Name your 3 TOP film directors

IMO I found aspects of Panic Room that really demonstrated a lack of cinematic language...IMHO!

Those CG moving shots through the handle of the teapot etc were not only distracting, but did not help to create a tone of claustraphobia.

Alien 3 was awful, IMO, but I don't blame him for that, try the mental leading lady! The Game was also tripe, IMO. Fight Club was querky but had major weaknesses, IMO. Se7en was truly excellent. That film ooooouses atmosphere. I think that could be considered fact...
 
ok so basically you dont like him because of how he wants to visually want to express his vision? Yes many poeple dont like Alien 3 which one reason is becuase he killed of ripley. but the atmoshpere was tight quarted and rustic and so sweaty. Alien ressurection is what ruined the series for me. that movie is a comdey compare to 3. Point of the the good and bad from those to and you'll find that 3 is the strongest.

saying fight club is weak is just insanity. I understand panic room it had issues but i liked the color choice and the dark tone.

Seven is a perfect movie but so is DFight club I believe

The game is great story and visual wise.

all of this is my IMO! ;-p.
 
se7en and Fight Club, it is irrelevent what else Fincher has done, those 2 alone, set him apart, and put him near the top of visual storytellers currently working today. Se7en is the first movie I saw in the theater where the atmosphere was so utterly 'tangible' I felt like I could bite into it.

And Fight Club is a revolution.

With both these films he was working with great scripts, and he turned them into classic films.

Panic Room is not in the same league because, as he has said, he was trying his hand at more typical fair, PLUS, the studio would not allow his script doc, Andrew Kevin Walker (wrote se7en, all him, rewrote Fight Club and The Game) to do his thing. Fincher said he was trying to reinvent Hitchcock and he wound up making Home Alone for adults. I think that's a pretty funny comment. Plus, after the box office dissapointment of Fight Club, it went on to do well on DVD and VHS, but it was a dissapointment for the studio in its theater run, Fincher needed to do something 'more commercially safe' so he could get the chance to do more 80 million dollar 'art films' like Fight Club.
 
Spielberg- His work is very unstylized, which is what I like about him, can you look at a film of his, without knowing it was him and identify that it is him? Probably not. He's done a broad range of work. Plus, he just rocks.

Orson Welles- Citizen Kane was a film that changed filmmaking and cinematography forever.

Francis Coppola- The man knew how to tell a story.

There are many other directors I hold in fourth place; Tarantino, Fincher, Dahl, Rodriguez, Spike Jones and Tim Burton... All excellent directors but I think the top three go to the ones who have started revolutions in filmmaking. I mean, there have been a ton of advances in technology and visual effects, but changing society through story telling... that's what it's all about for me.
 
I disagree that Spielberg is 'unstylized', I just believe that he has the most 'natural' way of directing, it just feels very, well, uh, natural the way he tells his stories... you never feel like you're really watching a movie, or he never goes out of his way to get those 'cool shots', everything just flows and fits together, his vocabulary is seamless..... I do believe I can identify his style if I was watching a movie and didn't know who directed it. When I'm watching a Spielberg film, I just feel like I'm watching someone who was 'born' to direct and whose natural instincts are just unparalleled.
 
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Mino, sorry. I didn't fully proofread my post. I had said something about the godfather before that sentence and was writing in the past tense. Forgive me :)

And Chance, I think you're right... I guess I worded that incorrectly. I just meant to say that he doesn't have a repetitive style or look that he uses in all of his films, and doesn't stick to one specific genre. Of course his films have style (Saving Private Ryan for example, definitely stylized. Lowere frame rates, desaturation and crunched blacks... most definitely a distinct style).

Sorry for the miscommunication. Very little sleep lately.
 
Yeah I figured you were probably getting at that as well, I just felt like having an excuse to blab about Spielberg... haha
 
Technically film is art, there is no way it is not. Somebodies motive to create the art is I think all that changes depending on the work. The art is the same - it's quality can change.
 
Without question, film is art... the way I was moved the first time I saw Amelie, to joy, the way Star Wars set my imagination on fire when I was still a child, the way Garden State sent chills up my spine and I was screaming over the abyss right there with Zach and Natalie... the way... oh you get the point.

It's easy to get caught up in all the technical aspects and forget the artistic passion and inner heart of it all, when you are in the midst of the process... I've found I have to take a step away and reconnect when this happens...
 
My list:

Chan-Wook Park
John Woo (his Hong Kong stuff)
Stanley Kubrick

I loved Tarantino when I was 14 years old (i'm 17 now)... Then I watch his movies again and I think he's an idiot now...
 
Larry Clark: Besides notably influencing Gus Van Sant & Martin Scorsese with his photography, he's one of my favourite, and most influencial, directors. KIDS is up there as one of my favourite movies as it is such a realistic portrayl of teens, just as confronting today as I know it was in the mid-90s. The only other film of his I've seen is Ken Park, which I think would have been better without the explicit sex scenes (they took me out of the movie and in some cases made the scenes weaker because of the graphic close-ups). I still think, other than that, Ken Park is a really good. I'm looking forward to his upcoming movie, Wassup Rockers (pretty much, Kids, but with Mexicans hehe)

..Damn, I can't really thing of any more that I could type about. I'll just give a few names and the movies that are the reason for it.

Mark Romanek: One Hour Photo (Brilliantly shot)
Peter Jackson: Braindead (Inspires me to make a film with more gore)
Trey Parker: Orgazmo (Bloody hilarious)
Joel Schumacher: Falling Down (Also a brilliant film, I'm a sucker for over-the-edge dramas)
 
sticking with the entirely autuer thing, I will have to go Wes Anderson, John pierre junet, michelle gondry? maybe.

its so difficult to just pic directors. And then to just pick three is amazingly difficult.
 
Michel Gondry I respected as an amazing visual artist for his music videos, then I saw ETERNAL SUNSHINE, and now he's near the top of my 'can't wait to see more from' list.

Larry Clark, funny, I went to the same high school he did, and the kids in KIDS, were based on the kids I went to high school with..... I haven't seen Ken Park yet, will have to check it out.

Romanek is awesome. I hope he's working on a new narrative feature... love his videos though as well.

Peter Jackson, I believe his best film does not have any hobbits in it... Heavenly Creatures is unbelievable. Kate Winslet's first film. It is absolutely gut wrenchingly heartbreaking and poetic... seek it out if you haven't seen it.

I'm a huge fan of Trey Parker all though I hear he is a pompous arse in person... hahaha

Schumacher, loved Lost Boys, Falling Down was pretty good... but aside from that... he raped Batman.... that's hard to forget.
 
1. Jean-Pierre Jeunet:
Probably 99% of the time subtitles bother me, but not when I watch his films. That's gotta say something I guess. Plus, DELICATESSEN just completely blew my mind.

2. Wes Anderson:
His attention to detail is just really neato. The costumes, the sets, the colors, oh boy! The worlds he creates are just teriffic, I'll tell you what.

3. David Lynch:
He does everything on his own terms. If it confuses the hell out of his audience, so be it. He's living my dream.
 
Terry_Tsurugi said:
My list:
I loved Tarantino when I was 14 years old (i'm 17 now)... Then I watch his movies again and I think he's an idiot now...
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LOL... I love Pulp Fiction, and think Resevoir Dogs is damn good too. IMHO Kill Bill is possibly the worst film ever made, and I've seen Cherry Falls!

It made me fall asleep... that has never happened to me at the cinema. And in a Kung Fu movie! Someone please explain why everyone loves it so much!?! :undecided
 
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