Do you want to have the discussion, or do you just want to take shots at my posts? I'm willing to discuss it, but if you're just going to ignore my points and then edit my posts with snide remarks, then I'm not going to bother.

If someone is new to the forum, and they do something that is against standard policy, then I'm going to point it out so that they don't get jumped on by people who will be less cordial about it. It's called helping and people did it with me when I first joined and it's how I learned.

Even if this topic isn't one that, in your mind, necessarily needs to have the old threads resurrected, it's still an opportunity to teach the new guy to check for old threads before posting a new one. Now, if he gets the urge to post a "Do You think George Lucas had a right to change the original Star Wars movies?" thread, he'll know to look it up first. Had I not said anything, he might not and he'd get dogpiled by most of the members here for starting a new thread on that topic.

My current favorite is Christopher Nolan, it's no contest for me really. I know he's only had a handful of films so far, less than a handful actually, but I look forward to his new films more than anyone elses. I can't wait to see his body of work in twenty years time.

This isn't a "favorite directors" list as a "directors that I follow" list, much the same.

Ki-Duk Kim
Chan-Wook Park
Miike Takashi
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielbergo (Monte Burns: The Movie.. can't wait)
Andrew Niccol
David Fincher
Richard Kelly
Darren Aronofsky
Christopher Nolan
Quentin Tarantino
Robert Rodriguez
Alejandro Amenábar
Takeshi Kitano
Ridley Scott
Tim Burton
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Yimou Zhang

what are some of his films? just wondering.

Following
Memento
Insomnia (US remake. I like it a touch better than the original but I'm in the minority on that.)
Batman Begins

Terry Gilliam
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Woody Allen
Pedro Almodovar
Yasujiro Ozu
Jean Cocteau
Ermanno Olmi
Federico Fellini
Wong-Kar Wei
Quentin Tarantino
Martin Scorsese
Alejandro Amenabar
Chan-Woo Park
David Lean
Powell & Pressburger
Steven Spielberg
Hayao Miyazaki
Michael Curtiz
Robert Wise
David Fincher
David Lynch
Sergei Eisenstein
Fritz Lang

for starters... but I'd chop it off for a

Fair enough, and sorry for dismissing your last post, but I really didn't see anything in it that hadn't already been said. I stand by my stance, but thanks for being cordial when I wasn't.

-JP

thanks, will definitely check them out

Definitely do. Nolan's filmography is one of the most consistantly awesome of anybody working today.

-JP

Scorsese
Hitchcock
Spielberg
Crowe
R. Scott

Becoming so, more rapidly as I see more of their films:
Kurosawa
Truffaut
Fellini

Terrence Malick

P.T. Anderson

I would say that this is fairly close in order as well ..

Foreign
Mamoru Oshii
Kim Ki-duk
Fukasaku Kinji
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Kurosawa Akira
Kurosawa Kiyoshi
John Woo (old school HK)
Peter Weir
Suzuki Seijun
Terry Gilliam
Luc Besson

Domestic
Ridley Scott
Stephen Spielberg
David Fincher
James Cameron
Brad Bird
Andrew Stanton
John Stanton (or anyone else related to Pixar)
John McTiernan

batman begins, that was a great movie, the only one since the michael keaton one that i enjoyed....
anybody going to the resfest film festival this year?