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Hopelessly Human



Joined: 03 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:31 am    Post subject: Favorite Movie Directors Reply with quote

There have been a lot of different threads about movies, but I haven't seen one on favorite directors (except for one on Italian directors). So who are your favorite directors?

Here are three of my favorite auteurs:

Mike Leigh: Secrets and Lies; All or Nothing; Naked; Vera Drake; etc. Slow moving stuff, but he packs an emotional wallop.

Jim Jarmusch: Down By Law; Night on Earth; Stranger Than Paradise; Dead Man; etc.

Todd Solondz: Welcome to the Dollhouse; Happiness; Storytelling; etc. He takes risks, tackles subjects no one else would touch.

Sorry if there is already a thread out there.
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JMO



Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu

PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brian DePalma..love his style of direction.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994

PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

John Ford.

He knew how to tell stories with pictures.
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Billy Pilgrim



Joined: 08 Sep 2004

PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:01 am    Post subject: Re: Favorite Movie Directors Reply with quote

Hopelessly Human wrote:

Todd Solondz: Welcome to the Dollhouse; Happiness; Storytelling; etc. He takes risks, tackles subjects no one else would touch.
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And shoots his films with all the visual poetry of a blind chimpanzee filming on a cellphone camera. He should be writing books, not using film, because he has no aptitude for it, no matter what subjects he happens to be riskily touching.
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Czarjorge



Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Andersons, Paul Thomas and Wes.
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Billy Pilgrim



Joined: 08 Sep 2004

PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anyway, mine for your slams:

Robert Altman
David Fincher
Michael Mann
Wong Kar-Wai
Sergio Leone
Sam Peckinpah
John Sayles
Billy Wilder
PT Anderson
Woody Allen
Sam Fuller
Hayao Miyasaki
Michael Powell
Spike Lee
David Lynch
Richard Linklater
Terry Gilliam
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karma police



Joined: 01 Sep 2007
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

stanley kubrick is god, baby... Cool

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BreakfastInBed



Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do

PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Federico Fellini. For my money, 8 1/2 is the supreme achievement in film.
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genezorm



Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Mokpo

PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm glad no one has mentioned tim burton
i was expecting at least 50% to mention him
good job
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tomwaits



Joined: 05 Feb 2003
Location: PC Bong

PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My all-Yank list:

Coen's

Woody Allen

David Lynch
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Boodleheimer



Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

David Fincher

Bernardo Bertolucci
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Dome Vans
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Coen Brothers. Easily (except Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty)
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

David Cronenberg
Bruce MacDonald
Kim Ki Duk
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Tiberious aka Sparkles



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kubrick, Scorsese, and Kurosawa.
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Mosley



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ed Wood Jr.
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