Best Director

[Guest Vern Gagne]

With the best movie tournament winding down I'd figure I'd start best director. I'll try to get 48 directors, that might be stretching it but we'll see how things go.

 

Name two directors and two films they made. I'll start

 

Billy Wilder-The Apartment, and Some Like it Hot.

John Ford-The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Searchers

[Guest Gamengiri2002]

all right we'll go

 

Martin Scorsese: Mean Streets, Goodfellas

Howard Hawks: Scarface, The Big Sleep

[Guest LooseCannon]

Shouldn't it be either 64 or 32?

 

Fritz Lang - Scarlet Street, M, The Big Heat

Bertrand Tavernier- Coup de Torchon, The Clock Maker

 

EDIT: I chose these two b/c I felt like I could count on others to nominate Hitchcock and Woody Allen

[Guest godthedog]

orson welles: 'citizen kane', 'touch of evil'

francois truffaut: 'the 400 blows', 'jules and jim'

 

and if tarantino, kevin smith or david fincher wins this tournament, i will shoot you all on general principle.

[Guest MDH257]

Robert Altman: Nashville, The Player

 

Akira Kurosawa: Rashomon, Red Beard

[Guest Kagato Otaku]

Rob Reiner: The Princess Bride; This is Spinal Tap

Alfred Hitchcock: Too many classics to mention.

[Guest Madmartigan21]

John Sayles - Lone Star, City of Hope

James Cameron - Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Aliens

 

My guys seem to be on the opposite ends of the spectrum from each other. Also, my guys are SO going to get their asses kicked in the first round. I just know it.

[Guest dreamer420]

Tim Burton: Ed Wood, Batman

 

Edward D. Wood Jr.: Plan 9 From Outer Space, Bride of the Monster

[Guest Ravenbomb]

Sidney Lumet: 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon

Christopher Nolan: Memento and Insomnia

Francis Ford Coppola: Godfather and The Outsiders

[Guest godthedog]

^that's three, hombre.

[Guest 5_moves_of_doom]

Quentin Tarentino - Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction

 

pt anderson - Boogie Nights, Magnolia

[Guest whatever37]

Wes Anderson - Rushmore, and The Royal Tennenbaums

 

Joel Coen - The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou... and SEVERAL other greats

[Guest Insanityman]

Hitchcock- So many movies that blow any of today's recent supsense thrillers.

 

Frances F. Copolla.- Godfather, enough said... least for me.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

John Huston: Prizzi's Honor, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen

Clint Eastwood: Unforgiven, Tightrope, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

 

And I can throw you a lot more if need be.

[Guest El Satanico]

Staney Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove, Lolita

 

Oliver Stone: Born On The Fourth of July, Platoon

[Guest Madmartigan21]

Hitchcock- So many movies that blow any of today's recent supsense thrillers.

 

Frances F. Copolla.- Godfather, enough said... least for me.

Why waste your two picks on two directors that were ALREADY mentioned?

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai

 

Steve Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, etc.

[Guest godthedog]

Hitchcock- So many movies that blow any of today's recent supsense thrillers.

 

Frances F. Copolla.- Godfather, enough said... least for me.

Why waste your two picks on two directors that were ALREADY mentioned?

coppola was ravenbomb's 3rd pick, & thus wouldn't have counted.

[Guest imajackoff?]

Spike Lee- Do the Right Thing, Bamboozled

 

Ed Burns- She's the One, The Brothers McMullen, Sidewalks of New York

 

my nominees are gonna get squashed.

[Guest dreamer420]

Ed Burns- She's the One, The Brothers McMullen, Sidewalks of New York

Glad to see someone mention him. He's always been a fav of mine.

[Guest endgame722]

Roman Polanski - Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby

 

George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, The Sting

[Guest DARRYLXWF]

Most of what I like has already been said...so

 

1. Franco Zeffirelli: Romeo and Juliet, La Traviata (sp?)

2. Robert Redford: Ordinary People, Bagger Vance

[Guest Dmann2000]

Steven Sodebergh- Out of Sight, Traffic

Wolfgang Petersen- Das Boot, In the Line of Fire

[Guest godthedog]

what the hell, i'll add some more.

 

jean-luc godard: 'pierrot le fou', 'breathless'

david lynch: 'mulholland drive', 'blue velvet'

[Guest TheyCallMeMark]

Guy Ritchie - Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

 

Monty Python dewds - Monty Python and The Search for the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life Of Brian

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

The main director among the Monty Python guys was Terry Gilliam. He was not only the primary director on their films, but went on do such outside work as Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Fisher King.

 

If Godthedog can put up two more, I'm going to put up a few more for the hell of it, whether they count or not.

 

George Cukor: My Fair Lady, Adam's Rib

Blake Edwards: Ten, The Pink Panther

Henry Hathaway: True Grit, Call Northside 777

 

And I still have more in que if needed.

[Guest godthedog]

oh yeah? we'll i'll put up even more...

 

luis bunuel: un chien andalou, belle du jour

jean renoir: rules of the game, grand illusion

frank capra: it's a wonderful life, mr smith goes to washington

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Oddly enough, Renoir and Capra were going to be my next two as I've just been going off the top of my head. I'm going to hold off until we get word from Verne, since this is his tourney, but it looks like godthedog and I can fill out the brackets if need be.

 

The part of Grand Illusion where the Captain is running around the prison playing his flute is one of my favorite movie sequences of all time, so well shot.

[Guest godthedog]

i can think of plenty other directors, but none at the moment that i'd nominate for "best."

[Guest NoCalMike]

I'd say Kubrick, mainly because almost all his movies were COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from each other. He seemed to truly love the art of filmmaking rather then some directors who make epic movies to win awards.