...and the best director is?

[KayaM]

Who's the greatest movie director, living or dead?

[erowe83]

I could never pick just one.

My Favorites:

Shuji Terayama
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jean Luc Godard
John Cassavetes
Yasujiro Ozu
John Carpenter
Peter Watkins
Phillipe Garrel
Samuel Fuller
Seijun Suzuki
Werner Herzog
Monte Hellman
Mario Bava
David Lynch
David Cronenberg
Todd Solondz
Jim Jarmusch
Terrence Malick
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Billy Wilder
Luis Bunuel
Alan Clarke
Russ Meyer
Michelangelo Antonioni
Robert Bresson
Kar-Wai Wong
Luchino Visconti
Alain Resnais
Aleksandr Sokurov
Bruno Dumont
Kenneth Anger
Bela Tarr
Nicholas Roeg
Nagisa Oshima
Paul Thomas Anderson
Alfred Hitchcock
Miklos Jancso
Stanley Kubrick
Oliver Stone
Louis Malle
Danny Boyle
Sam Peckinpah
Robert Altman
Ingmar Bergman
Katsuhito Ishii
Koji Wakamatsu
Shinya Tsukamoto
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Kon Ichikawa

[Marine Mike]

Ridley Scott

Gladiator

[Octavio]

Luis Buñuel

[SS316SRV]

Fritz Lang

[ground chuck]

i might as well say it now and get ridiculed for it

speilberg jaws, raiders of the lost ark, saving private ryan i could go on and on

[Barbie-Shrimp]

Stanley Kubrick
Joel Coen (uncredited Ethan included)
Hazao Miyazaki
Quentin Tarantino
Ridley Scott (pre-'87)
Danny Boyle

and only occasionally Spielberg (not usually or recently though)

[erowe83]

Originally Posted by SS316SRV

Fritz Lang

Good choice.

[Beta Man]

[SS316SRV]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

Alfred Hitchcock

Very debatable, but in a good way. Hitchcock was a genius in every sense of the word, he is arguably the greatest ever.

[gaeljet]

none best than any other, but some really good ones like,
spielberg
ridley scott
edward zwick
eastwood
wachowski brothers
david fincher
oliver stone
paul thomas anderson
danny boyle
peter jackson
tarantino
nolan
etc..

[makaveli21]

no votes for Orson Welles?

[SS316SRV]

Christopher Nolan is a great new director

[tacoreed]

Eastwood
Scorsese
Pete Jackson (probably #1)
Tararantino
Rodriguez
Romero
Woo
Nolan
Boyle
Lynch
to this point Richard Kelly

[meckel]

I 100% agree with Beta-Man

Alfred Hitchcock, end of thread.

[mjbethancourt]

Originally Posted by meckel

I 100% agree with Beta-Man

Alfred Hitchcock, end of thread.

Ditto.

Hitchcock was the father of modern film in almost every facet: writing, photography, etc. Basically the inventor of the screen actor (as opposed to a filmed stage-actor performance), and the inventor of sound design. He is the most imitated director ever.

P. Jackson is the greatest living director, so long as he keeps together the team of Walsh as his screenwriter and Taylor as his art director.

[SS316SRV]

Originally Posted by makaveli21

no votes for Orson Welles?

He ate his fat ass to death.

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by ground chuck

i might as well say it now and get ridiculed for it

speilberg jaws, raiders of the lost ark, saving private ryan i could go on and on

Spielberg has gone down hill lately.

Name anything in the last 5 years that he's done that's been good. Munich is the only one that's questionable if it's good or not, everything else {yes including Indy 4} has been shite.

Logan

[Sonny]

Me. (back that @$$ up , there you , thats right...) LOL!

[SS316SRV]

Originally Posted by jadedeath

Spielberg has gone down hill lately.

Name anything in the last 5 years that he's done that's been good. Munich is the only one that's questionable if it's good or not, everything else {yes including Indy 4} has been shite.

Logan

Minority Report (whether or not it was done in the last 5 years though I am not sure) was a very smart/good film. Catch Me if you Can was excellent.