Yes, I know, mainly documentaries now. My impression is here in Germany nobody cares anymore for him. Of course his classics are held in high regard, but it seems his importance for the German cinema is continuously descending.
The one I forgot ⊠what would todayâs cinema be without him
Hahaha, Ken Loach.
Not that Loach is any kind of model of consistency. After all, as the Scotsman points out in its editorial today, heâs quite happy for his latest film to be entered into competition at Cannes - alongside several Israeli movies.
From: http://www.spectator.co.uk/
I canât pick ten. But hereâs a few I like who havenât been mentioned on otherâs lists. I based the picks on directors who had made at least 5 films I would recommend.
Brian DePalma: (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Body Double, Blow Out, Casualties of War, Scarface)
John Schlesinger: (Midnight Cowboy, Billy Liar, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Marathon Man, A Kind of Loving)
Barry Levinson: (Diner, Sleepers, Avalon, The Tin Men, Wag the Dog)
Stephen Frears: (Prick Up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, High Fidelity, Dirty Pretty Things)
Howard Hawks: (His Girl Friday, Scarface, Ball of Fire, The Big Sleep, Red River, Rio Bravo)
Budd Boetticher: (Seven Men From Now, Comanche Station, The Tall T, Ride Lonsome, Decision at Sundown)
Delmer Daves: (Broken Arrow, Jubal, 3.10 to Yuma, The Last Wagon, Demetrius and the Gladiators)
Alex Cox: (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Walker, Three Businessmen, Searchers 2.0)
Francis Ford Coppola: (Godfather, Godfather II, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Tucker)
Billy Wilder: (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, The Lost Weekend)
[quote=âBad Lieutenant, post:43, topic:2038â]Hahaha, Ken Loach.
Not that Loach is any kind of model of consistency. After all, as the Scotsman points out in its editorial today, heâs quite happy for his latest film to be entered into competition at Cannes - alongside several Israeli movies.
From: http://www.spectator.co.uk/[/quote]
His political ideas are very naive, like those of Corbucci, but that doesnât make him (nor Corbucci) a bad film maker
[quote=âStanton, post:31, topic:2038â]Lars von Trier is maybe a controversial director, but heâs 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 itâs 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 havenât seen), but since then thereâs a lot like Thomas Vinterberg, Susanne Bier and Lone Scherfig. A friend of mine would add Anders Thomas Jensen and Lasse Spang Olsen.[/quote]
You should really watch some films from Benjamin Christensen, Carl Th. Dreyer, Holger-Madsen etc. - especially Dreyerâs âLa passion de Jeanne dâArcâ, âOrdetâ, Vampyr", and âVredens dagâ are essential in his filmograpy!
I didnât meant anything negative with the word âcontroversialâ, on the contrary. Look at my list, it includes several controversial directors; Luis Buñuel, Peter Greenaway, Rainer Werner Fassbinder - and if I had to leave out Fellini, I would probably pick Pier Paulo Pasolini instead.
âAntichristâ was a mesmerizing piece of art, and in my opinion his finest film next to âEuropaâ! Without Trier modern cinema in Denmark would be pretty boring. We also have Bille August, Christian Braad Thomsen, Christoffer Boe, Nils Malmros (I donât think his films has been released outside Denmark? - If they are, then watch âKundskabens trĂŠâ!), Ole Bornedal and of course Anders Thomas Jensen for top entertainment + a few others!
Jean-Pierre Melville
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Anthony Mann
Roman Polanski
Fritz Lang
Walter Hill
Sam Peckinpah
Mario Bava
David Lynch
I may have named Roman Polanski, if I hadnât recently watched Fearless Vampire Killers 
Just travel a couple of years back, and watch âCul-de-sacâ or âRepulsionâ instead! 
I donât judge his political ideas. I just canât stand this kind of hypocrisy.
The difference between Loach and Corbucci is that one can still enjoy Corbucciâs films, without caring for his left wing views. In other words: Corbucci doesnât preach so much and uses more of an allegorical approach to convey his socialist message.
Furthermore I donât think Loach is very influential. I reckon todayâs cinema would be about the same without him.
Better still, Chinatown or The Tenant.
Mine areâŠ
- Orson Welles
- John Huston
- Sergio Leone
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Stanley Kubrick
- David Lean
- Fritz Lang
- Sidney Lumet
- Howard Hawks/Ingmar Bergman
- George Lucas/Carol Reed (because of âThe Third Manâ/Billy Wilder
Why does everybody inclued Sergio Leone? Many of his films are SWs.
Chinatown & Rosemaryâs Baby would be my top 2 Polanskis
I guess they just canât control themselves 
I was not sure to not include SW directors and to be honest I think they should be included.
i can understand it not including SW directors, since it is not posted in the SW sections⊠but if weâre talking a list of your favorite 10 directors, then yes, it probably should have no restrictions
in my case, at least 4 or 5 spots would go to SW guys
[quote=âautephex, post:56, topic:2038â]i can understand it not including SW directors, since it is not posted in the SW sections⊠but if weâre talking a list of your favorite 10 directors, then yes, it probably should have no restrictions
in my case, at least 4 or 5 spots would go to SW guys[/quote]
That was exactly why I made this topic, since we probably know which SW directors thatâs going to be mentioned anyway. There has of course also been many repetive names in this topic, but if we include SW directors too, then every list will probably be filled with at least 50 % of the same names. 
The thread is called âYour 10 favorite film directors?â, so why exclude great directors?
Its just like Antlion said, Leone is really a given for any of us⊠so its for the sake of discussion
would like to add a name I had not previously thought of but would have included if I did-
Kenneth Anger
I think Polanski was a great director in the 60s + Chinatown. After Chinatown his films are nothing special. Mostly ok films.
Dance of the Vampires is btw excellent, not as powerful and unusual now as in the time of itâs release, but still very good. A total flop in the US (in a badly cut and recut version), a cult hit in Europe.
Coppola should maybe included. He had his great 10 years from The Rain People to Apocalypse Now. And a few more goodies in the 80s. Rumble Fish is very good (despite some pretentious dialogues) and maybe Cotton Club and maybe Tucker.