Author Topic: Favorite Directors (Read 5233 times)

Yep

Hitchcock: Rebecca, I Confess, Psycho, the Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, etc.
Douglass Sirk: Lured, All That Heaven Allows, Imitation of Life, All I Desire, etc.
Michael Curtiz: Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, Life with Father
Ang Lee: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long), the Wedding Banquet (Xi yan), Brokeback Mountain
Spike Lee: 4 Little Girls, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X
Brian Singer: The Usual Suspects, X-Men, X2, Apt Pupil
Steven Spielberg: the Color Purple
Danny Boyle: 28 Days Later...
Ridley Scott
Brian De Palma
Coppola

LatsMcGee · « **Reply #7 on:** May 15, 2009, 12:33:28 PM »

Carpenter, Fulci, Argento, Bava.....

sync pulse · « **Reply #8 on:** May 15, 2009, 02:45:47 PM »

William Wyler;
Preston Sturges;
Mark Sandrich;
Sam Wood;
Howard Hawks;
Norman Z. McCleod;
Buster Keaton;
Victor Fleming....no more time....

jerseyhurricane · « **Reply #9 on:** May 16, 2009, 05:24:48 PM »

Tarantino is the best. Scorsese is up there too. Robert Rodriguez.

HTexan · « **Reply #10 on:** May 16, 2009, 06:08:26 PM »

1.)Robert Rodriguez
2.)QT
3.) Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor, good first movies

The Ugly · « **Reply #11 on:** May 19, 2009, 02:18:40 PM »

Quote from: jerseyhurricane on May 16, 2009, 05:24:48 PM

Tarantino is the best. Scorsese is up there too. Robert Rodriguez.

Have to disagree. Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are brilliant. Then what? Rodriguez is much better, you ask me.

Kubrick
Scorcese
Coen Brothers (Their worst movie is better than most directors' best)
David Fincher
Darren Aronofsky
Alex Proyas
Christopher Nolan (6 for 6 - dude might go down as the best!)
Brad Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Danny Boyle
Etc.

The Ugly · « **Reply #12 on:** May 19, 2009, 02:26:46 PM »

Rodriguez, Spielberg, Zemeckis, Guillermo Del Toro, Peter Jackson, Atom Egoyan ...

HTexan · « **Reply #13 on:** May 19, 2009, 11:11:52 PM »

Quote from: The Ugly on May 19, 2009, 02:18:40 PM

Have to disagree. Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are brilliant. Then what? Rodriguez is much better, you ask me.

yip, yip. When is QT going to make a come back

SuperNatural · « **Reply #14 on:** May 20, 2009, 12:57:05 AM »

Quote from: HTexan on May 19, 2009, 11:11:52 PM

yip, yip. When is QT going to make a come back

Inglorious Bastards might be good (fingers crossed).

The Ugly · « **Reply #15 on:** May 20, 2009, 06:17:47 AM »

And Clint Fucking Eastwood.

Mr. Magoo · « **Reply #16 on:** May 20, 2009, 10:33:48 AM »

Scorsese
Spielberg
Ron Howard
Eastwood
Tarantino
Coen Brothers
Wes Anderson
Soderbergh

Coppola isn't really that great of a director as in his greatest movies (godfathers, apolcolypse now: 2 of my favorite by the way) the greatness depended on the story, not the direction. Thats why other movies he directed such as The Outsiders (book was better than movie) and Jack (that piece of crap robin williams aging faster than everybody else) pretty much sucked ass.

The Ugly · « **Reply #17 on:** May 20, 2009, 12:27:47 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Magoo on May 20, 2009, 10:33:48 AM

Coppola isn't really that great of a director as in his greatest movies (godfathers, apolcolypse now: 2 of my favorite by the way) the greatness depended on the story, not the direction.

Not sure I'd know the difference. Have you seen The Conversation?

Forgot about Soderbergh. Out of Sight and The Limey are both bad ass.

Mr. Magoo · « **Reply #18 on:** May 20, 2009, 06:23:15 PM »

Quote from: The Ugly on May 20, 2009, 12:27:47 PM

Not sure I'd know the difference. Have you seen The Conversation?

Forgot about Soderbergh. Out of Sight and The Limey are both bad ass.

I dont think I've seen it but I've heard about it (learned about it my film class). It's kind of hard to explain the difference in what I mean. I guess examples would be the first Oceans 11 and then the Solderbergh remake. I've seen both and due to good direction (because the story is basically the same (without getting into fine details)) I think the remake one was better. Goodfellas was originally set to be directed by Irwin Winkler...do you think it would still have been that good of a movie (same story, different direction)? And my point was that Coppola got great stories as movies, so his direction isn't really on the same level. Thats why Jack and The Outsiders suck as overall movies. Maybe this helps

Doug_Steele · « **Reply #19 on:** May 20, 2009, 10:31:29 PM »

Quote from: elite_lifter on May 14, 2009, 03:35:35 PM

John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Michael Mann(Heat), Eli Roth, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, too name a few.

Eli Roth...What the Fuck? I see that you are going with some decent Horror Directers but add Debra Hill who worked very close with John Carpenter. Sam Rami, Evil Dead series, Clive Barker

njflex · « **Reply #20 on:** May 21, 2009, 07:13:29 AM »

the idea of what a good director is to not only piece and shoot but to capture the essence of the character or make a actor look and feel like whats being shot,take example goodfellas scorcese takes henry hill and makes him in the end not a thug but a likeable thug,he took an actor ray liotta and had him so into character that if u met a young hill and liotta u would find the likeness uncanny,whenever i see or hear hill on howard stern i think of his manic life portrayed by liotta ,and believe it.that movie gave a seemingly lowly life hill created into a piece of movie gold that will live forever.

The Ugly · « **Reply #21 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:36:34 AM »

Quote from: njflex on May 21, 2009, 07:13:29 AM

the idea of what a good director is to not only piece and shoot but to capture the essence of the character or make a actor look and feel like whats being shot

Probably wrong, but I sorta figured the director was like a project manager, overseeing the entire production: storytelling, acting, cinematography, editing - but style, mostly. 5-10 minutes in, I know I'm watching Kubrick, Scorcese, Spileberg, Coens, or Guy Ritchie. Very distinctive quality with some.

On the other hand, the Coppola "story" thing might make sense. My least favorite Coen movies (Hudsucker Proxy and Intolerable Cruelty, which are still pretty good) are the only two they didn't write (or adapt) exclusively.

HTexan · « **Reply #22 on:** May 21, 2009, 04:34:13 PM »

Quote from: The Ugly on May 21, 2009, 10:36:34 AM

Probably wrong, but I sorta figured the director was like a project manager, overseeing the entire production: storytelling, acting, cinematography, editing - but style, mostly. 5-10 minutes in, I know I'm watching Kubrick, Scorcese, Spileberg, Coens, or Guy Ritchie. Very distinctive quality with some.

On the other hand, the Coppola "story" thing might make sense. My least favorite Coen movies (Hudsucker Proxy and Intolerable Cruelty, which are still pretty good) are the only two they didn't write (or adapt) exclusively.

that is a producer.
true, it is great when a director can write,shoot, and edit the film.

webcake · « **Reply #23 on:** May 21, 2009, 04:52:54 PM »

Spielberg
Tarintino
Ron Howard
M. Night Shyamalan (6th sense, Signs........other more recent films have been shit)

HTexan · « **Reply #24 on:** May 21, 2009, 05:02:09 PM »

Quote from: webcke on May 21, 2009, 04:52:54 PM

M. Night Shyamalan (6th sense, Signs........other more recent films have been shit)

great movies. happening suck balls tho. $:-\$