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I'll start the ball rolling with Peter Bogdanovich. In my opinion the 1970s were his Golden Age as a director, writer and producer.

The Last Picture Show (Also Writer) 1971.

What's up, Doc? (Also Writer, Producer) 1972.

Paper Moon (Also Producer) 1973.
 
Alfred Hitchcock

A few of my favorites, each from a different decade:

The 39 Steps (1935)
Lifeboat (1944)
Vertigo (1958)
Psycho (1960)
 
Alfred Hitchcock

A few of my favorites, each from a different decade:

The 39 Steps (1935)
Lifeboat (1944)
Vertigo (1958)
Psycho (1960)

Oh yes, Hitchcock was a brilliant director. I would add The Birds (1963). Scared the crap out of me as a kid.
 
Blake Edwards for the immortal Pink Panther.

Alfred Hitchcock for pretty much anything he made.
 
Not in any particular order...

George Stevens ('A Place In The Sun', 'Giant', etc.)
Martin Scorcese ('Raging Bull', 'Taxi Driver', et al)
Frank Capra ('Mr. Smith Goes To Washington', 'It's a Wonderful Life')
Quentin Tarantino
Francis Ford Coppola
Fritz Lang ('M', 'Metropolis')
David Lean ('Lawrence of Arabia')

Just a few of my favorites.
 
Oh yes, Hitchcock was a brilliant director. I would add The Birds (1963). Scared the crap out of me as a kid.

Me, too. I didn't trust birds for years after seeing that film. 😱
 
Umm, some guy named Spielberg. Ya might have heard of him. :shrug:

:whipcrack:

😀
 
I don't know how I missed this director. Must be really tired from my trip...

Akira Kurasawa.....for coming up with and executing his brilliance as a director many films that are still copied from today.

Ran
Seven Samurai
The Hidden Fortress
Yojimbo
 
Ridley Scott for :

Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Gladiator (2000)
 
John Ford.

Stagecoach (1939) set a young John Wayne on his path to becoming an American Icon.

The Grapes of Wrath. (1940)

My Darling Clementine. (1946)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. (1949)

The Quiet Man. (1952)

The Searchers. (1956)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. (1962)
 
Some of my favorites are:

Woody Allen for, Annie Hall(1977), Manhattan(1979)
Clint Eastwood for, Mystic River(2003), Million Dollar Baby(2004), Unforgiven(1992)

Quentin Tarantino for, Pulp Fiction(1994), Reservoir Dogs(1992)
Sidney Lumet for, Twelve Angry Men(1957), Dog Day Afternoon(1975) and Network(1976)
 
I am a huge fan of Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever), Tarantino (Death Proof, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds -- my favorite movie) and Robert Rodriguez (Planet Terror). And other members of the "Splat Pack".

I am very particular about movies. I love movies as entertainment like anyone, but I look at them for more than that. I pay attention to the details -- everything that goes into it to make it what it is, not just a black and white opinion of the final product. I pay attention to the direction, continuity, acting, editing, originality, dialogue, etc.

One thing I like about Tarantino is his trademarks. His inevitable shot looking up to the main characters from a low angle, references to other films and specific background placement of certain things. I also like that he is somewhat dialogue heavy and has a tendency to do one shot takes, like the opening scene in Resevoir Dogs and the diner scene in Death Proof.

Tarantino and Eli Roth are both creative geniuses in the way they illustrate gore. The horror genre is my favorite and if you can make me cringe, you've done yourself well.

I know it's cliche to be a Tarantino fan, but I guess there's a reason why it's so cliche.

I could go on and on about movies. I'll stop here.
 
Sidney Lumet for, Twelve Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975) and Network (1976)

Good call. I was going to mention Mr. Lumet in my next post. We lost him recently. 🙁
 
I am going to have to say Spielberg. Even though he has gone downhill recently as a director there's too many good movies.

Jaws
Jurassic Park
Minority Report
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
The Terminal
Catch Me if You Can
The Goonies
The first three Indiana Jones movies

Not only are his movies great but he has made great classics on all ends of the spectrum. Suspense/horror, Sci-fi, fantasy, action/adventure, biopic, war movies,
drama. Not many directors can claim that.
 
Kurosawa, Tarantino, Ridley Scott, and Spielberg are just a few favorites already mentioned, so I'll pick a few left out.

Stanley Kubrick is my main man. His resume is a roster of some of the most famous and influential films ever made, and he made less than 15 of them in his life:

2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
just to name a few

Sidney Lumet is a damn fine choice; the great chameleon made some dynamite work and he managed to do it with his own inimitable but ever-changing approach each time. In many ways he's the anti-auteur but becomes one in the process:

Network
The Verdict
12 Angry Men
Equus
The Pawnbroker


Andrei Tarkovsky and Terrence Malick. Tarkovsky, the Russian genius who can actually contend with Kubrick for breathtakingly unique and powerful images; I started on him with Stalker and I've never been the same since. Malick, similarly, is the American equivalent who favors meandering, poetic narratives with incredible visuals--though not as striking or as innovative as Tarkovsky--that favor nature over humanity. When I saw the first trailer for Tree of Life I squee'd. Really.

Tarkovsky
Stalker
Mirror
Nostalgia
The Sacrifice
Andrei Rublev

Malick
Badlands
The Thin Red Line
Days of Heaven
The New World


John Carpenter and John Landis were both two of the best genre filmmakers in the USA until the last decade or so when Carpenter went into filmmaking-as-a-hobby phase with his Showtime Masters of Horror movies and Landis toiling in relative obscurity after the failure of The Stupids. But either way, when either of these guys were at their peak, they did some truly amazing Hollywood magic:

Carpenter
The Thing
Halloween
The Fog
They Live
Escape From New York
Big Trouble in Little China

Landis
The Blues Brothers
Animal House
The Stupids
Coming to America
Trading Places
The Kentucky Fried Movie


David Lynch. Oh I love me some Lynch. Famously independent, unapologetically artistic, and more than a little self-indulgent, the patron saint of film school students Lynch is responsible for some of the most original and personal films in the last century (he gave us Twin Peaks and basically fostered the Second Golden Age of television), albeit at the cost of accessibility, but no less important as a result:

Blue Velvet
Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive
Eraserhead
The Straight Story


David Cronenberg spent most of his career giving audiences OCD with his "body horror" films that depicted the effect of human psychosis of our physical forms; lately he's branched off into more traditional fare with his sterile but poignant style but never strays too far from the beauty of human grotesquerie:

Dead Ringers
Naked Lunch
The Fly
Videodrome
Crash
A History of Violence


and finally, James Cameron and David Fincher. Since both regularly compete for the slot of "uncompromisingly intemperate perfectionist auteur" left vacant by Kubrick's death I figure they're more alike than different. Cameron favors the sterility and precision of technology and operatic action sequences while Fincher prefers the grungy industrialism of expressionism of European filmmakers, and both produce incredible works of technological precision and strong human emotion:

Cameron
Aliens
The Terminator/Terminator 2
True Lies
The Abyss

Fincher
Fight Club
Se7en
The Game
Zodiac


VERY Honorable mentions: Billy Wilder, Michel Gondry, Mark Romanek, Jim Jarmusch
 
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Another Jersey person for Woody and Clint

These days I've been trying to catch up on the films of Woody Allen and Clint Eastwood. Limiting it to the living, I should also mention Brian DePalma as a favorite director.
 
Umm, some guy named Spielberg. Ya might have heard of him. :shrug:

He's a favorite hearsay, as well as the following (not in order):

Francis Ford Coppola
John Woo
Joel Schumacher
Jane Campion
Robert Zemeckis
Kevin Costner
Kenneth Brannagh
Oliver Stone
James Cameron
Tim Burton
Alfred Hitchcock
Ron Howard
Martin Scorsese
Guy Ritchie
Mira Nair
Gore Verbinski
Jackie Chan
Roman Polanski
Peter Mullan
 
Christopher Nolan

Some of my favourites:

Inception (2010)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Prestige (2006)
Batman Begins (2005)
Memento (2000)
 
There's another director I could add here. He might not be considered as much of an auteur as the others named (and then again he might), but did put together an impressive body of work over several decades.

I'm talking about Robert Wise. Here are a just a few of his films:

The Body Snatcher (1945)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
West Side Story (1961)
The Haunting (1963)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Great choice Dr. I love just about everything Wise directed.
 
Good call. I was going to mention Mr. Lumet in my next post. We lost him recently. 🙁

Thanks. Those are some of my favorite movies period, its no coincidence Lumet directed all three.
 
Kurosawa, Tarantino, Ridley Scott, and Spielberg are just a few favorites already mentioned, so I'll pick a few left out.

Stanley Kubrick is my main man. His resume is a roster of some of the most famous and influential films ever made, and he made less than 15 of them in his life:

2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
just to name a few

Sidney Lumet is a damn fine choice; the great chameleon made some dynamite work and he managed to do it with his own inimitable but ever-changing approach each time. In many ways he's the anti-auteur but becomes one in the process:

Network
The Verdict
12 Angry Men
Equus
The Pawnbroker


Andrei Tarkovsky. The Russian genius who can actually contend with Kubrick for breathtakingly unique and powerful images. I started on him with Stalker and I've never been the same since.

Stalker
Mirror
Nostalgia
The Sacrifice
Andrei Rublev

John Carpenter and John Landis were both two of the best genre filmmakers in the USA until the last decade or so when Carpenter went into filmmaking-as-a-hobby phase with his Showtime Masters of Horror movies and Landis toiling in relative obscurity after the failure of The Stupids. But either way, when either of these guys were at their peak, they did some truly amazing Hollywood magic:

Carpenter
The Thing
Halloween
The Fog
They Live
Escape From New York
Big Trouble in Little China

Landis
The Blues Brothers
Animal House
The Stupids
Coming to America
Trading Places
The Kentucky Fried Movie


David Lynch. Oh I love me some Lynch. Famously independent, unapologetically artistic, and more than a little self-indulgent, the patron saint of film school students Lynch is responsible for some of the most original and personal films in the last century (he gave us Twin Peaks and basically fostered the Second Golden Age of television), albeit at the cost of accessibility, but no less important as a result:

Blue Velvet
Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive
Eraserhead
The Straight Story


David Cronenberg spent most of his career giving audiences OCD with his "body horror" films that depicted the effect of human psychosis of our physical forms; lately he's branched off into more traditional fare with his sterile but poignant style but never strays too far from the beauty of human grotesquerie:

Dead Ringers
Naked Lunch
The Fly
Videodrome
Crash
A History of Violence


and finally, James Cameron and David Fincher. Since both regularly compete for the slot of "uncompromisingly intemperate perfectionist auteur" left vacant by Kubrick's death I figure they're more alike than different. Cameron favors the sterility and precision of technology and operatic action sequences while Fincher prefers the grungy industrialism of expressionism of European filmmakers, and both produce incredible works of technological precision and strong human emotion:

Cameron
Aliens
The Terminator/Terminator 2
True Lies
The Abyss

Fincher
Fight Club
Se7en
The Game
Zodiac


VERY Honorable mentions: Billy Wilder, Michel Gondry, Mark Romanek, Jim Jarmusch

David Lynch and David Fincher damn fine choices also! Billy Wilder too
 
Well I love dark and morbid movies. I am a huge Tim Burton Fan.

2010 Alice in Wonderland

2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2005 Corpse Bride

1999 Sleepy Hollow

1994 Ed Wood

1993 The Nightmare Before Christmas (story and characters)

1992 Batman Returns

1990 Edward Scissorhands

1989 Batman

1988 Beetle Juice
 
Many of my faves have already been listed above. Some others who I haven't yet seen mentioned are :


- Paul Thomas Anderson

- Wes Anderson

- Brad Bird

- The Coen Brothers

- Terry Gilliam

- Spike Jonze

- Sergio Leone

- Michael Mann

- George Miller
 
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