Best Director?

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Martin Scorsese.

Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino, Cape Fear, The Departed, Gangs of New York.

Anyone disagree?

By the way, me flicking though the TV channels and finding The Aviator on inspired this thread. Thats a good film also.
 
Only Raging Bull and Taxi Driver of those are really great films. Goodfellas is excellent mind.

He's one of the greats no question, but I'd put Bergman, Fellini, Visconti, Powell and Pressburger, and probably John Huston above him.
 
olesmyhero said:
Scorssesse was great. No denying that. I haven't really cared for his last few films though. Think he's gone downhill over the years.
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Really? I'm certainly not a film buff but I really enjoyed The Departed, The Aviator and Gangs of New York.

I know you work in the Industry but not in what capacity. Who would be the director you would most like to work with?
 
Goodfellas isnt my favorite movie but it is a great film
 
duffer said:
Really? I'm certainly not a film buff but I really enjoyed The Departed, The Aviator and Gangs of New York.

I know you work in the Industry but not in what capacity. Who would be the director you would most like to work with?
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The Departed is criminally underrated on here, I know Infernal Affairs is better, but still
 
Meh...a lot of over rated films, the Departed is a bad remake of another better film and Gangs of New York is utter wank. Cape Fear is also a remake, but alright...I think he's generally quite overrated to be honest.

So all in all, 3 great films is hardly enough to make a claim to greatest director....I'd even say Speilberg has a large repetoir of 'great' films and Coppola made both the definitive Gangster films and the definite Vietnam film. So either of those are actually far more deserving if you ask me.

Not that I would say either. I'd say probably Kubrick purely for the diverse types of films he made successfully. Comedy, War, Social, Sci Fi, etc. That's an achievement IMO.
 
This man.

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Andrei Tarkovsky.
 
Alex said:
The Departed is criminally underrated on here, I know Infernal Affairs is better, but still
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To make a worse remake of a low budget Hong Kong film with all the money in the world, a top director and a stella cast is not an achievement by any strength of the imagination if you ask me. It lacks almost everything IA had going for it and resorted to tired good guy/bad guy cliche. Hollywood at it's worst IMO. Just dressed up all perdy.
 
Alex said:
The Departed is criminally underrated on here, I know Infernal Affairs is better, but still
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Hardly. The Departed was tedious, and I have absolutely no idea what Nicholson was getting at with his acting. And Wahlberg as well. Stupid fecking love triangle as well. feck I hated that movie. Only good part was using the song 'Shipping up to Boston'.
 
Mockney said:
Meh...a lot of over rated films, the Departed is a bad remake of another better film and Gangs of New York is utter wank. Cape Fear is also a remake, but alright...I think he's generally quite overrated to be honest.

So all in all, 3 great films is hardly enough to make a claim to greatness....I'd even say Speilberg has a large repetoir of 'great' films and Coppola made both the definitive Gangster films and the definite Vietnam film. So either of those are actually far more deserving if you ask me.

Not that I would say either. I'd say probably Kubrick purely for the diverse types of films he made successfully. Comedy, War, Social, Sci Fi, etc. That's an achievement IMO.
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Kubrick I can certainly see. Speilberg for me is a strange one. He has made some of my favourite films of all time but has also made some utter shit (The latest Indiana jones, the war of the worlds remake, Hook ffs!).
 
He's made loads of wank certainly, but his sheer weight of work is worthy of consideration because there have been some unbelievable films in there. He's probably in a catagory all of his own tbf, he's the most on the button director of any generation. Every type of film, countless summer blockbusters, serious war movies, family films, shit comedies, sci fi...he's out on his own in some catagory, I'm just not sure what catagory that is.....Basically, if you took all the shit films out of his repetoire, he'd be far and away one of the most significant directors of our time. The problem, of course, is all the shit.
 
Tarkovsky, Bergman, Antonioni, Fellini, Kubrick & Greenaway for me. Impossible to decide on *the* greatest. If I've got a gun to my head, maybe Bergman would edge it.
I do agree Scorsese is up there too, along with Kieślowski & Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli).
 
Too hard - Renoir, Carne/Prevert, Truffaut, Resnais, Polanski, Wong Kar Wai, Kieslowski, Haneke, Fassbinder, Kurosawa just to chuck in a few that no one else has yet.
 
Kurosawa,Miyazaki,Tarkovsky,Kieślowski, and special mention for Charlie Chaplin who wrote,directed and starred in most of his films.
 
WKW, Kurosawa, Wilder, Polanski, Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Hitchcock, Bergman, Miike(shut up Ole) off the top of my head. And yeah The Departed was average and not a patch on Infernal Affairs. If I had to plump for one it'd be Kurosawa.
 
Tarantino's made two of my top 5 favourite films (Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction) and two more in Inglourious Basterds and Jackie Brown that aren't far behind. I don't know anything about directing, but I know the films that he directs are generally a level above anything else I watch.
 
Plechazunga said:
I've never seen any Tarkovsky except 'The Mirror', which I fell asleep in. My missus goes crazy for him though.
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Saw Andrei Rublev a few months ago. Once you get used to the pace of his work some of the shots he puts in a picture were immense. I would imagine it's the sort of film that would be better on repeat viewings as well.
 
Scorcese is very good. Best living director for me. The Age of Innocence is a film that really shows his directorial ability, imo. The story itself is boring and useless to me but the film itself is beautiful and intricate. He has got away from that a bit recently from what I've seen, but he's skilled, there's no doubt about that.

Kurosawa is the best ever, though. Ran is brilliant and this is some of the most beautiful art work I've seen:


 
kietotheworld said:
Tarantino's made two of my top 5 favourite films (Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction) and two more in Inglourious Basterds and Jackie Brown that aren't far behind. I don't know anything about directing, but I know the films that he directs are generally a level above anything else I watch.
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Yeah I agree. He's one of the best in the past couple of decades. Same with Nolan.
 
Christopher Nolan is up there so far, I've enjoyed all of his films to date. Tarantino I thought was gonna go too far down the oddball obscure film reference films after Kill Bill 2 and Death Proof but Basterds was a return to form.

Scorcese I would watch any movie he has made but the early De Niro colloborations are still his prime work.
 
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