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mehmeh



Joined: 23 May 2007
Location: South, South Korea

PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Katsuhito Ishii

Kar Wai Wong

Federico Fellini

...I'll throw Michel Gondry in there too.
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Craven Moorehead



Joined: 14 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mehmeh wrote:
Federico Fellini


Which Fellini are you a fan of? I know others have posted his name on here, but I'm dying for a virtual conversation about his genius.
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Two one hit wonders.....but what a hit.

Michael Cimino for Deerhunter. He didn't much else but this film is huge. A perfect film? Maybe.

Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I think this is my favorite film. But every time I think that I think of a few other films. Anyway, it's one of the best. Again, this guy didn't direct anything else of note.

Two one-hit wonder directors who made just one gorgeous, complete, perfect film.
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Craven Moorehead



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

eamo wrote:
Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I think this is my favorite film. But every time I think that I think of a few other films. Anyway, it's one of the best. Again, this guy didn't direct anything else of note.


Not to be terribly pedantic or overbearing, but Forman had a fairly good career in Czechoslovakia before ever coming to America. He also directed Amadeus, Valmont, and Man in the Moon. Certainly not perfect films, but definitely noteworthy.
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eamo



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Craven Moorehead wrote:
eamo wrote:
Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I think this is my favorite film. But every time I think that I think of a few other films. Anyway, it's one of the best. Again, this guy didn't direct anything else of note.


Not to be terribly pedantic or overbearing, but Forman had a fairly good career in Czechoslovakia before ever coming to America. He also directed Amadeus, Valmont, and Man in the Moon. Certainly not perfect films, but definitely noteworthy.


Granted. He did direct a few other good films. But I think Cuckoo's Nest was his best work. By far.
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Craven Moorehead



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another great Korean director: Im Kwon Taek. The only Korean director to span every major epoch in Korean film for the last fifty years.
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Rae



Joined: 10 Oct 2007

PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Peter Jackson, Kar Wai Wong, Isao Takahata, Steven Spielberg, Ingmar Bergman
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Craven Moorehead



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

eamo wrote:
Granted. He did direct a few other good films. But I think Cuckoo's Nest was his best work. By far.


Oh yeah, I completely agree. Plus Cuckoo's Nest also launched the career of Brad Dourif.
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rumdiary



Joined: 05 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kubrick
Coen
Miike
Lynch
Herzog
Wes Anderson
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dogshed



Joined: 28 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.angryfilmmaker.com/
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tefain



Joined: 19 Sep 2007
Location: Not too far out there

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:15 am    Post subject: Favorite Movie Directors Reply with quote

Woody Allen
Sydney Pollack
Clint Eastwood
Ron Howard
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jeffkim1972



Joined: 10 Jan 2007
Location: Mokpo

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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


Same here, i can't stand the man.
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Integra



Joined: 03 Dec 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Errol Morris (odd documentaries like "Gates of Heaven" and "Fast, Cheap & Out of Control")
Gary Oldman ("Nil By Mouth")
Wes Anderson
P.T. Anderson
John Carpenter
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mehmeh



Joined: 23 May 2007
Location: South, South Korea

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jeffkim1972 wrote:
genezorm wrote:
i'm glad no one has mentioned tim burton
i was expecting at least 50% to mention him
good job


Same here, i can't stand the man.


I expected a lot more Brett Ratner...guess I should give people more credit.
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stillnotking



Joined: 18 Dec 2007
Location: Oregon, USA

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

karma police wrote:
stanley kubrick is god, baby... Cool



Stanley Kubrick is to other film directors as Michael Jordan is to other basketball players.

Nothing makes me roll my eyes like directors being compared to (or comparing themselves to) Kubrick. Half the directors mentioned in this thread would have been honored to have been spat on by Stanley Kubrick. The man never made a bad movie, or even a mediocre one. Even his worst movie (Barry Lyndon) is a great, little-known period piece and character study, though lacking the depth and vision of 2001 or Paths of Glory.
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