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Post by gtboozer on Aug 23, 2010 13:20:56 GMT -5
I have a LOT of favorite directors ranging from Kurisawa to Scorsese, Park Chan Wook to Coppola, Spielberg to Altman... but I think the one that stands out as my anytime and anywhere favorite film maker is Tarantino. It seems like it has become almost trendy to bash him as a hack or someone who has fallen off this kind of list, but I absolutely love everything he's done with the exception of Jackie Brown. Even Jackie Brown is pretty good when compared to everything else, just not one of his best. I can turn on any of his films at any time and enjoy myself. I have heard all the criticism of his work, but I keep coming back to how much fun I have watching his movies. I think when we look back on him and his place in film, be will be remembered as a director who helped shine a light on the independent film scene in his generation. His style and storytelling has been copied by countless others, and I think that is another sign of a good director. Personally, his love of film that he captures in every movie he makes has rubbed off on me. He is probably the one director who got me hooked on film. But, like I said, for me it simply comes down to how much fun I have watching his stuff.
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Post by vulpix on Sept 2, 2010 22:06:20 GMT -5
My top five directors:
1. Billy Wilder 2. Akira Kurosawa 3. Ingmar Bergman 4. Charlie Chaplin 5. David Lynch
All of the above have their own distinct style--and they consistently make great films. I love directors that can take any material, whether their own or an adaptation, and mold it into something bold and compelling.
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Post by snallygaster on Sept 26, 2010 13:50:26 GMT -5
I've considered Kubrick to be my favourite director since I started thinking about such things; seeing 2001 [er, the movie, not the year] sometime in early adolescence was the first time I remember being "blown away" by a movie; of course I'd been excited by various movies since childhood (my first movie memory is watching the original release of Star Wars at a drive in theatre, I guess at the age of 4), but as far as I can recall that was always the excitement brought on by explosions, a fight or chase scene, a tough guy hero or fantastic monster. Or else, an emotional reaction stemming from the story itself. 2001 was... something else. What was going on with this movie? How could long scenes where nothing was happening feel so intense? Why was there old classical music playing during a futuristic space scene, and why did it somehow fit? I was a science nerd as a kid and knew that there wasn't really any sound in space, but I never expected a space scene in a movie could be more tense without added sound effects. Obviously I went on to seek out more of Kubrick's movies, and also to try to find other directors who could produce that kind of impact on me. I have more favourites -- Ozu, the Coens, Tarkovsky. The best of their films, as well as Kubrick's, still knock me out every time. I didn't expect PT Anderson would ever join the canon, but after "There Will Be Blood," I think he will. Lately I'm increasingly interested in the styles of directors like Zhang Ke Jia, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-liang; their films (some of them, anyway) seem to produce an "I don't know WTF just happened, but it whatever it was, it was awesome" reaction in me similar to the one I felt watching 2001 some quarter century ago. If I were somehow able to consider it objectively, I'm not sure whether Kubrick would still be my favourite director today, or if another director would have knocked him out of the top spot. But for me, he holds a permanent #1 position; the real list starts at #2. Sort of the Citizen Kane of directors.
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Post by johnnyunusual on Jan 28, 2011 11:48:50 GMT -5
The Coens spring to mind (my favourite is actually the crowd pleasing O Brother, Where Art Thou) and Hitchcock. I don't think I've seen a Hitchcock movie I didn't like. He perfectly mixes suspense and fun (both in humour and making his movies involving).
I also like Robert Rodriguez (did I spell that right?), who is also a fun film maker. Death Proof was what Grindhouse shouldn't have been (mostly) and Planet Terror was just right. Machete was good, though I get the feeling it will fall apart a bit on second viewings.
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