Your Top 5 Directors?

Gustov · 28 Feb 2010 at 22:08

I thought this could be fun

List your top 5 directors and your favorite film of theirs

This should help expose people to unknown names and give them a chance to see some of their best work. Here's mine...

1.Sergio Leone (Once Upon A Time In America)
2.Quentin Tarentino (Pulp Fiction)
3.Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road)
4.Ridley Scott (American Gangster)
5.David Fincher (Se7en)

Missing out marginally are Frank Darabont, Michael Haneke, Christopher Nolan and Scorsese.

Pigeon_Killer · 28 Feb 2010 at 22:47

1. Steven Spielberg (Jaws)
2. Christopher Nolan (Dark Knight)
3. Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas)
4. Ridley Scott (Alien)
5. Clint Eastwood (Mystic River)

Honorable mentions to Tarantino, Coppola, Lee Unkrich and Andrew Stanton.

ElliorR · 28 Feb 2010 at 23:05

This is a tough one. I shall dwell on it a while.

Coen brothers (Blood Simple or Raising Arizona)

Judge Mental · 28 Feb 2010 at 23:13

1 Sam Peckinpah (Cross of Iron)
2 Fred Zinneman (The Day of the Jackal)
3 Richard Attenborough (Oh! What a Lovely War)
4 John Ford (The Horse Soldiers)
5 Howard Hawks (Scarface)

Cybermyk · 28 Feb 2010 at 23:31

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky - Solyaris
Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Amelie
David Fincher - Fight Club

Shamikebab · 28 Feb 2010 at 23:31

1 Joss Whedon (Serenity)

Chimerical · 28 Feb 2010 at 23:37

Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen)
Michael Mann (The Insider)
James Cameron
Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch)
Andrew Niccol (Gattaca)

Nauggie · 28 Feb 2010 at 23:37

Never pay much attention to directors - quick list I cobbled together with some of my faves.

Sergio Leone - Dollars Trilogy
Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Saving P. R.
Peter Jackson - LOTR
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Departed, Cape Fear
Ridley Scott - Blade Runner, Gladiator, American Gangster

neoboy · 28 Feb 2010 at 23:45

Shamikebab said:
1 Joss Whedon (Serenity)

We playing spot the nerd?

simisker · 28 Feb 2010 at 23:46

1. Joel/Ethan Coen (Fargo)
2. Sidney Lumet (Network)
3. Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon)
4. Takashi Miike (Audition)
5. Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window)

Tough exercise!

Shamikebab · 28 Feb 2010 at 23:59

neoboy said:
We playing spot the nerd?

nothing else really jumps to mind, I don't usually pay much attention to director's, obviously several mentioned here though

neoboy · 1 Mar 2010 at 00:09

Same, I was trying to do this and it just basically ended up with me picking my favourite films. Although Spielberg would definitely crop up there but mostly for his earlier work such as Jurassic Park that absolutely blew me away when I was young.

Natima · 1 Mar 2010 at 00:50

Hitchcock,
Sergio Leone,
Terry Gilliam,
The Cohen Brothers,
???

Bubo · 1 Mar 2010 at 08:35

David Lynch
Mel Brooks
John Boorman
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg

^TANK^ · 1 Mar 2010 at 08:55

I don't know what I found harder, choosing the directors or the films!

Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
James Cameron - aliens

True_Scotsman · 1 Mar 2010 at 09:05

1.Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan, E.T.
2.James Cameron - Aliens, The Terminator, T2.
3.Ridley Scott - Blade Runner, Alien, Black Hawk Down
4.Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Departed, Cape Fear
5.Quentin Tarentino - Pulp Fiction.

Naffa · 1 Mar 2010 at 09:30

Quentin Tarrantino (Pulp Fiction, Inglourious ********)
James Cameron (Terminator 2, Avatar)
Christopher Nolan (The Prestige, The Dark Knight)
Clint Eastward (Gran Torino, Changeling)

They're not in any order, but I can't really think of another director I like enough to add to the list. :confused:

There aren't any unknowns there either. :rolleyes:

EDIT: My fifth would probably be Guy Ritchie for Lock Stock, Snatch and Sherlock Holmes (obviously ignoring Swept Away and his other films

).

EDIT again: Scrud Guy Ritchie, the fifth has to be John Hughes.

campbell · 1 Mar 2010 at 11:26

1. Stanley Kubrick - Clockwork Orange & Space Odyssey
2. Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich & Adaptation
3. David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button & Fight Club
4. Danny Boyle - Trainspotting & Slumdog
5. Frank Darabont - The Green Mile & Shawshank

Easy Pea-sy

campbell · 1 Mar 2010 at 11:39

Chimerical said:
Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen)

Aww come on!!!

Bad choice.

"andy" · 1 Mar 2010 at 12:45

this is damn hard. not only is choosing favourite directors hard but choosing their favourite film is bloomin hard too

1. werner herzog - stroszek
2. stanley kubrick - the shining
3. speilberg - E.T
4. tarantino - true romance
5. franccis ford coppola - apocolypse now

honourable mentions to all the other people who made great films just not as many great films as those above