Who's your favourite film director?
 

Who's your favourite director and what films of theirs do you particularly admire?

The usual generic answer; Hitchcock. Doing little things instead of the big ones can mean a lot. The Rear Window still gives me chills to this day.

I have sooooooooo many!

Stanley Kubrick- Best Movie: Tie between The Shining and Lolita
Quentin Tarantino: Best Movie: Jackie Brown
Lars von Triers: Best Movie: Dogville
Hitchcock: Best Movie: Vertigo
David Cronenberg- Best Movie: Videodrome
PT Anderson- Best Movie: Magnolia

:thumbsup:

I have always been and will always be a Lynch girl.

I like Wes Anderson too. I liked The Royal Tenenbaums even more than Rushmore, though... looking forward to The Life Aquatic.

How could I forget Lynch?!

Ble Velvet is greatness. I even LOVED The Straight Story.

EVEN loved The Straight Story? It's a great film... it's worthy of mentioning solely for the amazing cinematography... the way it was shot. Swoon. It gives me chills.

David gets such props from me for being David LYNCH and making an incredibly good G-rated film.

Don't get me started. :laugh: Anderson has such a ****ty and egotistical attitude and that flick embodied all of it. It was terrible. Plus, I can't stand Adam Sandler one iota.

LOVE her. Ever seen her in Breaking the Waves? Fantastic.

I love, love, LOVE Cameron Crowe. He may not be as classic as others, but he always is able to tell a good tale.

WROTE:
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
The Wild Life

WROTE/DIRECTED:
Say Anything
Singles
Jerry Maguire
Almost Famous

ADAPTED/DIRECTED:
Vanilla Sky

His current project, "Elizabethtown" should definitely be interesting as well.

Several
 

I don't have a favorite director, but a favorite work. Right now I can think in:

Stanley Kubrick: The Shining
Brian de Palma: Body Double, Dressed to Kill
Norman Jewison : Moonstruck
Stephen Frears: Dangerous Liasons
Adrian Lyne : Fatal Attraction
Tim Burton: Batman
Victor Fleming: Gone with the wind

So I was a loser before? Thanks!!!!!

I love David. I also find him intensely attractive (cough). Mulholland Drive was amazing. Lost Highway was thrilling at times and completely worth it. LOVE HIM.

Now I'll resume praying for the rest of the episodes of Twin Peaks to be released on DVD.

How can we forget the great works of Mel Brooks?

AMEN!!!!!!!

And weren't you pissed that they didn't include the freakin' pilot episode on the first season DVDs?!

One of my favorites is Robert Altman. He is an actor's director and the performances of movies are always what fascinate me the most. Some of my favorites for him are:

Nashville
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean-love Sandy Dennis in this.
Short Cuts

Another one I like is Peter Bogdonavich. He has three great ones:

The Last Picture Show-Eileen Brennan and Ellen Burstyn were standouts
What's Up Doc? -The debut for the incredible Madeline Kahn and she completely steals this movie.
Paper Moon-One of my all-time favorites and it includes one of my favorite scenes of all time...when Madeline Kahn and Tatum O'Neal are on the hill talking. Ms. Kahn is absolutely stunning in this scene...no one could have done it better.

I love all of those movies you mentioned!

Have you seen Altman's 3 Women?! What a masterpiece. It was just released on video and DVD for the first time EVER and I was very happy to have that upgrade from my ratty old one that I taped off of PBS a few years ago. :laugh:

Kevin Costner. (not really) :laugh:


Hitchcock, William Wyler, and Billy Wilder.

It's totally lame, but they couldn't get the rights. They have the US version of the pilot available on a foreign DVD that I have. Until they get it all out, I guess I'll just stay content with the videotapes they released of the entire series and the European pilot (ick).

I haven't yet seen "3 Women" because I can't find it anywhere to rent. I've had it on my "must-see" list for quite a while. Maybe I'll just be daring and buy the DVD...thanks for the recommendation!!

You're welcome. :D It was NEVER released on video, that's probably why you've had a hard time finding it. :laugh:

Well I guess that would explain it then :)

For Starters:
Wes Anderson
P.T. Anderson
Coen Bros.
Quentin Tarantino
Martin Scorcese
Spike Lee

I knew I'd forget a few:
David Lynch
John Carpenter: mainly for his early stuff like of course a little uknown gem, I don't know if any of you have heard about it: Halloween.
John Waters
Gus Van Sant

Seen Ghosts of Mars? Ugh.

I used to love Halloween, but I got burned out on it. I love The Fog. :) I saw Haute Tension a couple of weeks ago and I can't that sucker outta my head. Some of it made me feel ill, but it's a great example of how to do a horror flick. See it if it opens in your area.

It is one sick bitch of a flick, lemmetellya.

It's from France and it's shocking, at least to me. it's about these two college girls who are going to one girls' parents farmhouse for vacation. The night they get there, some psycho in this big ass truck shows up, kills her entire family and kidnaps the girl who lives there. Her friend sees it all happen and follows the psycho who has her firend. And he is one sick f*cker. :laugh: And the ending is a kick in the jaw; it's shocking. It beats any Shyamalan ending!

I got the region free DVD from eBay for $20, since it hasn't been released in theatres int he US yet. It's such a grisly movie that it's NC-17 over here!

eBay is a great place for DVDs. I got Dogville the other night from Malaysia. :D

A Freakin Men!!!!!
 

Happiness was something else. That ending had me disturbed, shocked, and laughing my ass off. That poor dog. :laugh:

Cmaryn Manheim and Lara Flynn Boyle were greatness int hat one, though. Manheim cut up the doorman's appendage and put it in her freezer. :lol:

You're welcome! Have you ever read Dean Koontz's "Intensity" or seen the miniseries? It has almost the same plot. Don't watch it alone, though, you'll get very scared. I did. ;)

Here are some reviews for it, they either loved it or hated it:

http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?haute+tension

And here's my fave review:

http://www.joblo.com/arrow/hautetension.htm

My choice would be Jonathon Demme of "Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia" fame.

I love his use of close-ups and angles.

A close second would be none other than Quentin Tarintino (sp?)

Robert Zemeckis

I'm with Lindsey re: Ridley Scott.

So many . . . but not nearly enough.

I love those expansive minds, those visionaries whose work is filled with obsession & syncretism (did I spell that right?), like Griffith ("Intolerance," "Broken Blossoms"), Welles ("Citizen Kane," "The Magnificent Ambersons," "The Lady From Shanghai," "Othello"), the early Russian poet Dovzhenko ("Earth"), Fritz Lang (whose loony "Faust" is high on my list of all-time favorites) & Ophuls ("The Earrings of Madame De ..." "Le Plaisir").

I love the great iconoclasts of the Hollywood studio era, like Hawks ("His Girl Friday," "Twentieth Century," "The Big Sleep") McCarey ("The Awful Truth," "Duck Soup"), Anthony Mann ("T-Men," "Raw Deal," "The Naked Spur") & their modernized usurpers, like Altman ("McCabe & Mrs. Miller," "The Long Goodbye"), Coppola ("The Godfather" & "The Godfather Part 2"), Scorsese ("Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver") & Hal Ashby ("Shampoo").

Mike Leigh's "Secrets & Lies" & "Topsy-Turvy" are two of my favorite movies of the past fifteen years or so.

How long can a conclusion be?? Have you seen Clockwork Orange?

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Everyone is entitled to a slip-up every now and then, so you're still okay in my book, Joe. ;)

Well, the fact that he had the audacity to make Happiness makes him fantastic to me. :wavey:

I have. :cool:

- Jake

Secrets and Lies is a beautiful movie. That whole cast was phenomenal. I liked Topsy Turvy a lot, but not as much. But, alas, they are very different movies.

Easy...
 

Sergio Leone...'Nuff said

Now I am going to go watch the new 2 DVD disc version of his classic "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" (Or as they say in Italian "Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo") which is my favorite movie EVER, And according to the sticker on the box it is also the favorite Quentin Tarantino's too!!!

You made me think of another one of my favorite directors-- Lars Von Trier! Mad props to the Scandinavian contingent of directors: Von Trier + all the Dogme 94 directors, Ingmar Bergman, Lasse Hallstrom, T. Dreyer...I'm sure i'll think of others after I post this.

I know what you mean, but it still stands up as brilliance in the horror genre. Carpenter took some experimental risks in that movie, and the end result is utter genius.

I wanted to tell you Dissention, I'm pretty sure you said something a while back about that Margot Kidder movie, Sisters, well I rented it and it is one of the most hilarious movies I've ever seen! Of course it's not intended to be funny but it totally is: Margot Kidder sporting a silly French accent and that mysterious ex-husband of hers oh god, and let's not forget the last scene of the movie in that psycho ward/house institution thing at the end. I was laughing out loud at the screen, and I rarely do that when watching a movie alone.

All that to say that DePalma is also one of my favorite directors but that movie BLOWS! And of course I mean blows in a cheesey, B-movie, good kind of way. :laugh: