Film Your favourite directors

[Shakesy]

I'm not going to bump a thread of 2015.

The title says it all!

Here's mine:

1. Christopher Nolan
2. Quentin Tarantino
3. Coen Brothers
4. Wes Anderson
5. Tim Burton
6. Martin Scorcese
7. Steven Spielberg
8. Clint Eastwood
9. Guy Ritchie
10. Ron Howard

I'm sure I forgot someone here... Mmm... Damn.

 

[EverReddy]

So this isn't a 'pick your favourite Glazer' thread?

 

[Invictus]

Satoshi Kon
Andrei Tarkovsky
Céline Sciamma
Wong Kar-wai
Satyajit Ray
Margot Benacerraf
Pedro Almodóvar
Asghar Farhadi
Akira Kurosawa
Taika Waititi

 

[Old Ma Crow]

Kubrick
Scorcese
Tarantino
Ridley Scott
Spielberg
Cohen Brothers
Eastwood
Hitchcock
Francis Ford Coppola
Sergio Leone

 

[FrankDrebin]

Andrei Tarkovsky
Lynch
De Sica
Cronenberg
Kurosawa
Kieslowski
Wim Wenders
Ozu
Alex Cox
Philip Ridley

Gone left field with the last two. Both should've made more films.Though I could quite comfortably do another list.

 

[Florida Man]

Kubrick
Scorcese
Tarantino
Ridley Scott
Spielberg
Cohen Brothers
Eastwood
Hitchcock
Francis Ford Coppola
Sergio Leone

I had a course in university solely about Hitchcock and it was one of my favorites out of my whole four years. We literally watched Hitchcock movies with a tad bit of lecture for a whole semester and then took tests on what we watched.

 

[Grinner]

Charles Laughton

 

[FreakyJim]

Russ Meyer

 

[AaronRedDevil]

Spielberg
James Cameron
Guy Ritchie
Quentin Tarantino
Christopher Nolan
Martin Scorsese
Clint Eastwood
Taika Waititi
Peter Jackson
Russo Brothers

Not in that order

 

[Garethw]

John Carpenter

 

[Eckers99]

Hitchcock, Wilder, Kubrick, Tarkovsky, Lynch, PT Anderson, Haneke, Scorsese, Linklater, Leigh, Almodovar, Spielberg and Coen.

Are the ones I keep going back to.

 

[broccoli]

Wong Kar-wai

Yasujiro Ozu
Peter Greenaway
Tsai Ming-liang
Wim Wenders

 

[Sweet Square]

More recently - Sean Baker and Steve Mcqueen

 

[FrankDrebin]

List 2.

Kubrick
Verhoeven
Obayashi
Lynne Ramsey
Carpenter
Ridley Scott
Leone
Friedkin
Wajda
Tornatore

Lazy Sunday.

 

[Grinner]

Edgar Wright

 

[Samid]

How do so many people know so much about movie directors? I'm talking about shows like Pointless were the general public seems to have more knowledge of directors than they have of mainstream artists/sports personalities. I've seen a decent amount of movies but would seriously struggle to correctly name the director of any of those movies. Would have thought this was obscure knowledge but obviously not. Is it solely down to Golden Globe, Oscars etc?

 

[HTG]

Kubrick
Tarkovsky
Kurosawa
Bergman
Fritz Lang
Paul Thomas Anderson
Scorsese
Von Trier
Herzog
Francis Ford Coppola

 

[FrankDrebin]

Forgot Audiard,Trier,Herzog,Taymor and Bergman.

 

[FrankDrebin]

How do so many people know so much about movie directors? I'm talking about shows like Pointless were the general public seems to have more knowledge of directors than they have of mainstream artists/sports personalities. I've seen a decent amount of movies but would seriously struggle to correctly name the director of any of those movies. Would have thought this was obscure knowledge but obviously not. Is it solely down to Golden Globe, Oscars etc?

For me its quite simple.
If I see a film and I get a substantial amount of joy from it then I check out the Directors back catalogue.

 

[harms]

Lynch
Tarantino
Kubrick
Kaurismäki
Tarkovsky
Waititi
Miyazaki
Lanthimos
Hitchcock
R. Andersson

There's no real list that it set in stone and most of those are pretty straightforward. Lynch is the clear stand out & Tarantino is also a shoe-in — I don't like all of his movies, but Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was a piece of genius and he'd probably make it even if his filmography only consisted of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.

 

[harms]

How do so many people know so much about movie directors? I'm talking about shows like Pointless were the general public seems to have more knowledge of directors than they have of mainstream artists/sports personalities. I've seen a decent amount of movies but would seriously struggle to correctly name the director of any of those movies. Would have thought this was obscure knowledge but obviously not. Is it solely down to Golden Globe, Oscars etc?

The name of a director is the first thing I look at when considering whenever to watch a fresh movie or not (there are many different factors, and it doesn't restrict me only to those names that I know/like, but this is literally the first step). It's really the most informative thing that you can know about a movie before actually watching it.

I've watched all of the Marvel movies for example and I have no idea who were the directors for any of them aside from the Waititi's one — and it was actually the movie that I've liked first and only then I figured that this was the same guy who had made What We Do In The Shadows. And you can just see it in that movie.

 

[Jim Beam]

David Fincher
Michael Mann
Quentin Tarantino
Coen brothers
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Denis Villeneuve
James Mangold
Terry Gilliam
Sam Mendes

 

[Vidyoyo]

Some boring pretentious hipster choices but...

Chang-dong
Malick
Godard
Ming-liang
Rivette
Imamura
Jia Zhangke
Kurosawa
Wong Kar Wai
Takeshi Kitano

 

[Rooney in Paris]

Michael Bay

 

[VorZakone]

Michael Mann, Francis Ford Coppola, and Oliver Stone.

 

[groovyalbert]

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Carol Reed
5. Jacques Tati
6. Jim Jarmusch
7. Hayao Miyazaki
8. Norman Z. McLeod
9. Coen Brothers
10. Guillermo del Toro

 

[OleBoiii]

Satoshi Kon

Hayao Miyazaki
Quentin Tarantino
Chan-wook Park

Kar-Wai Wong
Stanley Kubrick
Danny Boyle

_______________________

The following could make the list soon:

Chang-dong Lee
Jordan Peele
Bong Joon Ho

 

[HTG]

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Carol Reed
5. Jacques Tati
6. Jim Jarmusch
7. Hayao Miyazaki
8. Norman Z. McLeod
9. Coen Brothers
10. Guillermo del Toro

Welles is so underrated outside of Citizen Kane. Made loads of great movies. What I would give to see the magnificent Amberson‘s the way Welles planned it to be.

 

[FrankDrebin]

Welles is so underrated outside of Citizen Kane. Made loads of great movies. What I would give to see the magnificent Amberson‘s the way Welles planned it to be.

Agree with this.
Chimes at Midnight seems to be underappreciated gem.

 

[HTG]

Agree with this.
Chimes at Midnight seems to be underappreciated gem.

Touch of Evil, The Process, the Lady From Shanghai and MacBeth are also really good. He was a great director, one of the first independent working directors of all time and a great innovator.

 

[RedPed]

How do so many people know so much about movie directors? I'm talking about shows like Pointless were the general public seems to have more knowledge of directors than they have of mainstream artists/sports personalities. I've seen a decent amount of movies but would seriously struggle to correctly name the director of any of those movies. Would have thought this was obscure knowledge but obviously not. Is it solely down to Golden Globe, Oscars etc?

Nah it's just another name-dropping, I sound important because I named this obscure director thread.

But if I had to list a few directors that have put out stuff that I have frequently enjoyed, I would have to go with:

Paul Verhoeven
James Cameron
Robert Rodriguez
Timur Bekmambetov
Gareth Evans
Zach Snyder
Sammo Hung
Jackie Chan
Steven Spielberg
Michael Bay
Lars von Trier

 

[Old Ma Crow]

I had a course in university solely about Hitchcock and it was one of my favorites out of my whole four years. We literally watched Hitchcock movies with a tad bit of lecture for a whole semester and then took tests on what we watched.

Nice, I’ve only seen a few but they are timeless.

 

[Spoony]

No Kurosawa?? Zhang?

Also Billy Wilder directed some excellent films...back in the day yo.

And Kar Wai Wong and Christopher Doyle was my fave combo.

 

[R.N7]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Aki Kaurismäki
Éric Rohmer
Hong Sang-soo
João César Monteiro
Jean Epstein
Mikio Naruse
Yasujirô Ozu
Franco Piavoli
Raúl Ruiz
Abel Ferrara
Jean Rollin
Ken Russell

 

[Sweet Square]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Aki Kaurismäki
Éric Rohmer
Hong Sang-soo
João César Monteiro
Jean Epstein
Mikio Naruse
Yasujirô Ozu
Franco Piavoli
Raúl Ruiz
Abel Ferrara
Jean Rollin

 

[HTG]

Alain Resnais also deserves to be mentioned.

 

[VorZakone]

Not enough love here for Michael Mann: The Insider, Heat, Manhunter, Last of the Mohicans, Collateral.

 

[Eckers99]

Touch of Evil, The Process, the Lady From Shanghai and MacBeth are also really good. He was a great director, one of the first independent working directors of all time and a great innovator.

The opening tracking shot from that film is total genius. Very good film.

 

[HTG]

The opening tracking shot from that film is total genius. Very good film.

One of the greatest shots I've seen. That alone makes the movie worth the time.


Fellini hasn't been mentioned yet.

Murnau is also missing. Sunrise is pure poetry.

 

[Eckers99]

One of the greatest shots I've seen. That alone makes the movie worth the time.


Fellini hasn't been mentioned yet.

That's nuts. I saw 8.5 again recently and it's still as brilliant as ever. Wasn't as keen on La Dolce Vita but it's still a very good, and influential, film.

Don't think Truffaut has been mentioned either actually.