whose everybody's favorite director or directors?
and what are your favorite couple of films of theirs?

my two favorite directors are akira kurosawa and jim jarmusch. yojimbo and high and low are my favorite kurosawa films, and dead man and night on earth are my favorite jarmusch films.

if youre looking for a witty signature, youre looking in the wrong place.

Stanley... The Shining, CLockWork orange.

Tim Burton... Edward scissorhands.

Sofia Coppola... Lost in Translation

Pete Jones... Stolen Summer



I'm kidding about that last one

Tarantino.



Close seconds are Kubrick and Fincher.

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george romero- the dead trilogy monkey shines, creepshow and so many more

Clive Barker- hellrasier 1 and 2 and nightbreed

and many more

the Boogeyman is real and you found him!

(in order)
Spike lee-"Do The Right thing", "Malcom X","He Got game", "Bamboozled" and so many more

Wes Anderson-"The Royal Tennenbaums", "Rushmore"

Spike Jonze-"Being john Malcovich", "Adaptation"

Geroge Lucas-"Star Wars"

John Singleton-"Boyz in the Hood"

Close 6th-Tarentino, just saw Kill Bill, thought it was ill.

try to bet them, i dare ya.

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Notin Order

HITCHCOCK - ALL
PETER JACKSON - ALL
WACHOWSKI BROTHERS - FIRST MATRIX,
GEORGE LUCAS - (FOR FIRST STAR WARS)
(WHOEVER DIRECTED EMPIRE STRIKES BACK-IT WASN'T LUCAS)
MEL GIBSON - BRAVEHEART
sPIELBERG - E.T. , (NOT A.I.!!!!!)

Film Director is not a name,
It's a lifestyle.

Tarentino - Pulp Fiction, Resivour Dogs
Spike Lee - Do The Right Thing, Bamboozled
Oliver Stone - Natural Born Killers, Platoon
Scorcese - Taxi Driver, Mean Streets
Spielberg - ET, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan
Wes Anderson - Rushmore, Bottle Rocket

Cammo

C'mon...not a single taker for James Cameron (pre Titanic...hehe)? Pshh to you all.

Sparks

Kurosawa- Yojimbo, Sanjuro
Alex Proyas- Dark City, and sort of the Crow
Tim Burton- Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Batman
Fincher- Se7en, Fight Club
Robert Zemeckis- Back to the Future et al., Contact
Aaronofsky- Pi, Requiem for a Dream
Rich Linklater- Slacker, Before Sunrise, Waking Life. Even School of Rock was a solid movie.
Hell, even Lurhman for his pschytzed out perfomance with Moulin Rouge

I don't like Jarmusch that much, but, I did enjoy Night on Earth.

-Elliott

[This message was edited by MeGrimlock on October 20, 2003 at 02:40 AM.]

Oh geez, I dunno...it might come down to a choice between Sam Mendes, Ridley Scott, or Paul Thomas Anderson.

Sofia!?

No particular order

Steven Spittington
David Lanchose
Tim Bigtown
Conan O'Brother were art thous.
And about 50 more.

Woo.

- C. Davis
YELLOW HAMMER PRODUCTIONS

These aren't in an order from best to worst, just a list...

1. Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List)
2. Tim Burton (Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow)
3. Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Dracula)
4. Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream)
5. Sam Raimi (Evil Dead trilogy, A Simple Plan...NOT SPIDER-MAN)
6. David Cronenberg (Crash, Naked Lunch, Spider)
7. Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator)

"They're not dead exactly, just sort of rotting."

David Lynch is by far my favorite, and Blue Velvet, Elephant Man, The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive are my favorite Lynch films.

My other favorites are:

Coen Brothers - Blood Simple, Fargo, Raising Arizona
Spike Lee - Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing
Krzysztof Kieslowski - The Trois Couleurs trilogy, The Double Life of Veronique
Peter Weir - The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness
The Dardenne Brothers - Rosetta, La Promesse

Forgot to name some films...


Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs
Fincher: Fight Club, Se7en, Panic Room
Kubrick: 2001, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut

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YES SOFIA... I think Lost In Translation is a dam MASTERPEICE and I'll stand by that.

Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown
Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull, Casino, Goodfellas
David Lynch - Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Wild at Heart
John Hughes - Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

-TacoWagonProductions

first, to that kid that said Pete Jones and STOLEN SUMMER: ARE YOU CRAZY??? That guy -a director among directors, you listed him amongst Coppola and Burton...I hope you were joking.

TARANTINO -everything, even 4 rooms segment
KUBRICK -Barry Lyndon, Strangelove, Shining
F.F. COPPOLA -Conversation, Apocalypse Now
FELLINI -8 1/2

note of utter propaganda: KILL BILL F****N' RULES!!!

WOODY ALLEN -Bullets Over Broadway, Sweet & Lowdown
JARMUSCH- Down by Law, Stranger than Paradise
PROYAS -Dark City

If you read my post, I was kidding...

And i'm glad too see you noted Barry Lyndon... i like it.

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