Cheesesailor77
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wow, a year old thread. Someone went digging lol.
Name your 3 TOP film directors
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Hitchcock - maintained a consistent quality over a whopping 60 features, while some directors are barely known for 5 films, influenced numerous filmmakers and established a few subgenres of film
David Lynch - on the polar side of Hitch, has made very little features compared to others, and most are flawed masterpieces or rather esoteric. However, I give him props for totally sticking with what he believes in and never felt that he sold out. He helped influence abstract filmmaking and defying conventions. Loved the restraint, personal influence, and patience making Eraserhead as his first feature over 5 years and at a fairly young age to boot. Mulholland Drive, while flawed, has a very strong cult following and those who give it time see just how unconventional you can be and still have something work. Plus I always admire the minimalist "spoon feed nothing" mentality.
Robert Flaherty - got to give documentaries a nod LOL. Innovative use of narrative to put his own spin on the subject matter - wish more documentaries would take note. I'm always a fan of using B roll, or on the scene footage to tell a point as opposed to the common talking head interviews - Flaherty did it best and always wondered why there wasn't a greater influence from his work in modern documentaries.
And to make things more interesting...
Top 3 personal favorite directors that would probably be on this list if they made more great films, but so far are one hit wonders in a sense...
1. Jeunet - love his comical, sometimes abstract/surreal style usually involving inner fantasies of characters. Though I'm not a huge fan of some of his films, they always have that personal charm because of the aforementioned reason. If he pops out a few more films at the level of Amelie, then he should be well noted in history.
2. Chris Nolan - always a fan of experimenting with narrative structure. Though he's only made a handful of films and so far is really "The Memento Guy" in a sense.
3. Darren Aronofsky - love his subjective use of cinema especially in PI which has to be one of the best uses of pure subjective cinema to define a character. Hopefully he starts cranking out a few more hits.
David Lynch - on the polar side of Hitch, has made very little features compared to others, and most are flawed masterpieces or rather esoteric. However, I give him props for totally sticking with what he believes in and never felt that he sold out. He helped influence abstract filmmaking and defying conventions. Loved the restraint, personal influence, and patience making Eraserhead as his first feature over 5 years and at a fairly young age to boot. Mulholland Drive, while flawed, has a very strong cult following and those who give it time see just how unconventional you can be and still have something work. Plus I always admire the minimalist "spoon feed nothing" mentality.
Robert Flaherty - got to give documentaries a nod LOL. Innovative use of narrative to put his own spin on the subject matter - wish more documentaries would take note. I'm always a fan of using B roll, or on the scene footage to tell a point as opposed to the common talking head interviews - Flaherty did it best and always wondered why there wasn't a greater influence from his work in modern documentaries.
And to make things more interesting...
Top 3 personal favorite directors that would probably be on this list if they made more great films, but so far are one hit wonders in a sense...
1. Jeunet - love his comical, sometimes abstract/surreal style usually involving inner fantasies of characters. Though I'm not a huge fan of some of his films, they always have that personal charm because of the aforementioned reason. If he pops out a few more films at the level of Amelie, then he should be well noted in history.
2. Chris Nolan - always a fan of experimenting with narrative structure. Though he's only made a handful of films and so far is really "The Memento Guy" in a sense.
3. Darren Aronofsky - love his subjective use of cinema especially in PI which has to be one of the best uses of pure subjective cinema to define a character. Hopefully he starts cranking out a few more hits.
Hairy Lime
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I'll go with biggest influences on me as a filmmaker.
1. Luis Bunuel
2. Jean Pierre Jeunet
3. Michel Gondry
1. Luis Bunuel
2. Jean Pierre Jeunet
3. Michel Gondry
Billy Pilgrim
Stye in my eye
Michel Gondry became my hero right about the time I saw all the behind the scenes stuff for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I love my "Directors Label" Gondry DVD.
I can't really pick three. If my arm were twisted I'd say Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, and Wes Anderson, but my other top influences are David Lynch, Richard Linklater (love Slacker most of all), Paul Thomas Anderson, Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude is basically my sense of humor), John Cassavetes, Joel and Ethan Coen, and Danny Boyle (Trainspotting is top notch filmmaking).
I can't really pick three. If my arm were twisted I'd say Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, and Wes Anderson, but my other top influences are David Lynch, Richard Linklater (love Slacker most of all), Paul Thomas Anderson, Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude is basically my sense of humor), John Cassavetes, Joel and Ethan Coen, and Danny Boyle (Trainspotting is top notch filmmaking).
J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
I'd consider Carpenter up until about Christine but the other guys ? Not the gretest directors of crap ...
Dude. Let's try and keep the conversation serious.
Dude. Let's try and keep the conversation serious.
Billy Pilgrim
Stye in my eye
Plissken said:
Care to elaborate?
Matthew B. Moore
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Plissken,
What are you talking about? I'm thinking you've learned some big new words while you were at school.
Top 3 in no order
Kubrick
Gilliam
Coen Brothers
What are you talking about? I'm thinking you've learned some big new words while you were at school.
Top 3 in no order
Kubrick
Gilliam
Coen Brothers
Mason Gilligan
New member
Jean-Luc Godard: Innovative Genius of the French New Wave.
Francois Truffaut: Rode the crest of the new wave all the way to legendary status.
Robert Bresson: Exquisite Minimilistic style, incorporating meticulous mise-en-scene.
Francois Truffaut: Rode the crest of the new wave all the way to legendary status.
Robert Bresson: Exquisite Minimilistic style, incorporating meticulous mise-en-scene.
Cheesesailor77
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Matthew B. Moore said:
yeah really, I mean tobe hooper? why is he your favorite director ever?
chromeboy007
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WKW, Kubrick, QT, Kurosawa
2046, all of them, Pulp Fiction, alot of them
2046, all of them, Pulp Fiction, alot of them
Matthew B. Moore
Well-known member
Plissken,
Where you at? You've been called out 3 times and...nothing.
Where you at? You've been called out 3 times and...nothing.
Filmjunkie677
Master of Horror
Plisken?
William Lustig??? Lol. He's a terrible director. He'll admit that himself. It's why he gave it up.
You cannot be serious.
But I see, you won't be making an appearance in the thread to back up your thoughts. Way to go.
William Lustig??? Lol. He's a terrible director. He'll admit that himself. It's why he gave it up.
You cannot be serious.
But I see, you won't be making an appearance in the thread to back up your thoughts. Way to go.
Matthew B. Moore
Well-known member
Plissken said:
I've seen Maniac. Cool movie.
but...
MalcolmOng
Veteran
Spielberg, Gondry, Lucas
DammitJanet
Well-known member
Michael Mann
Frank Darabont
Sam Mendes
Frank Darabont
Sam Mendes
absurd...
absurd...
I could never hide my repugnance towards those film critics who every 10 or 20 years get together and vote for top 100 films ever made or something of that sort… even though many of those films often are among my favorites as well. Seriously, giving a numeric order to the so-called masterpieces of cinema always seemed an absurd to me (and not only to me.)
Same could apply to -“top directors”. I mean, if I name: Fellini, Bunuel, Visconti, than what the f… am I doing with Tarkovski, Bergman, Godard, Kurosava or so many others.
But, than again, when I was a kid I did have my top 10 movies, or top 10 directors, and probably it’s all “individual” and “subjective.”
absurd...
I could never hide my repugnance towards those film critics who every 10 or 20 years get together and vote for top 100 films ever made or something of that sort… even though many of those films often are among my favorites as well. Seriously, giving a numeric order to the so-called masterpieces of cinema always seemed an absurd to me (and not only to me.)
Same could apply to -“top directors”. I mean, if I name: Fellini, Bunuel, Visconti, than what the f… am I doing with Tarkovski, Bergman, Godard, Kurosava or so many others.
But, than again, when I was a kid I did have my top 10 movies, or top 10 directors, and probably it’s all “individual” and “subjective.”