Favorite Directors

jack · Post by **jack** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:33 pm

schindler's list and saving private ryan are 2 of the best movies ever made. neither fun to watch but hugely powerful stuff.

for the art of interpreting a story to screen, he is untouched.*

*m. whatever shamalmadingdong can't carry spielberg's jock.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:28 pm

Jack wrote:coen brothers, david lynch, john ford, kubrick, hitchcock, john huston, francis ford coppolla, old ridley scott, scorcese, terry gilliam, and yes.....spielberg

Great list. Maybe with fewer entries: Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Sergio Leone.

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:36 pm

Oh Sergio, little else satisfies me more than Once Upon a Time in the West.

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:48 am

Speaking of epics, David Lean is becoming one of my favorites after having finally watched Doctor Zhivago. I had seen Lawrence of Arabia and loved it, but Zhivago is worlds beyond it.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:13 am

David Lean also did the magnificent Bridge On The River Kwai. Besides the great Sir Alec Guiness, it also starred William Holden, who was in 2 films by excellent director Billy Wilder. The 2 films, that I know of are: Sunset Boulevard and one of my very all time favorites, Stalag 17.

mr_lostman · Post by **mr_lostman** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:00 am

Anything by Hitchcock will have me riveted for the full extent of the film. But my all time favorite director is Richard Linklater, a good ol' Texas boy. Before Sunrise was a great, great movie and his first trips into the mainstream with Dazed and confused and School of Rock were awesome too. Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly are two of the most innovative films of recent years. Sadly though Bad News Bears blew terribly.

but we all make mistakes, ever seen Spielberg's 1941?

Erwin Cloibhofer · Post by **Erwin Cloibhofer** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:39 pm

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j$ · Post by j$ » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:50 am

Francois Ozon is easily the best living director. Although Almodovar comes close.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:19 pm

Digging up an old thread.

I second Almodovar.

Also, Inarritu.

glennny · Post by **glennny** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:26 pm

This is not a contest for me, Woody Allen is by far my favorite director, my 10 favorite movies are pretty much all Woody Allen films.

other faves are :

Wes Anderson
Whit Stillman
Mike Leigh
Michel Gondry
Stanley Kubrick