Favorite Directors?
Here is my top 30
1. Martin Scorcese 2. Francis Ford Coppola 3. Steven Speilberg 4. Alfonso Cuaron 5. Christopher Nolan 6. Alfred Hitchcock 7. Stanley Kubrick 8. Joel & Ethan Coen 9. David Fincher 10. Wes Anderson 11. Quentin Tarantino 12. Danny Boyle 13. Guy Ritchie 14. Alejandro González Iñárritu 15. Paul Thomas Anderson 16. Darren Aronofsky 17. Michael Mann 18. Tim Burton 19. Charles Chaplin 20. Peter Jackson 21. Michel Gondry 22. Clint Eastwood 23. Noah Baumbach 24. Andrew Stanton 25. Brad Bird 26. Pedro Almodovar 27. Guillermo Del Toro 28. Kevin Smith 29. David Cronenberg 30. David Lynch |
No particular order, currently living/working:
David Fincher Ridley Scott David Lynch Guillermo Del Toro Steven Spielberg Alfonso Cuaron Christopher Nolan Martin Scorscese Brad Bird Quentin Tarantino David Cronenberg Joel & Ethan Coen Peter Jackson Wes Anderson Darren Aronofsky Paul Thomas Anderson Edgar Wright Danny Boyle Chan-wook Park Takashi Miike Jean-Pierre Jeunet Ji-woon Kim (getting there at least) Stephen Chow Alex Proyas Hayao Miyazaki Ki-duk Kim |
top 10:
david lynch alfred hitchcock woody allen stanley kubrick wes anderson john carpenter dario argento david cronenberg david gordon green werner herzog but i'm a fan of pretty much every director that's been listed in the 2 posts above mine. it really all depends on my mood, i go through phases. |
In terms of pure style, I like Wes Anderson, Joel Coen, Michael Mann, and Steven Solderbergh.
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Hal Hartley
John Sayles Mike Leigh Ken Loach Woody Allen Shane Meadows Martin Scorsese Patrice Leconte Coens Robert Altman Orson Welles Billy Wilder Preston Sturges |
1. Emir Kusturica
2. Terry Gilliam 3. Ridley Scott 4. Hayao Miyazaki 5. Jean-Pierre Jeunet 6. Darren Aronofsky 7. Steven Speilberg 8. Stanley Kubrick 9. Alexandro Jodorowsky 10. Spike Jonze 11. Siu-Tung Ching 12. Zhang Yimou 13. Richard Linklater 14. Michael Bay 15. Mamoru Oshii 16. George Miller 17. Alan Parker 18. Christopher Gans 19. Jan Kounen 20. Paul Verhoeven 21. Terrence Malick 22. Tony Scott 23. James Cameron 24. Pan Nalin 25. S. Shankar 26. Sam Raimi |
I can't put them in any order, but here are my favorites:
Akira Kurosawa Anthony Mann Martin Scorsese John Ford Billy Wilder Clint Eastwood Archie Mayo Edward Dmytryk John Huston Delmer Daves Howard Hawks Michael Curtiz Raoul Walsh Steven Spielberg James Cameron Nicholas Meyer Kihachi Okamoto Kinji Fukasaku I know I'm forgetting a few, but that's a good start. |
We've had to have had a thread on this before, right?
Anyway, here goes: Steven Spielberg Clint Eastwood Martin Scorcese Stanley Kubrick David Lynch James Cameron Ridley Scott Roman Polanski Quentin Tarantino Oliver Stone |
Here's a few:
Dreyer De Sica Vigo Cassavetes Tarkovsky Herzog Wilder Kobayashi Hou Murnau Ozu Fellini Eisenstein Chaplin Teshigahara Sokurov Tran Bergman Allen |
Some of my favorites:
Scorsese Fellini Kazan Antonioni Kubrick Dassin Pasolini Ford Welles |
No Order:
Akira Kurosawa Sergio Leone Christopher Nolan Guillermo Del Toro Wes Anderson Alfonso Cuaron Quentin Tarantino Robert Rodriguez Jean-Luc Godard Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Francious Truffaut Terry Gilliam Edgar Wright Darren Aronofsky Clint Eastwood John Woo (Pre US) Matthew Vaughn David Cronenberg Ridley Scott James Cameron Joel & Ethan Coen Stanley Kubrick Kevin Smith I would've put in Francis Ford Coppola..but...I only really like the first 2 Godfathers and Apocalypse Now..but Damn they are good. Everything else has been too wishy washy. |
In no particular order -
Quentin Tarantino Paul Thomas Anderson Kevin Smith Martin Scorcese Stanley Kubrick Steven Spielberg I'd watch anything these guys had their names attached to -- even a live action My Little Pony flick. |
Originally Posted by jpoppe
In no particular order -
Quentin Tarantino Paul Thomas Anderson Kevin Smith Martin Scorcese Stanley Kubrick Steven Spielberg I'd watch anything these guys had their names attached to -- even a live action My Little Pony flick. |
Originally Posted by JPRaup
I don't think Kubrick is doing a live action My Little Pony anytime soon.
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Current:
Takashi Miike Craig Brewer Álex de la Iglesia Terry Gilliam Gaspar Noe Quentin Tarantino Toshiaki Toyoda David Fincher Oliver Stone Dante Lam Joe Carnahan Jean-Jacques Annaud George Romero David Lynch Edgar Wright Jim Jarmusch The Hughes Bros R.I.P. or inactive: Sergio Leone F.W. Murnau Todd Browning Federico Fellini Jack Hill Akira Kurosawa Carl Theodor Dreyer John Huston Sergio Corbucci Terence Young Alejandro Jodorowsky Stanley Kubrick Alex Cox Kenji Misumi Sam Peckinpah |
coens
hitchcock scorsese |
Some German hack.
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Marty, Brad Bird, PT Anderson ... I like Eastwood's later stuff, Speilberg of course, Ang Lee, Coppola's work in the 70s ... The Coens generally, Cuaron and del Toro.
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Andrei Tarkovsky
Robert Bresson Federico Fellini Ingmar Bergman Michael Haneke Bernardo Bertolucci Luis Buñuel David Cronenberg Jules Dassin Michaelangelo Antonioni David Lynch Sergei Eisenstein R W Fassbinder J L Godard P P Pasolini Lars Von Trier François Truffaut Seijun Suzuki Sam Peckinpah Stanley Kubrick Volker Schlöndorff Werner Herzog Akira Kurosawa Nicolas Roeg Alfred Hitchcock Jean-Pierre Melville Fritz Lang Shohei Imamura Masaki Kobayashi |
As they are coming to me in my head...
Terrence Malick Stanley Kubrick Vittorio De Sica Federico Fellini Jean-Luc Godard Fritz Lang Akira Kurosawa Alfred Hitchcock Jean-Pierre Melville Jules Dassin Paul Thomas Anderson Martin Scorsese Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger Ingmar Bergman Rainer Werner Fassbinder Billy Wilder John Ford Luis Buñuel Andrei Tarkovsky Robert Bresson Bernardo Bertolucci François Truffaut John Huston Carl Theodore Dreyer F.W. Murnau G.W. Pabst Joel Coen Ethan Coen Jim Jarmusch Alfonso Cuaron Guy Richie Tim Burton Noah Baumbach Michael Mann David Lean Quentin Tarantino Wim Wenders Steven Soderbergh David Fincher Howard Hawks Luchino Visconti Yasujiro Ozu Jean Renoir Robert Altman Richard Linklater Orson Welles Spike Lee Wes Anderson Brad Anderson Christopher Nolan David Gordon Green That's enough for now. |
William Friedkin
Stanley Kubrick David Fincher Oliver Stone John Huston Werner Herzog Martin Scorcese Woody Allen Alfred Hitchcock Todd Solondz Paul Thomas Anderson John Boorman Akira Kurosawa Francis Ford Coppola Jim Jarmusch Michael Mann David Cronenberg Coen Bros. Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Brad Anderson |
Off the top of my head, ten favorites in no particular order:
Fuller Preston Sturges Mizoguchi Carpenter Nicholas Ray Hitchcock Cassavetes Renoir Murnau Tarr |
My criterion is any director who has made at least two films I like a lot, or three or more good ones. No particular order:
Claude Chabrol Martin Scorsese Andrei Tarkovsky Michael Haneke Abbas Kiarostami Frank Perry Bob Clark (for his three classic '70s horror flicks) Francis Coppola Peter Watkins Eric Till John Carpenter Woody Allen Ingmar Bergman John Woo (HK output only) Carroll Ballard Nikolas Refn Nicolas Roeg Claude Miller Ken Loach Dario Argento Volker Schlöndorff Fred Walton Sidney Lumet Sidney Hayers William Fruet Joseph Larraz Walter Hill Anne Fontaine Allan King Rainer Fassbinder John Frankenheimer Luigi Bazzoni Corey Yuen Jean Pierre Lefebvre James Foley Robert Epstein Martin Bell Gianni Amelio Henri Verneuil George Romero Jack Smight Alan Pakula Wes Craven David Mamet Laurent Cantet Francesco Rosi Robert Altman Krzysztof Kieslowski Dardenne Brothers |
i was about to post no one had mentioned Mizoguchi...
then right at the end someone did... someone mentioned Kihachi Okamoto.. no mention of Hiroshi Inagaki?... that's surprising... not one mention of Yoji Yamada?... EDIT: oh yeah my favorite director is Andrei Tarkovsky... |
You guys are amazing! -biggrin-
Here are my top ten favourite directors of all time: Abbas Kiarostami Akira Kurosawa Andrei Tarkovsky David Fincher Federico Fellini Ingmar Bergman James Cameron Michelangelo Antonioni Ridley Scott Robert Bresson |
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