Nuri Bilge Ceylan is very good and I actually think a lot of people here would like his films. These two are basically dark crime films:
I remember how in awe I was when I first saw Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. Masterful filmmaking. I could talk about this film for hours.
I think this is the one. Honourable mention to Spielberg.
Cheers, I'm going to have to check these out. Thanks. Also, I loved Once Upon a Time in AnatoliaI think Chungking Express for Wong Kar Kai. If you like it then you'll probably like his other stuff. A young Quenty Tarantino gives a good breakdown:
I'd say maybe Woman is the Future of Man for Hong Sang-soo, but I'll caveat this by saying none of Sang-soo's films lend themselves well as individual pieces.
You'll see terms like minimalist and austere thrown around with his work because they're very simple character dramas where the themes lend themselves better across his work. I remember watching the movie about 5 years ago and thinking nothing happens. Then I watched more of his films and realised it's through repetition of themes that he makes his best points.
An old Marty Scorsese gives a good breakdown:
I'm sure both movies are available for you to express your extreme distaste on a nearby piracy website
Good good. I'll be interested to hear what you think
Nice. Watched 12 Angry Men again the other day. Such a great movie.
What I loved about Lumet was his belief that racism was a real blight on society as well as wanting to expose institutional corruption long before others even considered it
Aki is no Teuvo Tulio.
I'd go with this.
Your tagline should be Robocop
Haha, never heard of him.
I love the work that he did for 28 Days Later. That's a film that really should come up way more often than it does when people talk about the best or iconic British films.
He invited Dredd's comic book creator on set to keep things properly brutal & grotesque, helped a lot getting that 80s & 90s atmosphere. For me it's the proper Robocop sequel that should happen after 2nd Robocop movie. Everything just clicked rightly for him and didn't even need 100m of budget to make that type of production.
For me with Hitchcock first and Kubrick second, it came down to either Scorsese or Spielberg. I chose Scorsese. But Spielberg would make my top five. I am watching Munich again tomorrow.
I'd mostly consider the output, also because I have no idea in most cases how directors were to their crew. (Kubrick for example probably wasn't easy to work with. Fincher can also be very demanding I think, like tons of retakes until the scene is exactly right.) In any case, is something like this not rather on the head of a the film's producers? (Although Coppola was the producer as well, but it's still not his director's role.
)In that specific order of preference?
After careful consideration and deliberation: Yes.
Spielberg's definitely up there for me. But he's there alongside del Toro, Verhoeven, Nolan, Scorsese, Kubrick, Scott, and a host of others. There's too many to only choose three. I only mentioned Cameron because no one else had, and that's a fecking scandal.
