Favorite Directors - Top 5 (Film-R)

DustedDon

not too out the box but here's my private mind garden favs...stanley kubrickdavid cronenbergakira kurosawaquentin tarintinoalfred hitchcock honorable mention: dario argento & alejandro jordorowsky

soulmarcosa

Sam Peckinpah
Jean-Pierre Melville
Roman Polanski
Sidney Lumet
Hal Needham

funky16corners

Michael Powell
Preston Sturges
David Lean
Martin Scorsese
Federico Fellini

DustedDon

Jean-Pierre Melville
Roman Polanski

bassie

Claire Denis
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (brothers)
Ousmane Semb??ne
Jean-Luc Goddard
Martin Scorsese

estereo

Michael Campus
Sergio Leone
Zhang Yimou
Chan-wook Park
Wong Kar Wai

young_cream

clint eastwood
spike lee
alejandro jodorwsky
henry chalfant

onetet

all-time would probably be something like:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Frederick Wiseman
Claire Denis
Billy Wilder
Mike Leigh

One could substitute Preston Sturges for Wilder and Werner Herzog for Fassbinder and still be in the right ballpark.

Jean-Pierre Melville certainly is right up there, although having seen most of his currently n/a films, I will say that some of them are borderline stinkers.

Favorites doing it now would include Tsai Ming-Liang, Hong Sang-Soo, Michael Haneke, Kelly Reichardt, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lisandro Alonso, and the aforementioned Claire Denis.

Big_Chan

Hard to pick only five!

Here are the first five I though of...

Sergio Leone
Jean-Pierre Melville
Scorsese
Liu Chia Liang
Kurosawa


I can't believe that you would really rate Tarintino as a top 5 GOAT! LOL.

discos_alma

Akira Kurosawa
Shohei Imamura
Jim Jarmusch (Esp. early ish like Dead Man)
Ha Yu
John Boorman

onetet

I didn't, but someone's gotta mention Bunuel or Marco Ferreri at some point. They're close to the top for me.

disco_che

Lars von Trier
Jacques Tati
Stanley Kubrick
Blake Edwards
Roman Polanski

This list is very incomplete.

magnetic

At this present time

Stanley Kubrick
Dario Argento
Michael Mann
Paul Thomas Anderson
Fernando Meirelles

DOR

You guys are all snobs.

John Hughes directed 8 movies. Look at his run...

Uncle Buck (1989)
She's Having a Baby (1988)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Weird Science (1985)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Sixteen Candles (1984)


He should be up there with Hitchcock, Godard, Scorsese, Kubrick, Kurosawa and Chris Columbus.

SIRUS

John Hughes directed 8 movies. Look at his run...

Uncle Buck (1989)
She's Having a Baby (1988)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Weird Science (1985)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Sixteen Candles (1984)

considering that he wrote and directed those pictures, dude is a true auteur.

(in no order)

1. john waters
nobody is effing with his trash trilogy.

2. mary harron
she did 2 of my fave flicks: "i shot andy warhol", and "american psycho".

3.scorsese
taxi driver. nuff said.

4.stanley donen

dude was a true prodigy. directing movies at the age of 20. yes puba.

5. woody allen.
comedy goat.

DustedDon

I can't believe that you would really rate Tarintino as a top 5 GOAT! LOL.

i know, i know.

but he did blow open the doors for modern independent film making. also, to me pulp fiction is a perfect film.

suprised no ones mentioned any of these dudes:

ingmar bergman
oliver stone
coen bros
john carpenter
fritz lange

tonydanzatechniq

melville
scorsese
anderson
johhnie to
godard

disco_che

So many mentions of Melville make me curiuos. I'm not sure if I saw any of his films. (Is "Clan of the Sicillians" by Melville?)

Which are the movies that make him Top 5 worthy to you?

Snagglepus

My favorite "greats" have been mentioned. Others I enjoy:

Jim Jarmusch
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Christopher Guest
Wes Anderson
David Lynch

And no love for Tommy Wiseau???

onetet

So many mentions of Melville make me curiuos. I'm not sure if I saw any of his films. (Is "Clan of the Sicillians" by Melville?)

Which are the movies that make him Top 5 worthy to you?

My favorites are the best of his gangster films -- Le Samourai, Le Cercle Rouge, Le Doulos, and Bob Le Flameur, in that order, with Le Samourai as the fave. People also sweat the admitedly great Army of Shadows that was rereleased about 2 yrs back, although I don't rate it as highly as some.

disco_che

So many mentions of Melville make me curiuos. I'm not sure if I saw any of his films. (Is "Clan of the Sicillians" by Melville?)

Which are the movies that make him Top 5 worthy to you?

My favorites are the best of his gangster films -- Le Samourai, Le Cercle Rouge, Le Doulos, and Bob Le Flameur, in that order, with Le Samourai as the fave. People also sweat the admitedly great Army of Shadows that was rereleased about 2 yrs back, although I don't rate it as highly as some.

Le Samourai is Alain Delon playing the contract killer right? This for sure is a DOPE movie. I liked the piano player!!!

Unknown

scorsese
coppola
kubrick
coen bros
spielberg

Skip Drinkwater

I don't want to shift gears on the thread, but real quick -- what's a good Polanski film to start with? I'm

Snapping

I don't want to shift gears on the thread, but real quick -- what's a good Polanski film to start with? I'm

Chinatown

SPlDEY

BAY
WACHOWSKI
RATNER
LUCAS
McG

- spidey

SPlDEY

Could I also add

Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer?

- spidey

Snapping

Alex Cox
John Huston
Jim Jarmusch
Stanley Kubrick
Jean-Luc Godard

these kind of lists are hard. These are not who I think are the best filmmakers, they are just my favorite filmmakers. There's a difference.

johmbolaya

Spike Lee
Terry Gilliam
Stanley Kubrick
Wong Kar Wai
David Elfick

twoply

Roughly in order (though individual films may rank differently):

Andrei Tarkovsky (whom surprisingly no one has mentioned so far)
Ingmar Bergman
Stanley Kubrick
Kiyoshi Kurusawa
Takeshi Kitano

bassie

lololololol
holy shit - now I see why we're all on this board together.

maldorurr

Federico Fellini
Jean-Luc Godard
David Lynch
Nicolas Roeg
Alejandro Jodorowsky

Honorable mentions ('cos I'm sure they're hurt at being excluded) to Ingmar Bergman, Scorsese, Kubrick, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.