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Author Topic: Who is your favourite Director Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-20-2009 02:55 PM                     Ok because I saw someone mention Director favourites lets start a Director favourite thread. Luc Besson - Masterpieces Ridley Scott - No Comments needed  |  IP: Logged Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 11-20-2009 04:09 PM                  Martin Scorsese Clint Eastwood  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 11-20-2009 05:54 PM                        Peter Bogdanovich has three films that would be in my all-time top ten list if I bothered with such a thing, so he wins. David Lynch would probably be second. Maybe.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-20-2009 06:54 PM                        Ron Howard Steven Spielberg John Lasseter Cecil B. DeMille (I haven't seen too many of his movies, but I have liked the ones I've seen -- and he has probably the coolest director name ever.)  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-20-2009 08:00 PM                     Some favorites among the old guard: David Lean Alfred Hitchcock John Ford Billy Wilder Some Favorites While Growing Up: Steven Spielberg James Cameron Francis Coppola George Lucas Mel Brooks Some Contemporary Favorites: Martin Scorsese Joel & Ethan Coen David Fincher Quentin Tarantino Alex Proyas Ridley Scott Bryan Singer The Pixar crowd seems to be more of a team, but a great team it is. John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Doctor and Brad Bird are among the team of many dozens churning out either great or very good movies on a dependable basis.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 11-20-2009 08:03 PM                        Woody Allen is my favorite "currently active" filmmaker - but I don't think that I'd call him my favorite director. I'll have to think about that.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-20-2009 08:26 PM                        I was always fond of James Cameron because he had never made a bad movie (I haven't seen Piranha 2 The Spawning). Avatar may change that. We'll see. Steven Spielberg has made a bucketload of bad and/or uninteresting movies. War of the Worlds? The Terminal? If ever there were movies that encouraged suicide for the audience... Catch Me if You Can was kind of boring as well.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-20-2009 09:12 PM                     Obviously Spielberg hit his peak in the 1980s with movies like E.T. and his collaboration with George Lucas on Raiders of the Lost Ark. He also produced some other really fun movies during that period, such as Back to the Future. Since then Spielberg caved in to make all the snooty critics people happy by making movies geared more for adults rather than movies geared for anyone. Somewhere along the way I think Spielberg lost a bit of that "voice" that made him so successful. Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan are great movies, but they're only great because of their adult-themed importance. I didn't leave the theater with a "movie high" wanting to see either film again the way I did when I first saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. I think that sums up the difference. Lately Spielberg has been kind of hit or miss. Technically speaking, he's fantastic. But he hasn't made very many movies during the last decade I've felt like buying on DVD (or Blu-ray). Minority Report is the only movie from Steven Spielberg I've bought since he released Saving Private Ryan.  |  IP: Logged Tony Gallimore Expert Film Handler Posts: 108 From: Willis, Virginia, USA Registered: Jul 2009 posted 11-20-2009 10:00 PM                     Loved Alfred Hitchcock's fare when growing up as well as Cecil B. DeMille's classics. I did a stint as an extra in a Ridley Scott film, although I didn't have a chance to rub elbows. Ron Howard is another good one along with Spielburg, Corman... for his warped imagination.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-20-2009 10:19 PM                     Stanley Kubrick George Lucas in the '70s Robert Zemeckis Ron Howard Rob Reiner Francis Ford Coppola I'd have to think about the rest...if only one, then Stanley Kubrick gets top bill for me.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-20-2009 10:58 PM                        Let's get some furreners in here;> Akira Kurosawa Sergio Leone Nicholas Roeg (the first half of the career) Lars Von Trier (for audacity and Dogme 95)  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 11-20-2009 11:02 PM                       Oh, yeah. Hitchcock, definitely. John Ford, yes. And George Lucas has always been one of my heroes. Scorsese. Henry Hathaway. Clint Eastwood. I'm also an Ed Wood fan, but I don't think that necessarily makes him a favorite director... Just for shlock's sake.  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-20-2009 11:55 PM                     Francis Ford Copolla was a mistake from me to omiss. And of course Sergio Leone.  |  IP: Logged Brian D. Whitish Expert Film Handler Posts: 103 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-21-2009 02:24 AM                     For me its: Stanley Kubrick Woody Allen Francis Ford Coppola Martin Scorsese David Lean  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 11-21-2009 06:41 AM                     Terrence Malick  |  IP: Logged

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