Great Directors

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Yaneli<3

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Who is your favourite director and why mine are

Martin Socrscse his fabulous films that ive seen
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Casino
all have good screenplay and great stars

Quentin Tarrintino
Smart with screenplay and with typecasting especially liked
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1)John Hughes - i love all those 80s teen films he did, especially Pretty In Pink, Breakfast Club and Some Kind of Wonderful

2)Bryan Singer - Such great work from a youngish director, The Usual Suspects, X-Men and Apt Pupil. Hope to see more of him for many years to come

3)Christopher Nolan - Again, great work from a young director - Memento will always be one of my favourite films and he really turned Batman on its head after the Schumacher years. Also hope to see more of his work for many years to come (PLUS! HE'S BRITISH!) :D
 
David Lynch - responsible for my favourite film (amongst many other excellent movies) and my favourite TV series.
 
Uh...typecasting?

Don't really have a favourite director as they are an unreliable bunch who really depend on good stories. That said, I always make an effort to watch Tarrantino, Cameron, Shymalan and Zemeckis.
 
Tarantino is not a great director, he has been influenced heavily by the great Scorsese, Kubrick, Jean-Luc Godard, John Woo.

His scripts contain dialogue that has been mostly lifted from other scripts. I used to think he was the bees knees, but he isn't. I still love his movies though
 
A great director is a bit difficult for me to call. But...

I've never really thought about a favourite director before!
I guess that would be David Fincher. I love "Seven", "The Game", "Fight Club" and to a lesser extent "Panic Room". But I draw the line at "Alien 3".
And until now I've never looked at why I like the guys work.

Time to trawl the internet methinks! :)
 
Have to agree with that, what with my username and all :D

I'm also a big fan of (in no particular order):

Stanley Kubrick
John Huston
Francois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard
Andrei Tarkovsky
David Fincher
Martin Scorcese
Wim Wenders
Francis Coppola
The Coen Brothers
Luis Bunuel
Orson Welles
Alfred Hitchcock
John Carpenter
William Friedkin
Jean Cocteau
Ingmar Bergman
Billy Wilder
Ken Russell
Peter Greenaway
Woody Allen
Paul Verhoeven
Akira Kurosawa
Peter Weir
Steven Spielberg
David Cronenberg
Krzysztof Kieslowski

loaRAB more...
 
Thanks.

I spent a great deal of my spare time (probably more than is healthy) in my late teens and early 20s going to see movies in art-house cinemas in London and got to see some amazing stuff at places like the Scala, the ICA and the NFT.

I think it's a real shame that with all the movie channels on satellite nowadays, there's only really TCM for classic oldies and Film Four for arty stuff or foreign films.

I've spoken to people who are the same age now as I was then and they've never seen a foreign language movie, except for maybe a Japanese horror or a martial arts film. They also tend to avoid watching anything made in black and white as well. Very sad.
 
Woody Allan.

not all his films hit the button. but EVERY film always has one great origanal and funny line........that I steal and use. my favorite is from "shadows and the fog" when woodys charactor is asked to go on a hunt for a killer. he says

"but this guy has the strength of 10 men........I have the strength of a 8 year old boy...................with polio"
 
Hey, let's get nostalgic! Who remembers the Scala all-nighters :cool: My favourite was the "Carry On" one they did. I really miss those.

Favourite director - Peter Jackson, just because I was a fan of his long before the Rings films. Loved Meet the Feebles and The Frighteners is an awesome film.

And Terry Gilliam. because of one word: Brazil, simply the best film ever made, by anyone, ever.
 
Tell me about it!!!! I don't have sky so I see even less foreign films on the five channels on television :cry:

Online renting is a gift because the places have a hugh collection of foreign films, don't find that in local blockbusters.
 
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