who's is everyones favorite director?

[skaaddict3303]

and who agrees with me that baz lurhman makes the most incredible films???? hmmm???
baz is my favorite.

[Invincible]

My favorite director would have to be either.

James Cameron or Steven Spielberg but soon..it might change, y'know what I mean *cough*t3*cough* aaarrgh cough cough...

[Sigur509]

Kevin Smith
Tim Burton
Wes Anderson
Coen Brothers
Davin Fincher

[Ren Hoek]

You better post a topic like this in the best/worst/faves forum, mate! :)

And check out this thread (http://www.joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54547&highlight=directors)!

[flowrchild]

Steven Spielberg
Paul Thomas Anderson
Stanley Kubrick

[El Bracamonti]

hitchcock

[sherimoon]

Speilberg
Kubrick
Craven
Carpenter
Burton

[Gregorious8]

Orson Welles
Wes Anderson
Guy Richie
Kubrick
Scorsese

[moviefan80113]

thanks

[Hannibal21]

Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock.

[blankpage]

Steven Spielberg

Woody Allen

Martin Scorsese

Alfred Hitchcock

Kevin Smith

[jolanar]

As far as a director who has created the most amount of movies I have like, that would have to be Steven Spielberg for me.

Although my favorite director out of pure talent would be Mr. Sixth Sense/ Signs, whos name I can't remember and am too lazy to look up.

[pat00139]

The dude's name is M. Night Shyamalan.

As for me, David Lean, Francois Truffaut, Akira Kurosawa...

I could go on, but those are enough for now.

[Invincible]

The schmoe said is not are lol..I hate these threads when someone asks for one person and people put down like 50 people, dammit, stop it! :D

[stevereno]

JAMES CAMERON - ALIENS, T2, TRUE LIES

CHUCK RUSSLE - A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3, THE BLOB '88

STEVEN SPIELBURG - E.T., HOOK, JURASSIC PARK

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

[Jasonite]

My fave is probably David Lean. Also a huge fan of Kurosawa and Truffaut.


J

[notchreturns]

Steve-O Spielberg
Marty Scorsese
Joel & Ethan Coen
Spiked hair Lee
Stan da Man Kubrick
Alfredo Hitchcock
PT Anderson
I got a Woody Allen

[EBastard]

Ridley Scott

Best Work: Gladiator (10/10), Alien (9/10), Black Hawk Down (9/10).



CAUSE I'M THE KING OF THE ASS...

[Hucksta G]

Martin Scorsese or Cameron Crowe.

[Masterbrain]

LUCIO FULCI! - The Beyond, Zombie, House by the Cemetery
DAVID LYNCH - Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, the Elephantman
TIM BURTON - Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Batman Returns
QUENTIN TARANTINO - Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs

[Reigh Kaufman]

Keith Gordon
Soffia Copolla - even if she never directs again
PT Anderson
Richard Kelly - even if he never directs a good film again
D. Aaronofsky
Wes Anderson
Lynne Ramsay
Kimberley Pierce

[Living_Dead_Dude]

Tim Burton,
Quentin Tarantino,
Stanley Kubrick

[Raoul Duke]

Quentin Tarantino

Martin Scorsese

Coen Bros.

Christopher Nolan

PT Anderson

[syxxpac]

Originally posted by Invincible
My favorite director would have to be either.

James Cameron or Steven Spielberg but soon..it might change, y'know what I mean *cough*t3*cough* aaarrgh cough cough...

Ditto.

[bankholdup]

Stanley Kubrick
Paul Thomas Anderson
Tim Burton


Probably the top 3 right there.

[QUENTIN]

Frank Coraci, no doubt.

[Quiver]

Without wanting to get too repetitive, I'll have to say

Quentin Tarantino and John Carpenter

[bob]

Alfred Hitchcock is my favorite director, but Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, and Woody Allen all make good cases as well.

[ColinM]

Here's my list, along with their best film and their best directing job.

Top Five Directors
1) Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window / Vertigo)
2) Steven Spielberg (E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial / Schindler's List)
3) Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather / The Godfather)
4) Sam Mendes (American Beauty / American Beauty)
5) Stanley Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut / 2001: A Space Odyssey)

Personally, though, I find it much harder making Top Director lists than Top Actor lists, so I'm probably leaving some people out...

[The Other]

Top 5 Directors (in no real order):

Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden)
Alfred Hitchcock (Notorious, North by Northwest)
Stephen Spielberg (Schindler's List, Jurassic Park)
Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours)
M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs)

[therealjohng]

Ridley Scott.

[Tagia_Romero]

Steven Spielberg *been under the influence since "Jurassic Park"*
James Cameron *the equal of Spielberg in my eyes*
Dario Argento *one of my fave foreign directors*
The Coen Brothers *very refreshing*
Tim Burton *LOVED "Beetlejuice". HATED "Planet of the Apes"*
Joel Schumacher *Despite "Batman and Robin", there is talent here!*
John Carpenter *I can't hold anything against this fella*
F. W Manau *Genius Expressionist*
Quentin Tarantino *This man knows what he can do*
David Lynch *The best remedy for lack of abstraction and dream logic*
Rob Reiner *He's a trooper*
Bill Paxton *GREAT work on "Frailty"*
Luc Besson *LOVED "Leon" and "Nikita"*
Mario Bava *One of the best occult movie directors*
John Hughes *The man has my total respect*
Kathryn Bigelow *Great female action director if I ever saw one*
David Fincher *Hail*
Sam Raimi *Has anyone mentioned this bloke yet?*

[Jasonite]

Originally posted by Invincible
My favorite director would have to be either.

James Cameron or Steven Spielberg but soon..it might change, y'know what I mean *cough*t3*cough* aaarrgh cough cough...


I don't see how, unless you think T3 is going to be so good that you'll like this director better than Cameron or Spielburg? T3 is going to suck, however neither man was involved with it so you can't respect them any less....



J

[Jasonite]

Originally posted by notchreturns
Steve-O Spielberg
Marty Scorsese
Joel & Ethan Coen
Spiked hair Lee
Stan da Man Kubrick
Alfredo Hitchcock
PT Anderson
I got a Woody Allen


All good choices man.


J

[The Professional]

probably werner herzog or wim wenders. that generation of german filmmakers is great.

[Deckard]

-Sorry I cant possibly name just one- I always feel Im leaving out to many great ones.Cant name out right faves, but a few I dig and my fave films by them:

DAVID LYNCH- Blue Velvet/Lost Highway/Mullholland Drive/Eraserhead/Elephant Man/Wild at Heart

COEN BROTHERS- Miller's Crossing/Big Lebowski/Blood Simple/

OLIVER STONE- Natural Born Killers/Platoon/Salvador/Wall Street/JFK

ALFRED HITCHCOCK- Vertigo/Frenzy/Shadow Of A Doubt/Rope/Psycho/North By Northwest

SAM PECKINPAH- The Wild Bunch/The Getaway/Ride The high country/Straw Dogs

DAVID CRONENBURGH- Scanners/Rabid/Shivers/ Existenz/Spider/VideoDrome/Dead Ringers/The Dead Zone

SIDNEY LUMET- 12 Angry Men/Fail-Safe/The Offence/The Hill/The Anderson tapes/Murder On The Orient Express/ThePawnBroker/Serpico/Dog Day Afternoon/the Verdict

DON SIEGEL- Dirty Harry/Madigan/Charley Varrick/The Beguiled/Invasion of The Body Snatchers/Hell Is For Heroes/The Killers/escape From Alcatraz

JOHN FRANKENHEIMER- Seconds/Manchurian Candidate/All Fall Down/Birdman Of Alcatraz/7 Days In May/the train/The Iceman Cometh/The french Connection II/The holecroft Covenant/the Challenge

JOHN STURGES- The Great Escape/ The Magnificent 7/Bad Day At Black Rock/The Eagle Has Landed/Ice Station Zebra/Gunfight At The Ok Corral

(Alternate 10)

STANLEY KUBRICK- The Killing/Clockwork Orange/2001/Sparticus/Lolita/Full Metal Jacket/The Shining

GEORGE ROY HILL- Slaughterhouse 5/The Sting/Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid/The Little Drummer Girl/Slap Shot/The World According to Garp

BILLY WILDER- The Apartment/The Odd Couple/Double Indemnity/The fortune Cokkie/The front page/Stalag 17/Irma La Douce/ The Lost Weekend/One, Two, Three, The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes/Some like It hot/Witness To The Prosecution

TERRY GILLIAM-12 Monkeys/Brazil/Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas/ The Fisher King/ Monty python and The Holy Grail.

WALTER HILL- The Driver/The Warriors/ Crossroads/Johnny handsome/The Long Riders/Southern Comfort/Extreme Predjudice

TERENCE YOUNG- Wait Until Dark/From Russia With Love/dr No/Thunderball/Corridor Of Mirrors/Moll Flanders/Cold Sweat/Red Sun

RICHARD FLEISCHER- Boston Strangler/10 Rillington Place/Amin:The Rise and Fall/Compulsion/Fantastic Voyage/Mr majestyk/The Narow Margin/Soylent Green/20,000 Leagues Under The Sea/Soylent Green/Tora,Tora,Tora/

RICHARD BROOKES- In Cold Blood/ Cat On a Hot Tin Roof/Bite The Bullet/The Sweet Bird Of Youth/The Professionals/Looking for Mr Goodbar.

AKIRA KUROSAWA- Ran/Kagemusha/Seven samurai/Yojimbo/Throne of Blood/Rashamon

JOHN HUSTON- Tresure Of Sierra Madre/ The Man Who Would Be King/Big Sleep/The kremlin Letters/Asphalt Jungle/Beat The Devil/The Maltese Falcon/the list Of Adrian messenger/The Dead/Night Of The Iguana/Fat CityPrizzis Honour/Under the Vocano

Even then Im sad to say I left out so many greats, but I love em all with equal passion, depending on the mood......

[Nate6]

Originally posted by QUENTIN
Frank Coraci, no doubt.

He's a genius, an absolute genius. The Waterboy brought a tear to my eye...

I'm going to be serious though and say Scorsese. Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Bringing Out the Dead, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Gangs of New York, After Hours, The King of Comedy, The Last Waltz, The Age of Innocence; all great movies by this great director.

[BadCoverVersion]

Originally posted by QUENTIN
Frank Coraci, no doubt.

I had to scoot over to ImdB to find this blokey...and to my dismay *gulp* I discovered...Mr Coraci is directing the new Around the world in 80 Days flick with Steve Coogan...not only that, the WRITER'S last flick was only the box office smash, Octopus 2: River of Fear.

Bollocks...I was actually looking forward to seeing Phileas Fogg on the big screen.

:(

[Voodoodoll]

If I had to pick one it's Sam Raimi. His resume may not be as quality as other directors but stylistically no one can touch him imo.

[noahx29]

These 4 are the best:

Smith

Fincher

Craven

Raimi

Why? Because I said they are, thats why! ;)

[KornKidJedi]

Sergio Leone:
The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon A Time In America, A Fistful Of Dyamite, and Once Upon A Time In The West

Quentin Tarantino:
Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Reservoir Dogs

Francis Ford-Coppola:
The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, Apacolypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and The Rainmaker.

Martin Scorsese:
Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, and Mean Streets

John Woo:
Hard-Boiled, The Killer, Face-Off, Windtalkers, Last Hurrah For Chivary, A Better Tomorrow, and A Better Tomorrow II

George A.Romero:
Dawn Of The Dead, Night Of The Living Dead, Martin, Creepshow, Day of the Dead, The Crazies, and Monkey Shines

Lucio Fulci:
Zombie, The Beyond, City Of The Living Dead, A Lizard In The Woman's Skin, and Cat in the Brain

Robert Rodriguez:
El Marichi, Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, and Roadracers.

[Masterbrain]

Originally posted by KornKidJedi

Lucio Fulci:
Zombie, The Beyond, City Of The Living Dead, A Lizard In The Woman's Skin, and Cat in the Brain



Hell yeah! :D Good choice!

[resdawg]

Quentin Tarantino
John Woo

[Antonio]

CLASSIC
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
STANLEY KUBRICK
ELIA KAZAN
FRANK CAPRA
BILLY WILDER

MODERN
MARTIN SCORSESE
QUENTIN TARANTINO
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
OLIVER STONE
SIDNEY LUMET

[MickeyKnox]

Quentin Tarantino
Martin Scorsese
Paul Thomas Anderson
David Fincher
Spike Lee
Wes Anderson
Oliver Stone
etc etc etc etc etc etc

[sarah1980]

STEVEN SPIELBERG

[SykkBoy]

I know the topic says favorite (singular) but hard to decide between Dario Argento, Sam Raimi and John Woo.

[Streepster]

James Cameron
Steven Speilberg
Robert Zemeckis
Spike Jonze
Sydney Pollack
Mike Nichols
Alan J. Pakula
Ridley Scott

[Ripper1888]

Here are 10 of my favorite directors


1.Alfred Hitchcock-Psycho,Vertigo,Rear Window,Rebecca,Rope

2.John Carpenter-Halloween,The Fog,The Thing,Escape from NY/LA
Big Trouble in Little China

3.Lucio Fulci-Zombie,The Beyond,New York Ripper,
Don't Torture a Duckling

4.Dario Argento-Suspiria,Deep Red,Opera

5.Wes Craven-The Last House on the Left,The Hills Have Eyes,
A Nightmare on Elm Street,Scream trilogy

6.Sam Raimi-Evil Dead,Evil Dead 2,Army of Darkness,The Gift,
A Simple Plan

7.Mel Brooks-Young Frankenstein,Blazing Saddles,Space Balls,
Robin Hood Men in Tights

8.John Landis-Animal House,The Blues Brothers,
An American Werewolf in London,Coming to America,TradingPlaces

9.Cameron Crowe-Almost Famous,Say Anything,Vanilla Sky

10.Peter Jackson-LOTR trilogy,Dead Alive,Bad Taste,The Frightners

[boo]

Paul Thomas Anderson :)
Cameron Crowe
Steven Spielberg
Stanley Kubrick
Quentin Tarantino
Oliver Stone
David Lynch

[ZoMBiEPeEpSHoW]

Michael Bay

I love the shots, angles and camera movements in his films... An action junkie's art gallery :)

[jmcpher_007]

Sam Mendes
Joel and Ethan Coen
Kevin Smith

[KornKidJedi]

Originally posted by Masterbrain
Hell yeah! :D Good choice!

You're Damn Right.

[Sugar_Kane]

Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Quentin Tarantino