Fave Directors - Who do you love and why?

[Still Servant]

Matt, I think you will like some of those Lumet films you listed above.

Also, I think it's time to add Ben Affleck to my personal list.

[fernandito]

You don't think that's a bit premature?

I'll need to see Argo before I can make any kind of verdict on him in general. I liked Gone Baby Gone well enough, but The Town bored me to tears.

[Merlin1958]

You don't think that's a bit premature?

I'll need to see Argo before I can make any kind of verdict on him in general. I liked Gone Baby Gone well enough, but The Town bored me to tears.

Really? I thought the Town was great though the love angle did drag a little at times.

[fernandito]

And Ben Affleck reminding us every 2 minutes that he's from Bahhhston got old pretty quick.

[Merlin1958]

And Ben Affleck reminding us every 2 minutes that he's from Bahhhston got old pretty quick.

Where'd he pahk his cah? LOL

[Still Servant]

You don't think that's a bit premature?

I'll need to see Argo before I can make any kind of verdict on him in general. I liked Gone Baby Gone well enough, but The Town bored me to tears.

Matt had Ben Stiller on his list, so you tell me. The Town was great, but I'm pretty sure we already agreed to disagree on that one.

[Heather19]

I still need to watch Argo, but I'm ready to add him to my list. I think he's an amazing director, and can't wait to see what he does next.

[Merlin1958]

I still need to watch Argo, but I'm ready to add him to my list. I think he's an amazing director, and can't wait to see what he does next.

Are you ready for him to do "The Stand"? It has been rumored.

[Still Servant]

I still need to watch Argo, but I'm ready to add him to my list. I think he's an amazing director, and can't wait to see what he does next.

Well, there were rumors a while back that he was going to direct The Stand franchise. Not sure what the status is of that.

[Heather19]

I still need to watch Argo, but I'm ready to add him to my list. I think he's an amazing director, and can't wait to see what he does next.

Are you ready for him to do "The Stand"? It has been rumored.

Honestly, I'd love it if he did.

[Still Servant]

Nice, Merlin! Great Yankees fans think alike.

[Merlin1958]

Nice, Merlin! Great Yankees fans think alike.

[Still Servant]

Nice, Merlin! Great Yankees fans think alike.

Don't want to get off topic, so check the yankees thread for my mini rant.

[Dead Man]

I know King loves the David's. I do too. Crone berg and Lynch. Lynch might be my all time favorite although he is purposely inaccessible to the average movie goer. Especially his later works when the studio couldn't dictate his vision ie.. Inland Empire. I digress though who else do people like?

We can go back to great movies like "A Thousand Clowns" ( Rohbards is awesome in it check you tube). Or 90's guys like like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson.

What of DePalma? Since it is a king forum we can talk "Carrie" but his other works too. Like "The Phantom of The Paradise". Death Records was cool. Maybe cheesy but cool.

Let's discuss. Who do you love? Tyler Perry? Brunell? Dali? It is all interesting to me.

[Lookwhoitis]

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Terry Gilliam
3. Coen Brothers
4. Guillermo del Toro
5. Tim Burton
6. Terrence Malick
7.Paul Thomas Anderson
8. Hiyao Miyazaki
9.Chan-Wook Park

[Bryant Burnette]

For me personally, it's a two-man race between Hitchcock and Spielberg for the top spot. But I like other ones, too: Kubrick, Tarantino, the Coens, Fincher, Scorsese. Gilliam; Woody Allen. I love John Carpenter (I even like most of the movies by him that many people hate).

I've never much cared for DePalma, though. He's made good movies, but to me they always seem good in spite of what he brings to them, not because of. I know his fans are a passionate bunch, but none of that passion has ever rubbed off onto me, sadly. (I'm sure a lot of people would say the same about John Carpenter, though, so I can sort of get why somebody would be a big DePalma fan. Just not me.)

[Dead Man]

Great lists so far. I am just happy to open the dialog. 12 monkeys was fantastic as was brazil. Terry was good. Cones? I love all of their films.

[pathoftheturtle]

Robert Altman

[Dead Man]

http://www.imdb.com/list/nlZ0yIWaIxE/

Where is Linklater? Arnofsky? Sure Requim is overrated for its time but The Wrestler and Black Swan put him on that list. Eastwood belongs on the list but not that high. I'm going to throw up in my mouth and say this but what about Affleck? George Lucas doesn't get a sniff? Really? No one will argue that post Jedi he did much good but he changed film. I was glad to see Bunel on there. Actually lists like this are meant to fuel discussions.

[Dead Man]

Robert Altman

I didn't love Mash. That being said the Los Angeles landscape ensemble was created by Altman in short cuts. PTA knew he stole from that movie (but I love magnolia) and crash won an academy award stealing from both of its predecessors.

[fernandito]

I'll probably update this list soon...

[Still Servant]

How is it possible that before your bump, this thread was 2 years old to the exact day? Damn time flies fast.

[Tommy]

This is way more than 50 but when tasked with naming best directors, this was what came out of my mind in this exact order. I will fill in which films I love them for later on.

EDIT: Made 2 lists of 50

LIST 1
Hitchcock
Kubrick
Dreyer
Bresson
Kurosawa
Buñuel
Eastwood
Allen
Ford
Welles
Chaplin
Bergman
Haneke
Altman
Murnau
Cronenberg
Scorsese
Spielberg
Argento
Kieslowski
Tarkovsky
Lumet
Coppolla
Coen Bros
Polanski
Huston
Tarantino
Hawks
Ki-Duk Kim
Miyazaki
de Palma
Pasolini
Brooks (Mel)
Waters
Tourneur
Bertolucci
Fellini
Jackson (Peter)
Leone
Herzog
Sturges
Wilder
Wyler
Wellman
Malle
Malick
Cocteau
Lang (Fritz)
Lean
Peckinpah


LIST 2
Browning (Tod)
Jodorowsky
Truffaut
Stone
Fincher
Nolan
Soderbergh
PTA
Lynch (David)
Scott (Ridley)
Friedkin
Powell (Michael)
Morris (Errol)
Almodovar
Sokorov
Moore
Noé
Von Trier
Miike
Van Sant
Aronofsky
Luchino Visconti
Josef von Sternberg
Erich von Stroheim
Michelangelo Antonioni
John Carpenter
Jean Renoir
George A. Romero
forman
toro
rohmer
tati
chabrol
godard
ophuls
gance
melville
gondry
fassbender
capra
curtiz
raimi
sirk
Buttgereit
Boetticher
Castle
Dmytyk
Ulmer
Ed Wood
Coleman Frnacis

[skyofcrack]

001 Woody Allen
002 Robert Altman
003 Paul Thomas Anderson
004 Michelangelo Antonioni
005 Dario Argento
006 Mario Bava
007 Ingmar Bergman
008 Bernardo Bertolucci
009 Albert Brooks
010 Mel Brooks
011 Luis Buñuel
012 James Cameron
013 John Carpenter
014 Charlie Chaplin
015 Coen Brothers
016 Francis Ford Coppola
017 David Cronenberg
018 Brian De Palma
019 Vittorio De Sica
020 Clint Eastwood
021 Federico Fellini
022 John Ford
023 Terry Gilliam
024 Alfred Hitchcock
025 John Hughes
026 Peter Jackson
027 Stanley Kubrick
028 Akira Kurosawa
029 David Lean
030 Sergio Leone
031 David Lynch
032 Sam Peckinpah
033 Powell/Pressberger
034 Rob Reiner
035 Jean Renoir
036 George A. Romero
037 Roberto Rossellini
038 Martin Scorsese
039 Ridley Scott
040 Steven Spielberg
041 Oliver Stone
042 Preston Sturges
043 Quentin Tarantino
044 François Truffaut
045 Luchino Visconti
046 Josef von Sternberg
047 Erich von Stroheim
048 Orson Welles
049 Robert Zemeckis
050 Zucker Brothers

[Still Servant]

Both very solid lists. The one that jumps out at me is Albert Brooks at #9 on Skyofcrack's list.

Hasn't he only made like 5 films? I've never thought about him as a great director. I know some of his earlier films deal with a character that is in some way involved with filmmaking, so I've been meaning to check them out. I like that kind of stuff.