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Who Are Your Favorite Film Directors?

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  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    David Lean is also a great pick. Have been impressed with his work.

    My favourite is, rather controversially, not Lawrence or Bridge but Doctor Zhivago.
  • KaijuDirectorOO7KaijuDirectorOO7 Once Upon a Time Somewhere...
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    David Lean is also a great pick. Have been impressed with his work.

    My favourite is, rather controversially, not Lawrence or Bridge but Doctor Zhivago.

    Can't blame ya, either way, one of those three will make you want to go to where they're set and blast the soundtracks at full blast.
  • Crazysoul95Crazysoul95
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    Hawks, Wilder, Hitchcock, Nolan, Spielberg, Coppola, Jean-Pierre Melville, Fincher, Kubrick, Cameron, Leone, Scorsese
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    Crazysoul95 wrote: »
    Hawks, Wilder, Hitchcock, Nolan, Spielberg, Coppola, Jean-Pierre Melville, Fincher, Kubrick, Cameron, Leone, Scorsese

    Good list.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    I'm not a big Cameron fan. My Top 9 is pretty secure, 10th spot is more up for grabs. For now I keep Ridley Scott there, but it definitely can change.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    Yeah. Terminator 1 is the only Cameron film I kind of enjoy myself (still have to see 2). Otherwise don't care for his work.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    FoxRox wrote: »
    Yeah. Terminator 1 is the only Cameron film I kind of enjoy myself (still have to see 2).
    I highly recommend watching 2 prior to forming an opinion on which is best. Imho, it's one of the greatest films of the past 30 years, and an outstanding sequel. The rest you can skip.
  • NSGWNSGW London
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    Leone, Kurosawa, PTA, Scorsese, Coppola, Lumet, Kubrick, Hitchcock, Wilder, Tarantino, Fincher, Linklater, Nolan are some of my favourites. Hard to pick a favourite but if I had to would be Leone or Kurosawa. I'm trying to work through all of Kurosawa's films but some of his earlier ones can be tricky to get hold of, I'm up to 19 or 20 currently. Anyone have any other Japanese directors they're big fans of? (Kurosawa and Kobayashi are my top picks)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited April 2017 Posts: 24,266
    HIGH QUALITY DIRECTORS

    STANLEY KUBRICK
    fav. film: 2001: A Space odyssey (10/10)
    least fav. film: Fear And Desire (6/10)

    MICHAEL MANN
    fav. film: Heat (10/10)
    least fav. film: The Keep (6/10)

    CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
    fav. film: The Dark Knight (10/10)
    least fav. film: Memento (8/10)

    DAVID FINCHER
    fav. film: The Social Network (9,5/10)
    least fav. film: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (7/10)

    DENIS VILLENEUVE
    fav. film: Arrival (10/10)
    least fav. film: Prisoners (8,5/10)

    STEVEN SPIELBERG
    fav. film: E.T. (10/10)
    least fav. film: Always (7,5/10)

    GEORGE LUCAS
    fav. film: Star Wars (10/10)
    least fav. film: Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace (8/10)

    QUENTIN TARANTINO
    fav. film: Pulp Fiction (9/10)
    least fav. film: Death Proof (6/10)

    JAMES CAMERON
    fav. film: Terminator 2 Judgment Day (10/10)
    least fav. film: Avatar (6,5/10)

    GUILTY PLEASURE DIRECTORS (GP)

    KEVIN SMITH
    fav. film: Clerks II (9,5/10)
    least fav. film: Cop-Out (3/10)

    BRYAN SINGER
    fav. film: X2 (10/10)
    least fav. film: Apt Pupil (7/10)

    JOHN CARPENTER
    fav. film: Halloween (10/10)
    least fav. film: Ghosts Of Mars (5/10)


    HONORABLE MENTIONS

    Alfred Hitchcock
    Sergio Leone
    Sam Peckinpah
    Don Siegel
    Franklin J. Schaffner
    Katsuhiro Otomo
    Mamoru Oshii
    Akira Kurosawa
    Zack Snyder (GP)
    Michael Bay (GP)
    ...

    and loads of directors whose oeuvre I have to explore some more before passing judgement.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    edited April 2017 Posts: 12,525
    I'll try that idea for some of my favorite directors:

    Steven Spielberg
    Favorite: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    Least Favorite: 1941

    Stanley Kubrick
    Favorite: The Shining
    Least Favorite: Fear and Desire

    Tim Burton
    Favorite: Big Fish
    Least Favorite: Dark Shadows

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Favorite: Spirited Away
    Least Favorite: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

    Alfred Hitchcock
    Favorite: Psycho
    Least Favorite: Shadow of a Doubt (I don't dislike it, but of all the Hitchcock films I've seen I'd have to put this one last)

    Martin Scorsese
    Favorite: Taxi Driver
    Least Favorite: The Last Temptation of Christ

    Robert Zemeckis
    Favorite: Cast Away
    Least Favorite: Beowulf

    Christopher Nolan
    Favorite: The Dark Knight
    Least Favorite: Following (still thought it was decent)

    Francis Ford Coppola
    Favorite: The Godfather
    Leasr Favorite: Bram Stoker's Dracula

    Ridley Scott
    Favorite: Blade Runner
    Least Favorite: Legend (only of the ones I've seen. I still enjoy Legend)

    Bonus: David Lynch
    Favorite: The Elephant Man
    Least Favorite: Wild at Heart

    Roman Polanski, Orson Welles, David Fincher, Peter Jackson, and Billy Wilder are some unranked directors that are in my Top 20.
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