbrian19 06-29-04 08:03 AM

My favorite is Hitch. Titles I own.

39 Steps (Special Edition/ Criterion)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Volume 4
Birds: Collector's Edition
Family Plot
Frenzy
Lady Vanishes (Special Edition/ Criterion)
Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Marnie: Collector's Edition
North By Northwest
Notorious (Special Edition)
Psycho: Special Edition
Rear Window: Special Edition
Rebecca (Criterion)
Rope Other
Shadow Of A Doubt
Spellbound (Criterion)
Strangers on a Train
To Catch A Thief
Trouble With Harry

And have finally purchased Vertigo from the DDD sale.

Other favorite directors include Tim Burton and The Coen Brothers.

fnordboy 06-29-04 11:31 AM

Peter Greenaway
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Zed and Two Noughts
Draughtsman's Contract
Pillowbook
Early Films of.. vol 1 and vol 2

Luis Bunuel
Belle de jour
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Diary of a Chambermaid
That Obscure Object of Desire

Hal Hartley
Henry Fool
Surviving Desire

Fritz Lang
M
Metropolis
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler

G. W. Pabst
Diary of a Lost Girl
Pandora's Box

Coen Brothers
Big Lebowski
Hudsucker Proxy
Man Who Wasn't There
Blood Simple
Fargo
Millers Crossing
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Barton Fink

Takashi Miike
Happiness of the Katakuris
Ichi the Killer (r2)
Visitor Q
Audition
City of Lost Souls
Dead Or Alive (r2)

Shunji Iwai
Swallowtail Butterfly (r2)
Love Letter (r3)
Jam Films (short films) (r2)
Shiki~Jitsu (r2)
All About Lily Chou Chou (r3)
Undo (r2)


There are more, but off the top of my head the above....

WingKongExpress 06-29-04 11:43 AM

Spielberg
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jaws
Jurassic Park

John Carpenter
The Thing
Halloween
Big Trouble in Little China

Ridley Scott
Alien
Blade Runner (still waiting for OTR)

James Cameron
Terminator
Aliens
The Abyss

garolo 06-29-04 06:59 PM

Mine are


Kurosawa
I have every Region 1 currently available of his.

Leone
Again all R1s available

Hitchcock:
Lady Vanishes
Spellbound
Rebecca
Notorious
39 Steps
North by Northwest

Spielberg:
Indiana Jones
Jurassic Park
ET


Billy Wilder:
Some Like It Hot
Sunset Boulevard

Mel Brooks:
The Producers
History of the World
Spaceballs
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein

John Huston:
Key Largo
Maltese Falcon
Treasure of Sierra Madre

Chuck Jones/Friz Freleng/Bob Clampett
LT Golden Collection

Jacques Tati
M. Hulot's Holiday
Mon Oncle
Playtime


Clint Eastwood
Bird
High Plains Drifter
Pale Rider
Oulaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven

mikewendt 06-30-04 11:22 AM

In no order...

John Carpenter
Big Trouble in Little China (Special Edition 2-Disc Set)
Escape from New York (Special Edition)
Halloween (Limited Special Edition)
Prince of Darkness
They Live
The Thing (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Vampires

Kevin Smith
Chasing Amy (Criterion Collection)
Clerks (Collector's Edition)
Dogma (2-Disc Special Edition)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
Mallrats (Collector's Edition)

Quentin Tarantino
Four Rooms
Jackie Brown (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Pulp Fiction (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
Reservoir Dogs (Mr. Blonde 10th Anniversary Limited Edition)
non-Tarantino directed, but related
True Romance (2-Disc Special Edition)
Natural Born Killers (Special Edition Director's Cut)
From Dusk Till Dawn (2-Disc Collector's Edition)

Robert Rodriguez
El Mariachi/Desperado (Director's Double Feature)
Four Rooms
From Dusk Till Dawn (2-Disc Special Edition)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

The Cohen Brothers
The Big Lebowski
Fargo (Special Edition)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Terry Gilliam
12 Monkeys (Collector's Edition)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (2-Disc Criterion Collection Set)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (2-Disc Special Edition)

Trey Parker
Cannibal! The Musical (Special Edition)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
South Park: Season 1
South Park: Season 2
South Park: Season 3
South Park: Season 4

Tim Burton
Batman
Beetlejuice
Ed Wood (Special Edition)
Edward Scissorhands (10th Anniversary Edition)
Sleepy Hollow

George A. Romero
The Crazies
Dawn of the Dead (Director's Cut)
Dawn of the Dead (Divamax Theatrical Version)
Day of the Dead (Divamax Special Edition)
Knightriders
Night of the Living Dead (30th Anniversary Edition)
Night of the Living Dead (Millennium Edition)
Two Evil Eyes

Wes Craven
Last House on the Left
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection (8 Disc Set)
Scream (Collector's Edition)
Scream 2 (Dimension Collector's Series)
Scream 3 (Collector's Edition)
The Ultimate Scream Collection (4-Disc Boxed Set)
Wes Craven's New Nightmare

drjay 06-30-04 11:55 AM

Coens
Everything they've ever written/directed including Crimewave R0 and The Man Who Wasn't There color version.

Kubrick
2001
Spartacus
The Killing
Killer's Kiss
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
Lolita
Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
Dr. Strangelove
The Shining

Terry Gilliam
Brazil
12 Monkeys
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fisher King

Kevin Smith
Chasing Amy
Clerks
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Mallrats

Soderberg
Full Frontal
The Limey
Schizopolis
Out of Sight
Solaris
Traffic
Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill vol. 1
True Romance (2-disc)

David Fincher
The Game
Seven
Fight Club
Panic Room SE

Hitch
Wrong Men & Notorious Women Box:
-39 Step
-Notorious
-Rebecca
-Spellbound
-The Lady Vanishes

Kurosawa
Four Samurai Classics Box:
-Seven Samurai
-Sanjuro
-Yojimbo
-The Hidden Fortress
Ran: Masterworks

Ridley Scott
Alien
Bladerunner
Black Hawk Down
Gladiator (even though it's overrated imho)

BlackBeauty92 06-30-04 01:05 PM

Richard Donner
Lethal Weapon 1,2,3 (Director's Cut DTS)
Lethal Weapon 4
Superman: The Movie (SE)
The Omen Collection

M. Night Shyamalan
Unbreakable (2-Disc Vista THX DTS)
Sixth Sense (2-Disc Vista THX DTS)
Sign (Vista THX)

Michael Bay
Bad Boys (SE & Superbit DTS)
Bad Boys 2 (2-Disc SE)
The Rock (2-Disc Criterion DTS)
Pearl Harbor (4-Disc Vista THX DTS)

Dominic Senna
Swordfish
Gone in 60 Seconds

John Woo
A Better Tomorrow 1 & 2
Face/Off
Mission Impossible 2

Cameron Crowe
Almost Famous (Director's Cut 3-Disc)
Jerry Maguire (2-Disc SE)

Steven Soderberg
Ocean Eleven (Remake)
Solaris
Traffic (Criterion DTS)

Wolfgang Petersen
Air Force One (Superbit)
Outbreak
Perfect Storm (SE)
NeverEnding Story
In The Line of Fire (SE)
Das Boot (2-Disc Director's Cut Superbit DTS)

Paul Verhoeven
Basic Instinct (SE)
Hollow Man (2-Disc Superbit Deluxe DTS)
Robocop Trilogy
Starship Trooper (2-Disc SE)

Lucio Fulci
City Of The Living Dead
Don't Torture A Duckling
Manhattan Baby
New York Ripper
House by the Cemetary
The Beyond

Ridley Scott
Gladiator (2-Disc SE DTS)
Alien (2-Disc Director's Cut THX DTS)
Black Hawk Down (4-Disc Superbit Deluxe DTS)
Legend (SE DTS)

James Cameron
Aliens (2-Disc SE THX)
Terminator (SE)
Terminator 2 (Both Ultimate & Extreme Edition THX DTS)

Hayao Miyazaki
Castle In The Sky
Castle Of Cagliostro
Princess Mononoke
Kiki's Delivery Service
Spirited Away

Sergio Leone
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (2-Disc SE)
Once Upon a Time in the West (2-Disc CE)
Once Upon a Time in America (2-Disc SE)

Sam Raimi
Evil Dead (Book of the Dead THX DTS)
Evil Dead 2 (SE THX)
Army of Darkness (R3 Director's Cut)
Spider-Man (Both SE & Superbit DTS)

Peter Jackson
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Dead Alive
Bad Taste (2-Disc LE THX DTS)

Tim Burton
Sleepy Hollow
Big Fish
Edward Scissorhands

John Carpenter
Assault in Presinct 13 (SE)
Big Trouble in Little China (2-Disc SE DTS)
Escape from New York (2-Disc SE)
The FOG (SE)
Halloween (2-Disc Divimax 20th Anniversary)
In Mouth of Madness
Prince of Darkness
They Live
The Thing (CE)
Vampires (Superbit DTS)
Village of the Damned


Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs (Mr. Brown 10th Anniversary LE DTS)
Pulp Fiction (2-Disc CE DTS)
Jackie Brown (2-Disc CE DTS)
Kill Bill Vol. 1

Oliver Stone
Any Given Sunday (2-Disc Director's Cut)
JFK (2_disc SE)
True Romance (2-Disc SE DTS)

Robert Rodriguez
Desperado (Superbit DTS)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

George A. Romero
The Crazies
Night of the Living Dead (Tom Savini's Remake)
Night of the Living Dead (Millennium Edition THX)
Dawn of the Dead (Divamax Theatrical Version THX DTS)
Day of the Dead (Divamax Special Edition THX DTS)
Two Evil Eyes

Wes Craven
The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection (8 Disc Set)

Steven Speilberg
A.I. (2-Disc SE DTS)
E.T. (2-Disc LE DTS)
Indiana Jones Trilogy (THX)
Jaws (DTS)
Jurassic Park Trilogy (DTS)
Minority Report (2-Disc SE DTS)
Saving Private Ryan (Single disc LE DTS)
Schindler's List (Gift Set DTS)

Ron Howard
Apollo 13 (DTS)
Beautiful Mind (2-Disc SE)
The Missing (2-Disc SE)

Michael Mann
ALI
Heat
The Insider

Francis Ford Coppola
Godfather Trilogy
Bram Stroker's DRACULA (Superbit)

David Lean
Bridge on the River Kwai LE
Doctor Zhivago SE
Lawrence of Arabia (both SE & Superbit)


others that i'm trying to collect:
Alfred Hitchcock (only got "To Catch A Thief" so far)
Martin Scorcese (only got "Taxi Driver SE" so far)
David Cronenberg (only got "Naked Lunch CC" so far)

MisterHowie 06-30-04 03:45 PM

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Billy Wilder
3. Peter Jackson (mainly for the LOTR)
4. Baz Lurhman
5. Zhang Yimou
6. Ang Lee

Sunday Morning 06-30-04 09:03 PM

1.orson welles- because he's the best. he fights the forces of darkness. Forces of darknes BE-WARE!

2. larry cohen- 'cause someone has to give him some respect.

3. charles laughton- only made one film, but what a film it was!

4. john carpenter- lots of rewatch value

5. hitchcock- because he's hitch.

6. any director with the name bud or hal

7. terrence malick- out of the 3 films he's made, all 3 are amazing.

8. paul lynch- kicks david's ass.

9. sergio leone- there is no other.

10. and perhaps the best director of all time, jeff kanew

ctyankee 06-30-04 10:49 PM


Originally posted by Sunday Morning
8. paul lynch- kicks david's ass.

10. and perhaps the best director of all time, jeff kanew

How come perhaps the best director of all time only gets the 10 spot?

Perhaps you can suggest some great directing efforts from Paul Lynch and Jeff Kanew that are available on DVD.

tofu 06-30-04 11:01 PM

1. Takeshi Kitano
2. Ang Lee
3. John Woo (only Face-off and before)
4. David Fincher
5. Steven Spielberg
6. Danny Boyle
7. Brad Anderson
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Bryan Singer
10. Tsui Hark


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