Re: Who are your favorite directors?
Tom Hanks only directed one episode of Band of Brothers.
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Tom Hanks only directed one episode of Band of Brothers.
John Woo
Face/Off & Strangehold. No more information needed.
Gore Verbinski
Pirates Of The Caribbean.
Steven Spielberg
No information needed.
Quentin Tarantino
Pulp Fiction. Reservoir Dogs. Kill Bill.
-Donsalvatore
Tim Burton is no doubt my favorite director. Edward Scissorhands was a stunning movie, still on my top ten movies, and although he did not direct it, did a great job with The Nightmare Before Christmas. Beetlejuice was also a great flick, and I eagerly await his take on Alice In Wonderland.
Steven Spielberg
I find it so annoying when people misspell his last name. 
Stanley Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. 
Tim Burton
I love the creepy and terrifying style in his films, like Beetlejuice
Henry Selick
For directing James and the Giant Peach and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Hasn't made a lot of films though, but the stop-motion films he directed are pretty good.
Terry Gilliam
He is not without his faults. Some of his films are hit and miss but he does have some brilliant films. I would say Brazil is one of the greatest films ever made. If you asked me the first word that came into my head from mentioning Terry Gilliam it would be 'imagination'.
Sergio Leone
There are two kind of directors in this world. Those who make real life and those who make movies. Leone makes movies. Some directors wish to make real life but Leone is always aware he is making a movie. It's hard for me to explain but I always feel he didn't set out to make westerns but films of westerns. His films are very much style over substance and I in no way say that as a negative criticism. I enjoy style over substance. I still haven't seen Once Upon A Time In America which I do hope to watch soon. I've only seen his westerns so far so the change should be interesting.
Alfonso Cuaron
I've only seen Y Tu Mama Tambien and Children Of Men and they are terrific. He seems pretty versatile and I should get round to watching his other films.
Quentin Tarantino
Some may not see this but I find him similar in some ways to Leone. They both have realistic films and others which are not trying to be realistic but are just trying to be fun. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly has the same amount of comedy and fun as you'd find in Kill Bill.
I do have much more directors I admire which I will say later I think. I don't necessary have favourites or a favourite. I also don't have anything fully coherent to say for many director.s
Once Upon A Time in America is really interesting. The score is incredible.
Once Upon A Time in America is really interesting. The score is incredible.
I've heard some of it and it's awesome. Ennio Morricone never fails. It's funny I've often heard a large part of the score to Leone's films before seeing the film. The first Leone film I saw was The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and the main reason I got it was because of the soundtrack.
Alfonso Cuaron
I too have not seen many of his films except for the third Harry Potter movie (which is the best in the series) and Children of Men. Children of Men was a great movie, and the Harry Potter film was pretty good for a Harry Potter film.
David Lean
I worship this guy. He is one of my favorite directors ever. Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge Over the River Kwai are some of my favorite movies ever. Lawrence, despite its length is an extremely powerful movie. All the actors are great and Lean had quite a few breakthroughs in filmmaking in it. Shame he isn't alive anymore.
Lawrence of Arabia is showing at the Berlinale in its original 70mm glory. I will try to make it.
You should. I saw it in the cinema in it's 70mm glory too.
Offtopic: Talking about the cinema. Later this month 'Goodbye Lenin' will be showing. Should I make the trip to see it Owl? Oh and so will 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'. I wonder what you'll answer to that will be.
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Go and see both. Goodbye Lenin has some great scenes that will probably look amazing in a theater, and seeing The Assassination of Jesse James on the big screen is a must. I mean, seriously, it's utterly meant to be seen at that scale.
My top most influential directors (personally)
Steven Spielberg
Robert Zemmeckis
Gore Verbinski
Peter Jackson
Ridley Scott
James Cameron
Frank Capra
François Truffaut
D.W. Griffith
Stanley Kubrick
Last but not at all least... Walt Disney (Mainly a producer, but still, awesome stuff)
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Lucas (well at least his Original trilogy Star Wars ones)
You do realize that he only directed 1 of the 3 right? On that note one of my favorite directors is Irvin Kershner.
George Lucas
I am probably the biggest star wars freak, in my school.
Hayao Miyazaki
Spirited Away was pretty awesome, We watched it in my comics class.
Ridley Scott
Blade Runner, my dad has it, and I watched Zach Macias montage, it was beautiful.
Alfred Hitchcock, although his films weren't SCARY likesome horror flicks, theyre still kinda creepy,(Im watching Midnight Lace by him...... Hello Ms. Preston....... HAHAHAHA!!!!!)
Oh, I forgot Clint Eastwood.
George Lucas
"I've got a bad feeling about this..."
--Han Solo
Steven Spielberg
I HATE SNAKES!"
--Indiana Jones
Christopher Nolan
"I took out the bus driver"
--Criminal in Clown Mask, moments before a bus came crashing in
(ok, not a good quote, so I'll stick with "Why So Serious?")
George Lucas has actually had a pretty mediocre directorial career. Thinking about it, he only really has two highlights to mention.
Martin Scorsese - He brilliantly handles gritty, usually violent topics and uses them to drive his stories and character development (instead of using the story to fuel the violence). Of his movies, I've seen The Departed, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and the TV-edition of Casino (with dubbing so terrible, it's hilarious), each one of them excellent. He has also worked wonders with Leonardo DiCaprio, who, mainly in part because of Scorsese, I've gained an enormous amount of respect as an actor for.
Steven Spielberg - Another excellent storyteller, probably one of the best in his craft. This man's repertoire is legendary: Indiana Jones, ET: The Extra Terrerstrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Schindler's List, etc. Personally, I thought his rendition of War of the Worlds is underrated, I actually liked it.
Joel & Ethen Coen - Fargo and No Country for Old Men were extraordinary films. I've only seen those two from them as well as some of The Big Lebowski and most of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, but each of them have this particular touch of class that the Coens bring to their films.
Christopher Nolan - I'm more and more taking a liking to him. Of his films, I've only seen his two Batman films and The Prestige, but I've heard fantastic things about Memento. And, of course, I loved Batman Begins and especially The Dark Knight.
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George Lucas has actually had a pretty mediocre directorial career. Thinking about it, he only really has two highlights to mention.
I would contend that Lucas had 3-4 directorial highlights, personally. (A New Hope, American Graffiti, THX-1138, and maybe Revenge of the Sith)
If Speilberg and Lucas stopped trying to bring back certain long dead movie franchises (instead just making it worse), they would probally be on my list. Make something that is not a re-make of sequel.
George was a good director before, but he got too much power, and got way overconfident. His old movies were good because he had little power, and wasnt a household name.
I thought THX-1138 was a failiure?
My Favourites are:
Tim Burton
Peter Jackson - for creating the LOTR films with loving care. Imagine if George Lucas tried it...
-MRB
Last edited by Max Butcher (January 18, 2009 (02:22am))
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