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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby k0ta on Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:13 pm

1. Wim Wenders
2. Guiseppe Tornatore
3. Kim Ki-duk
4. Jean Luc Godard
5. Bernardo Bertolucci

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby ShogunRua on Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:02 am

Incredibly difficult question. I've only seen one film each from Bergmann and Kurosawa, and both are in my top 10. However, for now, they're not included, and we get, in no particular order

Sidney Lumet
George Roy Hill
Johnny To
Sung-Su Kim
Lina Wertmuller

Other deserving candidates;

Leone, Bergmann, Kurosawa, Coen Brothers, Kenji Misumi, Andrzej Wajda, Takeshi Miike.

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby TheDenizen on Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:18 am

Wow, dude you've ranked over 1600 films and only one of them is a Kurosawa?

My 5 in no particular order:

Akira Kurosawa. Seen 11, avg 93.89
Liu Chia Liang. Seen 10, avg 92
Takashi Miike. Seen 14, avg 76.43 (There's a couple of Miike films I really disliked which drags his avg down)
Quentin Tarantino. Seen 10, avg 85.5
Coen Brothers. Seen 9, avg 82.22

honorable mentions: Sam Peckinpah, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, John Woo, Chan Wook-Park and Terry Gilliam.

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby ShogunRua on Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:14 am

TheDenizen wrote:Wow, dude you've ranked over 1600 films and only one of them is a Kurosawa?


Tell me about it! I watch a very diverse cross-section of movies, but that means there are few time periods, genres, or even directors that I have seen a lot of.

TheDenizen wrote:Liu Chia Liang.

Chan Wook-Park


Two good calls; forgot about both guys when I was making my list, but they're up there.

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby LadyMia69 on Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:27 am

1.Stanley Kubrick
2. Peter Greenaway
3. Coen Bros.
4. Catherine Breillat
5. Ingmar Bergman
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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby barney76 on Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:30 pm

Clint Eastwood
Quentin Tarantino
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Christopher Nolan

Scorsese just lost his spot on my list to Christopher Nolan thanks to the disappointment that was "Shutter Island" (after The Departed, Aviator & Gangs of New York, all of which I didn't like too much, either), while Nolan just keeps getting better and better, IMO.

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby dom on Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:20 pm

1. Sergio Leone
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Joel and Ethan Coen
5. David Lynch

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby chrisjdgrady on Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:11 pm

David Lynch
Stanley Kubrick
Sergio Leone
Akira Kurosawa
Coen Bros.

Maybe... hard to choose 5. There are some directors that I've only seen a couple films from (Bergman, Tarkovsky) that I absolutely loved, but I really need to check out their whole catalog before I add them to a list like this.

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby by Devol on Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:01 am

hey, I know - how bout 18 of em?

******Hal Ashby******(my all-time fave!!!!)
Fritz Lang
Alejandro Jodorowski
Terence Mallick
Roman Polanski
John Ford
Paul Bartel
Ingmar Bergman
Wim Wenders
Hershel Gordon Lewis
Steve Soderberg
John Waters up to and including "Polyester"
Orson Welles
Cary Fukunaga for "Sin Nombre" (actually - Adraino Goldman's rip-shit choreography)
Nick Roeg
Sam Peckinpah
Tod Browning
Micheal Powell for "Peeping Tom" (can anyone recommend some more titles from him?)

the oh, alright list:
Kubrick/Scorcese/Lynch/Paul Thomas Anderson, ok?

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