Favorite Director?

Who is everyones favorite director and why?

Mine is Paul Verhoeven. He's done Basic Instinct, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, and Hollow Man. Three of those are some of my favorite movies of all time.

I love how he shows the way people usually react to certain situations, and how he shows the graphicness of death. I know that sounds cruel, but hey.

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Ma favourite director of all time is Milos Foreman, I think all his movies are masterpieces or nearly so. With such movies as Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Man on the Moon, this guy is definitely a genius filmmaker!

Of course I could never skip over Alfred Hitchkock, the king of crime, and of course Stanley Kubrick, the master of SciFi. I don't appreciate all that much directors like Stephen Spielberg and James Cameron, they use too much sfx and not enought story

I like Martin Scorsese (you can call him Mr. Scorsese) myself. All of his films are great, although I never quite got hie earlier films like "Mean Streets."

Ang Lee has been a recent fave, with such movies as "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" (or was it "Leaning Doggy Flying Fishy"?), "Sense and Sensibility", "Ice Storm", and "Eat Drink Man Woman".

...and who can forget Brian DePalma. The supreme master.

Yes, Total Recall was great, but he also makes a point to sneak nudity into just about every film he makes, when it's not always necessary.

I'll take Hitchcock.

If I have to pick someone who is still working, I'll go with the Coens. I'll go to any of their films regardless of what the story is.

If I include people who aren't working any longer, I'd go with Hitchcock, Frank Capra (sometimes sappy, but I like that sort of thing from time to time) and Billy Wilder.

There are other directors whose work I like. People like Sam Raimi or Barry Sonnenfeld or even Robert Zemeckis, among others

lol, I don't mind that one bit.

I'd have to go with Hitchcock as well.

I also like Steven Speilberg and Robert Zemeckis

I always want to see movies directed by:

Alfred Hitchcock
Frank Capra
Nora Ephron

There are others, but I'll have to look them up.

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Steven Spielberg is definately my favorite. I've never seen a film of his that I didn't like whereas I can say with every other director there is at least one movie I didn't like.

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I also want to add Brian DePalma to my list. Of course, he's sort of the poor man's Hitchcock in his directing style, but I still like him.

P.T. Anderson.

Only one of his movies is my reason: Boogie Nights. It is sheer brilliance.

P.T. is the only contemporary director that I can think of whose technique is close to classic Scorsese, who I also love.

And to the person who said they love every Spielberg movie they ever saw, go rent 1941. You'll change your tune.

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LOL...I loved 1941 too. It's pretty weak at times, but you can see where he came up with things for future films.

I like Spielberg too. His movies are incredible.

I think Spielberg is the best director out there. His movies do always turn out to be better than any other movie in the genre.

Mine's Jess Franco

his best films were made in the 70's, all of them were dark erotic pieces (NOT PORNO!).
Check out 'Vampiros Lesbos' or 'Succubus'

Fritz Lang once said, Francos' films were the only erotic films he could sit through.

I've been getting into some Oliver Stone movies lately, after I saw Any Given Sunday I went back and watched Wall Street, Platoon, and NBK and now respect that guy more than I did before.

My new favorite is Guy Ritchie. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels was just. . . just so "cool!" Snatch matches it in coolness, but was too similar a theme.

A quote from Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels which I found hilarious:

Chris Senior- "Well, I must say, it's been emotional."

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quentin tarantino is probably my favourite director.

I just cant name one director as my favourite so Ill just list some that consistently make films that warrant a repeat viewing & more importantly inspire discussion.(In No Order here with an example of there work that took my breath away both in cinematic technique & story)

Hitchcock (Shadow Of A Doubt)
Bryan Singer(Usual Suspects)
David Finchner (The Game)
Orson Welles (A Touch Of Evil)
Terence Mallick (Badlands)
Oliver Stone (Platoon)
Kubrick (The Killing)
Tarantino (Jackie Brown)
Ridley Scott (Blade Runner)
Howard Hawkes (Red River)
John Ford (The Searchers)
Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch)
Richard Brookes (In Cold Blood)
Robert Wise (Somebody Up There Likes Me)
Nic Ray (Johnny Guitar)
John Huston (The Ashphalt Jungle)
George Stevens (Giant)
Alex Proyas (Dark City)
John Frankenheimer (Seconds)
Brian De Palma (Scarface)
Coppolla (Apocalypse Now)
Martin Ritt (Hud)
Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark)
Akira Kurosawa (Yojimbo)
Luc Besson (Subway)
John Woo (A Better tommorrow etc but I dont own any of his US films because all have disappointed me profoundly)
Jean Luc Goddard (Breathless)
Caro & Juenet (City Of Lost Children)
Richard Fleischer (The Boston Strangler)
Richard Donner (The Omen)
Micheal Mann (Manhunter)
Sean Penn (Indian Runner)
Vincent Gallo (Buffallo 66)
Neil La Bute (In The Company Of Men)

I can basically watch any of these directors films and find artistic merit & above all originality with an individual style in them. There are so many more brilliant directors out their but I think Ive listed enough for now.
Great topic OG, who are some of your other favourites?

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Oh my god I cant believe I didnt remember to express my love of:
Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets)
Elia Kazan (On the WaterFront)
John Sturges (The Great Escape)
as I said before there is just so many but I truly feel I could not survive without these Directors films & many others.