Favourite Directors

[ManWithNoName]

How the hell did Lucas get on this list? Decent writer, absolutely appalling director.

 

[dmc333]

How the hell did Lucas get on this list? Decent writer, absolutely appalling director.

He's an ideas man, but can't write dialogue for shit.

 

[dmc333]

Michael Mann

Thief
Heat
The Insider
Manhunter
Collateral
Last of the Mohicans

I'll add Miami Vice, I've grown to love it.

And Public Enemies looks very exciting.

 

[cammo84]

It was between Kubrick, Scorcese and Tarantino for me. Scorcese won my vote though. It's too hard to pick one, there are plenty of awesome directors out there in many genres.

 

[likka]

Clint Eastwood.

The range, diversity and quality of his films over many years is unrivaled.

Easily the best movie maker on the planet today... the man is a genius.

 

[raskolnikov]

My top five(no particular order) with movies I like:

1.Peter Weir(The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society, The Mosquito Coast, Witness, Gallipoli, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Year of Living Dangerously)

2. Alfred Hitchcock(The Birds, Psycho, North by Northwest, Vertigo, To Catch a Thief, Rear Window, Rope, Strangers on a Train, Lifeboat, Rebecca, The 39 Steps)

3. Robert Wise(The Andromeda Strain, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

4. Clint Eastwood(Changeling, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, A Perfect World, Unforgiven, Play Misty for Me)

5. Steven Spielberg(Minority Report, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Indiana Jones, Twilight Zone, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Duel,

 

[jacqui9]

Fritz Lang
Carl Th.Dreyer
Roman Polanski
Jean Renoir
Martin Ritt
Robert Rossen
Otto Preminger (strictly for his direction of film noir)
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Edgar G. Ulmer
Leni Riefenstahl

 

[tarky]

some faves are....

paul thomas anderson
jim jarmusch
coen bros.
richard linklater
wes anderson
sofia coppola
spike jonze
david lynch
terry gilliam
peter greenaway
david cronenberg
lodge h. kerrigan
alexander payne
darren aronofsky
david fincher

 

[The Weapon]

Quentin Tarantino! - love all his movies. All classics in my eyes

although Dave Fincher is pretty close

 

[Bomber32]

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Clint Eastwood
4. Sam Peckinpah
5. Robert Aldrich

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Robert Bresson
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Yasujiro Ozu
Victor Erice
Abbas Kiarostami
Leos Carax
Andrei Tarkovsky
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Wong Kar-wai
David Lynch
Werner Herzog
Alfred Hitchcock
Orson Welles
Stanley Kubrick
Michael Mann
Paul Verhoeven
David Cronenberg
Jean-Luc Godard
Powell and Pressburger

I'm sure there are a few I've missed.

 

[HoldenMagroin]

Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese (up until and including Casino)
Michael Haneke
Luis Bunuel
Alejandro Jodorowsky
David Fincher
Todd Solondz
Quentin Tarantino

 

[Burzum]

Steven Spielberg
Ron Howard
Coen Brothers
David Lynch
David Fincher
Stanley Kubrick

 

[Magpiespower]

Politics aside...

Elia Kazan has a pretty fair resume.

And, of course, Yahoo Serious.