Who are your favorite directors??
I think one of my all time favorite directors is Robert Zemeckis. (Back to the Future movies, Cast Away, Forest Gump and more)
I also enjoyed Lasse Hallstrom's What's eating Gilbert Grape. Though I haven't really seen any other Hallstrom films.
So who's works do you enjoy?
Hmm, I believe there was a thread like this not too long ago. Oh well.
My personal favourite directors are:
Brian De Palma for: Blow Out, Scarface, Dressed to Kill & the Untouchables
John Carpenter for: Halloween, Escape From New York, Assault on Precinct 13 & They Live ;)
Sam Peckinpah for: The Wild Bunch, Cross of Iron & The Getaway
Martin Scorcese for: Taxi Driver, Goodfellas
Sergio Leone for: The "clint eastwood" trilogy & Once Upon A Time In America
Quentin Tarantino for, well, I like all his movies so far ;)
It absolutely has to be:
Terry Gilliam (or Terry G.)
Tim Burton (or Timmy B.)
The Coen Brothers (or the Brothers C.)
See, I've given mine nicknames - AND THE NICKNAMES RHYME!
That's how good they are.
There are many talented directors out there, but I have my small assembly of favourites...
Alfred Hitchcock - Love almost everyone of his films, especially "Psycho", "Suspicion", "Rear Window" and "Spellbound".
Akira Kurosawa - Mostly his Samurai-films. ("Yojimbo", "The Seven Samurais", etc...)
The Coen Brothers - Perhaps two of the best film-makers today... Love both "The Big Lebowski" and "O Brother Where Art Thou?".
Oh yeah, there are alot of Hitchcock movies I havn't seen, but I really like the ones I HAVE seen.
joel silver and jerry bruckheimer.
tarantino's cool to. my favorite tarantinomovie is one almost nobody has ever heard of.
it's about a picolo at a hotel with witches, whores, brats and a whole floor of drunken people (having a party apparently) and tarantino himself wanting to cut of his best friend's pinkiefinger.
don't remember the name, but it was something like "four hotelrooms and lots of trouble".
That would be 'Four Rooms', 12431 - and Tarrantino directed 1 of 4 segments, if I remember correctly. Personally I think Jackie Brown is his best film so far; it was much more restrained and had a better executed plot than Pulp and Dogs, IMO, and I found the almost-romance between Jackie and Max quite touching.
Zemeckis , deffinatley.
Joe Johnston when it comes to family movies.
Kubrick when it comes to Full Metal Jacket.
Ron Underwood.
Andrew Edmark.
Any director is a good director in my eyes, why? Because they've done more than me!
:p
m0ds
M. Night Shyamalahn (maybe misspelled) for the Sixth Sense, The unbreakable and Signals (Don´t know the English title)
Steven Spielberg. Encounters in the third phase, E.T, Indy, Schindler´s list.
Kubrick for 2001, The mechanical orange (don´t know the English title :() and Full metal Jacket.
Coppola for the Godfathers.
Andrew Blake (You KNOW WHO is he, naughty!!! :))
my new favorite director is Larry Flynt.
no, just kidding!
Kaufman.
Lovegrove.
Quentin Tarantino for me. 12431, as it goes with Four Rooms, the first two parts are shit, the 3rd is ok, and the last, QT's, is gold.
Others I enjoy are Guy Ritchie (I like his flowing style), Francis Ford Coppola, Kubrick and Ridley.
Terry Gilliam: A brilliant director. Not every film he's ever directed has been great (although several are masterpieces), but in all of his movies his direction is superb even when other elements are lacking.
Hitchcock: Of course, he's a master. His management of suspense is incredible.
Martin Scorsese: For what should be obvious reasons.
Kurosawa: Another obvious choice; absolutely revolutionary.
Orson Welles: To be honest, all I've seen of his is Citizen Kane but it's so well-directed that I have to put him on the list.
Cameron Crowe: Not the best director ever, but did write and direct Almost Famous, one of my favorite films ever.
P. T. Anderson: Still a pretty new director, but Boogie Nights and Punch-Drunk Love were incredible, and Magnolia is another one of my absolute favorite films. That's a damn good starting track record.
Stanley Kubrick: One of the most influential and original filmmakers. He's responsible for a few of my favorites.
I'm sure there are others. Those are the ones that came to mind at the moment.
the Coens, Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Scorcese, Luc Besson, Bob Odenkirk, heck and even John Landis after watching Three Amigos today. :)
John Carpenter (although his last few movies Suck (yes, it's a capital S))
Richard Kelly (have only seen Donnie Darko, but that's enough)
David Fincher (gotta love his moving camera)
Christopher Nolan (Memento... wow!)
Peter Jackson (LOTR ruled but Braindead is even better)
Ridley Scott
John Woo
Tim Burton
Sam Raimi (only for his early movies)
Steven Soderbergh (ditto)
Paul Thomas Anderson
Barry Levinson
Goran Markovic (the best director in former Yugoslavia)
lol! Thanks m0ds! I'm my favorite director too!
Whoops, forgot Sam Raimi (early stuff as well); thanks Harvester :)
Tim Burton... Man, it is really hard to type today. Probably because I rode a silly silo like 30 times in a row... This hole thing took twenty mins to type... :p
Jan DeBont is an excellent action movie director.
Speed and Twister are my two favorite DeBont films.
whoa, I so thought this said fav. dictators. but I guess that wouldn't have made much sence
Let's see now. This should be easy, but most of my favorite directors have disappointed me lately:
David Lynch - used to be my favorite director. Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me is still on my all-time top ten, and the first 40 minutes of Lost Highway were awesome. But Mulholland Drive didn't really work - I was bored out of my mind during the first hour and a half, but then the tacked on ending really made it all come together nicely.
Tim Burton - another previous favorite. Everything up to and at least in part including Sleepy Hollow is great. Planet of the Apes, utter crap. I don't really care what he's doing next. I'd much rather see Henry Selick's (director of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) adaptation of "Coraline".
Robert Rodriguez - I have admired him since I saw El Mariachi for the first time and afterwards read his very funny behind-the-scenes diary "Rebel without a Crew". His philosophy about no-budget filmmaking has influenced every creative project I've been involved in. I can't say that I absolutely love his later films (From Dusk Till Dawn and the Spy Kids series), but they still have the energetic Rodriguez trademark pace.
Kevin Smith - This cat is the best dialogue writer in the business, no question. I'm not sure about his directing skills, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was horrible, but I can't help loving him. Mallrats and Chasing Amy are on my top 5 movie-list, and I own all his stuff on DVD - even the commentary tracks are funnier than most other comedies.
David Fincher - The best visual storyteller of his generation. Se7en was more stylish than any other neo-noir and as a renewer of the cinematic language Fight Club is the modern equivalent of Citizen Kane. Panic Room was a pretty average thriller with overblown visual effects, disappointing as hell.
Some other guys who I respect immensely:
- Roger Corman (The king of exploitation flicks. I love all his Vincent Price films, the Poe movies in particular).
- Brian De Palma (Blow Out is my all time favorite movie).
- John Carpenter (I can't help loving his movies, even the bad ones, except Vampires)
- Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Bringing out the Dead, what more can I say?)
- Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now, scariest movie of all time)
- Robert Wise (The Haunting, second scariest movie of all time, plus he did West Side Story :))
- Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause)
- Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, People vs. Larry Flynt)
- Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion)
- James Whale (Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, Bride of Frankenstein)
Edit: Almost forgot Terry Gilliam, I feel a bit embarassed though, that Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is my favorite among his movies.
David Fincher
Alfred Hitchcock
Terry Gilliam
Woody Allen
Quentin Tarantino
My favourite screenplay author lately has been Charlie Kauffman (if you haven't seen "confessions of a dangerous mind", GO NOW)
I seriously don't understand why people like J. Carpenter so much...I personally find all of his movies silly and boring...then again that's just me.
That's the point of J. Carpenter movies.
To be silly, gory, harmless fun!
With cheesy synthisizer music ;)
Hehe, LGM must only have seen Carpenter's last two movies Vampires and Ghosts of Mars if he describes him that way.
That cheesy synth music works really well I think, The Thing's soundtrack made the film 10 x scarier ;)
m0ds
Hehe, actually, Carpenter didn't write the music for The Thing, it was written by Ennio Morricone and I think he used an orchestra. Funny thing is though, Morricone wrote a full soundtrack for the movie, but Carpenter ended up only using one "tune" through the entire movie.
But you gotta love Carpenter's cheesy soundtrack for Assault on Precinct 13.
Speaking of film music, what do you guys think of James Horner's work?
I think he is kinda repetitive.
I liked James Horner's score for Willow, but I must admit I haven't really noticed his music since. I just watch a movie, then see the credits: "Oh, so that was James Horner", without really being able to recall any of the actual score. I feel the same way about Jerry Goldsmith these days.
The director who made the biggest impression on me was probably Shinya Tsukamoto.
...or whoever directed the TMNT 1 movie
James Newton Howard is a great composer - and his music goes well with the M Night Shayalaman movies, and Bruce Willis is very suited for them.
I like some of Horner's work, Aliens, etc.
By the way, GarageGothic, Tim Burton's next project is looking like it will be a lot better than POA was. It's called "Big Fish"...
lol, big fish, thats pretty blunt...
Hal Ashby
Won an Oscar for editing In The Heat of The Night and then turned to directing.
Made some of the best films of the 70s -- Harold and Maude, The Last Detail (my fav), Shampoo, Bound for Glory, Coming Home (for which he was Oscar Nom'ed), and Being There.
Then he died in the 80s -- both literally and film-wise.
If you ask me my favorites are Peter Jacksson for Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring and Two towers, and also George Lucas for the Star Wars movies plus Indiana Jones movies (with Steven Spielberg).
Mats:
Just so you know, George Lucas didn't direct Indiana Jones at all. He came up with the story and was one of the executive producers, but Steven Spielberg directed.
I won't get drawn into a debate on Lucas's creative talent, but as a director he's horrendous.
Which is why ep. 5 and 6 , which he didn't direct are markedly better better from a direction point of view.
Quote from: Las Naranjas on Sat 24/05/2003 01:01:02
I won't get drawn into a debate on Lucas's creative talent, but as a director he's horrendous.
Which is why ep. 5 and 6 , which he didn't direct are markedly better better from a direction point of view.
I agree. I didn't want to post my opinions about the quality of Lucas' direction skills so I stuck to factual correction, but I completely agree. He really hasn't shown any particular skill in that area. I think a lot of people don't understand what a director actually does, and just name the directors of their favorite films as their favorite directors. Anyway, I thought Episode 5 in particular had the best direction of the three original Star Wars films.
On the other hand, I find his direction entertaining in an Ed Wood kinda way.
Although his lack of talent is evident mainly in his direction of acting. I was amazed at the way he could sap all the life out of actors like Liam Nielson and Samuel L Jackson. To reduce them to the automatons they became, well, that takes talent man.
ARGH!!!
another directors thread, must controll myself!
can't help it here goes!!!
Quentin tarantino
Troy duffy
Alfred hitchcock
Guy Ritchie
robert zemeckis
robert rodriquez
darren aronofski
charlie chaplin
tim burton
david lynch
david fincher
STANLEY KUBRICK!!!!
sam raimi
richard kelly
paul thomas anderson
M. knight shayamalan
francis ford coppola
ed wood
I could go on like this forever I really could...
SO I WILL!!!
-the coen brothers
-cameron crowe
-tim robbins
-jan svankmajer
-that guy who directed battle royal
-kevin smith
-walt disney
-orson welles
-david cronenberg
-nocolas roeg
-wilhelm friedrich murnau (nosferatu, metropolis owyeah!)
okey I'm gonna stop now :P
Quote from: Fruity again on Sat 24/05/2003 12:00:38
SO I WILL!!!
-that guy who directed battle royale
That would be Kinji Fukasaku, who died earlier this year.
See, now alot of people mention Kelly, but I'm warning them to take it easy. He's only made one film, let's not put too much pressure on him right now, give him some room to breathe. Hehehe.
I'm ashamed, but i don't really know that many directors by name (probably saw their movies though)... So, i'll just blurbed out the most obvious ones:
Charlie Chaplin (if there wasn't a word "genius", we should invent it for him).
Tim Burton (especially his art direction)
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Zemeckis
Quentin Tarantino
Roman Polanski
Francis Ford Coppola
Steven Spielberg (ok, at least *some* of his movies)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Tim Burton(earlier stuff)
David Lynch
Giuseppe Tornatore
James Ivory(earlier stuff)