Favorite director by decade
 

What are your favorites during each decade?

40s-Orson Welles
50s-Jack Arnold
60s-Sergio Leone
70s-Enzo Castellari
80s-John Carpenter
90s-uhhh Carpenter

Re: Favorite director by decade
 

30s-Dwain Esper
40s-Sam Newfield
50s-Jack Arnold
60s-Russ Meyer
70s-Jack Hill
80s-Charles Band
90s-Man Kei Chin

:)

Re: Favorite director by decade
 

20s - Chaplin
30s - Renoir
40s - Hawks/Ford
50s - Bresson
60s - Godard
70s - Altman
80s - Wenders
90s - Wong
00s - Haneke

Re: Favorite director by decade
 

10s - George Méliès
20s - F.W. Murnau
30s - Josef von Sternberg
40s - Howard Hawks
50s - Akira Kurosawa
60s - Ingmar Bergman
70s - Andrei Tarkovsky
80s - John Carpenter
90s - David Fincher

Re: Favorite director by decade
 

20's Murnau
30's Tod Browning
40's Hitchcock
50's Hitchcock
60's Leone
70's Coppola
80's Spielberg/Cameron (tie)
90's Spielberg/Fincher (tie)
00's too many...Nolan, Fincher, del Toro, Jackson, Eastwood..

Re: Favorite director by decade
 

20s- F.W. Murnau
30's- James Whale
40's- John Huston
50's- Alfred Hitchcock
60's- Stanley Kubrick
70's- William Friedkin
80's- Martin Scorcese
90's- Oliver Stone
00's- Michael Haneke

Re: Favorite director by decade
 

30's- Lubitsch
40's- Welles
50's- ? (can't really stand 50's movies), maybe Cukor or Wilder?
60's- Kubrick
70's- Kubrick
80's- Woody Allen (Spielberg a close 2nd)
90's- P.T. Anderson (Tarantino a close 2nd)
00's- P.T. Anderson

Re: Favorite director by decade
 

yes b-movie greatness. and for 2nd picks of 60s and 70s i'd go for Jess Franco.

Re: Favorite director by decade
 

20s - F.W. Murnau
30s - James Whale
40s - Orson Welles
50s - Alfred Hitchock
60s - Seijun Suzuki
70s - Dario Argento
80s - John Woo
90s - P.T. Anderson
00s - Kar Wai Wong

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Man we're an elitist and snotty bunch about films and directors.

I love this forum.

Re: Favorite director by decade
 

30's - Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Shoedsack
40's - Otto Preminger
50's - Ishiro Honda
60's - Sergio Leone
70's - Michael Winner
80's - John Carpenter
90's - P.T. Anderson
00's - Guillermo del Toro

Re: Favorite director by decade
 

1940s/1950s - HITCHCOCK owned the 40s and 50s as far as I'm concerned. His output between 1940 and 1959 is like a greatest hits album.
1960s - KUBRICK - 2 of my top 10 favorite films during this time: 2001 and Dr. Strangelove.
1970s/1980s - TIE: SPIELBERG/CARPENTER. I can't choose. Jaws. Escape from New York. 3 Indiana Jones films. Halloween. Close Encounters. The Thing.
1990s - TARANTINO - Reservoir Dogs. Pulp Fiction. Jackie Brown. At least TWO of those defined 90s cinema, lol.
2000s - PETER JACKSON - Lord of the Rings. 'nuff said.

Re: Favorite director by decade
 

30's - Jules White
40's - John Huston
50's - William Wyler
60's - Sergio Leone
70's - William Friedkin
80's - Alan Parker
90's - Sam Raimi
00's - Clint Eastwood

Re: Favorite director by decade
 

1930s: Frank Capra
1940s: Howard Hawks (or John Ford, depending on whose '40s films I've seen most recently)
1950s: Robert Aldrich
1960s: Sergio Leone
1970s: Sam Peckinpah
1980s: Hayao Miyazaki
1990s: Quentin Tarantino
2000s: ? – no one yet