favorite directors/favorite films

Kubrick: The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove

Coppola: Godfather, Apocalypse Now

Tarintino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill Volume 1, Kill Bill Volume 2

Martin Scorcese: Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Goodfellas

Oliver Stone: Platoon, Natural Born Killers

I can't think of any right now

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Last movies I have seen

Platoon
Evil Dead
Goodfellas
Alice in Wonderland
Rocky Horror Picture Show

Sam Raimi-
Evil Dead,Army of Darkness,Spider-Man

Quentin Tarantino-
Jackie Brown,Pulp Fiction,Kill Bill,Resovoir Dogs

Tim Burton-
A Nightmare Before Christmas,Big Fish

Peter Jackson-
Lord of the Rings

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Very hard to pick only 5...so many great directors, but I guess:

Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Kill Bills
Spielberg: Saving Ryan, ET
Hitchcock: Pyscho, The Birds
Carpenter: The Thing, Alien
Cameron: Aliens, Titanic, Terminator 1 & 2

Other favorites:
Ridley Scott: Alien, Gladiator
Coppola: The Godfather
Tim Burton: Scissorhands, Beetlejuice

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My DVDs

Scorsese
Goodfellas, Casino, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Bringing Out the Dead

Kurosawa
Yojimbo, Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Ran

Leone
Once Upon a Time in the West, The Dollars Trilogy

Kubrick
Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, The Killing

David Lynch
Eraserhead, Mulholland Dr., Elephant Man, The Straight Story, Dune

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Only going with a top four. In descending order.

Sam Raimi
Everything Sam Raimi touches is solid ****ing gold. He has made the best superhero movie ever. The best sports movie ever. And the best undead movies ever. Sam Raimi, I am your fan immortal.
Army of Darkness, Spider-Man 2, For Love of the Game, Evil Dead, Evil Dead II

Peter Jackson
Braindead/Deadalive, The Frighteners, Bad Taste, LOTR trilogy.

Robert Zemeckis
Contact, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future

Steven Spielberg
As a kid Jurassic Park changed my life. There isn't a movie or a project he has been involved with that I don't love.

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Ron Howard
A Beautiful Mind
Backdraft

John Woo

Face/Off

Wachowski Brothers

Matrix (Only the First one)

Sam Raimi

Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2

Andrew Niccol

Gattaca


maybe i'll remember some more later on...


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Joel & Ethan Coen

1. The Big Lebowski (1998)
2. Fargo (1996)
3. Barton Fink (1991)
4. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
5. Intorable Cruelty (2003)

The only other Coen bros. films that I've seen:
Blood Simple, Raising Arizona and The Ladykillers.

Martin Scorsese

1. Taxi Driver (1976)
2. Goodfellas (1990)
3. Raging Bull (1980)
4. Gangs Of New York (2002)
5. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

The only other Scorsese films that I've seen:
Who's That Knocking at My Door? and Casino.

Francis Ford Coppola

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Godfather Part II (1974)
3. The Conversation (1974)
4. Apocalypse Now (1979)
5. The Godfather Part III (1990)

The only other Coppola films that I've seen:
Peggy Sue Got Married, Dracula and Jack.

Stanley Kubrick

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964)
4. The Shining (1980)
5. The Killing (1956)

The only other Kubrick films that I've seen:
Spartacus and Full Metal Jacket.

Sergio Leone

1. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
2. Once Upon A Time in America (1984)
3. Once Upon a Time in The West (1968)
4. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
5. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

The only other Leone film that I've seen:
A Fistful of Dynamite (US title: Duck, You Sucker).

Yea i gotta update on my favorite Directors, no time. I got school and Homework, but Kubrick is one of my favorites. I never saw his Fear and Desire, Killer's Kiss, The Killing, and Lolita. Im planning onto sometime this month.

As for Martin Scorsese my least favorite from his Box Set was Who's that Knocking at my Door?, but i still enjoyed watching it.

The only other Leone film that exists is Duck, You Sucker!. He solo directed one film in Italy before Fistful, a cheap-o sword & sandal piece called The Collossus of Rhodes. But Leone had little control, and it's only a minor stepping stone along the way. So he only made the six feature films, proper.

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Parky-Check out Miller's Crossing by the Coens....One of my favorites.

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Terry Gilliam
Brazil
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
12 Monkeys
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Kevin Smith
Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
-havent seen jersey girl yet-

Goerge A. Romero
his whole dead trilogy, cant wait for 4th
(and despise the remake of Dawn)

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Tony Scott--Enemy of the state, Crimson tide
John Woo--Face/off,Windtalkers..and pretty much all of his movies
Quentin Tarantino-pulp fiction, kill bill, four rooms...
M.Night Shyamalan-sixth sense, the signs
John Badham!!-Nick of time (love it)
Oliver Stone and Steven Soderberg-ok
Johnny Depp - The Brave."i usually dont like profound dramas but that one was well directed and really good movie.!

my nr1 Favourite right now is still Robert Rodriguez--once upon a time in mexico. just the way he made this movie fast ( 7 weeks of shooting, 2 weeks prep) and clean..and it is ravishing, beautiful movie.

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Yeah, and with a script that seems like it was written in seven minutes. What a waste.

But Sin City is going to be terrific, far and away the best thing he's done yet. Which is largely because he didn't have to write the stories this time: Frank Miller took care of that.

I like Miller's comics too, Holden. But I wonder, where were those "terrific" writing skills in Robocop 2 & 3?

First of all, those were his initial attempts at screenplays. Secondly, his experiences on those films were notoriously horrendous, and basically made him cast off Hollywood. He once described RoboCop 2 by saying, "I felt like a fire hydrant, and everybody else involved in the production was a long line of dogs". He had zero control on those projects, and his ideas were watered down and/or changed at every turn.

This is why Robert Rodriguez had a tough job of convincing him to let his baby, Sin City, go through the adaptation process. Sin City was created by Frank at a point when he was pissed-off at both Hollywood and the Comic business, and he wanted something that was compltely his, with no restrictions or boundries of any kind. He made it, and it turned out to be a huge success. But the original book was done out of anger and a need for artistic release. In a way it was at least partially because RoboCop 2 was such a piece of ***** that Sin City even exists, so it's only fitting that it is finally coming to movie screens as a project he now has immense control over. Whatever it's failings, Sin City the movie will not have the same kinds of problems RoboCop 2 did.



Does that answer your question, or were you just being a wise-ass?

Frances Ford Coppola
The Godfather 1&2, The Outsiders, Apocalypse Now

Billy Wilder
The Apartment, The Odd Couple, The 7 Year Itch, Sunser Blvd

The Coen Brothers
Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother Where Art Thou

David Lynch
Mullholland Drive, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet

Tim Burton
Edward Scissorhands, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Nightmare Before Christmas, PeeWee's Big Adventure

Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1&2

Robert Zemekis
Forrest GUmp, Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future, What Lies Beneath

George Cuckor
The Women, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, My Fair Lady

Alfred Hitchcock
Rebecca, Psycho, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much

Terry Gilliam
Baron Von Munchhausen, Brazil, The Fisher King

Also seriously considered: Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Billy Wilder, Sam Raimi, Kenneth Branaugh, Werner Herzog, Sofia Coppola, John Hughes, Rob Reiner, Steven Speilberg, Wong Kar-Wai.

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Both, actually. Robocop 2 & 3 were obviously abysmal but I wasnt sure what sort of control Miller had on those. Also because I've seen Miller do both great work and mediocre work in comics too. I mean, he's got fantastic, life altering works like Elektra and Dark Knight Returns but then too rather subpar ones like Dark Knight Strikes Again and Robocop vs. Terminator. And plenty that fall between (these would include Year One and the Daredevil stuff; Sin City runs the whole quality range from story to story.) You make a good case for why his previous work in film were exceptions but I'm still slightly skeptical. Hopefully this movie will be of the caliber of That Yellow Bastard and not Hell and Back. Whatever the case I'll be very curious to see how the movie turns out.

And always thanks for the great information.

AT first read, I found DKSA to be sub-par, but after giving it another go, it's bloody brilliant. The opening sequence in unrivaled in comics, and the concepts in the whole story are multi-layered and complex. I think Lynn's art turned me off at first with her wild experimentation in coloring, but I like it more now...

1.Martin Scorsese

1. Cape Fear (1991)
2. GoodFellas (1990)
3. Raging Bull (1980)
4. Taxi Driver (1976)
5. The Departed (2006)

2. David Fincher

1. Zodiac (2007)
2. Fight Club (1999)
3. Se7en (1995)
4. The Social Network (2010)
5. Alien 3 (1992)

3. Stanley Kubrick

1. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
2. Paths Of Glory (1957)
3. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
5. Spartacus (1960)

4. Steven Spielberg

1. Schindler's List (1993)
2. Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom (1984)
3. Jurassic Park (1993)
4. AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
5. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

5. Bryan Singer

1. Superman Returns (2006)
2. The Usual Suspects (1995)
3. X-Men (2000)
4. Valkyrie (2008)
5. X2 (2003

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My favourite directors are:

1. Martin Scorsese
2. Quentin Tarantino
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. The Coen Brothers

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