All time great movie directors

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Who are your all time great directors, the ones that come to mind are, in no particular order:

Alfred Hitchcock
David Lean
Walter Hill
John Carpenter
John Schlesinger ( apologies for spelling )
 
In the EMpire magazine recently it voted Speilberg as number one. He will prove to be one of the all time greats.

I feel that many directors show true greatness when they show that they can peform in a variety of genre, ala Speilberg
 
Billy Wilder
Powell and Pressburger
Howard Hawks
George Cukor
Frank Capra
Plus one hit wonder Charles Laughton
Agree with you about Speilberg.
Disagree with Carpenter - Halloween/AoP13 are classics but that is about it.
 
Newer ones:
Rob Reiner (for Spinal Tap, Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery and Stand By Me)
Jonathon Demme (for Stop Making Sense, Married to the Mob, Something Wild, Swimming to Cambodia, Silence of the Lambs and others).
 
I think if you have made 4 superb flicks you can be considered an all-time great...

Sergio Leone:

Dollar Trilogy
Once Upon A Time In The West
Once Upon A Time In America
Duck You Sucker

Ingmar Bergman:

Persona
The Seventh Seal
The Virgin Spring
Fanny & Alexander
From The Life of Marionettes
Wild Strawberries
Through a Glass Darkly
Winter Light
Silence
Cries and Whispers


Dario Argento:

Profondo Rosso (Deep Red)
Inferno
Suspiria
Tenebrae
Terror at the Opera ...maybe.

Nicolas Roeg:

The Man Who Fell To Earth
Performance (with Cammell)
Don't Look Now
Walkabout

Quentin Tarantino

Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill
Kill Bill 2

Stanley Kubrick:

Dr. Strangelove
2001
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Eye's Wide Shut

Roman Polanski:

Repulsion
Chinatown
The Tenant
The Ninth Gate
The Pianist

David Lynch:

Eraserhead
The Elephant Man
Blue Velvet
Wild At Heart
Lost Highway
The Straight Story
Mulholland Drive

Richard Donner:

Surprising choice, I'm sure... but he has made 4 of the greatest genre films goin'.

The Omen
Lethal Weapon
Superman
The Goonies

Steven Spielberg:

Jaws
Close Encounters'
Raiders of the Lost Ark
ET
Jurassic Park

Francis Ford Coppola:

The Godfather
The Godfather 2
Apocalypse Now
Rumble Fish

Martin Scorsese:

Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
The King of Comedy
Goodfellas

Terry Gilliam:

Brazil
Twelve Monkeys
Fear and Loathing'
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Tom Tykwer:

Winter Sleepers
Run Lola Run
The Princess and the Warrior
Heaven

John Carpenter:

Assault on Precinct 13
Halloween
The Fog
The Thing

Alejandro Amen
 
Numpty, you have impeccable taste and (I suspect) an enviable DVD collection. You probably also have too much time on your hanRAB, but there you go.
 
Bloody hell, if you stuck Hitchcock in there, that would be virtually identical to my list! And I'm delighted to see people still mentioning Cukor. :D
 
Re Carpenter, don't forget The Thing. That's one of my all time fave horror movies. They Live too and (guilty pleasure) Big Trouble in Little China.
 
I didn't :D

...and thanks Orion. I guess we have similar tastes...

'Don't really have that much spare time on my hanRAB (nowadays) ...but that doesn't stop me investing in the odd DVD here and there ;o)

Big Trouble' is a guilty pleasure of mine too. I also think "The Prince of Darkness" is an interesting movie. Could have been a real classic.

I'm off to see who Cukor is...
 
well so far no one has mentioned John Huston and even worse than that no one has said

Sam Peckinpah

The Wild Bunch
The Getaway
Pat Garrat and Billy The Kid
Straw Dogs
Ride The High Country
Plus all the other films he did
 
Akira Kurosawa
John Woo
Takeshi Miike
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
Francis Ford Coppola
John Carpenter
Stanley Kubrick
Quentin Tarantino
Wong Kar Wai
 
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