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Posted by Demetris Thoupis (Member # 833) on 11-20-2009, 02:55 PM:
 
Ok because I saw someone mention Director favourites lets start a Director favourite thread.

Luc Besson - Masterpieces

Ridley Scott - No Comments needed
 
Posted by Joe Tommassello (Member # 4632) on 11-20-2009, 04:09 PM:
 
Martin Scorsese

Clint Eastwood
 
Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 11-20-2009, 05:54 PM:
 
Peter Bogdanovich has three films that would be in my all-time top ten list if I bothered with such a thing, so he wins.

David Lynch would probably be second.

Maybe.
 
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 11-20-2009, 06:54 PM:
 
Ron Howard
Steven Spielberg
John Lasseter
Cecil B. DeMille (I haven't seen too many of his movies, but I have liked the ones I've seen -- and he has probably the coolest director name ever.)
 
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-20-2009, 08:00 PM:
 
Some favorites among the old guard:
David Lean
Alfred Hitchcock
John Ford
Billy Wilder

Some Favorites While Growing Up:
Steven Spielberg
James Cameron
Francis Coppola
George Lucas
Mel Brooks

Some Contemporary Favorites:
Martin Scorsese
Joel & Ethan Coen
David Fincher
Quentin Tarantino
Alex Proyas
Ridley Scott
Bryan Singer

The Pixar crowd seems to be more of a team, but a great team it is. John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Doctor and Brad Bird are among the team of many dozens churning out either great or very good movies on a dependable basis.
 
Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 11-20-2009, 08:03 PM:
 
Woody Allen is my favorite "currently active" filmmaker - but I don't think that I'd call him my favorite director. I'll have to think about that.
 
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-20-2009, 08:26 PM:
 
I was always fond of James Cameron because he had never made a bad movie (I haven't seen Piranha 2 The Spawning). Avatar may change that. We'll see.

Steven Spielberg has made a bucketload of bad and/or uninteresting movies. War of the Worlds? The Terminal? If ever there were movies that encouraged suicide for the audience... Catch Me if You Can was kind of boring as well.
 
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-20-2009, 09:12 PM:
 
Obviously Spielberg hit his peak in the 1980s with movies like E.T. and his collaboration with George Lucas on Raiders of the Lost Ark. He also produced some other really fun movies during that period, such as Back to the Future.

Since then Spielberg caved in to make all the snooty critics people happy by making movies geared more for adults rather than movies geared for anyone. Somewhere along the way I think Spielberg lost a bit of that "voice" that made him so successful.

Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan are great movies, but they're only great because of their adult-themed importance. I didn't leave the theater with a "movie high" wanting to see either film again the way I did when I first saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. I think that sums up the difference.

Lately Spielberg has been kind of hit or miss. Technically speaking, he's fantastic. But he hasn't made very many movies during the last decade I've felt like buying on DVD (or Blu-ray). Minority Report is the only movie from Steven Spielberg I've bought since he released Saving Private Ryan.
 
Posted by Tony Gallimore (Member # 5358) on 11-20-2009, 10:00 PM:
 
Loved Alfred Hitchcock's fare when growing up as well as Cecil B. DeMille's classics. I did a stint as an extra in a Ridley Scott film, although I didn't have a chance to rub elbows. Ron Howard is another good one along with Spielburg, Corman... for his warped imagination.
 
Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 11-20-2009, 10:19 PM:
 
Stanley Kubrick
George Lucas in the '70s
Robert Zemeckis
Ron Howard
Rob Reiner
Francis Ford Coppola

I'd have to think about the rest...if only one, then Stanley Kubrick gets top bill for me.
 
Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 11-20-2009, 10:58 PM:
 
Let's get some furreners in here;>

Akira Kurosawa
Sergio Leone
Nicholas Roeg (the first half of the career)
Lars Von Trier (for audacity and Dogme 95)
 
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 11-20-2009, 11:02 PM:
 
Oh, yeah. Hitchcock, definitely. John Ford, yes. And George Lucas has always been one of my heroes. Scorsese. Henry Hathaway. Clint Eastwood.

I'm also an Ed Wood fan, but I don't think that necessarily makes him a favorite director... [Wink] Just for shlock's sake.
 
Posted by Demetris Thoupis (Member # 833) on 11-20-2009, 11:55 PM:
 
Francis Ford Copolla was a mistake from me to omiss.

And of course Sergio Leone.
 
Posted by Brian D. Whitish (Member # 825) on 11-21-2009, 02:24 AM:
 
For me its:
Stanley Kubrick
Woody Allen
Francis Ford Coppola
Martin Scorsese
David Lean
 
Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 11-21-2009, 06:41 AM:
 
Terrence Malick
 
Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 11-21-2009, 08:50 AM:
 
Wow, this far in and no love for Orson Welles!
 
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-21-2009, 02:29 PM:
 
Orson Welles doesn't automatically come to mind for two reasons. 1: He did his best work over half a century ago. 2: He doesn't have many great movies in his body of work. Besides Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil and The Magnificent Ambersons it's difficult to name anything else Welles has directed. Most younger people know him as that "we will serve no wine before it is time" TV commercial spokesman guy.
 
Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 11-21-2009, 02:34 PM:
 
As those commercials were about 30 years ago, I like your definition of younger people [Wink]
 
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 11-21-2009, 06:55 PM:
 
Oversight! Thanks for reminding me, Martin. Add Welles to my hot list. [Wink]
 
Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 11-21-2009, 07:46 PM:
 
...for comedy - Leo McCarey

...for action - John Frankenheimer

...for drama - Stanley Kubrick & Martin Scorcese

...for screwball - Billy Wilder

...for animation - Bruno Bozzetto

...for dialogue - Quentin Tarantino

...for noir - Orson Welles

...for technical achievement - Douglas Trumbull

...worst short film ever - Me [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 11-21-2009, 10:53 PM:
 
Alright... lessee it, Ian! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 11-21-2009, 11:48 PM:
 
Tough call. Overall I'd say Spielberg and Hitchcock.

I used to say Lucas too, but he really isn't a good director. Storyteller, sure. He also killed any credibility as a director with the prequels. Fun, neat, but TERRIBLE directing.

AJG
 
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-22-2009, 12:28 AM:
 
Actually, when it comes to the Star Wars prequels, the direction is not the problem. It's really the storyline and screenplay which is at fault for the flaws. Oh, the bad acting quality of the kid in "Episode I" and Jar Jar Binks didn't help matters either.
 
Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 11-22-2009, 12:32 AM:
 
Look at American Graffiti and Star Wars to see he directing abilities. He has what I like in a director...he gets people to look like they are not acting and you believe they are who they claim to be.

I agree that in his more recent work, he used his movies to showcase his technology rather than "direct" and just tell the story.

I agree that Hitch definitely deserves to be on the list...I dunno about Mr. Wells...probably though. He certainly changed film making, forever with Citizen Kane...I think that his best work was in his youth.

Steve
 
Posted by Anslem Rayburn (Member # 1267) on 11-22-2009, 08:41 AM:
 
Sam Mendes, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood.

My favorite for pure enjoyment of his films is Kevin Smith. I have thoroughly enjoyed every movie he has made. He is not the best director, but he has a way of putting together a great product.
 
Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 11-22-2009, 09:23 AM:
 
Bobby...

You don't consider "Touch Of Evil" to be a great film??? I consider it Well's greatest film. Wells has always been on my list.

Mark
 
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 11-22-2009, 09:41 AM:
 
This is a tough one. My list in no particular order:

Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Orson Welles
William Wyler
David Lean
Francois Truffault
Fritz Lang
Buster Keaton

For current directors:

Werner Herzog
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Paul Verhoeven
Peter Jackson
David Lynch
Cohen Brothers
Francis Ford Coppola
Wim Wenders

Coppola is actually a tough one, since he has directed a number of not-very-good films, but it is tough to not include someone who has had such great successes ("The Godfather," "The Conversation," and "Apocalypse Now").
 
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-22-2009, 11:17 AM:
 
quote: Mark Gulbrandsen
You don't consider "Touch Of Evil" to be a great film???
Where did I say Touch of Evil was not a great film? My point was outside of that great film, Citizen Kane and possibly one or two marginally great films Orsen Welles doesn't have a large body of great film work.
 
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 11-22-2009, 12:03 PM:
 
Scott, I was going to mention Truffaut, too, but thought I was just being biased because of "Day for Night". [Wink]
 
Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 11-22-2009, 12:10 PM:
 
Tim, I was going to do the same thing and didn't for the same reason. Day For Night was the first foreign film I saw voluntarily and I was surprised I liked it. I doubt it holds up today. Nonetheless, we must continue to ask ourselves " Are movies real? Are women Magic?" [Wink]
 
Posted by John Koutsoumis (Member # 1855) on 11-22-2009, 08:32 PM:
 
People laugh at me about it but I say Abel Ferrara is among the greatest.
There are others too but to me Ferrara has made more consistantly impressive films.
I will never forget the first time I watched Bad Lieutenant & The Addiction .
Even his recent films like Mary and Go Go Tales are great.
 
Posted by Cameron Glendinning (Member # 3516) on 11-23-2009, 05:28 AM:
 
quote: Steve Guttag
Rob Reiner
He really has had an extraordinary career, His early film such as Spinal Tap, Princess Bride, Stand by me. Harry meet Sally etc. are all some of the finest examples of their genre.

Even his teen drama, The Sure Thing was memorable.

I think my personal biggest claim to fame was spotlight operating for a live performance by Spinal Tap!

Woody Allen and his early funny films.

I think I would like to mention Frank Capra and Michael Powell as some of my favorite directors so far not mentioned.
 
Posted by Demetris Thoupis (Member # 833) on 11-24-2009, 05:39 PM:
 
Martin Campbell

Peter Jackson for Lord of the Rings of course not that Godzilla gimmik
 
Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 11-24-2009, 09:37 PM:
 
For films that defined a generation.... John Hughes
 




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