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Who are your 10 favorite directors? So... who do you think the best directors are or were... these can include directors who are dead as well.
Mine (in no particular order other than Woody Allen being #1): Woody Allen David Lynch Ingmar Bergman Federico Fellini Luis Bunuel Akira Kurasawa Alfred Hitchcock David Cronenberg Terry Gilliam Ang Lee SUPERJOINT RITUAL - http://www.superjointritual.com
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Some favorites:
John Carpenter Sam Raimi James Cameron Quentin Tarantino Fear is the mind-killer. | |
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IceNine said: So... who do you think the best directors are or were... these can include directors who are dead as well.
Mine (in no particular order other than Woody Allen being #1): Woody Allen David Lynch Ingmar Bergman Federico Fellini Luis Bunuel Akira Kurasawa Alfred Hitchcock David Cronenberg Terry Gilliam Ang Lee what did you think of "Curse of the Jade Scorpion?" | |
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Alfred Hitchcock (the best in my opinion)
David Lynch Alejandro Amenabar (did a perfect job with The Others) Oliver Stone Quintin Terentino . [This message was edited Thu Oct 3 12:20:39 PDT 2002 by AzureStar] | |
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slm4m said: IceNine said: So... who do you think the best directors are or were... these can include directors who are dead as well.
Mine (in no particular order other than Woody Allen being #1): Woody Allen David Lynch Ingmar Bergman Federico Fellini Luis Bunuel Akira Kurasawa Alfred Hitchcock David Cronenberg Terry Gilliam Ang Lee what did you think of "Curse of the Jade Scorpion?" I liked it quite a lot... I know that many people didn't like it as much as his older work, but there was some very good wordplay between characters. I found it very funny. SUPERJOINT RITUAL - http://www.superjointritual.com
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What about more mainstream films, such as A.I, lord of the rings, Vanilla Sky, Eyes Wide Shut, Monsters Inc. (Hey, can't help but laugh at that one.) | |
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Stanley Kubrick | |
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Francis Ford Coppola
Steven Spielberg (though I've had no interest in his last few) Harmony Korine Baz Luhrman Orson Welles M Night Shamalan, or however it's spelled Stanley Kubrik Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch Alan Ball (the few things he's directed. love his writing/producing, though) | |
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slm4m said: What about more mainstream films, such as A.I, lord of the rings, Vanilla Sky, Eyes Wide Shut, Monsters Inc. (Hey, can't help but laugh at that one.)
Vanilla Sky was good... I thought. | |
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Alan Ball, I am addicted to "Six feet Under." I thought American Beaty was rather good. | |
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That guy who did "Anal hounds and cum junkies II'.
In depth reporting, not to mention educational. | |
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Spike Lee [This message was edited Thu Oct 3 12:39:22 PDT 2002 by kondwanii] | |
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slm4m said: What about more mainstream films, such as A.I, lord of the rings, Vanilla Sky, Eyes Wide Shut, Monsters Inc. (Hey, can't help but laugh at that one.)
I think that Spielberg did a good job with "Schindler's List," but I didn't like A.I. at all... he can do some good work though. I wasn't terribly fond of "The Lord of the Rings" but it was okay. I actually liked "Vanilla Sky." Heather (AzureStar) forced me to watch it one night and I ended up liking it. I like Stanley Kubrick, but he is often times so slow paced that it messes it up for me. I loved "Dr. Strangelove" and "A Clockwork Orange" though... GREAT movies. John Lassiter does a very great job with the Pixar movies. I like them all a great deal... I don't consider him a great director overall though. SUPERJOINT RITUAL - http://www.superjointritual.com
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David Lynch
Pedro Almadavor Kassi Lemmons Jonathan Demme Robert Wise Steven Frears Peter Weir Lars von Trier Robert Altman David Cronenberg | |
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1 Steven Speilberg
2 Cameron Crow 3 Martin Scorcese 4 Alfred Hitchcock 5 James Cameron 6 Ron Howard 7 Francis Ford Coppola 8 Kevin Smith 9 Cohen Brothers (whichever is the one who directs) 10 Quintin Tarantino Replacing Quintin with M Night Shamalyan (sp?). F'n LOVED Sixth Sense & Signs. This dude is talanted. [This message was edited Thu Oct 3 13:06:41 PDT 2002 by Pagey] | |
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- John Carpenter
- David Cronenberg - Henri-Georges Clouzot., french director of classic french movie (les diaboliques, l'assassin habite au 21) - Marcel Carné french director , les amants du paradis, les tricheurs - François Truffaut french director - David Lynch - George Romero for "Night of the living dead" - Soderbergh , probably... - Woody Allen 10) Tim Burton or Hitchcock or Kevin Smith or ? | |
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I think AI was victim to far too much hype. I think everyone expected a SK film and it was not. The screen play was based on a 3 page treatment written Krubrick serval years ago -- not the worst film I've seen.
Lord of the rings -- it was okay -- quite a task, translating the books to film. My surround sound system gets a work out. Eyes Wide Shut, I agree with you. Vanilla -- jury still out on that one. Monsters Inc. -- Cracks me up everytime, (On DVD watch the trailers, the Harry Potter reference just kills me.) "Put that thing back where it came from -- or so help me..." is a great scene, breaks me up everytime. | |
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damn...im the only person who has picked altman so far... | |
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oh I forgot Altman, I've just seen "Kansas City" recently,brilliant (+ the director of "Boogie Nights"too) | |
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Woody Allen
Billy Wilder Tim Burton Martin Scorsese Peter Weir Pedro Almodovar Francis Ford Coppola Alejandro Amenabar Stephen Frears David Lynch This is not a definite list at all. But I admire all of the above a great deal | |
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Robert Altman is a very good director...
I also really like Christopher Guest's fake documentaries... Martin Scorcese has done some great work Francis Ford Copola has done some wonderful films... Quentin Tarantino is pretty good too... Man... there are a ton of guys that I can think of, but I will stop for now... SUPERJOINT RITUAL - http://www.superjointritual.com
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in no particular order
"contemporaries" 1. Jonathan Demme 2. Stephen Soderbergh 3. David Fincher 4. Mel Gibson (i loved Braveheart what can i say) 5. Spike Lee (for Clockers) 6. Alejandro Innaritu Gonzales 7. Mira Nair 8. Alejandro Amenebar and M.Night tie for suspense/eerie 9. Guy Ritchie (loved Lock Stock...) 10. John Sales damn there's more , these are just a few. "old school" 1. Oliver Stone 2. Coppola 3. Scorsese 4. Lynch 5. Hitchcock 6. Alan Parker 7. Sam Raimi 8. Kubrick 9. Ed Wood 10. cant remember the name... be back to edit! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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David Lynch | |
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nLA said: 9. Ed Wood
thats cute... | |
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Peach said: David Lynch Excuse my ignorance, but which one is David Lynch?Fear is the mind-killer. | |
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teller said: Peach said: David Lynch Excuse my ignorance, but which one is David Lynch?Most recent: Mullholland Drive.. and man, do I have theories on that one! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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For my fellow Frenchmen/women:
Have any of you seen a film entitled "Fat Girl"? Let me know if you have, I'd like to discuss. Oh want to add the director of PONETTE. Damn that was a touching movie. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I haven't seen "fat girl" nor "ponette" ( peau nette = clear skin) & I'm the only french that haven't seen "Amelie" yet.. | |
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nLA said: teller said: Peach said: David Lynch Excuse my ignorance, but which one is David Lynch?Most recent: Mullholland Drive.. and man, do I have theories on that one! | |
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jnoel said: I've seen this movie last december and I still trip about the cow-boy
there was no cowboy. trip on *that*!!! | |
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