Favorite Movie Directors

[Tobra]

This came to mind looking at favorite movie thread.

Hitchcock, Kubrick, De Palma, John Carpenter, Carol Reed, off the top of my head those are the ones that spring to mind.

[GH85Carrera]

Mel Brooks.

[Jim deCordova]

Francis Ford Coppola!!!

[flipper35]

Will have to add Joss Whedon to that list.

[flipper35]

I will say JJ Abrams and James Cameron and Peter Jackson are among my least favorite.

[craigster59]

Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, Clint Eastwood, David Fincher.

[MikeSid]

Joel Cohen

[Amail]

Ridley Scott

[patz]

Opie does a good job.

[bt1211]

I used to think the Cohen Bros. were good, now I'm pretty sure they are just trolling their audiences.

If they film a plate of poop for 2 hours, there will be people trying to explain the importance of said poop and how it relates to what their real underlining message is.

Obviously they have and can create films that don't require a degree in existentialism to figure out WTF they are trying to say.

[tabs]

Billy Wilder is NUMERO UNO!!!! From Five Graves To Cairo to Double Indemity to The Ace In The Hole to Sunset Blvd to Stalag 17 to Some Like It Hot to the Apartment...to the Fortune Cookie...to The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes.....

Richard Lester...Hard Days Night, Some Thihing Funny Happened On The Way To The Forum, The Three Musketeers.

Hitchcock...North By North West, The Trouble With Harry, Frenzy

John Huston.. Tobacco Road, Maltese Falcon, Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

Peckinpah..Wild Bunch, Ballad Of Cable Hogue,

Ridley Scott..Blade Runner, Gladiator etc

Guy Richie...Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Sherlock Holmes.

Sergio Leone...Once Upon A Time In The West

George Marshall...Ghost Breakers, Destry Rides Again

Of course Chaplin, Orson Wells (Touch Of Evil), Joel Cohen, Clint Eastwood and who else?....Why Buster Keaton of course!!!

[widebody911]

I'll just leave this right here....

[herr_oberst]

Paul Thomas Anderson, Scorsese, Altman, Wes Anderson, Coppola, Huston, Leone, Eastwood.

It's like trying to name your favorite song. Or your favorite movie. Too many good ones.

[Eric Coffey]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Paul Thomas Anderson, Scorsese, Altman, Wes Anderson, Coppola, Huston, Leone, Eastwood.

It's like trying to name your favorite song. Or your favorite movie. Too many good ones.

+1.

Although, I would've thought Scorsese would make the list before the 13th post. Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, The Departed, etc...

Originally Posted by Amail

Ridley Scott

Another +1, but I am more partial to the work by his little bro, Tony.

[stevej37]

Oliver Stone

[techweenie]

Gone: Welles, Wilder, Sturges

Still with us: Coens, Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, David Fincher, Terence Malik

[motion]

Sophia Coppola
David Lynch
Terrence Malick

[jorian]

David Lean
-Lawrence of Arabia
-The Bridge on the River Kwai
-Dr Zhivago

[creaturecat]

i have literally worked on thousands of film sets.
my favourite director? Martin Sheen, due to his caring manner.
he has only directed 2 productions. i was fortunate enough to work on Cadence, circa 1990.
the Gary Busey off-set antics were a bonus. Charlie was pretty cool back then, as well.
oh yes, i was on set when they fired Gary and marched him out of the barracks area, through the front gate, by the elbows. : )

Martin directed and as well took over Busey's acting role.

so long ago the Fishburne was named Larry. : )

[creaturecat]

Richard Benjamin, as director, quote, on set. "there is no we. there's only me me me."

a teamster took a jammer on set on Psych, the series. dropped dead in the lunch line-up. The director went ballistic " get him the hell out of here, this is cutting into my daylight shooting hours".