Your 10 Favorite Film Directors?

The Saloon
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Not including SW directors:

  1. Sam Peckinpah.
  2. Robert Aldrich.
  3. Don Siegel.
  4. John Woo.
  5. David Cronenberg.
  6. Clint Eastwood.
  7. John Carpenter.
  8. Ken Loach.
  9. Woody Allen.
  10. Sydney Pollack
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No particular order

Joel and Ethan Coen
Wes Anderson
Orson Welles
Sam Peckinpah
Clint Eastwood
Monte Hellman
Paul Thomas Anderson
Werner Herzog
Terry Gilliam
Quentin Tarantino

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a good one I had not thought of

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Just curious: Are there anyone who likes Danish directors (since Iā€™m from Denmark myself)? :slight_smile:

Besides Carl Th. Dreyer (the master, and also one of my all-time favorites! The only Scandinavian director who comes close to him is Ingmar Bergmanā€¦), and the controversial Lars von Trier, who do you know?

ā€œVideodromeā€ can still disturb me!

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I will say that after this thread, I began to realize how much I have neglected film outside of spaghettis for the last several yearsā€¦

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Ohh a good ONE . Havenā€™t watched Tideland so far.

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You heard about Gilliamā€™s new movie? Heath Ledgerā€™s last movie as well.

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Fulci is an SW director ;).

I have to think a little about the list, quite hard actually. Makes me think about how many Italian Euro Cult films I watch!

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Well, kind of. He only did a few and compared with the amount of films he did, these are a very small drop in the bucket

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Iā€™m having trouble thinking of directors that have made more than 5 films Iā€™m really into. My list so far is (in no particular order):

Mario Bava
Dario Argento
Roger Corman
Sergio Martino
Jean Rollin
Umberto Lenzi
Lucio Fulci
Riccardo Freda

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[quote=ā€œAntlion, post:24, topic:2038ā€]Just curious: Are there anyone who likes Danish directors (since Iā€™m from Denmark myself)? :slight_smile:

Besides Carl Th. Dreyer (the master, and also one of my all-time favorites! The only Scandinavian director who comes close to him is Ingmar Bergmanā€¦), and the controversial Lars von Trier, who do you know?[/quote]

Lars von Trier is maybe a controversial director, but heā€™s also one who still risks a lot in his films without imitating himself too much. One of the best and most important contemporary filmmakers. I enjoyed AntiChrist very much (but Dogville was a bit boring for being too mechanical in itā€™s construction).

And I still think that the Dogma movement was a fascinating and important phase. Many preferred to call it only a bluff, but there was so much in it. Festen is one of my favourites of the last 20 years. After the Wedding was a great one of the recent years.

At least Dogma raised an interest in modern Danish films like never before. Before it was only Dreyer and Christensen (whose films I havenā€™t seen), but since then thereā€™s a lot like Thomas Vinterberg, Susanne Bier and Lone Scherfig. A friend of mine would add Anders Thomas Jensen and Lasse Spang Olsen.

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For me as a German the general praise of Werner Herzog is a bit puzzling. He didnā€™t made any interesting film since Fitzcarraldo, or did he?

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John Woo
Don Siegel
Sam Peckinpah
Sidney Lumet
John Ford
Fernando Di Leo
Lucio Fulci
Johnny To
Ringo Lam
Jing Wong

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I modified the list because I just noticed that its supposed to be non-SW, so Sergio Leone, Giuliano Carnimeo, Tonino Valerri, and Enzo G. Castellari get dropped.

  1. John Carpenter
  2. Mario Bava
  3. Sylvester Stallone
  4. George Lucas
  5. Clint Eastwood
  6. Peter Jackson
  7. Dario Argento
  8. Stanley Kubrick
  9. Roger Corman
  10. Michael Winner
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Winner nearly made it into mine aswell :wink: .

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Almost a winner :wink:

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non SW directors

okay I HAVE to include Leone in there though

soā€¦

Scorsese
John Ford
Peckinpah
Tarantino
PT Anderson
Kubrick
Malick
Oliver Stone
Spike Jonze
and of course
Leone

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A tough one.

Without deliberating too much, and in alphabetical order:

Sam Peckinpah
Walter Hill
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick
Mario Bava
Fritz Lang
Anthony Mann
Dario Argento (for his past works)
John Carpenter (as above)

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[quote=ā€œSilence, post:28, topic:2038ā€]Fulci is an SW director ;).

I have to think a little about the list, quite hard actually. Makes me think about how many Italian Euro Cult films I watch![/quote]

[quote=ā€œautephex, post:29, topic:2038ā€]Well, kind of. He only did a few and compared with the amount of films he did, these are a very small drop in the bucket[/quote]Fulci made lots of different kind of movies but mainly heā€™s known as a horror director.

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[quote=ā€œStanton, post:32, topic:2038ā€]For me as a German the general praise of Werner Herzog is a bit puzzling. He didnā€™t made any interesting film since Fitzcarraldo, or did he?[/quote]Heā€™s been more active on making documentaries lately, The White Diamond, My Best Fiend and Grizzly Man are all very good.