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Your top four film directors?

Started by Trevor, April 29, 2024, 05:07:36 AM

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Trevor

In no particular order, mine are

Sidney Lumet
John Frankenheimer
Orson Welles
Don Siegel
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Alex

John Carpenter, Alex Proyas, Guillermo del Toro and Alfred Hitchcock.
Hail to thyself
For I am my own master
I am my own god
I require no shepherd
For I am no sheep.

Rev. Powell

Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Federico Fellini, Orson Welles
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

zombie no.one

can't think of any directors who've made more than 2 films that I genuinely adore.

Spielberg for DUEL and JAWS
Coen Bros for FARGO and BIG LEBOWSKI
Scorcese for GOODFELLAS and CASINO
Lynch for WILD AT HEART and MULHOLLAND DRIVE

feel like all these guys have a superior directors' touch, but at the same time I could haplily live without all their other films tbh

RCMerchant

#4
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
Mario Bava
Ed Wood Jr. (Hey- I enjoy his films!)

Call out to Martin Scorcese, Tod Browning, Al Adamson, Roger Corman, James Whale, early George Romero.
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
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Cult_Moody_Movies

Of the past -
Spielberg
Carpenter
Miyazaki
Ralph Bakshi

Current year -
Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Northman)
Denis Villeneuve (Dune, Arrival)
Makoto Shinkai (Your Name, Suzume)
Mamoru Hosoda (Wolf Children, Summer Wars)

RCMerchant

OH! I really like Takashi Miike too!
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

bob

Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan and Charlie Chaplin
Kubrick, Nolan, Tarantino, Wan, Iñárritu, Scorsese, Chaplin, Abrams, Wes Anderson, Gilliam, Kurosawa, Villeneuve - the elite



I believe in the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

lester1/2jr

Adrian Lyne, Chin-Ku Lu (Shaw Brothers director), Kubrik, Todd Solondz

RCMerchant

Cripes! I fergot Tarintino! I like him too.
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

HappyGilmore

#10
1.) Quentin Tarantino
2.) Kevin Smith
3.) Wes Craven
4.) Christopher Nolan

There's others I like. Like The Russo Brothers.
"The path to Heaven runs through miles of clouded Hell."

Don't get too close, it's dark inside.
It's where my demons hide, it's where my demons hide.

Trevor

Quote from: HappyGilmore on May 16, 2024, 09:23:52 AM
1.) Quentin Tarantin0
2.) Kevin Smith
3.) Wes Craven
4.) Christopher Nolan

There's others I like. Like The Russo Brothers.

I hope you are doing well and getting better 🙂🙂🐢
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

RCMerchant

DAM! How could I forget Hitchcock?!
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

Allhallowsday

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Archivist

This is not an easy question as there are many directors who made a few movies I love, but others which I haven't liked at all. Directors who's work I generally like across many movies:

Christopher Nolan
John Woo
Michael Bay
Alex Proyas

Christopher Nolan needs no explanation; of all the directors, his movies consistently make me think, 'I wish I had directed that' rather than, 'what a great movie'. John Woo has made so many awesome movies, both in Hong Kong and America. His Mission Impossible II is my favourite of the franchise. Michael Bay gets a lot of flack, but his movies are generally really high quality and heaps of fun. Alex Proyas has directed so many cool movies like The Crow, Dark City, and Knowing.

Runners up:

Wong Kar Wai (2046, The Grandmaster)

Russel Mulcahy (only Highlander and The Shadow, not very fond of his others)

Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle)

Jackie Chan - yeah, I love them all

James Cameron - NOT Titanic, Avatar or any of that predicable drivel, but the good stuff like Terminator and T2

Ridley Scott - I generally enjoy his movies but I never feel like, 'wow, I wish i had done that'.
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