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Old 07-30-12 | 07:40 AM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
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Glad to see someone mention Lumet, a very underrated director. I just watched Prince of the City again this weekend....what a great film!
Love Prince of the City and Q&A.
Both underrated Lumet films.
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Old 07-30-12 | 09:11 AM
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Love Prince of the City and Q&A.
Both underrated Lumet films.
DDA and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead faves of mine
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Old 07-30-12 | 11:08 AM
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These are the 5 directors who I always look forward to see what they are doing next. I havent seen a whole lot of movies prior to the 80s so im leaving a whole bunch of directors off my list.

Steven Spielberg
Guillermo Del Toro
David Fincher
Christopher Nolan
Danny Boyle
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Old 07-30-12 | 11:58 AM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
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IMO favorite & best are the same.
Based upon your list the only director I would consider top 25 material would be Kubrick.
John Waters is one of my favorite directors. He consistently directs hilarious films with over the top occurrences and unforgettable actors.

I would in no way call him one of the best directors of all time, though.
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Old 07-30-12 | 12:05 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
William Friedkin
Sam Raimi
Don Seigel
Walter Hill
Barry Shear
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Old 07-30-12 | 12:06 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
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John Waters is one of my favorite directors. He consistently directs hilarious films with over the top occurrences and unforgettable actors.

I would in no way call him one of the best directors of all time, though.
Yeah 'best' and 'favorite' can and often should be worlds apart.
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Old 07-30-12 | 12:45 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
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Yeah 'best' and 'favorite' can and often should be worlds apart.
yes...Ed Wood is one of my favorite directors and I constantly re-watch his films but he would not make anybody's best director list.
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Paul Thomas Anderson
Christopher Nolan
The coen Brothers
Quentin Tarantino
john carpenter
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John Carpenter
Ishiro Honda
Sam Peckinpah
David Lynch
David Cronenberg
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Old 08-24-12 | 03:18 PM
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Spielberg, Hitchcock, Mel Brooks, Chris Nolan, Scorsese
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Old 08-24-12 | 03:23 PM
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Coen Brothers
Christopher Nolan
David Fincher
John Carpenter
John Huston
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Old 08-24-12 | 04:02 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
My top five, along with my favorites films, my very favorite film first:

Alfred Hitchcock (The Birds, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho, Spellbound, Marnie, many more)
Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West...hell, all of them!)
The Coens (Miller's Crossing, A Serious Man, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy)
Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, Straw Dogs)
Orson Welles (Citizen Kane (of course), Touch of Evil, Magnificent Ambersons, The Stranger)

Also one of these will occasionally take a spot in the top five, depending on where I'm at:

Billy Wilder
Sam Fuller
Errol Morris
Brian De Palma
Peter Greenaway
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Old 08-24-12 | 04:21 PM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
Originally Posted by mike7162
Alfred Hitchcock
Sergio Leone
The Coens
Sam Peckinpah
Orson Welles
These would be my selections as well.
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Old 08-25-12 | 03:15 AM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
Werner Herzog
Sam Peckinpah
John Cassavetes
Dennis Hopper
Samuel Fuller
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Old 08-25-12 | 05:33 AM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
Akira Kurosawa
Guillermo Del Toro
Christopher Nolan
Stanley Kubrick
Quentin Tarantino
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Old 08-25-12 | 11:52 AM
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Re: Five Favorite Directors?
Alfred Hitchcock
John Ford
Sam Peckinpah
Mario Bava
Robert Wise
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