Film Your top three film directors

[Hugh Jass]

Owing to the other thread on best series, who would be your top three film directors.

Mine would be Hitchcock as one, Kubrick at two and three would be Scorsese.

Although you have to mention spielberg, coppolla, fincher.

 

[Mike Smalling]

Villeneuve has an excellent track record!

 

[SalfordRed18]

Waititi
Gunn
Russo brothers Bite.

 

[Hugh Jass]

Villeneuve has an excellent track record!

Yea cannot wait to see dune.

 

[The Corinthian]

Paul Thomas Anderson & David Fincher are two of the 'modern' ones that make great movies.

 

[mu4c_20le]

Michael Mann
Guy Richie
Coen Bros

 

[Hugh Jass]

Paul Thomas Anderson & David Fincher are two of the 'modern' ones that make great movies.

I thought PTA's earlier works were brilliant like Magnolia and There will be Blood.

 

[AndersB]

David Lynch

Stanley Kubrick

Michael Haneke

 

[VorZakone]

Tough one. Right now I think this would be my top 3:

- Martin Scorsese
- Michael Mann
- Oliver Stone

 

[Hugh Jass]

Michael Mann
Guy Richie
Coen Bros

Michael Mann has sort of disappeared completely. Maybe he retired.

The Coen brothers are brilliant at doing murder, like No Country for Old Men.

 

[Hugh Jass]

David Lynch

Stanley Kubrick

Michael Haneke

Blue Velvet. Brilliant.

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

1. Sergei Eisenstein
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Akira Kurosawa

edited. Replaced Spielbergo with Kurosawa

 

[The Corinthian]

I thought PTA's earlier works were brilliant like Magnolia and There will be Blood.

He's excellent. You should give The Master a try as well, one of Philip Seymour Hoffman's last roles I think.

The Coen brothers are brilliant at doing murder, like No Country for Old Men.

Great shout - I'd have them up there as well.

I can't really choose 3 per se, but there's a few that I'll always make an effort to see when there's a new release. PTA, Fincher and the Coens are in that group.

 

[Eckers99]

Hitchcock, Lynch and Kubrick.

 

[Hugh Jass]

He's excellent. You should give The Master a try as well, one of Philip Seymour Hoffman's last roles I think.


Great shout - I'd have them up there as well.

I can't really choose 3 per se, but there's a few that I'll always make an effort to see when there's a new release. PTA, Fincher and the Coens are in that group.

I saw the Master and was disappointed. Did not watch Phantom Thread. Is it good?

 

[SirAnderson]

Am I the only one that doesn't follow directors, like I don't chose to watch a movie based on who the director is?

Who is acting in it, that usually guides me, and reviews of course. But almost never is it based on, "Oooh it's his/her movie, I gotta watch it."

 

[Pickle85]

Coens are my all time favourites...I can watch pretty much anything from them.

Scorsese - the man is cinema God.

Bit leftfield but at the moment Alex Garland is someone whose work I love. He obviously hasn't got the track record of legends like Scorsese but I think he's super interesting

 

[The Corinthian]

I saw the Master and was disappointed. Did not watch Phantom Thread. Is it good?

I loved The Master personally.

Haven’t managed to see Phantom Thread or Inherent Vice.

 

[Hugh Jass]

I loved The Master personally.

Haven’t managed to see Phantom Thread or Inherent Vice.

I saw inherent vice and did not know what was happening in it. I have sort of lost faith in him since that. I was not too pushed watching Phantom Thread when i learned what it was about. Although it is getting pretty good reviews.

 

[Red Star One]

Fellini, Bergman, Herzog

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Fellini, Bergman, Herzog

Superb list. This is actually pretty tough as I had no room for Truffaut, Goddard, Renoir or any of the above.

 

[FrankDrebin]

Tarkovsky
Lynch
Cronenberg

Tarko will always be my number one Director/Artist. The ambience he produces in his films is unlike anything anyone has then and since produced. He's utterly unique.
His films are simultaneously natural and unnatural. There's real texture and depth to his work. I feel like a voyeur watching his characters and world unfold.
Plus he's one of the few Directors who can use silence to his absolute advantage.

My next 3 would probably be :

Carpenter, hugely underappreciated Director.
Alex Cox, he made Repo Man and Walker and that's good enough for me.
Paul Verhoeven.

 

[OleBoiii]

1. Satoshi Kon

I can't decide on the last two so: Miyazaki, Tarantino, Bergman, Kubrick

 

[Hugh Jass]

1. Satoshi Kon

I can't decide on the last two so: Miyazaki, Tarantino, Bergman, Kubrick

Completely forgot about tarantino.

 

[hungrywing]

@R.N7 is lurking here and carving names into bullets.

 

[Cheimoon]

I don't know what my top 3 would look like, but I really like directors like Francis Ford Coppola, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Akira Kurosawa, Billy Wilder, Sergio Leone - and others I'm forgetting. It's hard to say though. I don't know everybody's work well enough (Wilder's and Leone's inclusion is based on a pretty small sample), and I'm not always sufficiently aware of directors of older films.

 

[TwoSheds]

Completely forgot about tarantino.

Probably because he's wank.

 

[FrankDrebin]

Nicholas Ray, Johnny Guitar being one of the best Westerns. Gorgeous cinematography with a power performance from Joan Crawford.
Elia Kazan, another favourite. Also John Frankenheimer, with Seconds being one of my favourite science fiction films of all-time.

 

[Moby]

Scorsese
Tarantino
Kurosawa

 

[FattyFooty]

I got no idea how a guy like Scorsese came up with Irishman. What an joke of a movie.

 

[harms]

Lynch
Miyazaki
Tarantino

Spoiler

Kubrick, Hitchcock, von Trier, Kaurismäki, Scorsese, Coens, Tarkovsky, Gilliam

 

[stevoc]

McG
Uwe Boll
Tyler Perry

 

[VP89]

It's all personal taste but for me
Aaron sorkin
Chris nolan
Martin scorsese

And I also feel like I need to include Steven Spielberg here

 

[Sweet Square]

It's all personal taste but for me
Aaron sorkin
Chris nolan
Martin scorsese

And I also feel like I need to include Steven Spielberg here

I might be wrong but hasn't Sorkin only directed two films ?

 

[VP89]

I might be wrong but hasn't Sorkin only directed two films ?

A few good men, social network, moneyball, Chicago 7, mollys game and I think Steve jobbs.

I know it's a film question but I have a soft spot for his work after West Wing and Newsroom, my two favourite TV shows.

 

[Tarrou]

Wong Kar Wai, Kurosawa and Hitchcock

 

[Sky1981]

Takashi Miike gotta be up there on versatility alone

 

[Bondi77]

Anything that Clint Eastwood does will always get my attention.

 

[Wibble]

To some extent it also depends if you judge a director on their best or worst films.

On my best list would be the following as their best films are truly brilliant,

Ridley Scott - Blade Runner, Alien plus quite a few nearly as good films
Francis Ford Coppola - Godfather, Godfather II and Apocalypse Now
Coen Brothers - Blood Simple, Fargo
Quentin Tarantino - pick your favourites

In terms of newer directors Denis Villeneuve is building an impressive resume.

 

[Andy_Cole]

Going to go mainstream here but…

Tarantino
Nolan
Scorsese