Five Favorite Directors?
07-29-12 | 01:21 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
Did it really take eleven posts before Scorsese's name was mentioned? That's surprising to me.
I still have a lot of films to see by a lot of different directors but here is a list:
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
Stanley Kubrick
The Coen Brothers
Werner Herzog
Terence Malick
Yes, I am aware that is six.
I still have a lot of films to see by a lot of different directors but here is a list:
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
Stanley Kubrick
The Coen Brothers
Werner Herzog
Terence Malick
Yes, I am aware that is six.
07-29-12 | 01:59 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
*Jules punches himself in the scrotum for forgetting The Coens, P.T.Anderson, Verhoeven, Edgar Wright...*
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07-29-12 | 02:53 PM
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07-29-12 | 03:04 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
Tarantino
Fincher
Kubrick
Hellenlotter
Anderson
Fincher
Kubrick
Hellenlotter
Anderson
07-29-12 | 03:25 PM
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by the way here is a poll done at another forum that I was actually looking at the other day
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=182938
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=182938
Spoiler:
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07-29-12 | 03:39 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
James Cameron
Quentin Tarantino
Guillermo del Toro
John Carpenter
Christopher Nolan
Quentin Tarantino
Guillermo del Toro
John Carpenter
Christopher Nolan
07-29-12 | 04:17 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
Kubrick
Scorsese
Hitchcock
Kurosawa
Altman
Scorsese
Hitchcock
Kurosawa
Altman
07-29-12 | 04:19 PM
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Ridley Scott
Stanley Kubrick
David Lean
Steven Spielberg-for all the movies he made when I was a kid and teen
Oliver Stone-all pre 2004 output
Stanley Kubrick
David Lean
Steven Spielberg-for all the movies he made when I was a kid and teen
Oliver Stone-all pre 2004 output
07-29-12 | 05:03 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
Malick
Kubrick
Coens
Spielberg
Weir
I must say, I'm happy and not just a little surprised to see Spielberg's name mentioned more than a few times in this thread, even by certain "cinephile snobs" or those who'd like to be seen as such. He's an artist who wears it on the sleeve and makes no excuses for it, time and again. A certain mindset wants to hate his films, because being cynical really is that much easier, but the man wins you over time and again because his genius and understanding of the camera is undeniable.
Kubrick
Coens
Spielberg
Weir
I must say, I'm happy and not just a little surprised to see Spielberg's name mentioned more than a few times in this thread, even by certain "cinephile snobs" or those who'd like to be seen as such. He's an artist who wears it on the sleeve and makes no excuses for it, time and again. A certain mindset wants to hate his films, because being cynical really is that much easier, but the man wins you over time and again because his genius and understanding of the camera is undeniable.
07-29-12 | 05:26 PM
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Sam Peckinpah
Ernst Lubitsch
John Cassavetes
Werner Herzog
John Huston
Ernst Lubitsch
John Cassavetes
Werner Herzog
John Huston
07-29-12 | 05:48 PM
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Edited it down to my 5 favorites. Damn rules.
Ridley Scott
John Carpenter
Steven Spielberg
Stanley Kubrick
Quentin Tarantino
Ridley Scott
John Carpenter
Steven Spielberg
Stanley Kubrick
Quentin Tarantino
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07-29-12 | 06:25 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
I must say, I'm happy and not just a little surprised to see Spielberg's name mentioned more than a few times in this thread, even by certain "cinephile snobs" or those who'd like to be seen as such. He's an artist who wears it on the sleeve and makes no excuses for it, time and again. A certain mindset wants to hate his films, because being cynical really is that much easier, but the man wins you over time and again because his genius and understanding of the camera is undeniable.
07-29-12 | 07:06 PM
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Ash Ketchum---I'm not sure how many Chang Cheh movies I own---certainly over 50. I think he was often a bit of a lazy, sloppy director, but I rank him highly because to me, he was a true artist. He was obssessed with communicating certain themes, values and images that were deeply important and meaningful to him.
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07-29-12 | 07:08 PM
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I must say, I'm happy and not just a little surprised to see Spielberg's name mentioned more than a few times in this thread, even by certain "cinephile snobs" or those who'd like to be seen as such. He's an artist who wears it on the sleeve and makes no excuses for it, time and again. A certain mindset wants to hate his films, because being cynical really is that much easier, but the man wins you over time and again because his genius and understanding of the camera is undeniable.
07-29-12 | 08:33 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
Hitchcock
Michael Mann
Spielberg
Fincher
Woody Allen
Michael Mann
Spielberg
Fincher
Woody Allen
07-29-12 | 08:35 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
Okay so far here are the top vote getters....
1) Kubrick (19)
2) Spielberg (12)
3) Tarantino (11)
3) Hitchcock (11)
5) Kurosawa (10)
6) Scorsese (9)
7) Nolan (7)
8) Herzog (6)
8) Coen Bros. (6)
If you listed more than five directors, without making a stipulation, I didn't count your vote. Sorry the rules are the rules.
1) Kubrick (19)
2) Spielberg (12)
3) Tarantino (11)
3) Hitchcock (11)
5) Kurosawa (10)
6) Scorsese (9)
7) Nolan (7)
8) Herzog (6)
8) Coen Bros. (6)
If you listed more than five directors, without making a stipulation, I didn't count your vote. Sorry the rules are the rules.
07-29-12 | 08:45 PM
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Not to turn this into a Spielberg thread, but I don't think "it's easy being cynical" is a fair criticism of people who dislike many of Spielberg's schmaltzier tendencies. I do love some of his movies, but too many of them are brought down by his own inability to trust his own audience.
However everything post-Raiders that he has done, I have varying degrees of disdain for and it wouldn't trouble me greatly if I never had a chance to see them again for the rest of my life.
The one name I really hated to leave off was Richard Brooks (The Professionals, Bite The Bullet, Elmer Gantry, $, Lord Jim , Looking For Mr. Goodbar) who like Joe Mankiewicz also wrote most of the (great)movies he directed.
I've loved most everything I've seen by him and his association to a picture is a mark of quality for me. In fact, I should swap out Kubrick for him at some point.
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07-29-12 | 08:51 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
Akira Kurosawa
David Cronenberg
Stanley Kubrick
Ingmar Bergman
Takashi Miike
David Cronenberg
Stanley Kubrick
Ingmar Bergman
Takashi Miike