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« on: July 30, 2011, 07:56:04 PM »
Which directors do you enjoy for the consistent personality of their works, their track record, or they're simply the ones responsible for the existence of your favorite film(s)?
My top ten:
10. Woody Allen
9. Paul Mazursky
8. Joe Dante
7. Mel Brooks
6. Frank Tashlin
5. Buster Keaton
4. Charlie Chaplin
3. Ernst Lubistch
2. Billy Wilder
1. Alfred Hitchcock
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2011, 08:43:24 PM »
I posted who they are and why

10 Tommy Wiseau (The Room)
9 Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove)
8 George Lucas (Star Wars Episodes 4 and 5)
7 Orsen Welles (Touch of Evil)
6 Mel Brooks (Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Blazzing Saddles)
5 John McTiernan - (Predator and Die Hard)
4 Ed Wood (Plan 9 From Outer Space)
3 Roman Polanski (The Pianst and Rosemary's Baby)
2 Alfred Hitchock (Vertigo, Rear Window)
1 Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, The Prestige)


ironically some of these people have made some of my most hated films
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2011, 09:18:20 PM »
for consistency (or at least for a handful of films)

Quentin Tarantino
Mike Leigh
Dario Argento
Christopher Guest
Edgar Wright

 one film in particular:

Tim Burton (Pee Wee's Big Adventure)
Richard Linklater (Dazed & Confused)
Rob Reiner (This Is Spinal Tap)
Kubrick (Clockwork  Orange)
Speilberg (Jaws)
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2011, 09:50:08 PM »
Tommy Wiseau
Quinten Tarantino
Robert Rodrieguez
Zack Synder
Kevin Smith
Rob Zombie
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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2011, 09:50:51 PM »
I also forgot to mention stanley kubrick  Thumbup
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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2011, 12:43:13 AM »
Too Hard. I'll give it go. limited to ten.

Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Andrei Tarkovsky
Powell and Pressburger
John Boorman
Sidney Lumet
Yasujiro Ozu
David Fincher
Mario Bava
David Cronenberg
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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2011, 02:36:54 AM »
Coen brothers
Park Chan-Wook
Stanley Kubrick
Quentin Tarantino
John Carpenter
Fritz Lang
Sam Raimi
Sergio Leone
David Fincher
Paul Thomas Anderson
Jim Jarmusch
Clint Eastwood
Akira Kurosawa
Martin Scorsese
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« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2011, 07:30:40 AM »
Quote from: Pillow on July 31, 2011, 02:36:54 AM
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« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2011, 04:53:18 PM »
Don't really have a lot. Off the top of my head:
Kevin Smith
John Carpenter
Rob Zombie
Tim Burton
Darren Aronofsky
P.T. Anderson
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« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2011, 05:41:08 PM »
Personal favourites?

Well there's:

Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Franklin J. Schaeffner
John Frankenheimer
Darren Aronofsky
John Carpenter
Robert Wise
Fritz Lang
Mario Bava
Ishiro Honda
John Huston
Boris Sagal
Frank Capra
George Waggner
Tod Browning
James Whale
Val Guest
Roy Ward Baker
Terence Fisher
Jack Hill
Roy William Neill
Terry Gilliam
Alex Proyas
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
David Cronenberg
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« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2011, 04:25:54 AM »
.Stanley Kubrick (of course)
.Martin Scorsese
.Hitchcock
.Mario Bava
.George Romero (Surpised non of you guys mentioned him!)
.early Tobe Hooper
.Ed Wood
.Al Adamson (What can I say? I enjoy his garbage!)
.Tod Browning
.James Whale
.early Sam Rami
.David Lynch
.Sergei Eisenstein (just on BATTLESHIP POTEMKIM alone!)
.Fritz Lang
.Sergio Leone
.Quentin Tarintino
.Carl Dreyer
.Roger Corman
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« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2011, 02:24:51 PM »
I'm even more shocked I forgot Corman than Romero. Actually I know there are others I'm forgetting. I actually forgot Tim Burton too. Sure there's others too more than likely.
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« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2011, 02:54:09 PM »
Werner Herzog
Terry Gilliam
John Carpenter
Akira Kurosawa
Stanley Kubrick
Sergio Leone
Orson Welles
Tim Burton
Ishiro Honda
George A. Romero
Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg

Honorable mentions:

Martin Scorsese
Curtis Harrington
Joe Dante
James Whale
Bill Douglas
Robert Wise
Francis Ford Coppola
Sam Raimi
Clint Eastwood
Tobe Hooper
George Miller
William Girdler
David Lynch
Ray Dennis Steckler
Sam Peckinpah

Most of the honorable ones are from those I feel I haven't seen enough of (Scorsese) or I just have a general fondness (Steckler) of their films.
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« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2011, 03:42:33 PM »
In no particular order (and I would probably give you a slightly different list if you asked me again tomorrow):

* MARTIN SCORSESE
* DAVID LYNCH
* HENRY HATHAWAY
* SIDNEY LUMET
* FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER
* ALFRED HITCHCOCK
* BILLY WILDER
* SAM PECKINPAH
* DAVID LEAN
* JOHN FORD
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« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2011, 05:01:41 PM »
I seem rewatch movies by these guys more often than most. So I guess that would make them my favorites.
George Romero
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Ishiro Honda
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