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Film Directors.. some are great.. others are Ed Wood
I have a number of favorites.. you can always tell who your favorites are because you have lots of their DVD's
Probably my single favorite director is William Wyler, followed closely by Fritz Lang. But I have many other favorites.. here is a list of my faves.. of course, it is not in order (if I could ever create one) and it certainly, incomplete. But these are directors whose body of work always thrills me
Henry King
John Sturges
Robert Wise
Orson Welles
David Lean
Carol Reed
Clint Eastwood
Tarantino
John Ford (no list is complete without)
Jean Cocteau (Orpheus is one of my top ten favorite movies)
John Huston
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg
Hitchcock (though less than most of the others..)
Charlie Chaplin
John Frankenheimer
Akira Kurasawa
there are many others.. But for instance, James Whale - most of my love for his work is based on 2 films and Sam Peckinpah, Oliver Stone, Edgar G. Ulmer and M. Kight Shamalayan are in a similar situation, so I didn't want to put them on the list. The director above, like Wyler and Lang - I literally love all of their films.
I'm sure I could list at least a dozen others.. who do you like the most!!!
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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2010, 02:34:26 AM » |
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Ten off the top of my head in no particular order Billy Wilder Alfred Hichcock Luis Bunuel Ken Loach Shane Meadows Don Siegel Sidney Kubrick Howard Hawks Wong Kar-Wai (only for two films, but what two films 'Chungking Express', and 'Fallen Angels'. Robert Rossen (likewise for 'The Hustler', and 'Body and Soul'. Oh! need to make room there somewhere for Jess Franco.......  |
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« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2010, 07:48:15 AM » |
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Kubrick is hands down my favorite... but I probably respect both him and Welles equally. Here are a few more you missed off the top of my head:
Leone
Scorcese
Coppola
Laughton (one hit wonder)
Antonioni
Godard
Fellini
Malick
Soderbergh
I'm sure we are all still missing a ton.
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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2010, 08:04:10 AM » |
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Aargh! Two of the absolute greatest directors, who like Rodney Dangerfield get no respect because they aren't auteurs, are missing from these lists!
Michael Curtiz and Raoul Walsh. I'll stack their bodies of work against any of the above!
Bruce
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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2010, 09:49:03 AM » |
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Leone
Yamada
Kurosawa
Eastwood
Romero
Park
Argento
Cronenberg
Carpenter
Scorcese
Coppola
Gilliam
Coen Bros
Fincher
Wilder
Lynch
Nolan
Boyle
Aronofsky
Ford
Ritchie
I am sure there are others..............
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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2010, 09:52:43 AM » |
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I love all of the aforementioned directors (especially James Whale)... but where was...
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Frank Capra
Terry Gilliam
Ridley Scott
Alan Parker
Today's filmmakers are nothing to sneeze at either. Here are some of my favorites:
David Fincher
Zack Snyder
Guillermo Del Toro
Gore Verbinski
Peter Jackson
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2010, 10:12:03 AM » |
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A few more that haven't been mentioned now that I've had some caffeine:
Bergman
Chaplin
Lumet
Polanski
D.W. Giffith
Milos Forman
Altman
Jean Renoir
Cukor
Eisenstein
Murnau
Frankenheimer
Spike Lee
Jean Cocteau
Mike Nichols
Buster Keaton
Fritz Lang
Max Ophuls
And good call on Michael Curtiz Bruce! I've read that due to his incredible versatility and his tendency to not stamp each movie with his Style (capital S), that he was often overlooked by the early film schools. As such he is not really known as an Auteur director... despite having made some of the best movies of all time.
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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2010, 11:00:17 AM » |
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I think Mel Brooks probably deserves a place among these names as well.....seriously (as hard as it is to put that word next to anything Mel Brooks).
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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2010, 12:03:18 PM » |
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Orson Welles
Luis Bunuel
More recent:
Martin Scorsese
Terry Gilliam
Coen Brothers
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« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2010, 12:04:21 PM » |
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Oh, let's not forget Luchino Visconti!
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« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2010, 02:31:44 PM » |
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GUY RITCHIE (pre and post Madonna)
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« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2010, 07:03:42 PM » |
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Love CSM reply,
Polanski
Argento
Bava
Fulci (yah I know)
Mattei (yeah I REALLY know)
Terrence Fisher
And of course TED V MIKELS (screw you all, he is the bomb)
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« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2010, 08:11:46 PM » |
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I will only cover modern times (directors working post 1970), because most of the all-time greats have already been named in this thread.
The following people, IMHO, have the most outstanding body of work. Some (that I mentioned) have made one masterpiece but deserve to be named.
Woody Allen
Pedro Almodovar
John G. Avildsen (just for Rocky and Karate Kid)
Luc Besson
Tim Burton
James Cameron
John Carpenter (until 1984)
Michael Cimino (before he became a woman)
Joel Coen
Francis Ford Coppola
Wes Craven (for the Freddy movies)
David Cronenberg
Frank Darabont (just for Shawshank Redemption)
Guillermo Del Toro
Brian De Palma
Clint Eastwood
Milos Forman
Mel Gibson (just for Braveheart)
John Hughes
Peter Jackson (just for LOTR Trilogy)
Jim Jarmusch
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stanley Kubrick
John Landis (until 1987)
John Lasseter (and the Pixar team)
Sergio Leone
Sidney Lumet
Baz Luhrmann (just for Moulin Rouge)
David Lynch
Andrew Niccol (just for Gattaca)
Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford
Rob Reiner
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
François Truffaut
Wachowsky Bros (just for Matrix)
Wim Wenders
Robert Zemeckis
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« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2010, 08:29:52 PM » |
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All my favorites have been named already by others, but let me add one name that's missing: John Woo (for "The Killer" & "Hard Boiled"). Hm, I don't think anyone mentioned John Cassavetes, either
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« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2010, 11:36:24 PM » |
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From Japan:
Mizaguchi - Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff
Miyazaki - My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Ponyo
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« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2010, 11:53:39 PM » |
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Some more:
Fritz Lang
Robert Siodmak
Edward Dmytryk
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Wise
Billy Wilder
Jules Dassin
Howard Hawks
Anthony Mann
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« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2010, 11:55:50 PM » |
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And for a "director of light"
John Alton
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« Reply #17 on: March 24, 2010, 12:46:34 AM » |
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I'm surprised that some great directors who aren't named
William "Wild Bill" Wellman
Victor Fleming
Erich Von Stroheim
Has F.W. Murnau been mentioned?
Tod Browning
Francois Truffaut
Jean Luc Goddard
Robert Aldrich
is Barry Levinson mentioned?
just more off teh top of my head
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« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2010, 01:02:52 AM » |
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What I find funny is Rich always spells THE as TEH. Kinda cute
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You Ari, are the only one in the whole world I like that eats offal, misses his dead rat carcasses, draws women on walls with skin peeling off of them and keeps a meat cleaver by his bed.
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« Reply #19 on: March 24, 2010, 01:15:02 AM » |
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Miike Takeshi
Chan-Wook Park
Alex de la Iglesia
Nikita Mikhalkov
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« Reply #20 on: March 24, 2010, 02:40:16 AM » |
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I'd surely recognize Days of Being Wild, 2046 and In the Mood, as well, in listing Wong Kar-Wai.
Granted although the other two rank high as personal favourites. Some other directors not yet mentioned: Todd Solondz for 'Happiness', 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' Paul Thomas Anderson Alan Clarke Mike Leigh and not forgetting Marcel Carne |
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« Reply #21 on: March 24, 2010, 05:24:46 AM » |
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My favorite modern director is Yoji Yamada, and it isnt really close. He is not really modern, but his older stuff is not known internationally.
He might top the list on the merits of Twilight Samurai alone, but add to that Love and Honor, The Hidden Blade, Kaabee, and Ototo. Amazing body of work.
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« Reply #22 on: March 24, 2010, 04:17:34 PM » |
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James Whale, with out a doubt. Also Roy William Neill, Charles Barton, Earl.C.Kenton, not to forget Rowland.V.Lee. Sorry I know i'm just mentioning directors of films I like.  |
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« Reply #23 on: March 24, 2010, 08:15:09 PM » |
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Oops, almost forgot
Andrei Tarkovsky.
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« Reply #24 on: March 24, 2010, 08:22:15 PM » |
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Don't think anyone has mentioned Louis Malle yet
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