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di·rec·tor (dĭ-rĕk'tər, dī-)
n.
One that supervises, controls, or manages.
A member of a group of persons chosen to control or govern the affairs of an institution or corporation.
A person who supervises the creative aspects of a dramatic production or film and instructs the actors and crew.
The conductor of an orchestra or chorus.
An electronic device that continually calculates and displays information used for firing weapons at moving targets, such as missiles or aircraft.
directorship di·rec'tor·ship' n.
We had this topic a while back, but I think it's time for a revamp.
These are my Top 5:
edited: June 2008
1. Wong Kar-Wai (Happy Together/Chungking Express/In the Mood for Love/2046)
2. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai/Ikiru/Rashomon)
3. Park Chan-Wook (Sympathy for Mr Vengeance/Oldboy/Lady Vengeance/JSA/Cut)
4. Shunji Iwai (All About Lily Chou-Chou/Arita)
5. John Woo (Hard Boiled/The Killer/A Better Tomorrow/Face Off/Once a Thief/Bullet in the Head)
What are yours?
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1. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Departed)
2. Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining)
3. Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, E.T., Schindler's List)
4. Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
5. Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, 25th Hour)
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1. Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, Psycho, The Birds)
2. George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead)
3. Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz)
4. Sam Raimi (Evil Dead Trilogy, Spiderman Trilogy)
5. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
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1. Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Sam Raimi - Evil Dead Trilogy, Spiderman Trilogy
3. Wes Craven - A Nightmare on Elm Street
4. George Lucas - Star Wars Double-Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy
5. Tim Burton - The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissor Hands, Mars Attacks, Beetlejuice
Also esh why do you like so many asian directors?
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1. Robert Rodriguez - (Spy Kids, Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D)
2. Peter Jackson - (The Frighteners, Forgotten Silver)
3. Terry Gilliam - (Jabberwocky, The Brothers Grimm)
4. Guillermo Del Toro - (Blade 2, Mimic)
5. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - (Alien: Resurrection)
It varies though. These guys I tend to like. And they seem like nice people too.
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1. Robert Rodriguez
2. Quentin Tarantino
3. Kevin Smith
4. Ryuhei Kitamuta
5. Park Chan-Wook
I am obsessed with the top 4. Kitamura not as much but still.
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Shinan, wasn't Terry Gilliam a member of the Monty Python group?
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Shinan, wasn't Terry Gilliam a member of the Monty Python group?
Yeah, that's the same guy.
Anyways, my list!
1. George Lucas (Star Wars trilogy) - Although he only directed one out of three films, he is still a master of visuals and storytelling and without his ability to lead and direct, none of the films would have become so huge and successfull. I also greatly enjoy THX 1138 and American Graffiti.
2. Tim Burton (Batman, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow) - All his films (usually include Johnny Depp) are always so interesting. Visually they look great, they are always enjoyable and weird. He sticks with his style (both films and hair). There isn't a single Burton film I dislike... not even the remake of one of my favorite films, Planet of the Apes.
3. Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones trilogy, Jurassic Park, E.T) - This guy simply make excellent films. Too bad he and Lucas didn't team up on the Star Wars prequels (although he did direct one or two scenes in Ep3).
4. Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Braindead) - While he is overrated as hell, he is still a great director (although sucky editor who can't cut down his own films). I'm a big fan of films that rely much on visuals, and like Lucas, his films tend to be quite good looking. He is the only director who almost made me cry while watching a certain film and his cast always end up acting good.
5. I actually can't come up with a director here that I like enough to actually go and see a film just because he/she did it.
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uh what???? sorry but everybody's opinion is wrong. the top five directors are (in no particular order):
1. stanley kubrick
2. david lynch
3. richard linklater
this is a fact i looked it up on the internet
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1. Martin Scorsese
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Peter Jackson
4. Francis Ford Coppola
5. Tim Burton
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1. Stanley Kubrick (for 2001 and the shining mainly)
2. Steven Spielburg (A cheesy choice, but I think he makes consitent great films with strong meanings behind them
3. Darren Aronofsky (loved pi, requiem for a dream and the more recent the fountain)
4. Tim Burton (unquestionable style, which makes a film a 'Tim Burton' film)
5. Robert Rodriguez (his films are always/usually have a coolness to them that I love)
There are others that directors that I am fond of, but these are the ones I thought of at the moment.
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I dont think I can really do a top 5 in order... so I'll do them alphabetically by last name
The Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski*, Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou*)
Terry Gilliam (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas*, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove*, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange)
Steven Soderbergh (Oceans 11/12/13, Schizopolis, Kafka*, The Good German)
Gore Verbinski (The Weatherman*, Pirates of the Caribbean 1 2 and 3, The Mexican)
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In no particular order
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
David Fincher
Steven Soderbergh
Orson Welles
Richard Linklater
It just took me about an hour to write this list of five names because I found it really fucking hard. But I think these people have done some amazing things in cinema that put them as my personal top 5 (although most of them have done a lot of real shit work too, oh well!)
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I LIKE:
Hitchcock (TRUE MASTER)
Welles (Likewise)
Cameron (He seems the only guy capable of pulling off an action movie which isn;t HEY LOKO AT SLOW MOTION ITS HIP AND TRENFTY)
STanly Kubrick (fkukcing shining rocks)
I HATE:
Tarrantino (Let's have blood, and things not trealting to plot, and blood and cheesy camera angles and bloodd and me as a main role in ALL OF MY FILS)
Tim Burton (Let's make one movie and slightly redress the main character and release it 2 yewars down the line again)
Sam Raimi (SPEAR POINT OF VIEW SHOTS FOR DRAMA)
GEORGE LUCAS (GREAT IDEAS... dodgys directisn=g(
MATRIX PEOPLE (BURN IN HELL FOR RUINING CINEMA YOU FUCKING CUNTS I HOPE YOU DIE HORIBLE DEATHS)
Seiruously, it is so hard to find directors to go in my top 5. I would say Spielberg, but he just rips off classic directors and well you know... War of the worlds *_*
It is very easy pointing out BAD directoers.
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shit I forgot about James Cameron and Ridley Scott. Both solid directors.
I don't agree with your statement about Tim Burton, but am interested in knowing which films you are refering to.
I agree that he over-uses Johnny Depp, but I think that in all of his roles he plays a different character
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my least favorite directors are all the ones that do those historical epic movies that always turn out to be really bad... so basically uhh
Oliver Stone (Platoon, Alexander)
Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, Blackhawk Down)
while I was looking up examples of what I wanted to point out here I realized what/who I really hate: Jerry Bruckheimer. This guy is responsible for more awful movies than any other person other than Kevin Smith (whom I also dont like) but seriously I really hate Bruckheimer for turds such as the recent King Arthur movie (yeah king arthur was a roman legionaire from what was it Sarmatia? explain the umm whiteness of Clive Owen... hooray for promoting historicaly innacurate ideas)
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This is more of a personal list of styles I enjoy- rather than "groundbreaking," or "film capstones." I generally find all their movies enjoyable and the way they tell the story. And they are in order of my personal favorites:
1. Wes Anderson (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums)
2. Michael Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep)
3. David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en)
4. Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins)
5. David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees)
People that could possibly make my list in the years to come:
-James McTeigue (V for Vendetta)
-Niels Mueller (The Assassination of Richard Nixon)
-Matthew Vaughn (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Layer Cake, Stardust)
-Jonathan Dayton (Little Miss Sunshine)
-Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine)
-Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know)
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1. Stanley Kubrick
2. James Cameron
3. Ridley Scott
4. John Carpenter
5. Terry Gilliam
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I'd have to go with (In no particular order):
Alfred Hitchcock - Yeah, many have listed him and with good reason. Rear Window? Dial M For Murder? North By Northwest? He's easily in the list. Plus I love the "Spot Hitchcock" game in most of his movies. It's a great way of getting the audience to pay attention.
Spielberg - Another great director and a common choice. He's far from a pretentious git's choice, I feel, but as far as simple, fun family films go, you don't get much finer a choice. Even War of the Worlds, which was greatly slated, didn't seem half as bad as people made out. His best stuff are really up there with the best though.
James Cameron - Aliens, Terminator, The Abyss, etc etc? He's a sure fire hit of building suspense in his movies and a great pioneer of technology (he knocks Lucas out because he can both utilise special effects well and actually direct/write with certain quality too. :D
Now I'm struggling...next up there's a bunch of hit and miss directors, like Rob Reiner, John Carpenter and so forth. I'm pretty mainstream a movie goer, so a lot of these snobby "we're film buffs" directors just don't appeal to me.
I suppose next I'd have to go with M Night Shylaman. Even though for some reason he's constantly labelled a hack, I just don't get it. He's made about 5 known movies, three were good to great, two were poor. That's pretty good for a director, I feel. He's brought about a new personal style, which sadly has been being poorly imitated ever since, that I tend to like. Another director good at slowly building suspense, like all of the ones previously mentioned - something I think is what makes a great director, instead of these "action action action" pratts of recent times. This guy needs to prove himself by getting back on track with quality and doing a few different movies.
Lastly, even though I'm sure that there's more that could make my cut, I'm going to go with Paul Verhoeven. I can only really name four movies he's done, but they've all been pretty high quality. He likes his action and he likes his gore. I like action and I like gore, so I like his movies. :P Oh, he also does them well. Pure, simple entertainment - you don't get much better.
Hopefully these guys have still got many years in them before they retire/snuff it, so that we don't have to depend on hit and miss (mostly miss) network exec pushovers and flavour of the month directors like Michael Bay, Gore Verbinski, Len Wiseman, Lee Tamahori and so on - all who have made their fair share of total crap, and, perhaps, got lucky with one or two movies between them.
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Lastly, even though I'm sure that there's more that could make my cut, I'm going to go with Paul Verhoeven. I can only really name four movies he's done, but they've all been pretty high quality. He likes his action and he likes his gore. I like action and I like gore, so I like his movies. :P Oh, he also does them well. Pure, simple entertainment - you don't get much better.
oh man i know OPINIONS and everything but this just can't go down
i mean starship troopers was pretty cool as a goofy satire but this guy did SHOWGIRLS.
and that is simply unforgivable
in other words your opinion is incorrect
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It is very easy pointing out BAD directoers.
That's sort of the point, though, innit? A top ten of the worst directors would take forever just to get the short list.
It's just a rule of the entertainment--people like complaining more than they like appreciating good work, and a certain class of person hates to admit to enjoying something unless there's some sort of evidence or style guide they can cite for why it's okay to like it.
Anyway, my favorite directors are mostly bad directors. Their movies might be totally flawed, but there's so much humanity in the stuff--you can really see those directors in the flaws. I guess it's like the whole "gesture of the artist" thing that they like to talk about in art history classes. So anyway, in no particular order I like Tarantino and Kevin Smith and Joss Whedon and Aaron Sorkin and Charlie Kaufman.
Or to give a separate list that I probably like just as much: Gendy Tartakovsky, Paul Dini, Giancarlo Volpe, Kazuya Tsurumaki, and Watanabe Shinichi.
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oh man i know OPINIONS and everything but this just can't go down
i mean starship troopers was pretty cool as a goofy satire but this guy did SHOWGIRLS.
and that is simply unforgivable
in other words your opinion is incorrect
He also did Total Recall, Robocop, Basic Instinct...well rated movies. Every director is allowed a few blips :P I mean, even Hitchcock made a few pretty crap movies, like Topaz, and he's generally regarded as the best director of all time.
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1. Dr Uwe Boll
2. no
3. one
4. else
5. matters
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I also really like Werner Herzog even though I've only seen 3 or 4 movies by him and he has like 20+.
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He also did Total Recall, Robocop, Basic Instinct...well rated movies. Every director is allowed a few blips :P I mean, even Hitchcock made a few pretty crap movies, like Topaz, and he's generally regarded as the best director of all time.
yeah but i don't think you understand
showgirls is the WORST MOVIE EVER MADE.
i mean the three directors i listed all have their crappy movies but none of them are as depressingly horrible as showgirls. i have nightmares about that movie!!
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yeah but i don't think you understand
showgirls is the WORST MOVIE EVER MADE.
i mean the three directors i listed all have their crappy movies but none of them are as depressingly horrible as showgirls. i have nightmares about that movie!!
Fact: Showgirls is an award winning (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114436/awards) film. I suggest you take that back.
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Touché, Esh. Looks like that movie was a major slip up. I actually missed a director that would probably knock Paul Verhoeven off my list, and that's Robert Zemekis.
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1. Sofia Coppola(Lost in Translation) I don't even like any of her other movies, but I love Lost in Translation THAT much.
2. Zach Braff (Garden State)
3. Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz)
4. David Lynch (Eraserhead)
5. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining)
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Not enough essential cinema in here for my tastessss....
1) Federico Fellini, I prefer his earlier work more than his later. I have a thing for neo realism.
2) Akira Kurosawa, and I enjoy his contemparary Japan stuff more than his feudal.
3) Jean Renoir. Renoir is the shit.
4) John Cassavettes. I don't know what to say. Watch Faces it's great.
5) Louis Malle, because he's the only guy who can make a kid have sex with his mom seem like love and not incest. The pervert....
Libraries are the best place to borrow movies.
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1) Sergio Leone (Why has no one mentioned him yet? The good the bad and the ugly, Once upon a time in the west, Once Upon a Time in America (better than Godfather).)
2) Jean-Pierre Jeunet (I've only seen Amelie, but wow. AND, he's directing Life of Pi!)
3) Tim Burton (I mostly give him credit for Big Fish, I loved that film.)
4) Martin Scorsese (Good Fellas, The Aviator, Taxi Driver)
5) Guillermo del Toro (Pans Labyrinth)
I don't know if these are my all time favorites, but they're the ones off the top of my head. Although, I'm sure Leone is my favorite director, I consider every movie he's directed a masterpiece. He directed both my favorite western (Once upon a time in the West) and my favorite mobster movie (Once upon a time in America). If you're going to watch Once in America, make sure you find the full version, which is close to four hours long.
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Updated list:
1. Wong Kar-Wai (Happy Together/Chungking Express/In the Mood for Love/2046)
2. Park Chan-Wook (Sympathy for Mr Vengeance/Oldboy/Lady Vengeance/JSA/Cut)
3. Shunji Iwai (All About Lily Chou-Chou/Arita)
4. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Last Life in the Universe)
5. Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros/21 Grams/Babel)
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My list in no particular order:
Sergio Leone(The Good, The Bad and the Ugly/For a few dollars/ A few dollars more)
Sam Mendes(American Beauty, Road to Perdition)
Chris Nolan(Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins)
Zhang Yimou?(Hero, Curse of the Golden Flower, House of flying Daggers)
Stanley Kubrick(2001)
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My list, also in no real order:
Takashi Miike (Audition, Visitor Q, Ichi The Killer)
Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Indiana Jones)
Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Pi)
Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma)
Michael Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dave Chapelle's Block Party)
These are just a bunch of directors that spring to mind personally, not all time best movie makers or anything. I think Zach Braff will be great in the future also. Gela Babluani should have a good future as well, judging by the response his first movie got.