Underappreciated Directors

[levcore]

Which Directors do you feel never seem to get their due or the full appreciation they deserve despite having very good or solid filmography's.

Martin Campbell is one who has always stood out to me as an underrated/ underappreciated Director.

No Escape
Goldeneye
The Mask of Zorro
Vertical Limit
Casino Royale
Edge of Darkness
The Foreigner

Casino Royale and The Mask of Zorro are absolute classics and there is also that argument for Goldeneye, with the others mentioned all good action movies.

Which other Directors would qualify in this regard?

[Poya]

Julie Taymor is the first filmmaker to do something unique with the medium since Stanley Kubrick. Other than The Lion King, she doesn't get enough credit and is still getting flak for that Spidey musical.

[BluBonnet]

George Stevens belongs at the top of the list of underappreciated directors.

[Dark City Denizen]

Joachim Trier, who couldn’t sell his soul for a decent box office result & that saddens me deeply. Thelma is still one of the most hypnotically satisfying films I’ve seen in years & no ones even heard of it.

[DR Herbert West]

Russell Mulcahy
Don Coscarelli
Albert Pyun
John Hyams

[HipsterTrash]

Joe Carnahan and Tony Scott

[UltraMario9]

James Gray

I also think late career Zemeckis and Soderbergh are pretty underappreciated.

[CreasyBear]

Tony Scott. Practically every action film director from the past 30 years has stolen from him.

[RiotNarita]

Peter Yates.

[RCRochester]

Don Siegel
Walter Hill

[biglou114]

Elaine May

[edmonddantes]

A belgian filmmaker that I bet very few of you know, Harry Kümel, made the most underrated masterpiece in cinema, Malpertuis, and then les levres rouges, and several very good films

People here worship a complete talentless hack like Jesus franco and yet no one champions a guy like Kümel

[An4h0ny]

John Sayles and Penny Marshall off the top of my head.

I'm going to save every director's name I don't recognize in this thread and explore them.

Glorious Purpose.

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[Lee A Stewart]

Monte Hellman
Irvin Kershner

[Gacivory]

Richard Fleischer

[Gerby]

Majid Majidi
Alex Van Warmerdam
Pietro Germi
Martin Ritt
Robert Benton
William Wellman
Phil Karlson
Bryan Forbes
King Vidor
Yasuzo Masumura
Andrew L Stone
Dino Risi
Yilmaz Guney
Youssef Chahine
Jafar Pahani
Raoul Ruiz
Aleksey Balabonov
Antonio Pietrangeli
Ettore Scola

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by biglou114

Elaine May

I'd challenge this. She's a talented writer and a very funny comedienne but she didn't have the right skill set to be a good director.

Originally Posted by edmonddantes

A belgian filmmaker that I bet very few of you know, Harry Kümel, made the most underrated masterpiece in cinema, Malpertuis, and then les levres rouges, and several very good films

People here worship a complete talentless hack like Jesus franco and yet no one champions a guy like Kümel

Do they though?

[edmonddantes]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Do they though?

yes, check his thread, its like a hundred pages long

if you can find me a thread for harry kumel thats a hundred pages then you've got a point, until then...

[mdawg1972]

Is Danny Boyle considered under appreciated?

I know he’s well known but I don’t think his filmography gets the credit it deserves. He’s so versatile and consistently great!

[biglou114]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

I'd challenge this. She's a talented writer and a very funny comedienne but she didn't have the right skill set to be a good director.



Do they though?

I love all four of her films. Any shortcomings I can easily blame on the studios not giving her the freedom to make the movie she set out to make or taking them away from her in post.