#1 All-Time Favorite Director

[GaragePoet]

If you could only watch one director's body of work for the rest of your life, whose would you choose and why?

My g/f recently asked me who my absolute favorite director was, which led me to contemplate the idea above for days. If I had to choose a single director, who would it be?

Martin Scorsese would be highly-ranked, but there are as many films of his that I didn't care for as ones I absolutely loved. Quentin Tarantino is another favorite, but there's very few movies to choose from and many of them are too similar in nature. Spielberg has amassed a great collection of movies, but most of the big-budget popcorn movies aren't really my favorites. Another great, Stanley Kubrick, would probably literally drive me insane if I had to watch nothing but his movies forever...

So, the answer finally did come to me... if I had to choose a single director's collection of films to watch exclusively for the rest of my life, it would be the films of the Coen Brothers. Not only do their films cover a wide array of subject matter, including comedy and drama, but nearly everything they've done has become an instant cult classic. Some of the my favorites include "Raising Arizona" (one of the handful of Nicolas Cage movies I enjoy), "Barton Fink," "The Hudsucker Proxy," "Fargo," "The Big Lebowski" (definitely on my short list of all-time favorite movies), "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," "No Country For Old Men" ... the list could go on but I'd only end up w/ a list of all their movies save 1 or 2 that really didn't make the cut in my initial opinion, but w/ no choice but for repeated viewings I'm sure I would find more to them than I originally did.

So, I pass the question on for others to ponder... one director, for the rest of your life... who is it?

[vader4]

Stanley Kubrick is my favorite director and he would also be the one that I would watch if I could only watch one director the rest of my life. He has such a wide range of work, comedy and horror alike.

[MykeHavoc]

Carpenter. Assault on Precinct 13 through In the Mouth of Madness (minus Memoirs of an Invisible Man) is possibly the strongest streak of films ever.

[tigertron]

Spielberg for me. I generally love his movies, with my favourites being War of the Worlds, Jurassic Park, Indianna Jones and Saving Private Ryan. I did enjoy Schindler's List and Minority Report aswell.

[csdot]

Originally Posted by MykeHavoc

Carpenter. Assault on Precinct 13 through In the Mouth of Madness (minus Memoirs of an Invisible Man) is possibly the strongest streak of films ever.

id have to agree with this, hell id even include Vampires, Escape From LA and Ghosts of Mars. most of his movies i can watch over and over. either Carpenter or Scorsese.

[Blu-Benny]

i'd post my answer but my av and title say it all!!

[ddelrymple]

David Fincher. A very VERY unique eye.

[Mahatma]

I think many would list Kubrick as their favourite including me at times,but I'll have to go with David Fincher since his body of work is nearly as impressive as Kubricks (I'm biased),and to this date he has not served up a bad movie.To say that Panic room is his weakest movie to date as many agrees upon-me included-says volumes about his craftsmanship.Granted his career has been slightly lower than expected from his strong 90's line-up,but the acting cinematography,music and his ability to visualize the story is second to none IMO.

[ArmyOfDarknessAW]

For movies alone I would go with John Hughes hands down. If we are talking all projects the person was involved in producer, writer, director of Tv and film I would say Joss Whedon.

[Il Cattivo]

sergio leone. the dollars trilogy and once upon a time in the west. nuff said.

[Al_The_Strange]

James Cameron. I feel he's one of the best at crafting movies that are both explosively entertaining and have quality stories. I love the characters of his films, even if they aren't fully-dimensional. I love the technical prowess and low-key nature of his films. I love how each environment he works with is intricately detailed and designed, and often utilizes seemingly-realistic science. Above all, his films are adventurous and a blast to watch.

I'm not counting "Piranha 2: The Spawning" as his movie though.

[Lepidopterous]

Mine: https://forum.blu-ray.com/movies/180...ml#post5109746

Darren Aronofsky is my favorite director but he has a very dark style to be watching only his films for the rest of my life. So for that particular question, I might answer Pedro Almodóvar or Akira Kurosawa. I'll go with Almodóvar.

[P@t_Mtl]

That is hard, four of my favorites as each something different to bring to the world of cinema

Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) very influencial director. Many time his movies are a bit overlook as they are propoganda vehicules for communism but each and single one of them is truly a work of art.

Frank Capra (1897-1991) when I think american cinema, that is the name that come to mind. Lost Horizon, Mister Smith Goes To Washington....so many of his movies to this day still have something to say.

David Lean (1908-1991) the master of cinematography and epic movies, Lawrence Of Arabia, A Passage To India, Doctor Zhivago no one could make them like he would.

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) the master of adventure and action, the man who as had so much influence over so many other director, ask Sergio Leone or Geroge Lucas.

If I was told, for the rest of my life I can only watch movies from these four amazing directors, I would be set. The range, the style that each one brought to cinema is incredible.

[Foggy]

Edgar Wright is my fave and possibly one of the most overlooked directors at the moment, the way he adds character conflict in a film so wacky that it all feels naturally, his keen eye on genres by making fun of all the conventions, while adding a fine entry into it's own genre and the attention to detail that every frame of his film features a gag.

[Prideoftheyanks]

John Ford. Tons of films to choose from, many of which are rightfully classics or near-classics. Everything from silent to color, comedy, drama, suspense. A heavy emphasis on westerns, which I view as a good thing.

[Variable_Star]

Apologies, but impossible to narrow down to one! The world of film is just too massive, too wondrous, to do so. But I narrowed it down to ten, followed by my favorite directorial efforts from each.

01) Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Gladiator, Alien, The Duellists)
02) Stanley Kubrick (Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
03) Jim Sheridan (The Field, My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father)
04) Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander, The Seventh Seal)
05) James Ivory (Howard's End, The Remains of the Day, The White Countess)
06) William Wellman (The Public Enemy, Heroes for Sale, Battleground)
07) Coen Brothers (True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou, Miller's Crossing)
08) Tom Tykwer (The Princess and the Warrior, Perfume, The International)
09) John Hillcoat (The Proposition, The Road)
10) Peter Jackson (LoTR Trilogy, King Kong)

Then there's Sam Peckinpah, Martin Ritt, Milco Mancevski, Steven Spielberg, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michael Curtiz...

[wickerjay]

Uwe Boll, hands down

[Show spoiler]In all seriousness, there are just too many good directors to list. You guys have posted some great ones. Besides the ones already noted, I'd like to mention Wes Anderson, Danny Boyle, and Jim Jarmusch.

[menaceuk]

Spielberg.

Not only does he do awesome stuff but he also has quantity

[dallywhitty]

It's perhaps a predictable choice as I'm sure many others consider him their favourite, but Stanley Kubrick. I love the versatility of his work, his elegant tracking shots and his films' inability to age! I'm also very fond of David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese and Dario Argento.

[jhiggy23]

Terrence Malick, easily.