Favourite directors

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

My favourite director of all time would have to be Stanley Kubrick...who are your favourites and who do you avoid like the plague?

[Guest toggle]

Joel and Ethan Coen rock the house(can't remember off hand which one gets the directing credit). Can't stand Joel Schumacher, generally. I've never forgiven him for taking Tim Burton's cool, dark noir Batman and making him a goofy cartoon.

[Guest razazteca]

M. Knight

John Woo

Tsui Hark

Coen Brothers

Quentin Tourtino

Robert Rodiguiz

Kevin Smith

 

hate

George Lucas

Schumacher damn Batman movie!!!!

David Lynch if you ever watch his movies your head will explode

[Guest El Satanico]

Kubrick

Terry Gilliam

Tim Burton

Roger Corman

Peter Jackson(haven't seen Lord of the Rings)

Sam Raimi

Dario Argento

George Romero

John Carpeter(his earlier stuff)

Coen Brothers

Quentin Tarintino

Darren Aronofsky(yes even after just two movies)

David Fincher

Orson Welles

Alfred Hitchcock

Martin Scorsese  

Mel Brooks  

Oliver Stone  

Guy Ritchie  

Kevin Smith  

Ed Wood

[Guest dreamer420]

My Favs:

 

ed wood (my alltime hero)

quentin tarantino

robert rodriguez

oliver stone

tim burton

barry sonnenfeld

kevin smith

joel and ethan coen

[Guest TUS_02]

All time favorite is Peter Jackson.  Then is probably David Fincher.  Then the Coens... then after that, its usually a toss-up.

 

And I hate Ron Howard, but it's only been since the Oscars, and it probably won't last much longer.

[Guest godthedog]

the single greatest director of all time, bar none, without whom probably no director could have ever been seriously considered an artist: of course, orson welles.  he was the original breakthrough maverick director.  every director has his strengths, but i don't think anyone had quite as many strenths as welles did.  he always got great performances on film.  his sense of pure visuals (framing, lighting, everything) and sound were off the page.  his editing was revered.  above all, he knew how to tell a great story.

 

i also love lynch, scorsese, kurosawa, & paul thomas anderson, but i don't feel like writing a long, hyperbolizing paragraph about any of them.

 

spike lee's a big hit-or-miss guy: 'girl 6' and 'he got game' are 2 of the worst movies i've ever seen, but his good stuff ('do the right thing' and 'bamboozled') is enough to make him a great director.

 

there's no directors i can think of that i actively avoid, but there's plenty i think are overrated: coppola, peter jackson, fincher, guy ritchie, kevin smith, et al.

[Guest ArkhamGlobe]

Okay, here goes...

 

Woody Allen

Dario Argento

Tim Burton

John Carpenter

Claude Chabrol

The Coens

Francis Ford Coppola

David Fincher

Terry Gilliam

Jean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawkes

Werner Herzog

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Stanley Kubrick

Akira Kurosawa

Sergio Leone

David Lynch

Sam Peckinpah

Sam Raimi

George A. Romero

Martin Scorsese

Oliver Stone

Quentin Tarantino

Francois Truffaut

John Woo

 

EDIT: Add Michael Mann to the favorites list.

 

EDIT again: Fuck, I forgot Brian De Palma, who should of course be included on among my favorites.

 

A few that I can't put on the list because they haven't really made enough films for me to make a judgement on:

 

Wes Anderson

Darren Aronofsky

Bryan Singer

[Guest 5_moves_of_doom]

Ok, there's way too many to list, but here are my top 10. And just for fun, I'll put my favorite movie that each one has made.

 

1.) The Coens (The Big Lebowski)

2.) Quentin Terentino (Pulp Fiction)

3.) Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)

4.) Oliver Stone (Scarface)

5.) Stanley Kubrick (Clockwork Orange)

5.) David Lynch (Maholland Dr.)

6.) Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window)

7.) Kevin Smith (Clerks)

8.) Ed Wood (Plan 9 from Outer Space)

9.) James Cameron (Terminator)

10.) George Lucas (Star Wars: The Emire Strike's Back)

 

The only one I try to avoid (even though he has made SOME good movies,) is Spike Lee. I also don't like Peter Jackson.

[Guest El Satanico]

Oliver Stone didn't direct Scarface he has a writing credit for it but Brian Depalma directed it.

[Guest dreamer420]

My dislikes:

 

george lucas

gus van sant

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Best:

 

David Lean

Orson Welles

Alfred Hitchcock

Akira Kurosawa

Francis Ford Coppola

Martin Scorcese

Steven Spielberg

Robert Altman

Mel Brooks

 

 

Worst:

 

Kevin Smith

Joel Shumacher

Michael Bay

Peter and Bobby Farelly

Tom Green

Oliver Stone (He makes good movies, but I hate his style.)

John Woo (USA version)

[Guest]

I like John Carpenter because he always sticks to his guns and never sold out just so he could do a big budget movie.

 

I also like Steven Spielberg, who I find to be the most talented mainstream director.

 

Another favourite of my is Terry Gilliam. I love Time Bandits and Baron Munchausen.

[Guest Anorak]

Personal dislikes/overrated

 

Woody Allen

Jean Luc Goddard

Oliver Stone

Mike Leigh

[Guest godthedog]

shit, i forgot about goddard.  he sucks too.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

I'm shocked no one mentioned Billy Wilder. He's considered by many people to be the greatest director of all time. He's made some classics. Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Blvd, Stalag 17 (my personal favorite),  Some Like it Hot, and the Apartment.

[Guest redbaron51]

Fav. Directors.

 

George Lucas

Kevin Smith

Francis Ford Cappola

Steven Speilberg

Alfred Hitchcock

James Cameron

John Woo

Quentin Taratino

[Guest muzanisa]

Kurosawa

Welles

Wilder

David Fincher

John Woo

Fritz Lang