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Favorite Directors - Top 5 (Film-R)

DustedDonDustedDon 830 Posts
edited May 2009 in Strut Central
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
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  • soulmarcosasoulmarcosa 4,296 Posts
    Sam Peckinpah
    Jean-Pierre Melville
    Roman Polanski
    Sidney Lumet
    Hal Needham
  • funky16cornersfunky16corners 7,175 Posts
    Michael Powell
    Preston Sturges
    David Lean
    Martin Scorsese
    Federico Fellini
  • DustedDonDustedDon 830 Posts

    Jean-Pierre Melville
    Roman Polanski

  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    Claire Denis
    Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (brothers)
    Ousmane Semb??ne
    Jean-Luc Goddard
    Martin Scorsese
  • estereoestereo 4 Posts
    Michael Campus
    Sergio Leone
    Zhang Yimou
    Chan-wook Park
    Wong Kar Wai
  • young_creamyoung_cream 540 Posts
    clint eastwood
    spike lee
    alejandro jodorwsky
    henry chalfant
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    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_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts
    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_almadiscos_alma discos_alma 2,164 Posts


    Akira Kurosawa
    Shohei Imamura
    Jim Jarmusch (Esp. early ish like Dead Man)
    Ha Yu
    John Boorman
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    I didn't, but someone's gotta mention Bunuel or Marco Ferreri at some point. They're close to the top for me.
  • disco_chedisco_che 1,115 Posts
    Lars von Trier
    Jacques Tati
    Stanley Kubrick
    Blake Edwards
    Roman Polanski

    This list is very incomplete.
  • magneticmagnetic 2,678 Posts
    At this present time

    Stanley Kubrick
    Dario Argento
    Michael Mann
    Paul Thomas Anderson
    Fernando Meirelles
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,903 Posts
    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.
  • SIRUSSIRUS 2,554 Posts


    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.
  • DustedDonDustedDon 830 Posts

    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
  • tonydanzatechniqtonydanzatechniq 266 Posts
    melville
    scorsese
    anderson
    johhnie to
    godard
  • disco_chedisco_che 1,115 Posts
    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?
  • SnagglepusSnagglepus 1,756 Posts
    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???
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    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_chedisco_che 1,115 Posts
    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!!!
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    scorsese
    coppola
    kubrick
    coen bros
    spielberg
  • Skip DrinkwaterSkip Drinkwater 1,694 Posts
    I don't want to shift gears on the thread, but real quick -- what's a good Polanski film to start with? I'm
  • SnappingSnapping 995 Posts
    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
  • SPlDEYSPlDEY Vegas 3,375 Posts
    BAY
    WACHOWSKI
    RATNER
    LUCAS
    McG

    - spidey
  • SPlDEYSPlDEY Vegas 3,375 Posts
    Could I also add

    Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer?

    - spidey
  • SnappingSnapping 995 Posts
    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.
  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
    Spike Lee
    Terry Gilliam
    Stanley Kubrick
    Wong Kar Wai
    David Elfick
  • twoplytwoply Only Built 4 Manzanita Links 2,915 Posts
    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
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    lololololol
    holy shit - now I see why we're all on this board together.
  • maldorurrmaldorurr 120 Posts
    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.
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