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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby sixx on Sun May 15, 2011 11:53 pm

1 - PT Anderson
2 - FF Coppola
3 - Terrence Malick
4 - Scorsese
5 - Polanski

Hon. Mentions going out to Lumet, Aronofsky, Coen bros, Wes Anderson and Kieslowski.
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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby shadow_dude on Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:47 pm

Paul Thomas Anderson
Martin Scorsese
Billy Wilder
Orson Welles
Charlie Chaplin

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby homosuperior on Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:52 am

Not in order, mostly fiction film and focusing on bodies of work:

Terence Davies for Distant Voices, Still Lives; The Long Day Closes; Of Time and the City; The House of Mirth

Alfred HItchcock for Vertigo, Rear Window, Rope

John Waters for Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Hairspray, Pecker

Todd Haynes for Safe, Poison, Dottie Gets Spanked, Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven, I'm Not There

David Cronenberg for Videodrome, Rabid, Naked Lunch, A History Of Violence, Crash, Dead Ringers

maybe more fun would be directors we can't stand? :twisted:

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby TheDenizen on Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:56 pm

homosuperior wrote:maybe more fun would be directors we can't stand? :twisted:

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby martryn on Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:00 pm

Top five...

Top 8 is easier.

Miyazaki is an easy first.
Sergio Leone and Peter Jackson come next.
The it'd be George Lucas.
If I had to round it out, Christopher Nolan, but the Coen brothers and Guy Ritchie are right there too.

Honorable Mentions to Alfonso Cuaron's English works, Doug Liman (especially in the 90's), Tarantino of course, and Marc Foster.

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby cluster on Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:33 am

in no particular order:

    Takeshi Kitano (Violent Cop, Sonatine, Kids Return)
    John Carpenter (The Thing, Assault on Preccinct 13, Halloween)
    Steven Spielberg (The Sugarland Express, Jaws, Encounters of the Third Kind)
    Werner Herzog (Aguirre the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo)
    Satyajit Ray (Apu trilogy)

also ran: David Cronenberg, Spike Lee, John Ford, Bertrand Tavernier, Jia Zhang-ke, Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, Sergio leone, Howard Hawks, Emir Kusturica, Andrei Tarkovsky, Coen bros, Jim Jarmusch. ... many others

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby Ciel on Fri Aug 26, 2011 3:38 pm

There are some really interesting and great mentions throughout this thread.

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Louis Malle
3. Federico Fellini
4. Wes Anderson
5. Jean-Luc Godard

Honorable mentions: Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Charlie Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Melville, Clint Eastwood

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby xombiemonkey on Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:12 am

It seems to change all the time for me, as I see more and more good films, but for now it goes:

1. Howard Hawks
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Orson Welles
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Stanley Kubrick
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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby aaronwhat on Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:43 am

Stanley Kubrick
Ingmar Bergman
Alan Clarke
David Lynch
Harmony Korine

Very honorable mentions:
Béla Tarr
Jim Jarmusch
Ki-duk Kim
Werner Herzog
Jean-Luc Godard
Alfred Hitchcock
Takashi Miike
Lynne Ramsay
Jean-Pierre Melville
Takeshi Kitano
Ken Loach

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Re: Top 5 Favorite Directors

Postby RedBarry on Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:14 pm

Ingmar Bergman
Andrej Tarkoskij
Stanley Kubrick
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Lars von Trier
Charles Chaplin
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