Favourite film directors

Originally posted by Palynka
Kubrick
Pasolini
Kieslowski
Leone
Tarantino
Bergman
Tarkovsky
Aronofsky
Kurosawa
Hitchcock
Jeunet
Kitano
Wenders
Burton
Van Sant
Chan-Wook Park
Coen Brothers
...

Great list!
I'd add Spielberg just for his ability to capture an audience.

Martin Scorsese
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Jean Luc Godard
Takashi Miike
Krzysztof Kieslowski

I don't have a preference on directors--I liken them to employees, no different from a canfy manufacturer or a burger-flipper. I like Milky Way, but not Almond Joy. But do I seek out the guy who mixed the ingredients of Milky Way in anxious anticipation of his next confectionary invention? Psshaw! 😀

Originally posted by PinkFloyd
I don't have a preference on directors--I liken them to employees, no different from a canfy manufacturer or a burger-flipper. I like Milky Way, but not Almond Joy. But do I seek out the guy who mixed the ingredients of Milky Way in anxious anticipation of his next confectionary invention? Psshaw! 😀

there are directors who function as employees, but then there are many - the ones mentioned in this thread, for example - who function more as auteurs - the authors of the film, and so are more akin to book authors than burger flippers. it takes creativity to make art, but not to flip a burger. that's the difference.

Originally posted by Iron Monkey
there are directors who function as employees, but then there are many - the ones mentioned in this thread, for example - who function more as auteurs - the authors of the film, and so are more akin to book authors than burger flippers. it takes creativity to make art, but not to flip a burger. that's the difference.

if I ever see or hear of a director who qualifies as an "auteur", I'll be sure to list him here. 😉

Ed Wood

Originally posted by Ice Cold
Ed Wood

why am i not surprised?

Originally posted by PinkFloyd
I don't have a preference on directors--I liken them to employees, no different from a canfy manufacturer or a burger-flipper. I like Milky Way, but not Almond Joy. But do I seek out the guy who mixed the ingredients of Milky Way in anxious anticipation of his next confectionary invention? Psshaw! 😀

to use your own analogy, the director as auteur is more akin to Willy Wonka than to one of the umpa lumpas.

Originally posted by Iron Monkey
to use your own analogy, the director as auteur is more akin to Willy Wonka than to one of the umpa lumpas.

Willy who? Sounds like a porn name to me.

Originally posted by PinkFloyd
Willy who? Sounds like a porn name to me.

you're kidding, right?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067992/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367594/

i guess it does sound kind of like a porn name.

Have to throw John Ford into the mix. Cecil B Demille as well.

Terrence Malick

Elia Kazan deserves a mention. Most will have seen the following:
"On the Waterfront"
"East of Eden"
"A Streetcar Named Desire"

But be sure to take time out for the following:
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
"Gentleman's Agreement"
"America, America"
"Baby Doll"
"Man on a Tightrope"

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
Elia Kazan deserves a mention. Most will have seen the following:
"On the Waterfront"
"East of Eden"
"A Streetcar Named Desire"

But be sure to take time out for the following:
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
"Gentleman's Agreement"
"America, America"
"Baby Doll"
"Man on a Tightrope"

On the Water Front and a Street Car Named Desire are two must see movies for anyone. Marlon Barndo just owned those two movies. No disrespect intended for Vivien Leigh cause she was great too on the second one but Marlon was just magic.

Originally posted by adam warlock
On the Water Front and a Street Car Named Desire are two must see movies for anyone. Marlon Barndo just owned those two movies. No disrespect intended for Vivien Leigh cause she was great too on the second one but Marlon was just magic.

Kazan had a way of getting the most from actors and it shows in his films. You should check out some of his non-Brando films if you haven't.