The world's 5 best directors (and their best films)?

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1.Mizoguchi:
Sansho the Bailiff, Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, Tales of the Taira Clan, Ugetsu Monogatari

2.Tarkovsky:
Andrei Rublev, Mirror, Stalker

3=Hitchcock:
North by Northwest, Vertigo, Marnie, Rear Window

Renoir:
La Regle du Jeu, A Day in the Country, La Grande Illusion

Kubrick:
2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Dr Strangelove
 
Luc Besson - Fifth Element, Leon, Nikita

John Landis - Animal House, Innocent Blood, American Werewolf in London

Ridley Scott - Alien, Black Hawk Down, Bladerunner
 
(these may not be the greatest ever but they're my personal faves)

Peter Jackson- LOTR
Tim Burton- Edward SissorhanRAB/Sleepy Hollow
Baz Luhrrman- Moulin Rouge
 
Top 10 living directors and their best movie:

Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List)
Christopher Nolan (Memento)
Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill : Volume One)
Roman Polanski (Chinatown)
Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
Pedro Almodovar (All About My Mother)
Martin Scorsese (GoodFellas)
Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich)
Tim Burton (Batman)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights)

Top 10 late directors and their best movie:
Charlie Chaplin (The Great Dictator)
Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)
Stanley Kubrick (Dr Strangelove)
David Lean (Oliver Twist)
Federico Fellini (8-and-a-half)
Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window)
Charles 'Chuck' Jones (Looney Tunes cartoons)
Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai)
Bob Fosse (Cabaret)
Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot)
 
Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
Tony Scott - True Romance
Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America
 
Please don't say Tarentino! I think he is one of the most over rated Directors ever! I admitt i don't know everything when it comes to analysing Directing, but it just seems like a lot fo overrated crap he produced in the Kill Bill volumes, the mixture of cheesiness and seriousness did not compliment each other, and therefore made it difficult for me (the audience) to get in the feel of the movie! there were aspects i really enjoyed. But i do think somany people watch it, dont see why hes meant to be this such an amazing director, but then all go "oh yeah it was amazing, the directing is great!" I know this because i once questioned my friend on it, who loves tarentino, and he could never answer "why" this movie was good, just that it was.
 
Tis all a matter of taste but I'm prepared to debate this one with you if you wish. Without a doubt, I could have named a number of Scorsese movies - he has directed a surfeit of high quality films. The danger with this is that viewers automatically assume that the quality is a result of top notch direction. Scorsese has had more success in this field than most and I could have plumped for Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Cape Fear or Goodfellas. Then I figured that the huge success of these films and their presence on our screens is as much to do with De Niro and his almost unique, intense style of method acting - I find it difficult to assume that only Scorsese brings out the best in De Niro. So, I plumped for Gangs of New York where I personally feel that Scorsese has triumphed in lesser company. Specifically, it is the weak casting of DiCaprio and Diaz that lets the film down - not the directorial talents of Mr Scorsese.
 
You are rightin the cast being the weakest link, however a director should know full well when the sheer length of the film release is either going to make the audience fall asleep, or ensure the faults in the stories timeline become way too apparent

Scorsese has directed fewer films than I originally thought, but Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore has a greater impact than Gangs and it doesnt have DeNiro (though Mr Keitel is)


Another director I like

Siu-Tung Ching - Duel to the Death and Chinese Ghost Story 1 and 2
 
I appreciate your comments but am really surprised that 'Gangs...' obviously bored you to tears. I guess we are going to have to agree to differ on this one as I was hooked from the first frame. Unfortunately, I haven't seen 'Alice...' but will make sure I catch up with this soon as it sounRAB worth taking the time to watch from your comment.

Also, I'm not familiar with Siu-Tung Ching but again I'm looking forward to changing that quite soon.
 
Hmm...I feel both Renoir and Kubrick are overrated. That said, I think that Jean Gabin was excellent in La Grande Illusion. I think I'll agree with you fully with regarRAB to Hitchcock though.
Interesting choices there ito_eats - I'd say I'd agree with about half of those, although I would've probably had Roman Polanski with Rosemary's Baby rather than Chinatown...

Anyway - enough of me prodding and poking at other's choices - here's my list in no particular order:

Kevin Smith: Clerks and Mallrats
M Nights Shyamalan: Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs.
John Waters: Pecker and Serial Mom
Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window, Psycho and The Lady Vanishes
Luc Besson: Fifth Element, Leon
Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill: Vol 1 (NOT Vol. 2 ;))
 
Billy Wilder Double Indemnity, The Apartment, Some Like it Hot
Alfred Hitchcock North by Northwest, Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train
Martin Scorcese Goodfellas, Taxi Driver
Roman Polanski Chinatown
John Ford The Searchers
 
In no particular order and I have only included US or UK Directors

David Lean.....Lawrence of Arabia
Francis Ford Coppola. Gopdfather Trilogy
John Ford. Various
Martin Scorcese Various
Billy Wilder The Apartment
 
Martin Scorcese - Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull
Brian De Palma (i cant believe im saying this) - Scarface, Carlito's Way (the best 2 by him), Carrie (ha ha ha)
 
OMG! How could I have forgotten David Fincher, my favourite director of recent years!?!

Oh, and I suppose I better add Billy Wilder - only just finished renting Stalag 17, and by gosh it's good :)
 
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