Top Ten Directors? (and now current)

Started by b/a, February 26, 2003, 10:09:27 PM

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Gold Trumpet

I'll list directors of great admiration from me, not necessarily in any order or greatness.

Hayao Myazaki - my favorite director working now
Akira Kurosawa
Federico Fellini
Michelangelo Antonioni
Luis Bunuel
Buster Keaton
Paul Thomas Anderson
Stanley Kubrick
Robert Altman
Martin Scorsese

I'm also a major fan of David Gordon Green's first movie, George Washington. It is a great film, that unlike any movie from 2000, is still growing with me. I kinda want to write another post on George Washington (I did on the last board), but maybe I will put ideas of it into a different post.  But I'll wait to see how he handles his next few films before making any declaration upon him. Also, I have a great desire to discover more from Yasijuro Ozu.

~rougerum

xerxes

Quote from: The Gold TrumpetAlso, I have a great desire to discover more from Yasijuro Yasujiro Ozu.

~rougerum

i am trying to find more of his stuff as well... a little hard to find... at least on dvd anyway

SoNowThen

1.  PTA
2. Scorsese
3. Fellini
4. Godard
5. Malick
6. Nichols
7. Kubrick
8. Allen (Woody)
9. Altman
10. Maysles brothers

--honorable mention (not enough movies to qualify): Vince Gallo, Sofia Coppola

--with apologies to: Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, and The Coens (all of whom were inched out for no good reason save lack of space).
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The Silver Bullet

01. Paul Thomas Anderson
02. Martin Scorsese
03. Quentin Tarantino
04. Steven Soderbergh
05. David Lean
06. Evan Mather
07. Stanley Kubrick
08. Francis Ford Coppola
09. David Lynch
10. Steven Spielberg
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budgie

Kurosawa
Hitchcock
PT Anderson
Jarmusch
Lynch
Scorsese
Linklater
Sirk
Von Sternberg
Leone

rustinglass

emir kusturica
lars von trier
david lynch
pt anderson
ingmar bergman
tarantino
andrei tarkovsky (or is it tartovsky, no one seems to know for sure...)
steven soderbergh
teresa villaverde
francis ford coppola
ed wood (just kidding, :P )
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paul thomas anderson
wong kar-wai
quentin tarantino
richard linklater
wes anderson
alfred hitchcock
spike jonze
jean-luc godard
sofia coppola
harmony korine

of course this list differs every now and then.   :-D

edit:  wow!  did i forget:
stanley kubrick
steven speilberg
kinji fukasaku

my bad, yo!
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oakmanc234

Not in any order:

Steven Spielberg
Paul Thomas Anderson
Martin Scorcese
Quentin Tarantino
Joel Coen
Tim Burton
Wes Anderson
David Fincher
Stanley Kubrick
Ridley Scott

And some others.....

Hitchcock, Spike Lee, Spike Jonze, Aronofsky, Ritchie, Milos Forman, Bryan Singer, Watchowski's, Zemeckis, Jackson, Boyle, Crowe, Mann, Mendes, yada yada yada.............
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©brad

here's mine bitches;

oliver stone
da man himself kurosawa
almodovar
john sayles
billy wilder
coen bros.
ridley scott
steven soderbergh
ang lee
cameron crowe
spike lee/jonze

and all the rest you guys put on ur lists

ShanghaiOrange

Ordered reverse alphabetically by mother's maiden name:

Martin Scorcese
Stanley Kubrick
The Coen Brothers
Wes Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Spike Jonze
Terry Gilliam
Francis Ford Coppola
Akira Kurosawa
Paul Thomas Anderson
Last five films (theater)
-The Da Vinci Code: *
-Thank You For Smoking: ***
-Silent Hill: ***1/2 (high)
-Happy Together: ***1/2
-Slither: **

Last five films (video)
-Solaris: ***1/2
-Cobra Verde: ***1/2
-My Best Fiend: **1/2
-Days of Heaven: ****
-The Thin Red Line: ***

cine

this was impossible to make 10 for me.. so here's 15..

1. Altman
2. Bergman
3. Bunuel
4. Fellini
5. Griffith
6. Herzog
7. Hitchcock
8. Kieslowski
9. Kubrick
10. Kurosawa
11. Ozu
12. Renoir
13. Scorsese
14. Welles
15. Wilder

cowboykurtis

in no paticular order:
-kubrick
-hitchcock
-scorsese
-kurosawa
-bunuel
-truffaut
-fellini
-bergman
-spielberg
-welles
...your excuses are your own...

Pastor Parsley

no order:

=kieslowski (although I didn't care for blue and white)
=kubrick
=lynch
=bergman
=bunuel
=fellini
=godard
=truffaut
=antonioni
=kurosawa
=malick
=pta

Alethia

in no particular order --

orson welles
martin scorsese
billy wilder
woody allen
frederico fellini
francois truffaut
stanley kubrick
frank capra
alfred hitchcock
john huston
quentin tarantino
roman polanski
steven spielberg
david lean
paul thomas anderson
steven soderbergh
brian de palma
george cukor
the coen's
charlie chaplin
sam peckinpah
john cassavettes
akira kurosawa
elia kazan

honorable mentions - spike jonze, stanley donen, stanley kramer, julie taymor, sam mendes, jean luc godard, jonathan demme, robert wise, mike nichols, robert altman, todd haynes, neil jordan, tim burton, dario argento, john waters, terrence mallick, jim jarmusch, david lynch, francis ford coppola, ingmar bergman, cameron crowe, darron aronofsky, wes anderson, alexander payne, philip noyce, spike lee, richard linklater......

soon to join my list - sofia coppola, jill sprecher, christopher guest, pedro almodovar, ang lee (the hulk isnt exciting my very much however)........

and im forgetting a thousand others......

EDIT - hahaha, God - what an asshole....

aclockworkjj

Altman
PTA
Wes Anderson
Howard Hawks
Fellini
Anthony Minghella
Aronofsky
John Ford
Maya Deren
Sir Stanley K.