Who are your favorite film directors. It's very hard choice for me. At the moment maybe Kubrick.

I like Tim Burton. He has a very unique vison and always seems to have a very original film. It's usually dark but rather tongue in cheek as well. Speilburg is good too. He always seems to have the perfect lighting. I'm a photographer so I apreciate that.

Yeah lighting is very important. Spielberg is good but not my favorite, made some good movies though.

I quite like Ridley Scott. Tony Scott's not bad either.
Forgiving Titanic, James Cameron is pretty quality also.

Charmed...

I,m very new here so I'm going to start slowly. My favourite director is Akira Kurosawa.

Three other very fine Japanese directors: Kenjo Mizuguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, Kon Ichikawa.
Three Ferenchmen:
Robert Bresson- the film director as minimalist.
Jean Renoir: fifty years of great films
Jean-pierre Melville: gangsters and resistance

Stanley Kubrick

John Ford

Federico Fellini

Martin Scorsese

Francis Ford Coppola

Orson Welles

Steven Spielberg

Billy Wilder

Ingmar Bergman

Akira Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Pasolini

An AMAZING Director. who else would tackle
translating tales like The Decameron, 120 Days of Sodom, Chaucer's Tales, Arabian Nights, etc etc

He was SO erotic!!...if ANYTHING gets me to wanna watch a film, it's not big bangs, and special effects, it is the erotic
and psychological deepness

i am sick and tired of Hollywood's view of reality, which is as superfical as the Hollywood film set fronts

It just HAS to be Tim Burton, the gothic and surreal worlds he creates are amazing.
I couldn't agree more with Raven.

Either Spielberg,
Burton,
or me...
wee'za kickin' da azz in the directin' department...

oh, oh, and Francis Ford Coppola. Bram Stoker's Dracula was the shizznit of early 90's movies...

(sorry for such heavy slang use. i felt like it)

It's a toss up between Frank Capra and Billy Wilder.

:m: Peace.

There are good arguments that I don't contest for folks like Spielberg, Capra, Wilder, &c., as best. Strangely, as with music, my idea of favorite falls somewhere off the line of what's considered best.

I'm hard-pressed to choose a favorite, though. In no particular order except that in which they come to mind:

• Sam Raimi (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000600/)
• H. Bruce Humberstone (http://imdb.com/name/nm0401680/) (for Wonder Man (http://imdb.com/title/tt0038260/), the only of his films I'm sure I've see; he may have otherwise sucked, for all I know.)
• Charlie Chaplin (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000122/)
• Maria Maggenti (http://imdb.com/name/nm0535940/) (for The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113416/))
• Paul Shapiro (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788610/) (for The Lotus Eaters (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107445/), which endures as my favorite film, inasmuch as it's the one I cite most often.)

That's enough. (Okay, two more: Phillip Ridley (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726000/), for The Reflecting Skin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100469/), and Bernard Rose (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0741262/), for Paperhouse (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098061/)).

Just bring me that moment, that nexus of art. That's all it takes. I hadn't been paying attention, for instance, to Bernard Rose, who also directed Candyman (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103919/), which film I'm not as big on. Then again, that leads me to add one more: Clive Barker (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000850/#director).

I'll stop now.

Really.

I promise.

Oh, hey ....

Shit! I forgot--- Romero. Criminally under used and underfunded by Hollywood.
Give a few mil and he turns out a genre-defining masterpiece (Dawn OTD). Leave it a few years and remake it at a cost of millions by some surfer dude director. Came out okay but imagine if they'd given the loot to Romero. THAT would have been a work of genius.
Still, Land Of The Dead is coming up...

Oh yeah- early Carpenter too.

Charmed...

Shit! I forgot--- Romero. Criminally under used and underfunded by Hollywood.
Give a few mil and he turns out a genre-defining masterpiece (Dawn OTD). Leave it a few years and remake it at a cost of millions by some surfer dude director. Came out okay but imagine if they'd given the loot to Romero. THAT would have been a work of genius.
Still, Land Of The Dead is coming up...

Oh yeah- early Carpenter too.

Charmed...

nobodies mentioned tarantino yet? pulp fiction alone would be enough to justify 'best director'.

nobodies mentioned tarantino yet? pulp fiction alone would be enough to justify 'best director'.

Agreed. But then he went and pissed it all away with the 'Kill Bill' fiasco. Wait ten years for a slice of fried gold and this is what we get from him?
Utter bollocks.

What about Robert Rodriguez? He even managed to make some kids films be cool...?

Charmed...

Leni Riefenstahl for her amazing and revolutionary at that time work, still very impressive today. Films like "Olympia" and "Triumph des Willens".

It was Lucas.... then it was Spielberg ... now it's Raimi.

Oh yeah- early Carpenter too.

If you mean John Carpenter, then his work did kick ayass...
HALLOWEEN IS THE BEST HORROR MOVIE EVER!!!
STILL WAITING FOR H9!!
MIKEY IS THE BEST KILLER EVER!!--next to hacker :D

I don't have any favorites, per se, but I don't think I've seen a Cohen Brothers movie that wasn't good and thought-provoking.

Terry Gilliam also has some good films although his record is a touch spotty.


Avatar,

You are a nazi, aren't you? Either that or you really like provoking people into being outraged by your nazi ideals (not that I'm outraged, just putting 3 and 3 together.)

he is.
ive read stuff about him on other forums.
he's a baltic fascist who hates russia and idolizes hitler and the swastika...
but thats just from stuff ive read.

Ah, but have you seen those films, especially Olympia?
That is really fascinating directing.

Apart from that, I like teasing Hapsburg

p.s. Hapsburg, your ignorance on what swastika and its' origins are and what it means to indoeuropeans is annoying. Of course, you're just a little brainwashed american so are excused. There are a lot of threads on swastika or firecross, I suggest you read them.
Oh, and point out one place where I have idiolized Hitler.
p.p.s. And stop your trolling. I won't reply in this thread anymore. Stick your head in a fridge.

i know what the swastika was...
but this is after WW2...you know, after the Nazis were in power in Germany...
and the Swastika was thier symbol. you obviously have a hard time grasping that concept..that THIS IS A POST-WW2 WORLD!! THINGS HAVE CHANGED SINCE THE DARK AGES WHEN SWASTIKA MEANT GOOD LUCK!! TIMES HAVE CHANGED!! DO YOU GET THAT CONCEPT???!!!

Terry Gilliam is definitely one of the best. Werner Herzog is up there, too.

me...
weston hill...
and andrew cobb...
we three are the best actors and the best directors at PyroPictures.

The only directors? :D (couldn't resist)

no. we have a few more.
but we are the best in PyroPic.

Wes Anderson, made some of my favorite movies ever. Not to mention writes many.

Coen brothers

Christopher Scott Cherot

I tend to be partial towards anything Michael Bay puts out. His stories are not so great, but his movies definitely have personality, chemistry. Most of the action sequences in most movies bore the hell out of me. He at least puts dialogue in it or something of interest. I have yet to see Peral Harbor. Thus far, Armageddon was his only really sucky movie. I blame Afleck.

I used to like Ang Lee, but not as much lately.

I like the Wachowskis. They have silly dialogue, but for the most part, their movies have been interesting. They have only directed 4 movies, but they were all well done.

Kubrick , Spielberg, Lucas.

oh and Cameron.