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...
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)
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 • H. Bruce Humberstone (for Wonder Man, the only of his films I'm sure I've see; he may have otherwise sucked, for all I know.) • Charlie Chaplin • Maria Maggenti (for The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love) • Paul Shapiro (for The Lotus Eaters, which endures as my favorite film, inasmuch as it's the one I cite most often.) That's enough. (Okay, two more: Phillip Ridley, for The Reflecting Skin, and Bernard Rose, for Paperhouse). 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, which film I'm not as big on. Then again, that leads me to add one more: Clive Barker. 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...
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".
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 Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
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.)
