Favorite directors? -

[Connor Bible]

Simple post, really; who are some of your favorite directors? I'll start with mine.

Alfred Hitchcock
William Friedkin
Michael Mann
David Cronenberg
David Lynch
Sam Peckinpah
Walter Hill
Paul Verhoeven
Fritz Lang
Ridley Scott
Stanley Kubrick
John Woo
Steven Spielberg
Jonathan Demme
Dario Argento
Albert Pyun
Ed Wood

 

[Marvin]

Why John Waters, of course.

 

[CatParty]

lynch
waters
verhoeven
welles
abrams
whedon
argento
wiseau
heckerling
tarantino

 

[EI 903]

Michael Bay
M. Night Shymylynynyn
Joel Schumacher

 

[exball]

Tommy Wiseau. He is the only one for me.

 

[telegramsamo]

Nicolas Roeg
Don Coscarelli
Neil Jordan
Gus Van Sant
Todd Haynes
Tim Burton (When he's not playing dress-up with Johnny Depp)
Oh, and Sam Mraovich

 

[darkhorse816]

Jon Waters is my favorite one.

Then Paul Thomas Anderson.

Rob Reiner is on the list somewhere. So is Spielberg.

 

[Thelostcup]

Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Guillermo del Toro, Satoshi Kon, Peter Jackson, James Cameron

 

[BatNapalm]

No director has a 100% good movie track record (and if they do currently, give them time) but these are the directors I love despite their various misfires over the years:

Alex Proyas, Ridley Scott, Guillermo del Toro, David Lynch, Paul Thomas Anderson, Mamoru Oshii

 

[Pikonic]

I like David Fincher movies. His music videos are ok too.

 

[spaps]

Edgar Wright, Quentin Tarantino, Sam Raimi, Tommy Wiseau and James Cameron pre-Avatar.

 

[Gordon Cole]

P.T. Anderson
David Lynch
Lars von Trier
Todd Solondz
David Cronenberg
Wong Kar-Wai
Terry Gilliam
Jim Jarmusch

 

[The Shadow]

My favorites include John Carpenter, Mel Brooks, John Ford, Billy Wilder, Tod Browning, John Milius, Steven Spielberg, Akira Kurosawa, and Preston Sturges.

And hell. For all the crap and though he didn't direct everything he had a part in, George Lucas. Can't write dialogue, but my life would be markedly different without Star Wars and Indy.

 

[Frank D'arbo]

P.T. Anderson
David Lynch
Lars von Trier
Todd Solondz
David Cronenberg
Wong Kar-Wai
Terry Gilliam
Jim Jarmusch

Most patrician person here.

Especially Solondz, Lynch, and Gilliam

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

I've generally liked everything I've seen from Sergio Leone, Wes Anderson and Terry Gilliam I've seen.

 

[Puddleduck]

Gonna get lynched for this

Spoiler

George Lucas

 

[Positron]

My favorite directors are those who can make museum-grade fine art out of almost every frame. The bunch who have most consistently achieved this are Peter Greenaway, Pier Paolo Pasolini (believe me, he did much more than Salò, which I don't even consider his masterpiece), Pedro Almodóvar, and Shuji Terayama.

For mainstream directors, the Coen Brothers, Brian De Palma and Bernardo Bertolucci (I didn't know he died late last year, RIP)

John Woo is a guilty pleasure for his bloodsoaked homoeroticism.

 

[Lensherr]

Joel and Ethan Coen
Christopher Nolan
Denis Villenueve
Quentin Tarantino
Martin Scorsese
Peter Jackson
Clint Eastwood
Guillermo del Toro
Francis Ford Coppola
Michael Mann
James Mangold

 

[frozenrunner]

The Coen Brothers
David Lynch
Nicholas Winding-Refn
David Fincher
Park Chan-wook
Bong Joon-ho
Ridley Scott
Michael Mann
Tarantino

Just for starters. There are a lot of other directors I admire, but I haven't seen enough of their work to call them "favorite directors."

 

[BrunoMattei]

Gonna get lynched for this

Spoiler

George Lucas

THX-1138 is a great film. I don't like anything else he's done.

My favorite directors are those who can make museum-grade fine art out of almost every frame. The bunch who have most consistently achieved this are Peter Greenaway, Pier Paolo Pasolini (believe me, he did much more than Salò, which I don't even consider his masterpiece), Pedro Almodóvar, and Shuji Terayama.

I've given Pasolini a few chances and ironically the only film of his I like is Salo. I rolled my eyes many times during Gospel of St. Matthew despite great cinematography and I like the idea of a gay atheist reinterpreting the story of Christ as a socialist metaphor. But I roll my eyes at Communist propaganda and it hasn't made Godard's work hold up particularly well.

My list:

Werner Herzog. The man has giant balls of steel. He fucking put his shit on the line multiple times throughout his life to get his movies made. He's way beyond New German Cinema and easily one of the best directors and an amazing human being.

Lucio Fulci. I have insane respect for those that worked their way up the ladder and Fulci was no exception. Same with Mario Bava but I find Bava's filmography more inconsistent. Fulci's non-horror films are superb and some of the best Italian cinema of it's time. And his horror films are superb.

Kubrick. Natch.

Lynch.

Cronenberg.

John Waters.

Alejandro Jodorowsky. Similar reasons to Herzog but he hasn't made as many films as Herzog.

Jorg Buttgereit. My favorite zero budget art horror filmmaker. I heard through the grape vine that he wants to do a Nekromantik 3. Bring it on.

John Carpenter. Not so much for Halloween but just for The Thing, Prince of Darkness and They Live. All three still hold up.

Panos Cosmatos. He's only done two films but they're in my top 100 list. I can't wait for his next project.

Bergman.

Tarkovsky.

Paul Thomas Anderson. Even though I didn't like Inherent Vice and Boogie Nights is overrated.