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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby Voodoo on Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:14 pm

1.Brian De Palma
2.M.Night Shyamalan
3.Darren Aronofsky
4.Alfred Hitchock
5.Martin Scorsese

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby RedLantern91 on Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:46 pm

Lists are only fun if they are varied. So here's one variation of my "top 5"

1. Masahiro Shinoda
2. Raymond Bernard
3. Frantisek Vlacil
4. Otto Preminger
5. Victor Erice
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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby brandon5303 on Tue Apr 19, 2011 12:01 am

1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Joel & Ethan Coen
4. Martin Scorsese
5. David Fincher
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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby JapeMan on Fri May 06, 2011 7:32 pm

5. Guy Maddin
4. Bruce McDonald
3. Todd Solondz
2. James Hausler
1. Joe Swanberg

Honorable Mentions:
Lars Von Trier
Gregg Araki
Aaron Katz
Miranda July
Todd Rohal
Andrew Bujalski
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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby ayall on Mon May 09, 2011 3:10 pm

The reason I picked the following is because i enjoyed all their films.

1) PTA
2) Tarantino
3) C. Nolan
4) David Fincher
5) Revolving (but currently Darren Aronofsky)

With classical directors such as Kubrick, Scorsese, and even Spieberg, etc.; while they've likely directed movies better then some of my top 5 fav. directors, they've also directed unwatchable crap - thus lowering their average and booting them from the top 5.

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby TheDenizen on Mon May 09, 2011 4:26 pm

Kubrick directed unwatchable crap? Scorsese and Spielberg, sure...but Kubrick?

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby ayall on Tue May 10, 2011 12:15 am

^there are a few which i haven't seen; i've heard killer's kiss was pretty bad and not worth watching.

i've only watched half of barry lyndon (feel asleep in the middle), but faintly recall it being pretty boring and dull... haven't re-watched it, though i plan to sometime.

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby movieboy on Tue May 10, 2011 2:45 am

TheDenizen wrote:Kubrick directed unwatchable crap? Scorsese and Spielberg, sure...but Kubrick?



I have watched only 3 Kubrick movies
2001 : Couldn't finish it - too boring - switched off maybe after half hour or so.
Shining : Not bad.
FMJ : First half was super, 2nd half was average (I don't like war movies).

I have also read that 2001 was a flop when released & was also critically panned.
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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby Anomaly1 on Wed May 11, 2011 6:14 pm

movieboy wrote:I have also read that 2001 was a flop when released & was also critically panned.

It received mixed critical reactions but was a success at the box office, and because of that financial success Kubrick was able to have complete control over the rest of the films he made.

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby ayall on Wed May 11, 2011 8:50 pm

I'd say Clockwork is his best, i would highly recommend to check it out.

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