your TOP 10 directors

[RCMerchant]

Mine- in no real order-

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. David Lynch
3. James Whale
4. Ed Wood Jr.- yes, he's bad, but the unreality of his films are what make them so enjoyable.
5. Sergio Leone
6. Martin Scorcese
7. Alfred Hitchcock
8. Al Adamson- yes, you read that right.
9. Mario Bava
10. Dario Argento

[zombie no.one]

I am going to rank this not according to directing skill per se, but on a scale according to 'the most number of films directed, which I enjoy enough to own and watch at least semi-regularly'

1. Andy Sidaris
2. Umberto Lenzi
3. Dario Argento
4. Coen Bros
5. Lucio Fulci
(from now onwards it's '2 films')
6. David Lynch (WILD AT HEART and MULHOLLAND DRIVE)
7. Martin Scorcese (GOODFELLAS and CASINO)
8. Christopher Guest (WAITING FOR GUFFMAN and A MIGHTY WIND)
9. Mike Leigh (NUTS IN MAY and ABIGAIL'S PARTY)
10. David Zucker (NAKED GUN 1+2)

I'd consider Hitchcock to be a 'better' director than at least half those, but the only film I ever re-watch is PSYCHO, and I don't actually own a copy. REAR WINDOW is a masterpiece of directing, but I have seen it once and no desire to re-watch... it is what it is!

[claws]

We did this not too long ago, so I'm gonna repost:

Based on my physical media collection, movies I own the most from these directors

1. John Carpenter, Wes Craven
3. Tim Burton, Tobe Hooper
5. Brian De Palma, David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg
8. Joe Dante
9. Dario Argento, George A. Romero
11. Quentin Tarantino, Sam Raimi

[Trevor]

In no particular order

Don Siegel
Sidney Lumet
Orson Welles
Sir David Lean
Mathieu Kassovitz
John Frankenheimer
Jans Rautenbach*
Oliver Stone
Ivan Hall*
David Millin ASC*


* South African

[Alex]

John Carpenter.
Alex Proyas.
Terence Fisher.
George Romaro.
Tim Burton.
Ridley Scott.

I'll have to come back to this later.

[bob]

very tough:

Stanley Kubrick
Christopher Nolan
Charlie Chaplin
Terry Gilliam
Quinten Tarantino
Akira Kurosawa
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Wes Anderson
James Wan
Martin Scorsese

honorable mentions:

J. J. Abrams
David Lynch
Sergio Leone
Alfred Hitchcock
Orson Welles
Sidney Lumet

[Rev. Powell]

Yeah, we do this every now and then. My answers may change, I'm not looking up my last set of votes.

Stanley Kubrick
Federico Fellini
David Lynch
Luis Bunuel
Satoshi Kon
Hayao Miyazaki
Paul Thomas Anderson
Orson Welles
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese

[RCMerchant]

- I'm changing Al Adamson for Takashi Miike. (GOZU, ICHI THE KILLER, 13 ASSASSIANS)

[Cult_Moody_Movies]

John Carpenter
Ralph Bakshi
Hayao Miyazaki
Steven Spielberg
Robert Eggers (fav modern director)
David Cronenberg
Alfred Hitchcock
Jack Arnold (underrated director of important sci-fi films of th 1950's)
Michael Mann
Terence Fisher

[M.10rda]

I'll play along for a change:

1.) David Lynch

Shiftable.)
Wes Anderson
The Coens
Peter Greenaway
Hal Hartley
Alejandro Jodorowski
Andrei Tarkovski
Andrej Zulawski

That's 8. I always seem to tap out @ 8 w/ these lists. #9 should probably be an Asian director, and it's probably Miike or Sono. But what about Nobuhiko Obayashi? His films are hard to find and I've only seen 2 of them, but one of them is HAUSU, but, y'know, does that qualify him to be my favorite?

Then there are over a dozen other directors who've made one film that would be on my Top 25 or 30 Films list but I won't defend their entire oeuvre or anything. I suppose Carl Dreyer and Jean Renoir each have two titles on or near that list. So maybe one of them is #10?

Should I account for the element of pure sentimental affection? Charles B. Pierce is not one of the 10 "top" or best directors but I still love the guy. Same w/ Bill Rebane, R.D. Steckler, and Ed Wood. (RCMerchant seems to have no problem splitting this hair...)

.......I'm too autistic to handle these lists! Why did I bother!

[The Burgomaster]

This is tough, but here's an attempt (not necessarily in order):

1. Martin Scorsese
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. John Ford
5. Billy Wilder
6. Sidney Lumet
7. David Lean
8. Sergio Leone
9. Dario Argento
10. Frank Capra

[HappyGilmore]

In no particular order.

Quentin Tarantino
Kevin Smith
John Carpenter
Wes Craven
Tim Burton
Christopher Guest
Paul Thomas Anderson
Christopher Nolan
Ed Wood
George Romero