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br3ad_man

01-14-2006, 06:39 AM

Liberi Fatali

01-14-2006, 06:41 AM

Ah I love it that you gave Akira Kurosawa got a mention! Yojimbo has to be one of the coolest movies I've ever seen, and Seven Samurai is another classic Toshiro Mifune film.

I might compile a list in the morning. Although really I'd be better at creating a top ten movie soundtrack composers list.

SKiLLeDcs

01-14-2006, 07:03 AM

Liberi Fatali

01-14-2006, 07:22 AM

Lord of The Rings Trilogy soundtrack FTW.... Or Gladiator.
Howard Shore and Hans Zimmer are both good composers. (Shore did LOTR, Zimmer did Gladiator). They'd probably be both on my top ten behind John Williams of course and some others.

bradc1988

01-14-2006, 07:38 AM

I don't really know directors so I think I'll just put the directors of my favourite movies down. These are in no particular order.

1. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Kill Bill)
2. Guy Ritchie (Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch)
3. Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn)
4. Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park)
5. David Fincher (Seven, The Game, Fight Club)

I'll edit it later

Who's the Boss?

01-14-2006, 07:44 AM

Post your top 5 favourite film directors, with a few films they have done and possibly with a description of why they are your favourites.

Here's mine off the top of my head, it'll probably change.

1. Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love)
2. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining)
3. Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manhattan)
4. Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride)
5. Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, Psycho)
6. Lars Von Trier (Dancer In The Dark, Dogville)
7. Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo)
8. Joel Coen (The Big Lebowski, Fargo)
9. Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby)
10. Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Spy Kids, El Mariachi)

Good list, prepare to get questioned on not having Peter Jackson or Quinten Tarantino on it. I don't think Tarantino would make it on my top ten either and Jackson only has one really solid film in Heavenly Creatures imo.

I'll do mine later.

SKiLLeDcs

01-14-2006, 09:14 AM

Howard Shore and Hans Zimmer are both good composers. (Shore did LOTR, Zimmer did Gladiator). They'd probably be both on my top ten behind John Williams of course and some others.

Yeah I know that.... I've got the soundtracks on my PC.

I think Trevor Rabin is decent aswell. He's done Con Air, Gone in 60 Seconds, and Bad Company.

Con Air and Gone in 60 Seconds kind of sound a little the same though.

apple pie

01-14-2006, 09:16 AM

Lucas (Star Wars)
Spielberg
Jackson (LOTR)
Hughes (Ferris Buelleur)
Soderug (Oceans 11)

SKiLLeDcs

01-14-2006, 09:18 AM

Lucas (Star Wars)
Spielberg
Jackson (LOTR)
Hughes (Ferris Buelleur)
Soderug (Oceans 11)

Spielberg has done many great movies. Saving Private Ryan is pretty damn good though.

telemore

01-14-2006, 09:41 AM

Post your top 5 favourite film directors, with a few films they have done and possibly with a description of why they are your favourites.

Here's mine off the top of my head, it'll probably change.

1. Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love)
2. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining)
3. Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manhattan)
4. Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride)
5. Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, Psycho)
6. Lars Von Trier (Dancer In The Dark, Dogville)
7. Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo)
8. Joel Coen (The Big Lebowski, Fargo)
9. Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby)
10. Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Spy Kids, El Mariachi)

Nice list.

Here's mine:

6 Adrian Lyne (Jacob's Ladder and Unfaithful)
5 Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch Drunk Love)
4 Quentin Tarantino (Resevoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction)
3 David Lynch (Mulholland Dr.)
2 Stanley Kubrick (Clockwork Orange and Eyes Wide Shut)
1 Gus Van Sant (Elephant)

EDIT: I forgot Gus Van Sant. Amazing.

Mr Hangman

01-14-2006, 10:03 AM

Quentin Tarantino

Badmoon

01-14-2006, 10:26 AM

Joel Coen
Quentin Tarantino
Martin Scorsese
Spike Jonze
Fernando Meirelles
Sam Mendes
Charlie Chaplin
Francis Ford Coppola
Spike Lee
George Clooney

Probably not in that order.

Dog

01-14-2006, 10:27 AM

EightMilesHigh

01-14-2006, 11:00 AM

I can't believe me and Badmoon are the only ones to mention Scorsese.

telemore

01-14-2006, 11:11 AM

I can't believe me and Badmoon are the only ones to mention Scorsese.
oshi.

I forgot. I haven't seen any of his work in a while tho, which is prolly the reason.

Taxi Driver is amazing.

GiB

01-14-2006, 11:24 AM

1. Steven Spielberg ( Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park Series )
2. Peter Jackson (LOTR Series, King King, Evil Dead, Bad Taste )
3. George A Romero ( Land of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, etc. )
4. Quentin Tarantino ( Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs )
5. Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel)

SKiLLeDcs

01-14-2006, 12:36 PM

Who directed heat and collateral again?? I can't quite remember.

I thought both were very good movies.

Ally

01-14-2006, 12:57 PM

Who directed heat and collateral again?? I can't quite remember.

I thought both were very good movies.

Micheal Mann

These are the only directors whose films I liked enough to take not of the director

Robert Rodriguez (for the el mariachi series, not sin city)
Oliver Stone (JKF and Platoon)
Francis Ford Coppala (sp?)(Apoc now)
Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones)
Stanley Kubrick(Dr Strangelove and The Shining)

AA-12

01-14-2006, 01:01 PM

Peter Jackson
Steven Spielberg
George Lucas
George Romero
Quentin Tarantino

Kurtz

01-14-2006, 01:12 PM

1. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver)
2. Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon)
3. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now)
4. The Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, Fargo, O Brother, Where Are Thou?)
5. David Lynch (Mulholland Dr., Blue Velvet, Eraserhead)

Honorable Mentions:

Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Roman Polanski (The Pianist, Chinatown)

Robert Crumb

01-14-2006, 01:37 PM

Nice list, br3ad.

Nice list yerself.

1. Luis Bunuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Belle De Jour)
2. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)
3. David Lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet)
4. Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket)
5. Alfred Htichcock (Rear Window, Psycho)
6. Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors)
7. Pedro Almodovar (The Bad Education, Talk to Her)
8. Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America)
9. War Kong Wai (2046, In the Mood For Love)
10. Jim Jaramusch (Broken Flowers, Dead Man)

Jawaharal

01-14-2006, 01:39 PM

Scorsese
Kubrick
and whoever directed Shawshank Redemntion.

simplephotographinthesun

01-14-2006, 02:05 PM

Scorsese
Kubrick
and whoever directed Shawshank Redemntion.

darabont

simplephotographinthesun

01-14-2006, 02:09 PM

in no particular order

tarantino
christopher nolan
danny boyle
steven spielberg
stanley kubrick
scorcese
anthony minghella
spike lee
Meirelles
sam raimi

YoungSavage77

01-14-2006, 02:24 PM

2. Peter Jackson (LOTR Series, King King, Evil Dead, Bad Taste )

Peter Jackson didn't do Evil Dead. You probably meant Dead Alive/Braindead. :P

As for my favorite directors.. along the top are..
John Carpenter
Sam Raimi
George A Romero
Peter Jackson
Wes Craven

+3kk!

01-14-2006, 02:29 PM

i'm surprised no one mentioned :

james cameron (terminator 1,2. titanic, aliens)
ridley scott ( blade runner, alien, gladiator)

i dont know much about movies but those two are good

Illmatic

01-14-2006, 02:36 PM

Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing, He Got Game, Bamboozled, Jungle Fever)
Martin Scorcese (Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Cape Fear, Taxi Driver)
Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather, Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now)
Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider, Collateral)
Michael Winner (Death Wish I-III)

smart blockhead

01-14-2006, 03:41 PM

Wes Anderson
Stanley Kubrick
Quentin Tarantino
Scorcese
Spielberg

JohnXDoe

01-14-2006, 04:06 PM

Off the top of my head:

Woody Allen (In fifty years his films will still hold up and be relevant)

Oliver Stone (Radical Hollywood filmaker. His recent epic bomb Alexander not withstanding)

Clint Eastwood (Cold and unflinching in his best work. Unforgiven is a great example of this)

David Fincher (Seven, The Game, Alien3, Fight Club, Panic Room. Dark, artistic, and commercial)

Martin Scorcese (If you don't know, I ain't tellin' ya)

Steven Spielberg (Great all around filmaker. It seems no genre is beyond his grasp)

Paul Thomas Anderson (Another one with an unflinching eye. Bravado filmaking at it's best)

Joel Coen (Makes it funny, sad, touching, and meaningful all at the same time)

Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road To Perdition, Jarhead. That's what I call a great start. Boundless talent)

Micheal Mann (Stylish, clear, dramatic, and a master at suspense. Nice flair. Rent The Insider and watch how he makes Russel Crowe reading the phone book exciting)

Didn't bother with the dead ones....

smart blockhead

01-14-2006, 04:19 PM

conspiracy_rocker3

01-14-2006, 05:11 PM

Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai, Ikiru
Hayao Miyazaki - Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away
Giuseppe Tornatore - Cinema Paradiso, The Legend of 1900
Werner Herzog - Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Nosferatu. Phantom Der. Nacht
Kinji Fukasaku - Battle Royale, Graveyard of Honor
Masaki Kobayashi - Kwaidan, The Human Condition
Ingmar Bergman - The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries
Jim Jarmusch - Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket

Liberi Fatali

01-14-2006, 05:13 PM

1. Francis Ford Coppola (Rumble Fish, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation)
2. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas)
3. Peter Jackson (Bad Taste, Lord of the Rings)
4. Yimou Zhang (House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Raise the Red Lantern)
5. Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Ran)
6. Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love)
7. John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween)
8. Kar Wai Wong (2046, In the Mood for Love)
9. Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption)
10. Kei Kumai (The Long Darkness, Deep River)

I kind of mashed up the order really.

Jackson only has one really solid film in Heavenly Creatures imo.
I'm putting him on my list for Bad Taste alone, and well I'm a Kiwi.

Who's the Boss?

01-14-2006, 06:27 PM

1.Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, Vertigo)
2.Dario Argento (Deep Red, Tenebre)
3.Stanley Kubrick (The Shining, A Clockwork Orange)
4.Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Black Sabbath)
5.Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Ran)
6.Martin Scorcese (Goodfellas, Taxi Driver)
7.David Cronenberg (The Dead Zone, The Fly, A History of Violence)
8.Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Kairo, Cure, Seance)
9.John Carpenter (In the Mouth of Madness, Escape from New York)
10.Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now, Dracula)

Honorable Mentions

11.Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Shindler's List, Poltergeist)
12.Michele Soavi (Stage Fright, Dellamorte Dellamore)
13.Takashi Miike (Audition, One Missed Call, Ichi the Killer)
14.Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Machinist)
15.James Cameron (Aliens, Strange Days, Terminator 2)

I could see Kiyoshi Kurosawa moving up to my top 3 in the future.

Digital Boy

01-14-2006, 08:09 PM

HazMan

01-14-2006, 09:20 PM

1. David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive)
2. Steven Spielberg (Schindlers List)
3. Hitchcock (Rope, Frenzy etc)
4. Oliver Stone (The Doors, Platoon)
5. Francis Ford Coppola (Koyaaniqatsi, Apocalypse Now)

Many many others but this all i can name right now,

Four Ton Mantis

01-14-2006, 09:53 PM

yeah...

1. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)
2. Marty Scorsese (Casino)
3. Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo)
4. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather: Part II)

thedeadwalk!

01-15-2006, 02:45 AM

In no particular order:

Todd Solondz (Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Palindromes)
Martin Scorsese (Bringing Out the Dead, Taxi Driver, Casino, Goodfellas)
Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill)
Joel Coen (The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Fargo)
Terry Gilliam (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits, Brazil)
George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, The Crazies, Martin)
Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer)
Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein)
Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, Sin City)
Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic)

br3ad_man

01-15-2006, 07:07 AM

Nice list, br3ad.

1. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, So many classics)
2. David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr., Elephant Man, Eraserhead)
3. The Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Fargo)
4. Federico Fellini (8 ½, Nights of Cabiria)
5. Kar Wai Wong (Chungking Express, 2046)
6. Wes Anderson (The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Rushmore)
7. Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, Psycho)
8. Darren Aronofsky (Requiem For A Dream, Pi)
9. Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt, Pierrot le fou, Band of Outsiders)
10. Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love)

Fellini is wonderful. At least 8 ½ is, I haven't seen any of his other films.

I see a lot of people listing Wes Anderson. Can someone explain the appeal of him to me? His films always seem so forced to me and they all seem to be quirky for the sake of quirkiness.

Thanks to everyone who said I had a good list...everyone single one of you have great lists too. Woody Allen deserves more love though :(.

Liberi Fatali

01-15-2006, 07:12 AM

I need to watch some Woody Allen movies, I haven't really explored anything by him yet. I just don't know quite where to start exploring.

JohnXDoe

01-15-2006, 07:14 AM

Woody Allen deserves more love though :(.
The Woodman deserves all the love. Many of his films are timeless classics even at this early date. You can just tell they will hold up. Very profound filmaker and screenwriter.
I need to watch some Woody Allen movies, I haven't really explored anything by him yet. I just don't know quite where to start exploring.
Check out Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Purple Rose Of Cairo, Radio Days, and Broadway Danny Rose. Also Hannah And Her Sisters and Husbands And Wives. I could go on, but the list will be very long. Also see Bullets Over Broadway and Manhatten. That's a good well rounded start.

Werny

01-15-2006, 11:51 AM

I'm not sure if he fits in this thread, but Don Hertzfeldt is an amazing director. All his animations are meticulously hand-drawn by himself without the aid of any computers. I'm so glad he's finally compiling his works on a DVD sometime soon.

Is this a sarcastic post, or has he actually done serious things? Is he not the guy who did the Rejected video?

MY SPOOON
IS TOOOOO BIG!

My favourite directors... I know absolutely nothing about film-making, but I love works by

Ridley Scott
James Cameron
Robert Rodriguez
Stanley Kubrick
David Fincher

A very commercial and typical list, I know, but as I know nothing about the film-making process I have no idea what a director really does.

SotR

03-10-2007, 06:28 PM

Woody Allen
Ingmar Bergman
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
Alfred Hitchcock
Sergei Leone
Federico Fellini
Joel Coen
Akira Kurosawa
Martin Scorcese

yay.

das efx

03-10-2007, 07:32 PM

I'm going to go ahead and say Steven Spielberg is my fav. Imo he's the best mix of auteur and mainstreaming directing, he's a great american storyteller.

Seafroggys

03-11-2007, 01:43 AM

Nice bump....

some of my favorite directors are Spielberg (such a genius), Kubrick (Strangelove and 2001), and Richard Lester (Hard Day's Night, How I Won the War).

Der Übermensch

03-11-2007, 03:01 AM

In no real order, except for #1:
Kubrick
Fellini
Polanski
Lynch
Coppola
Leone
Kurasawa
Hitchcock
Lang
Welles

Visconti and Ford also deserve note, but aren't on the list. Visconti I can't justify, cause it based soley on one film (Il Gattopardo), and Ford because I hate John Wayne with a passion, and he's in most of Fords movies...

2muchket!

03-11-2007, 07:53 AM

Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, From Dusk Till Dawn)
Hayao Miyazaki (Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away)
Hideaki Anno (The End Of Evangelion, Ceremonail Day)
Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs Of New York)

Yep theres some of my fav

telemore

03-12-2007, 03:07 AM

Nice list.

Here's mine:

6 Adrian Lyne (Jacob's Ladder and Unfaithful)
5 Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch Drunk Love)
4 Quentin Tarantino (Resevoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction)
3 David Lynch (Mulholland Dr.)
2 Stanley Kubrick (Clockwork Orange and Eyes Wide Shut)
1 Gus Van Sant (Elephant)

EDIT: I forgot Gus Van Sant. Amazing.

omg horrible list lol. funny how a year and some movie watching changes ya :)

In no order - there's no way i could pick a favorite but here's five directors who i verily enjoy.

Frederico Fellini
Andrei Tarkovsky
David Cronenberg
David Lynch
Stanley Kubrick

there's more that i need to get into like kurosawa and bergman >: l

and godard and and and and and

AlienEater

03-12-2007, 11:58 AM

bergman is awesome

pretty good list too

Tillius

03-12-2007, 12:21 PM

Quentin Tarantino
David Lynch
Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg

Weezer

03-12-2007, 01:50 PM

1 Gus Van Sant (Elephant)

I thought that movie was really boring. Has he done anything else?

talk show host

03-12-2007, 01:58 PM

I thought that movie was really boring. Has he done anything else?

My Own Private Idaho is really good. It's quite trippy and less slow than Elephant and it has a unique feel about it.

That said, I quite like Elephant. Better than Last Days anyway.

superpeer

03-12-2007, 02:02 PM

Only Gus Van Sant film I've seen was Last Days, which was one of the worst things I've ever seen.

I just like the cliché directors, Tarantino, Kubrick, Coen Brothers.

2muchket!

03-12-2007, 03:05 PM

Anno and Miyazaki are both quality directors. I've yet to see any of their collaborations but I hope to

JohnXDoe

03-12-2007, 11:02 PM

Woody Allen - Broadway Danny Rose
Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull/Taxi Driver/The Departed
Edward Zwick - Glory/Blood Diamond
Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia/Boogie Nights
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven/White Hunter, Black Heart
David Lynch - Blue Velvet/Wild At Heart/Fire Walk With Me/The Elephant Man
Coen Bros. - Fargo/Millers Crossing/Hudsucker Proxy
Steven Speilberg - The Color Purple/Close Encounters Of The Third Kind/Schindlers List
Oliver Stone - Born On The Fourth Of July/Heaven And Earth/Natural Born Killers
John Waters - Hairspray/Pecker

LordBenne

03-12-2007, 11:15 PM

My top 10:

1. Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Stranglove, 2001, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and soon Grindhouse
3. Martin Scorcese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, Goodfellas, The Departed)
4. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
5. Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)
6. Akira Kurasowa (Rashomon)
7. Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma)
8. Alfonso Cuaron (Y tu mama tambien, Harry Potter 3, Children of Men)
9. Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later)
10. Tim Burton (Nightmare Before Christmas, even if he didn't actually direct it, Batman, Ed Wood, Corpse Bride. Those are all good enough to make me forget about Planet of the Apes.)

JohnXDoe

03-12-2007, 11:40 PM

^ your list reminds me of how 10 just isn't enough. Full Metal Jacket is my favorite film ever, the Shining one of my favorites.

telemore

03-13-2007, 12:53 AM

i stopped at five cause i was having a brain fart. :upset:

i really liked Elephant it's like srsly one of my favorite films ever

omg I forgot Gasper Noe!! Irreversible undoubtedly. and when i can get my hands on it, I Stand Alone. Man i can't wait to see that. : )

Flynn

03-13-2007, 06:48 PM

1. Quinten Tarantino (Four Rooms - Chester Rush (segment "The Man from Hollywood")
2. James Cameron (Aliens)
3. Steven Spielberg (Empire Of The Sun)
4. Ridley Scott (Legend)
5. Martin Scorsese (Casino)

funkyhoney

03-14-2007, 01:39 AM

Stanley Kubrick - Great ideas, concepts and practises
James Cameron - Fantastic stories, action and use of SFX
Francis Ford Copolla - Beautiful story telling
Sam Raim - Original ideas and great creativity
Guillermo del Toro - Beautifully graphic

telemore

03-14-2007, 01:47 AM

could we have some whys itt please? l ike it would further discussion amongst ourselves

simplephotographinthesun

03-15-2007, 12:54 AM

any love for godard, truffaut, or renoir?

telemore

03-15-2007, 02:31 AM

ooo i'm very interested in getting into all of the above

but money's a bitch and criterion collection is expensive lol. i allow my self a few dvds a month. :upset:

simplephotographinthesun

03-15-2007, 07:39 PM

ooo i'm very interested in getting into all of the above

but money's a bitch and criterion collection is expensive lol. i allow my self a few dvds a month. :upset:

i highly recommend le grande illusion (renoir) or 400 blows (truffaut). i still need me some godard

black guy

03-15-2007, 08:37 PM

ooo i'm very interested in getting into all of the above

but money's a bitch and criterion collection is expensive lol. i allow my self a few dvds a month. :upset:

you should get netflix

MattSharpIsCool

03-15-2007, 10:08 PM

Stanley Kubrick is easily my favorite director. 2001 by itself would be enough to merit that, than you throw in everything else he's done.

After him, I dont really put them in order. But here are some of them...

Kevin Smith for both Clerks movies. The first is a classic, and the second is pretty much on par with the first. A bit more mainstream, maybe dumbed down a little bit, but it's still great. However, except for Dogma, I'm not a huge fan of his other stuff.

The usuals mentioned in this thread...Coppola, Scorcese, Spielberg, Ridley Scott, like I said...the usuals.

And even though he didn't officially "direct" all of the movies, I've gotta put George Lucas on the list. Star Wars is probably the grandest series of movies ever put together. American Graffitti is also a good movie.

Oh, and what would be the best David Lynch movie to start with? I've heard so much about him but never seen any of his movies. Someone suggested Mullholland Drive, anything else?

Hebrew Hammer

03-15-2007, 10:12 PM

Oh, and what would be the best David Lynch movie to start with? I've heard so much about him but never seen any of his movies. Someone suggested Mullholland Drive, anything else?

Uhhh.... Borat? lol

The Elephant Man and Eraserhead also come to mind.

Matt?

03-15-2007, 10:32 PM

I can't believe me and Badmoon are the only ones to mention Scorsese.

i was thinking the same thing as i read down...

i recently re watched casino. what a movie.

Henry Fonda

03-15-2007, 10:38 PM

i recently saw raging bull in a theatre, i think i mentioned scorsese above

AlienEater

03-16-2007, 12:10 PM

Uhhh.... Borat? lol

The Elephant Man and Eraserhead also come to mind.

yeah eraserhead rules

Steerpike

03-17-2007, 03:06 AM

1. Robert Rodriguez. (Sin City, Grindhouse) This man pulls off miracles with the budgets he's given and knows how to get some magical performances from his actors.
2. David Fincher. (Zodiac) If you watched Fight Club and cannot say that you were entertained, you can no longer call yourself heterosexual. His noir-esque visual style and eye for suspense are just amazing.
3. Christopher Nolan. (The Prestige) He's got an awesome eye for intricate stories, and a unique vision that you can tell is him within the first minute of the film.
4. George Romero. (Land of the Dead) I love you.
5. Sam Raimi. (Spider Man 3) One of the most uncompromisingly original directors of our time or any other.
6. Francis Ford Coppola. (Bram Stoker's Dracula) An absolutely beautiful visual style and a great knack for photography.
7. Billy Wilder. (Sunset Boulevard) One of the pioneers of film noir, and a storyteller par excellence.
8. Akira Kurosawa. (Seven Samurai) I could write a whole essay on what made this man so great at his art.
9. Roger Corman. (Little Shop of Horrors) Say what you want about Corman, that man revolutionized independent film and he gave a lot of struggling filmmakers and actors their start. ****, he gave the world people like Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Nicholson.
10. Hayao Miyazaki. (Spirited Away) The worlds he envisions are among the most unique I've ever seen and his style is one of the most distinctive in modern animation.

Interstate

03-17-2007, 03:32 PM

My list is in no specific order but here it is anyway:

1.) John Huston (Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, The Asphalt Jungle)
2.) Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, Psycho, Rope)
3.) Steven Spielberg (Jaws, E.T, Jurassic Park)
4.) Howard Hawks (Rio Bravo, The Big Sleep, Scarface: The Shame Of A Nation)
5.) John Landis (The Blues Brothers, American Werewolf In London, Beverley Hills Cop)
6.) Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, Sin City)
7.) Quentin Tarantino (Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
8.) Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino)
9.) Orson Welles (The Lady From Shanghai, Citizen Kane, Touch Of Evil)
10.) Brian De Palma (Carlito's Way, Scarface, Mission Impossible)

That's the 10 I could think of off the top of my head.

AlienEater

03-18-2007, 08:39 AM

Roger Corman

he's awesome

ATC

03-23-2007, 05:42 AM

My favorite filmmakers (in no particular order)

Pedro Almodovar (Bad Education, Live Flesh, Woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown, Volver) - Such soul. A very female-centric filmmaker.
Bertrand Bonello (Tiresia, The Pornographer) - Its like watching a sparse, beautiful poem, watching his work.
Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Cronos, Devil's Backbone) - Extraordinary command of the fantastic.
Alejandro Inarritu (Amores Perros, 21 grams) - A master of narrative and thematic unity.
Danny Boyle (Vacuuming completely nude in paradise, Trainspotting, 28 days later) - The greatest director of working-class angst, trippy and awesome.
Stanley Kubrick (Clockwork Orange, The Shining) - Classic.
Julie Taymor (Titus, Frida) - Drama-like in intensity, beautiful direction.
Liev Schreiber (Everything is illuminated, Sphere, Painted Veil) - Sketchy choice of movies but the ones he does well, he does really well.
Michel Gondry (Science of sleep, Eternal Sunshine) - Man's a comic genius while still being poignant.
Gus Van Sant (Elephant, Finding Forrester, My own private Idaho)

badtaste

03-23-2007, 06:14 AM

could we have some whys itt please? l ike it would further discussion amongst ourselves

Welcome to my MX life. I can't stand when people are more interested in their post count, rather then getting discussion going on.

My knowledge of movie directors is verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry poor, but I'll go for the usuals and regulars including:
Scorsese (yeh, you know why, no explanation necessary here)
Lucas (mainly for his visions and involvement with special effects)
Kubrick (See Scorsese)
Coppola (See Kubrick)

A few asian directors:
Ang Lee: Pretty good stuff here. 'Eat Drink Man Woman', 'The Ice Storm', 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. Fugged up with 'The Hulk' though.

ZHang Yimou: His Wuxia films were pretty cool. Beautiful stuff. Basically, a rep of the chinese style of visual presentation.

Wong Kar-wai: also been impressing with '2046' and 'In the Mood for Love '

Meatplow

03-23-2007, 06:21 AM

yeah i'd go indepth but theres no point

The most influential film makers in my life are Lynch, Spielberg and Scorcese. Their films have entertained me time after time.

badtaste

03-23-2007, 06:37 AM

yeah i'd go indepth but theres no point

The most influential film makers in my life are Lynch, Spielberg and Scorcese. Their films have entertained me time after time.

No worries, you're excused.

I'm ashamed to say it, but I have not exposed myself to Lynch's work. WHat's more annoying is that the movie museum/gallery here (Australian Centre for the moving image) had an special few month dedicated to his works. And I missed out. Oh well. Yeah, read and hear about his stuff all the time, but have just never gotten around to it.

mannybeinmanny

03-23-2007, 09:16 AM

favorite film by each director in parentheses

in no particular order except #1

1. Martin Scorcese (Raging Bull) - no explanation needed, the man is a master behind the camera and he is amazing at storytelling and developing characters
2. Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in the West) - beautiful, beautiful camerawork; is able to take a story that a hack would blow through in 90 minutes and stretch it out into something epic; great at creating an intense atmosphere
3. Fernando Meirelles (City of God) - will probably be the best director of our generation
4. Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing) - at his best, he is totally uncompromising and asks a lot of tough questions in his films
5. Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch) - few can do action better...
6. John Woo (The Killer) - ...and he might be one of them
7. Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove) - capable of pulling off almost any genre
8. Michael Mann (Heat or The Insider) - great eye as a director, great at making thrillers that move at the right pace
9. Wes Anderson - haha just kidding, he ****ing sucks
9. Akira Kurosawa (Ran)
10. Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather Part II) - only did three good movies, but they were so good that he deserves a spot on the list

AlienEater

03-23-2007, 12:10 PM

Wes Anderson-just kidding he ****ing sucks

I enjoyed all the movies I've seen by him.

Meatplow

03-23-2007, 01:29 PM

No worries, you're excused.

I'm ashamed to say it, but I have not exposed myself to Lynch's work. WHat's more annoying is that the movie museum/gallery here (Australian Centre for the moving image) had an special few month dedicated to his works. And I missed out. Oh well. Yeah, read and hear about his stuff all the time, but have just never gotten around to it.

That would of been a good show to go to.

Der Übermensch

03-23-2007, 01:57 PM

I enjoyed all the movies I've seen by him.

I find Anderson's movies to have a agonizingly slow pace. They aren't bad per sé, as there is always some unexplainable draw that keeps me watching till the end, but they are slow as hell, and I can't fault someone for lambasting them.

mannybeinmanny

03-23-2007, 03:18 PM

I enjoyed all the movies I've seen by him.

I will hand it to him, he's great at making films with lousy dialogue, bad characters and story, and no action, humor, real drama, or point whatsoever.

case in point: The Life Aquatic, which is easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen

black guy

03-23-2007, 03:52 PM

His movies have plenty of humor and I think the characters are usually a strong point. My main complaint with him is his visual style, everything looks way too composed in his last two films.

HumanCannonball

03-23-2007, 03:55 PM

1. Stanley Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange)
Kubrick created a menacing aura for each of his films with brilliant characters and perfect music to it. He was also an absolute perfectionist.

2. Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, North by Nordwest)
A visionary who was set enormous influences for any kind of horror flick and thriller.

3. David Lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Twin Peaks (TV), Mullholland Drive, Dune)
Has a weird mind and translates it perfectly into his movies. He's an absolute unique and compelling director.

4. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown)
Adds a very cool and edgy theme on every movie with excellent dialogs, twists and turns and great fight scenes.

5. Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Munich, Catch me if you can, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, E.T.)
Shows he can do it all by doing all kinds of movies.

6. Martin Scorcese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, The Departed, Cape Fear, The King of Comedy)
Seeks you into his movies like almost no other.

7. Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Man on the moon, Amadeus, Hair, The People vs. Larry Flynt)
Gives every movie an unique and very believable aura to it.

8. Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River, Unforgiven, Pale Rider.)
Went from western icon to brilliant director.

9. James Cameron (The Abyss, Titanic, True Lies, Terminator 1/2, Aliens)
Excellent action director who invented some highly influental elements.

10. Oliver Stone (Natural Born Killers, Platoon, JFK, World Trade Center)
Created some brilliant and underrated flicks like NBK and classics like Platoon. I like the very American style he has.

mannybeinmanny

03-23-2007, 04:12 PM

His movies have plenty of humor and I think the characters are usually a strong point. My main complaint with him is his visual style, everything looks way too composed in his last two films.

his movies and characters have no basis in reality. they're all vanity projects, things he thinks are clever and that he'd like to see on screen. his movies never have anything relevent or meaningful to say.

Meatplow

03-23-2007, 11:02 PM

John Carpenter come to think of it

The man's films are just so fun.

Steerpike

03-23-2007, 11:23 PM

badtaste

03-23-2007, 11:35 PM

I'm going to go against the grain a little here.

Though I give Stanley Kubrick full credit for his achievements and acknowledge that empirically speaking his movies were brilliant, I couldn't get into most of them because the cerebral element bordered on the tedious.

Kubrick was a brilliant man, but I just got this vibe from his films that he was just completely up his own ***.

What do you mean by cerebral element? Are you referring to the content of the films? As for being up his own arse... mmm, no I can't see where you're coming from. Have you seen Dr. Strangelove and Lolita before? Do you react the same to his dark comedies?

Steerpike

03-24-2007, 12:01 AM

What do you mean by cerebral element? Are you referring to the content of the films? As for being up his own arse... mmm, no I can't see where you're coming from. Have you seen Dr. Strangelove and Lolita before? Do you react the same to his dark comedies?

What I mean is that a lot of Kubrick's films were very cerebral and intellectual by nature. But I got this distinct feeling that he was more concerned with making people think than making them feel. He wanted intellectual reactions more than emotional ones, and I really do believe that he had an ego that makes me look downright modest.

That said, the only complaint I have with Kubrick is that his feeling of intellectual superiority carried over into his work. For example, as much as I love A Clockwork Orange, there were certain scenes that I thought felt more like a lecture than a movie.

You'll also notice the pacing of his films. No modern filmmaker would attempt to make a scene last as long as many of Kubrick's did. But he did it that way (among other reasons) to give the audience time to digest everything on an intellectual level, giving you time to ponder.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that I dislike his movies. It's just a facet of his style that I'm not particularly fond of.

AlienEater

03-24-2007, 05:21 AM

I will hand it to him, he's great at making films with lousy dialogue, bad characters and story, and no action, humor, real drama, or point whatsoever.

case in point: The Life Aquatic, which is easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen

no the life aquatic had the opposite of what you mentioned. I don't understand what you mean by point to be honest.

I will agree will with das ubermensch though