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Your favorite film directors.

Fucking Scorsese. He gave me Casino and Goodfellas and I never looked back.
 
FFUUUUUUUUCK! I FORGOT THE COENS and ANDERSON!

*takes blowtorch to film geek membership card*
 
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Amnesiac said:
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
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Brilliance wishes it could have been Kubrick. Enough said.

I'm somewhat surprised no mention has been made of Stanley Kramer.

The Defiant Ones. (1958)

Inherit the Wind. (1960)

Judgement at Nurmenberg. (1961)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. (1963)

Ship of Fools. (1965)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. (1967)
 
I'd like to mention Sam Peckinpah director of such films as:

The Wild Bunch (1969) - In a modern world of CGI, I was stunned with the last shoot out scene. One of the best battles I've seen on screen and to be honest I don't think anyone else could do anything like that these days.

Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) - Complete madness!

The Getaway (1972)

Straw Dogs (1971)

Ride the High Country (1962)

On a modern front I do look forward to anything done by Darren Aronofsky these days, I like his work alot
 
Amnesiac said:
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
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...and not forgetting Tarkovsky's original Solaris too!

Mine have all been said already but in any case:

Roman Polanski - for Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion etc
Stanley Kubrick - The Shining, Clockwork Orange, 2001, Full Metal Jacket, Lolita...well all of them really!
David Lynch - for everything from Eraserhead to Inland Empire (I actually like that film too!), and for Twin Peaks of course
John Carpenter - for The Thing and Halloween...he's also made some of the worst films ever IMHO
Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters, Annie Hall

Also - David Cronenberg, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Sidney Lumet (for 'Dog Day Afternoon') and Tomas Alfredson (for 'Let the Right One In')
 
Amnesiac said:
FFUUUUUUUUCK! I FORGOT THE COENS and ANDERSON!

*takes blowtorch to film geek membership card*
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The Coen Brothers are my favorite living directors, but I have to include my favorite director of all-time who hasn't been mentioned at all (unless I missed a post):

BILLY WILDER:

(1960) The Apartment

(1959) Some Like It Hot

(1955) The Seven Year Itch

(1954) Sabrina

(1953) Stalag 17

(1950) Sunset Blvd.

(1944) Double Indemnity
 
Johnny lea said:
I'd like to mention Sam Peckinpah director of such films as:

The Wild Bunch (1969) - In a modern world of CGI, I was stunned with the last shoot out scene. One of the best battles I've seen on screen and to be honest I don't think anyone else could do anything like that these days.

Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) - Complete madness!

The Getaway (1972)

Straw Dogs (1971)

Ride the High Country (1962)
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Agreed. Definitely one of my favorite directors.


starsmeatball said:
The Coen Brothers are my favorite living directors, but I have to include my favorite director of all-time who hasn't been mentioned at all (unless I missed a post):

BILLY WILDER:

(1960) The Apartment

(1959) Some Like It Hot

(1955) The Seven Year Itch

(1954) Sabrina

(1953) Stalag 17

(1950) Sunset Blvd.

(1944) Double Indemnity
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Wilder got an honorable mention earlier, but he is worthy of much more in my opinion. :thumbsup:
 
Few of my favorites listed below.

John Landis: Animal House
Wes Craven: Scream Trilogy
Michael Bay: Transformers
Fritz Lang – Metropolis :spider:
 
HOW has nobody mentioned Nicholas Ray? He was a massive favourite of the French New Wave crowd and was touted by Godard as the greatest ever filmmaker, as evidenced by this quote:

"There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforth there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray.".

His best films are probably:

Bigger Than Life (1956)
Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Bitter Victory (1957)

As an admirer of Foreign cinema past and present I love all the old masters (F = Meaning favourite):

Godard (F = Weekend (1967))
Truffaut (F = The Last Metro (1980))
Carne (F = Le Jour Se Leve (1939))
Kurosawa (F = Rashomon (1950))
Lang (F = M (1931))
Almodovar (F = La Mala Educacion (2001))
Wenders (F = Wings Of Desire (1987))
Gance (F = Napoleon (1927))
Dreyer (F = Vampyr (1932))
Herzog (F = Girzzly Man (2005))


My favourite Western greats are:

Wilder (F = Double Indemnity (1944))
Powell (F = Peeping Tom (1960))
Hitchcock (F = The 39 Steps (1935))
Scorsese (F = The Departed (2006))
Lean (F = Lawrence Of Arabia (1962))
Coppola (F = The Conversation (1973))
Welles (F = A Touch Of Evil (1958))
Huston (F = The Maltese Falcon (1941))
Leone (F = Once Upon A Time In The West (1968))
Roeg (F = Performance (1970))

And my favourite contemporary directors are:

Cuaron (F = Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001))
Wes Anderson (F = The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004))
Soderbergh (F = The Limey (1999))
Boyle (F = 28 Days Later (2002))
Haneke (F = Hidden (2005))
Nolan (F = Following (1998))
Charles (F = Religulous (2008))
Coens (F = Miller's Crossing (1990))
Meadows (F = Dead Man's Shoes (2004))
Payne (F = Sideways (2004))
 
John Ford, he's the greatest of all time, and that's not opinion it's simply a fact. Stage Coach, The Searchers, Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, and that's just some of the the John Wayne films. Ford was a prick to work for (as I understand) but watch any of his films and you will never see a better use of landscape, or of actors strong points. He was the man, and no director today would ever say otherwise.
 
I'd like to add Robert Altman. A supreme portrayer of people, with all their faults, as well as framer of the absurd...
 
George Lucas. One of the greatest minds ever. He put sci fi in a whole new era.
 
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