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MetroStars
06-17-2003, 01:11 PM
Here r my fav directors...


Peter Jackson - not for the Lord of the rings movies - for him being able 2 produce a good movie about any thing.. like bad taste - brain dead - Heavnley creatures...


James Cameron - and 2 think this guy stared his carrer making Piranha II: The Spawning - he then made sum great movies - Terminator 1 -2 - aliens - True Lies -
Titanic....


John Carpenter - This guy has made sum landmark movies - he is also great at doing movie music - his great movies r Halloween - Christine - The Thing - In the Mouth of Madness...

David Fincher - My Favourite Director - He made - Fight Club - The Game - Panic Room - Se7en - ii just luv his work....

lat but not least - Martin Scorsese (the gangster) - another director who has made sum landmark movies - Taxi Driver - Raging Bull - Goodfellas - Cape Fear (remake) - Casino...



Their my fav directors iam sure i have mised sum other great directors out...

but u tell me who your favs r ...




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3RA1N1AC
06-17-2003, 01:35 PM
i'm prolly leaving out a bunch of great people, but these are the ones i can name off the top of my head. in no particular order--

david cronenberg - videodrome, dead zone, crash, dead ringers, scanners...

coen brothers - fargo, raising arizona, the big lebowski, hudsucker proxy...

terry gilliam - brazil, 12 monkeys, time bandits, fear and loathing in las vegas...

paul thomas anderson - magnolia, punch drunk love, boogie nights...

david lynch - blue velvet, eraserhead, mulholland drive, twin peaks...

stanley kubrick - 2001, a clockwork orange, the shining...

paul verhoeven - robocop, total recall, starship troopers...

quentin tarantino - reservoir dogs, pulp fiction, jackie brown...

lars von trier - dancer in the dark, the idiots...

ridley scott - blade runner, alien...

werner herzog - nosferatu, fitzcarraldo, aguirre the wrath of god...

jean-pierre jeunet - delicatessen, city of lost children, amelie...

wes anderson - rushmore, royal tenenbaums, bottle rocket...

sam raimi - evil dead, darkman, the quick and the dead, spider-man...

john cherry - the entire jim varney "ernest" series

takashi miike - ichi the killer, audition...

milos forman - one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the people vs larry flynt...

martin scorsese - taxi driver, goodfellas, THE KING OF COMEDY...

roman polanski - rosemary's baby, chinatown, the ninth gate, the pianist...

shinya tsukamoto - tetsuo the iron man, tokyo fist, bullet ballet...

paul schrader - american gigolo, cat people, light sleeper, auto focus...

crazy_billy_bats
06-17-2003, 01:38 PM
I would say Scorcese for the films you mentioned and Pedro Almadovar, for Todo Sobre Mi Madre (all about my mother) and Hable con ella (talk to her) - the 2 best foreign films ive seen - great director.
Tarantino as well - love his films.

MetroStars
06-17-2003, 01:41 PM
3RA1N1AC u picked sum good directors -

i luv milos forman i think he's great how could i forget about him...




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PaPaGladstone
06-17-2003, 01:44 PM
A few of mine are:

George A Romero - Night of the living dead trilogy and other good horror movies.

Stephen Spielberg - Well, we all know who this guy is.

James Cameron - see MetroStars' post.

Sam Raimi - see 3RA1N1AC's post.

Mel Gibson - Braveheart, plus he's just such a good actor.

Peter Jackson - Braindead kicked a$$!

Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho, North By Northwest Vertigo, Notorious

bilbo4987
06-17-2003, 01:47 PM
What about Woody Allen? I think Manhattan is one of his greatest.

3RA1N1AC
06-17-2003, 01:53 PM
i would have to say steven spielberg as well. i always used to think he tries to cater to the lowest tastes (big special effects, sentimental and paper-thin stories-- see E.T., Jurassic Park, Hook, Saving Private Ryan), but he's made at least a few movies that make me respect him as a director who is able to make "art" when he wants to-- A.I., Minority Report, Jaws, Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

heck, even Catch Me If You Can was pretty good.

oh, and tim burton. there's something sort of distracting about how carefully calculated his "cute gothic" movies are, as if consciously trying to monopolize on a certain niche... but movies like beetlejuice, edward scissorhands, ed wood, sleepy hollow and mars attacks are all really entertaining none-the-less.

3RA1N1AC
06-17-2003, 01:59 PM
Originally posted by bilbo4987@17 June 2003 - 05:47
What about Woody Allen? I think Manhattan is one of his greatest.
AGREED. woody allen has gotten into a rut for the past several years (upper middle class white/jewish new yorkers have midlife crisis or something to that tune), but movies like Manhattan and Annie Hall were really terrific before he turned it into a formula. still, even his worst is better than a lot of people's best.

well_butter_my_arse
06-17-2003, 02:05 PM
Quentin tarentino is an awsome director and a good actor

Ad
06-17-2003, 02:07 PM
Quentin tarentino is an awsome director and a good actor

yes hes my fav director but i dont agree that his acting is good!! :P

3RA1N1AC
06-17-2003, 02:13 PM
Originally posted by adthomp@17 June 2003 - 06:07

Quentin tarentino is an awsome director and a good actor

yes hes my fav director but i dont agree that his acting is good!! :P
i must admit, he's fantastic at playing quentin tarantino, which always seems to be the character he's playing. :lol:

MetroStars
06-17-2003, 02:45 PM
Dam how could i have forgotton Tim Burton i luv his goth / Dark style...

Ad
06-17-2003, 03:13 PM
also

steven spelburg

crazy_billy_bats
06-17-2003, 03:17 PM
Originally posted by adthomp@17 June 2003 - 15:13
also

steven spelburg
AI was a steaming pile but the rest of his films i have loved so much.

Its just AI was an EXTREME dissapointment - boring beyond belief.
I mean the story was ok at first, but it was simply shit in my view....

Speilberg is excellent tho, the movies he has made speak for themselves (apart from AI :lol: ).
Saving Private Ryan and Minority Report in my opinion are some of the best directed films ive ever seen.

mogadishu
06-17-2003, 06:38 PM
I don't have a long list.

1 - Kubrick
2 - Almadovar
3 - Hitchcock

bilbo4987
06-17-2003, 10:10 PM
Francois Truffaut!!