Search found 7 matches: Roman Polanski

1. Francis Ford Coppola: Epitomizes what is known as The New Hollywood, with totally unconventional ideas which captured the audience's imagination but challenged the contemporary film-making of those times. The Godfather trilogy remains unbeaten till date.

2. Roman Polanski: This director survived the Holocaust himself. Guess that reflected a little in the types of movies he directed. The Ghostwriter, Oliver Twist and Carnage are my favorites.

3. James Cameron: Does he need any introduction? Avatar speaks for itself. And oh, so does Titanic.

4. Robert Zemeckis: Haven't watched any movies with special effects as in his movies. Loved A Christmas Carol as well as all Back To the Future movies.

5. Oliver Stone: His 2006 movie World Trade Center made for a great watch.

lisagirl wrote:probably

stanley kubrick
lars von trier
federico fellini
david lynch
roman polanski

but i'm pretty low on the movie count

okay...4 months later

1. lars von trier (10 films seen)
2. stanley kubrick (10)
3. david lynch (6)
4. ingmar bergman (11)
5. werner herzog (10)

a very solid top 5. below them, and with more uncertainty with less films seen...

6. akira kurosawa (4)
7. abbas kiarostami (3)
8. ethan & joel coen (8)
9. roman polanski (4)
10. jean-luc godard (13)

i keep a sort of running list here:

http://www.imdb.com/list/gvUw6xKrWLU/

probably

stanley kubrick
lars von trier
federico fellini
david lynch
roman polanski

but i'm pretty low on the movie count

top 10
-in no particular order

1) Zhang Yimou
2) Akira Kurosawa
3) Alfred Hitchcock
4) Roman Polanski
5) Masaki Kobayashi
6) Carl Dreyer
7) Fritz Lang
8) Yasujiro Ozu
9) David Cronenberg
10) Billy Wilder

Honorable mentions: Roger Corman, Shohei Immamura, Mamoru Oshii, Joe Dante, Ernst Lubitsch, John Carpenter, Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, Max Ophuls, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Wong KarWai, Guillermo Del Toro, Charlie Chaplin

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?

1.Luis Buñuel
2.Stanley Kubrick
3.Alfred Hitchcock
4.Jim Jarmusch
5.David Lynch

The rest of top 10:
6.Martin Scorsese
7.Ethan/Joel Coen
8.Ingmar Bergman
9.Federico Fellini
10.Billy Wilder


next 10: Woody Allen, Jean-Luc Godard , Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Quentin Tarantino, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Aki Kaurismäki (no order)

It's totally impossible but I'll attempt it... if I had to rate them again tomorrow the order could be different.

1. Emir Kusturica
2. R. W. Fassbinder
3. Luchino Visconti
4. Lina Wertmüller
5. Sidney Lumet

6. Sam Peckinpah
7. Werner Herzog
8. Carl Theodor Dreyer
9. Nicolas Roeg
10. John Cassavetes

11. Woody Allen
12. Terry Gilliam
13. Satyajit Ray
14. Federico Fellini
15. Costa-Gavras

VERY honorable mentions (might as well be in there):
Michelangelo Antonioni, Alan Clarke, Roman Polanski, Douglas Sirk, Abbas Kiarostami, Ernst Lubitsch, Marcel Carné, Martin Scorsese, Claude Chabrol, Robert Bresson, Peter Weir, Sergio Leone, Ingmar Bergman...