Who is your favorite director?

[Robert Treder]

This poll might as well have been "Who is the best genre director working today?"

Sci-Fi/Action genre, yeah. That's just about the only way to justify McTiernan or Jackson on any "best director" poll.

Not to mention that, as usual, animation is pretty much ignored.

True, though there are only a few real standout animation directors, largely due to the fact that directing an animated movie is quite a bit different from directing live action, and the role of the animators and supervising animators can often be just as, if not more, important than the role of the director.

Some of the great animated directors to add to the list would be Miyazaki, Disney, Bluth (who I find to be hit and miss), Lasseter (though computer animation could start a whole list of its own)...we'd be remiss if we left out the great American short cartoon directors such as Jones, Avery, Freleng, Hanna, Barbera, and Fleischer. As far as the Japanese contribution to animation goes, certainly no one director stands out as much as Miyazaki. There have been many great anime masterpieces, but no one Japanese director has as impressive a portfolio as Miyazaki.

And lots of people like Ralph Bakshi, though I've never seen a single thing of his that I didn't find completely retarded.

[Robert Treder]

Mine's Sam Raimi.

Good call. I'd certainly list him as one of the great directors working today. Aside from For Love of the Game, his entire body of work is kickass (and even then, it was material rather than direction which was lacking). And judging by the trailers for Spider-Man 2, he isn't letting up in the "supreme badass" department.

[The Yosemite Bear]

My top 5

1. Akira Kurasawa
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Clint Eastwood
4. Alferd Hitchcock
5. Orson Welles or John Woo (classic workds, before they became currupted)

for the ones mentioned eh...

very derivative, Lucas barrowed heavily from Copella and Kurasawa, Spielberg is just too tight assed with his camera work (comes from being Jack Webb's bitch), Cameron unlike scorsese hasn't learned anything from his time working as Corman's bitch. Damn I wish boddonovitch could do something original, but he came under welles wing at the worst time in the fat man's carreer...

[Spanky The Dolphin]

It's Kurosawa.

[The Yosemite Bear]

No nitpicking my atrocious spelling!


thawp

I was watching Seven samuria, and Rashomon, and Ran twenty years ago.

fuck, I was watching fist of the northstar, reading lone wolf and cub like twenty years ago...

[KhyronTheBackstabber]

Can't have a director discussion with out Ed Wood. You can say what you want about his movies, but the man wanted to make movies, and he made due with what he had.

[The Yosemite Bear]

oh and for killing people and blowing things pL Sam pechinpah (damn get bloody Sam and Steve Mc Queen to gether, and you have a serious fuckin movie!)

for lifetime achievment to nudity, and killing people: Rodger Cormon...

damn it, he brought us MArtin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, and through Oliver Stone Quinten Tarratino.

[BoredShirtless]

Martin Scorsese probably, but I like so many.

[YT300000]

This poll might as well have been "Who is the best genre director working today?"

Sci-Fi/Action genre, yeah. That's just about the only way to justify McTiernan or Jackson on any "best director" poll.

Not to mention that, as usual, animation is pretty much ignored.

Start another poll about that if you want, there's simply not enough room for all these directors in 10 slots. Besides, I don't know/care about anime.

[Gerard_Paloma]

On the list: Steven Spielberg. He's done so many great movies (including the Indiana Jones Trilogy, hot damn), there's too many to list. I would say George Lucas if he had directed Empire and Jedi, but he didn't. The only two he's got going for him are American Graffiti and ANH.

Off the list: Kevin Smith.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Start another poll about that if you want, there's simply not enough room for all these directors in 10 slots. Besides, I don't know/care about anime.

Actually, it was more of a lament of how animation gets the short end of the stick concerning film studies.

But if I ever were to make such a thread, at least I'd have the smarts not to make it a poll.

[Tsyroc]

Christoph Clark

Porn director?

I'd say.

Internet Movie Database

• Director - filmography
  (2000s) (1990s)
  
  Big Natural Tits 9 (2003) (V)
  Most Beautiful Breasts (2003) (V) (segment)
  Beautiful Girls 8 (2003) (V)
  Big Natural Tits 5 (2002) (V)
  Euro Angels Hardball 15: House of Ass (2002) (V)
  ... aka Euro Angels Hardball 15 (2002) (V) (USA: short title)
  Big Natural Tits 6 (2002) (V)
  Euro Angels Hardball 17: Anal Savants (2002) (V)
  Euro Angels Hardball 16 (2002) (V)
  Beautiful Girls 4 (2002) (V)
  Big Natural Tits 3 (2001) (V)
  Private Life of Nikky Andersson, The (2001) (V) (segment)
  Hey Babe, Nice Tits! (2001) (V)
  Euro Angels Hardball 11: Analholics (2001) (V)
  Beautiful Girls (2000) (V)
  ... aka Christoph's Beautiful Girls (2000) (V) (USA: complete title)
  Euro Angels 25: Budapest Booty Fest (2000) (V)
  Euro Angels 16: Filling in the Void (2000) (V)
  Euro Angels 23: New Highs... in Low Moral! (2000) (V)
  Amour de Laure, L' (2000) (V) (as Christophe Clark)
  ... aka Loves of Laure, The (2000) (V) (USA)
  Euro Angels 22: Awesome Asses! (2000) (V)
  Euro Angels 24: Anal-Rama (2000) (V)
  Euro Angels 20: Anal Rententive (2000) (V)
  Euro Angels 21: Budalicious (2000) (V)
  
  
  Euro Angels Hardball 3: Anal Therapy (1999) (V)
  Euro Angels Hardball 5: Ass Gangsters (1999) (V)
  Euro Angels 19: Puck Fuckers (1999) (V)
  Héritage de Laure, L' (1999) (V)
  ... aka Inheritance, The (1999) (V) (USA)
  Euro Angels 18: Your Rear My Dear (1999) (V)
  Euro Angels 17: Behind in Their Work (1999) (V)
  Euro Angels 15: Can Openers (1999) (V)
  Euro Angels 14: Nuttin' Butt (1999) (V)
  Euro Angels 13: Fun Funnels (1999) (V)
  Euro Angels 10 (1998) (as Cristophe Clark)
  Euro Angels 12 (1998) (V)
  Euro Angels Hardball 2: Black Glove (1998) (V) (as Christophe Clark)
  Incesto, L' (1998) (V)
  ... aka Dirty Sisters (1998) (V) (Europe: English title)
  Profession Porn Actress (1998) (V) (as Cristophe Clark)
  Triple X Files 6: Do You Know Katja Kean? (1998) (V)
  Euro Angels 12: Probing Prague (1998) (V)
  Euro Angels 11: Pink Tunnels (1998) (V)
  Euro Angels 9: Euro Trashed (1998) (V)
  Euro Angels 8: Tunnels of Love (1998) (V)
  Euro Angels 7 (1998) (V)
  Euro Angels 6 (1998) (V)
  Euro Angels 5 (1998) (V)
  Euro Angels 4 (1998) (V)
  Irresistible Silvie (1997)
  Obstacles de l'amour, Les (1997) (V)
  Private Gold 18: Reporter (1997) (V) (as Christophe Clark)
  ... aka Reporter (1997) (V) (Sweden: short title) (USA: short title)
  Private Gold 20: Dead Man's Wish (1997) (V)
  Weekend in Bologna (1997) (V)
  Euro Angels 3 (1997) (V)
  Euro Angels 2: Girls You've Never Seen Before! (1997) (V)
  Euro Angels: We Are Not Virgins! (1997) (V)
  World Sex Tour 8: Europe (1996) (V) (as Christopher Clark)
  Obsession de Laure, L' (1996) (V)
  ... aka Obsession of Laure, The (2000) (V) (USA: DVD title)
  Bar Job (1995) (V) (as Christof Clark)
  Kinky Villa (1995) (V) (as Christof Clark)
  Belle Angelica Bella (1994) (V)
  Veuve de Buda-Fesse, La (1994)

He's also an actor.

[The Kernel]

Kurosawa and Kubrick. These two added more to the art of cinema then any ten other directors combined, with the possible exception of Orson Wells.

[Kuja]

Tim Burton. After Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton is definately up there.

[The Kernel]

Tim Burton. After Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton is definately up there.

I love Burton but...Planet of the Apes...man...

[Dahak]

My favourites are Hitchcock, Blake Edwards.
Honorable mention to Leni Riefenstahl (who inspired so many other directors.)

But I don't see why or how Lucas ever could be considered a good director... Mediocre, at best. AOTC left me crying on the floor.

[Lord Pounder]

The Wachowski Brothers (One word: Matrix )

I got 2: Matrix Reloaded.

Personally my favourite director is James Cameron. If you completely ignore Titanic he has a kick ass back catalogue. An honourable mention also goes to Luc Besson.

[Sir Sirius]

Ridley Scott... maybe, I'm not sure.

[Dahak]

Personally my favourite director is James Cameron. If you completely ignore Titanic he has a kick ass back catalogue. An honourable mention also goes to Luc Besson.

Why ditch Titanic?
It's a very compelling, very good drama.
One of my favourite movies, even though DiCaprio stars in it...

[Cairber]

I am going to have the go with Yoshitoshi ABe, the man behind Serial Experiments Lain, Haibane Renmei, and Niea_7. Although most series credit him as the "screenplay" or "chartacter design" man, he is said to have basically directed Lain and Renmei. As ABe put it, "they are my characters, only I can really make them live." I can't get enough of his series, and I hope another comes out really soon.

[Admiral Valdemar]

Bah. Like asking your favourite actor or band, it's hopeless. Far too many diverse kinds of director to just say one is my favourite. I can assure you there's more than Spielberg and Lucas out there, some of the talent today that isn't as commonly known is great such as Mendes, Singer, Nolan, Besson, Sommers etc.

I think right now I'd have to go with Segio Leone if only because I'm getting the special edition of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Monday on DVD.

[Vertigo1]

Nicholas Meyer.

[Rye]

From those listed, Cameron gets my vote, the stuff he does just seems to workalmost all of the time, even titanic, though i found the story crapworthy, did look cool in the way it was told.

Steven Spielberg (I like his style, his pacing, his epic-feeling)
The Wachowski Brothers (One word: Matrix )
Tim Burton ( I love his take on Batman)
Zemmeckis (BTTF kicks ass, even 20 years later)
Ivan Reitman (The GB's!! Let's have a third one!!)

I have to mirror these sentiments, especially the last one.

There is no Ivan Reitman, there is only ZUUL.

[Dalton]

I like Quentin Tarantino, Satoshi Kon and Peter DeLuise (even though he directs mostly eps of Stargate).

[Robert Treder]

Tim Burton. After Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton is definately up there.

Nitpick: Tim Burton did not direct Nightmare Before Christmas, Henry Selick did.

But fortunately, Burton has plenty of other badass movies to stave off criticism with: Ed Wood, Big Fish, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks!, and, of course, Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

Oh, and this isn't necromancy; this thread was still on the first page.