Favorite Directors

[The Ben G]

Who are some of your Favorite Directors?

Mine are:Guy Ritchie, Sam Raimi, Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Edgar Wright, George Romero, and Alfred Hitchcock

[The Red Next Door]

I like Takeshi Kitano aka Beat Takeshi and john waters

[which doctor]

Herzog, Godard, and Buñuel

inb4 pretentious

[Jimmie Higgins]

John Waters (#1), Goddard, Loach, Polanski (despite anything else, he's fantastic at his craft), Hitchcock, Sayles, John Carpenter, Cuaron, Almodovar, Altman.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Alfred Hitchcock, John Waters, Lucio Fulci, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Mario Bava, Takashi Miike and Frances Ford Coppola (for Apocalypse Now alone).

[Os Cangaceiros]

Herzog, Godard, and Buñuel

inb4 pretentious

Have you seen Herzog's remake of Bad Lieutenant yet?

For some reason the idea of Herzog remaking an Abel Ferrara film is hilarious to me, and the fact that Nicholas Cage is in it (probably chewing scenery like there's no tomorrow) makes it even better. :lol:

[The Idler]

Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale

[pierrotlefou]

fritz lang, godard, melville, pasolini, herzog, Cronenberg, andrei tarkovsky, miike, altman, polanski, michel gondry, Argento, fulci, Romero and whoever did battle of Algiers. holy fuck that movie was intense.

[The Ben G]

Alfred Hitchcock, John Waters, Lucio Fulci, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Mario Bava, Takashi Miike and Frances Ford Coppola (for Apocalypse Now alone).

Cronenburg is way too gory for me. I cant stand watching his stuff.

[Across The Street]

Cronenberg is pretty awesome, he's got his own style of gore that's for sure.

but to the topic at hand:

Jim Jarmusch, Rob Zombie, Wes Anderson, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, P.T.A., and there's tons more, these are just a few that stick out right now

[Os Cangaceiros]

Cronenburg is way too gory for me. I cant stand watching his stuff.

I really like his films, especially his own personal brand of "body horror".

[pierrotlefou]

Jim Jarmusch,
did you see The Limits of Control? Even fans of his hated this movie. I kind of liked it though.

[x359594]

John Ford, Orson Welles, Robert Bresson, Andrei Trakovsky, Alfred Hitchcock, Mizoguchi Kenji, Roberto Rossellini, Luis Bunuel, Charles Burnett, Josef von Sternberg, Howard Hawks, Ozu Yasujiro, Fritz Lang, Jean Renoir, Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin, Robert Aldrich, Frank Borzage, George Cukor, Samuel Fuller, Anthony Mann, Vincente Minnelli, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Douglas Sirk, Raoul Walsh, Budd Boetticher, Andre De Toth, Joseph H. Lewis, Jacques Tourneur and a dozen others.

[Across The Street]

woah^
pretty well-versed list

pierrotlefou: "did you see The Limits of Control? Even fans of his hated this movie. I kind of liked it though."

Haven't even heard of it, I'll keep my eyes peeled.

[pierrotlefou]

woah^
pretty well-versed list

pierrotlefou: "did you see The Limits of Control? Even fans of his hated this movie. I kind of liked it though."

Haven't even heard of it, I'll keep my eyes peeled.
it's his most recent one.

[Madvillainy]

Stanley Kubrick, John Waters, Polanski. Lots of others that have already been mentioned.

[Os Cangaceiros]

At least there's another fan of Lucio Fulci here. :lol:

[ChrisK]

Martin Scorcese, Guy Ritichie, Copola, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, Oliver Stone (for Platoon mostly), Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino

[The Ben G]

I see John Waters is Popular. What kind of movies does he make?

[pierrotlefou]

I see John Waters is Popular. What kind of movies does he make?
Lots of movies about trannys and awkward situations. He's from baltimore where most of his films are based around and comes in the theater i work at a lot. He's such a squirrelly looking guy.

[The Ben G]

Lots of movies about trannys and awkward situations. He's from baltimore where most of his films are based around and comes in the theater i work at a lot. He's such a squirrelly looking guy.

So like just experemental films?

[pierrotlefou]

So like just experemental films?
no i wouldn't really say it's all that experimental. His films have plot and character development and stuff but the stories are pretty crazy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl4f7wK67Uw

[x359594]

no i wouldn't really say it's all that experimental. His films have plot and character development and stuff but the stories are pretty crazy...

John Waters makes movies with a self-conscious camp sensibility. He particularly likes 1950s Hollywood melodramas, and almost all of his commercial films (Cry Baby, Hairspray) are parodies of this genre.

[Pirate Utopian]

John Waters makes hilarious movies.
"My god! somebody sent me a bowel movement!"

Definitely one of my favorite directors.

[Uncle Hank]

Just a few of the ones I appreciate:

Akira Kurosawa... the greatness and volume, also the scope of his work is just mind-blowing.
Federico Fellini, though I don't doubt there'll be some haterz he was a master at capturing exactly what he wanted.
Stanley Kubrick was brilliant, haven't disliked a film of his I've seen.
Ingmar Bergman... 'nuff said I think.
Jean Renoir, can't say enough so I won't say anything. Just trust me. :)
Jean-Luc Godard; La chinoise leaves me laughing in terror.
Spike Lee other than his Kobe Bryant fetish can really tell it how it is.
Martin Scorsese, I mean we get it, Joe Pesci is a crazy motherfucker, but I have to give him his props regardless.
Fritz Lang is just so deft in his direction, it's amazing.
Wes Anderson... yeah I said it. :(
Andrei Tarkovsky makes me jizz in my pants. :blushing: And yes I have had that checked out, it's a pretty average reaction to his films according to my urologist.

[pierrotlefou]

Andrei Tarkovsky makes me jizz in my pants. :blushing: And yes I have had that checked out, it's a pretty average reaction to his films according to my urologist.
Totally. The stalker is genius.

[brigadista]

stanley kubrik for one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY

[Chimurenga.]

Scorsese, Lynch, Tarantino, Coens, a few others. What I've seen of John Waters, I like.

I've been meaning to check out Kurosawa's films.

What is everyone's opinion on Oliver Stone?

[MarxSchmarx]

I've been meaning to check out Kurosawa's films.

If you see no other, see Ikiru. It can put a lot of his later works into perspective , and while it was not his most influential, it was probably his most powerful and speaks directly to what Kurosawa sought to achieve in his movies.

An amazing amount of cinema since has been variations on this theme.

[Sendo]

If you see no other, see Ikiru. It can put a lot of his later works into perspective , and while it was not his most influential, it was probably his most powerful and speaks directly to what Kurosawa sought to achieve in his movies.

An amazing amount of cinema since has been variations on this theme.

Actually, as for Kurosawa, I love Seven Samurai for being an epic, but his best work, truth be told is all modern day stuff like Ikiru and The Bad Sleep Well. I don't know exactly how great Seven Samurai is. Everything is there, story, themes, originality in structure, direction, cast, action...but I also acknowledge I'll be blinded by boyish adoration of samurai and ninjas and pirates and knights in armor, and dinosaurs. Dinosaurs kick ass.

[MarxSchmarx]

Actually, as for Kurosawa, I love Seven Samurai for being an epic, but his best work, truth be told is all modern day stuff like Ikiru and The Bad Sleep Well. I don't know exactly how great Seven Samurai is. Everything is there, story, themes, originality in structure, direction, cast, action...but I also acknowledge I'll be blinded by boyish adoration of samurai and ninjas and pirates and knights in armor, and dinosaurs. Dinosaurs kick ass.

Yeah, I think the thing with 7 Samurai is that it's plot and characters and drama have been recycled, regurgitated and mimicked so many times in hundreds of permutations that its originality can fade over the years. Perhaps this means it hasn't quite stood the test of time. Still, back in the 50s hardly anybody had done a sweeping epic that was as tightly constructed as the seven samurai.

PS There was a dinosaur scene in that movie?? It's been several years since I saw it but I can't imagine I'd forget a thing like that.

PPS Oh wait re-reading your sentence I now know what you mean. Yeah dinosaurs rock.

[Weezer]

F.W. Murnau and Stanley Kubrick