After a good long think, mine is probably Aronofsky.
What's yours?
Plus a scene please.
What's yours?
Plus a scene please.
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Probably Michael Mann. Honorable shouts to Coppola, Scorsese, DePalma, Lumet.
For me, it's James Wan. Responsible for reinvigorating horror (and moreso the haunted house sub-genre) at a time when horror needed it. Love his influences from 80s horror filmmaking, especially Giallo. This obviously was all put into full effect with Malignant, where you can see the studio trusting him to really put his own stamp on the film and we ended up with something really fun and quite original.
He also started a bunch of franchises (Saw, Insidious, Conjuring universe etc) and also had mainstream success away from horror with popcorn flicks such as Aquaman (one of DCs better offerings) and Furious 7 (one of the better Fast & Furious films).
The scene I'm posting is just an excellent build up of tension and perfect release. Think releasing this scene as a part of the marketing for The Conjuring massively helped kickstart this franchise.
A true modern day master of horror.
He also started a bunch of franchises (Saw, Insidious, Conjuring universe etc) and also had mainstream success away from horror with popcorn flicks such as Aquaman (one of DCs better offerings) and Furious 7 (one of the better Fast & Furious films).
The scene I'm posting is just an excellent build up of tension and perfect release. Think releasing this scene as a part of the marketing for The Conjuring massively helped kickstart this franchise.
A true modern day master of horror.
Not really a massive film fan in terms of analysing and picking apart films, I just like to watch a movies that entertain me for 2/3 hours, having said that the director who has made most films I like is Spielberg and he has directed a lot of different genres too so him for sure
Whoever directed 2 Fast 2 Furious
Wong Kar Wai
Stanley Kubrick. The man never missed. Have seen every movie of his that is that is available. Nothing comes close to him.
In The Mood For Love and Chunking Express are absolute classics.
I can't pick between Takeshi Kitano, Kim Ki Duck (RIP) or Park Chan Wook.
Favourite director ever is Kubrick but my favourite current director is Denis Villeneuve by several fecking furlongs. The dude is incredible.
Boyz in da hood is one of my favourite films. I rewatch it over and over and it never loses its potency. Very powerful.John Singleton
He did make Boyz In Da Hood though, which is really good!
Fincher, Cronenberg, Paul Thomas Anderson. Will post some scenes from their stuff tomorrow.
I grew up on Boyz n the hood, menace II society, juice, above the rim... introduced me to a world I'd otherwise never have known existed.
Paul Verhoeven
- RoboCop - American Jesus brings not peace but a neoliberal machine gun.
- Starship Troopers - Fascism and war propaganda in the 21st century.
- Showgirls - The story of Barbie featuring Gina Gershon beautiful teeth.
- Benedetta - Christian universalism is hot lesbians going to the toilet.
- Total Recall = Climate change and 3 boobs
It was Wes Anderson but I've recently fallen out of love with his works.
Same with Baz Luhrman, totally mad genius, but I can't take his movies anymore.
Coen Brothers
Woody Allen, but he's got some, uh, issues.
Most everybody else has 2, or 3 movies that I love, but also ones I can’t stand.
Francois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Goddard
Ken Loach
John Sayles
Atom Egoyan
Francis Coppola
Stanley Kubrick
Denis Villeneuve
Derek Cianfrance
Chris Nolan despite the Batman stuff
Michaelangelo Antonioni
Sidney Lumet
Shane Carruth
JP Jeunet
Ridley Scott for Blade Runner and Alien
John Cassavettes
Bernardo Bertolucci
Akira Kurosawa
Ken Russell
David Lynch
Robert Altman
I would say Gillo Pontecorvo, for The Battle Of Algiers, which is one of the best films I've ever seen, but he didn't really do much beyond that.
Vittorio De Sica for The Bicycle Thieves. Made me cry.
Lindsay Anderson
Same with Baz Luhrman, totally mad genius, but I can't take his movies anymore.
Coen Brothers
Woody Allen, but he's got some, uh, issues.
Most everybody else has 2, or 3 movies that I love, but also ones I can’t stand.
Francois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Goddard
Ken Loach
John Sayles
Atom Egoyan
Francis Coppola
Stanley Kubrick
Denis Villeneuve
Derek Cianfrance
Chris Nolan despite the Batman stuff
Michaelangelo Antonioni
Sidney Lumet
Shane Carruth
JP Jeunet
Ridley Scott for Blade Runner and Alien
John Cassavettes
Bernardo Bertolucci
Akira Kurosawa
Ken Russell
David Lynch
Robert Altman
I would say Gillo Pontecorvo, for The Battle Of Algiers, which is one of the best films I've ever seen, but he didn't really do much beyond that.
Vittorio De Sica for The Bicycle Thieves. Made me cry.
Lindsay Anderson
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Currently I think it might be Denis Villeneuve. The immersion of his movies is unmatched by anyone right now for me. Arrival, Dune, Sicario and Blade Runner 2049 are all instant classics of their genre (the latter is pitch-perfect for me and one of the best films of the century), and then you have his older stuff like Incendies and Prisoners.
Alfonso Cuaron is another, Children of Men in particular is such a masterpiece and unlike Del Toro, he's made more than one true masterpiece.
Alfonso Cuaron is another, Children of Men in particular is such a masterpiece and unlike Del Toro, he's made more than one true masterpiece.
Wes Anderson, Coen brothers and, yes I'm guilty, Christopher Nolan
King of the 90s.
Denis Villeneuve probably my current favorite - and by a distance.
Lots of others named in this thread already. Also a shout out to Nolan - I know he gets a lot of shit on here. I like a good comedy so the Farrelly brothers have whipped out a good few & Judd Apatow.
Mel Gibson doesn’t direct often but he’s done a few excellent ones when he has.
Lots of others named in this thread already. Also a shout out to Nolan - I know he gets a lot of shit on here. I like a good comedy so the Farrelly brothers have whipped out a good few & Judd Apatow.
Mel Gibson doesn’t direct often but he’s done a few excellent ones when he has.
Whoever directs Marvel
Memento
Batman Begins
The Prestige
The Dark Knight
Inception
Interstellar
Oppenheimer
7 nine out of tens right there
Kitano is up there for me, Hana-Bi and Sonatine are absolute masterpieces. And the two Wang Kar Wai films there are brilliant too, Chungking Express got me addicted to California Dreamin.
For me it's a toss up between Kitano and Dario Argento. I'm not a big horror fan, but Argento's 70's/80's catalogue is so full of kooky, imaginative play. For the bad acting and plothole filled scripts, his directorial flair is so eye-grabbing
The tracking scene in Tenebrae just gives me chills every time:
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Yeah, I’m a big fan of his work - even when he doesn’t quite pull it off - to this day, Tenet still confuses me
. But yeah, good “hit” rate and even his “misses” - he at least tries something different/thoughtful (albeit some would call it pretentious).Denis Villenueve.
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I love Kitano too, probably top 10. Love some of his acting performances too!
More like 1 eight out of 10 and a bunch of 6 out of tens. He gets my vote for most overrated.
Side note. I preferred Dunkirk to all but one film on that list (Memento).
George Miller
Andrei Tarkovsky
Werner Herzog
David Lynch
Paul Verhoeven
Stanley Kubrick
David Cronenberg
William Friedkin
Wong Kar Wai
Jean-Luc Godard
Akira Kurosawa
Yasujiro Ozu
Bong Joon-ho
Hayao Miyazaki
Ridley Scott
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Céline Sciamma
Lynne Ramsey
Yorgos Lanthimos
Alex Cox
David Fincher
Ken Loach
Barry Jenkins
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Jordan Peele
Jacques Audiard
S. Craig Zahler
Werner Herzog
David Lynch
Paul Verhoeven
Stanley Kubrick
David Cronenberg
William Friedkin
Wong Kar Wai
Jean-Luc Godard
Akira Kurosawa
Yasujiro Ozu
Bong Joon-ho
Hayao Miyazaki
Ridley Scott
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Céline Sciamma
Lynne Ramsey
Yorgos Lanthimos
Alex Cox
David Fincher
Ken Loach
Barry Jenkins
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Jordan Peele
Jacques Audiard
S. Craig Zahler
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My top 10 with my personal faves in brackets:
- Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski)
- Wes Anderson (Life Aquatic)
- Christopher Nolan (Inception)
- Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
- Tim Burton (Sleepy Hollow)
- Martin Scorcese (Goodfellas)
- David Fincher (Seven)
- Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List)
- Terry Gilliam (Brazil)
- Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse)
What are you Wibble or something?
Is it fashionable to dislike Tarantino nowadays? Not one mention in this thread yet, and there are some listed that have made some real stinkers.
For me its a dead heat between Tarantino and Hitchcock. Spielberg and Scorcese not far behind.
For me its a dead heat between Tarantino and Hitchcock. Spielberg and Scorcese not far behind.
Tarantino's best films were his first 2.
He's up there in my top 5 for sure but I only thought we were putting down one director.
Sean Baker is probably my favourite director coming out of America in recent times.
Loved the Florida Project, that's the only one I've seen though.
Red Rocket and Tangerine are both great.
I agree, but they set an extremely high bar so it's not that much of a surprise
Tarantino but I just wasn't fussed for Reservoir Dogs
Yes! Those are the only 2 I liked.