Who's your favorite director?

[rev.and.ride]

Although in some cases there are more acclaimed movies, the examples from each director below represent my favorite works, in order.

P.T. Anderson: Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia
Wes Anderson: Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Bottle Rocket
Ingmar Bergman: Through a Glass Darkly, The Seventh Seal, The Silence
Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The Godfather
David Fincher: Zodiac, Seven
William Friedkin: French Connection, The Exorcist
Terry Gilliam: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 12 Monkeys, Brazil
Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo, Psycho, North by Northwest
Stanley Kubrick: Barry Lyndon, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, The Killing, A Clockwork Orange
David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai
Sergio Leone: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West
Terrence Malick: The New World, Badlands
Louis Malle: Elevator to the Gallows
Michael Mann: Heat, Collateral
Roman Polanski: The Ninth Gate, Chinatown
Martin Scorsese: Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Casino
Oliver Stone: Nixon, JFK, Platoon

[xander]

Robert Rodriguez and Marty Scorcese.

[GGX]

George A. Romero

[quexos]

It's hard to have only one favorite director.

I'd say Spielberg, though I love many others.

[AcePunK]

Quentin Tarantino

[Blu-Ron]

1) Alfred Hitchcock
2) Steven Spielberg (his early stuff)
3) John Carpenter (his early stuff)

[hostelmovies]

#1 Quentin Tarantino
#2 Martin Scorsese
#3 Robert Rodriguez
#4 John Carpenter
#5 Coen Brothers
#6 Stanley Kubrick
#7 Oliver Stone
#8 Ridley Scott
#9 Kevin Smith
#10 Steven Spielberg

[Groo The Perverted]

Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Darjeeling Limited, Royal Tenenbaums)

Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma)

Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown)

Cameron Crowe (Vanilla Sky, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous)

Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Godzilla: Final Wars, Alive)

[starryeyes]

Spielberg followed closely by Ridley Scott.

[ThorianCreeper]

David Cronenberg.( Dead Ringers, Videodrome, The Fly, Scanners, Etc Etc)

[Chris60119]

Guy Ritchie and Rob Zombie

[Shanester]

Originally Posted by stow123

cameron

Aliens and T2 are classics

I like Terminator more than the sequel. It's more low budget and Arnie is more effective as a badass!

I also loved Titanic, The Abyss & True Lies

[Blu-Malibu2009]

Chris Nolan is my favorite current director. All-time favorites include Spielberg, Kubrick, and Hitchcock. Nolan will probably be on that short list at some point down the road.

[pro-bassoonist]

1. Andrzej Zulawski


2. Michelangelo Antonioni
3. Federico Fellini
4. Krzysztof Kieslowski
5.. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
6. Andre Techine
7. Ken Loach
8. Andrei Tarkovsky
9. Leos Carax
10. Francois Ozon
11. Ingmar Bergman
12. Nuri Bilge Ceylan

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[ricwhite]

Ewe Boll

[sinister184]

not my all time fav but since no one mentioned him Alex Proyas for his work in 'The Crow', 'Dark City', and 'I Robot'

[Kaiju]

Christoper Nolan-Everything he's made is amazing in so many ways, I love his work. He's a genius.

Stanley Kubrick-The guy was a genius. He never made the same film twice.

Robert Rodriguez-He's inspiring to me, because he does everything on his films. He does a lot at home and in a way they're like his own home movies.

Steven Spielberg-He's made some very great and inspiring films, and some at a young age, so he's inspiring for me as a filmmaker.

Ridley Scott-Made so many classics.

I'm an aspiring filmmaker

[Mobe1969]

Michael Bay

Steven Spielberg

Ridley Scott (who is going back to Sci Fi to do Haldeman's "Forever War" - SWEEEEET!!!)

David Cronenberg (although less so since Crash)

Clint Eastwood

[CHERRYGARCIA]

Clint Eastwood (unforgiven, million dollar baby)
David Fincher (Seven, The Game, Zodiac, Fight Club)
Sam Peckinpaugh (The Wild Bunch, Bring Me The head of Alfredo garcia)
George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting, World According To Garp, Funny Farm)
Alfred Hitchcock (The Wrong man, North By Northwest, Vertigo, The Trouble w/ harry)
Brad Bird (Iron Giant, The Incredibles)
Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather films, The Conversation, Apocolypse Now, The Outsiders)
Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins, Dark Knight)
Doug Liman (Swingers, Go, Bourne Identity)
Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot)
Mel Brooks (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles)
Frank Capra (a Wounderful life, Mr. Smith goes to Washington)
Martin Sorcese (Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Goodfellas)
Harold Ramis (Caddyshack, Groundhogs Day)
Coen Brothers (Lewboski, No Country for Old Men)
Sidney Lumet (Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network)

[funnymanbing]

Tarantino is my fave, but the rest are in no particular order

Quentin Tarantino
Martin Scorcese
P.T. Anderson
Cameron Crowe
Steven Speilberg
Francis Ford Coppola
Kevin Smith
Michel Gondry
Spike Jonze
Harold Ramis
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Zemeckis
David Fincher