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Favourite filmmakers

I was thinking a bit about this today, came into the COR and saw the thread about Slumdog Millionaire (great movie too).

Who are the filmmakers you just love? The people that as soon as you see their name attached to a film you know its going to be quality.

For me:
Clint Eastwood
Ron Howard
Danny Boyle

Seeing those 3 as directors of movies definitely makes them must watchs for me.

I have to agree with you on Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man ) and Danny Boyle. Really good at what they do. I also like Steven Spielberg generally, but not everything. Schindler's List was one of his greatest works imho. Also James Cameron for The Abyss.

danny boyle

Danny Boyle : I wasn't too impressed with 'Sunshine', but the rest of his work has been pretty impressive.

Love some of Tarantino's and Ron Howard's work (Apollo 13).

i really like wes anderson but i know others will disagree.

Kevin Smith
Tim Burton
Takashi Miike

Danny Boyle
Steven Zaillian
Tim Burton
The Wachowski Brothers (Apart from speed racer)


Guy Ritchie films are usually worth a look although i didn't think much of revolver.

• Kubrick
  
• Tarkovsky
  
• Dreyer
  
• Lynch
  
• Cronenberg
  
• Kitano
  
• Kurosawa
  

Adam Rifkin, bitches.
And Kevin Reynolds.
And Larry Clark.
And Harmony Korine.

Oliver Stone
Steven Soderbergh
Martin Scorsese

Scorsese
Mel Brooks

It's become a little cliche to drool over Tarantino's work I know, but I just love his style and the way he tells a story. He is among the main reasons I want to get into the film industry. I'd say Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie.

Brian De Palma does it for me as well. Even his movies many consider to be 'bad' I end up enjoying a lot. Mission to Mars is definitely one of those...most people hate it, but I think its a beautiful picture. Then of course there's Scarface and The Untouchables, both great pieces of cinema. I also enjoyed Snake Eyes with Nic Cage.

The Wachowski Brothers are awesome, I'm a sucker for the entire Matrix trilogy, so I have to give them props for creating a thought-provoking movie that also became a cultural phenomenon.

Steven Soderbergh is great, he has a very indie style, yet exerts it upon bigger budgeted pictures, such as the Ocean series, etc.

And Chris Nolan really has impressed. Memento is the shit, and the Dark Knight blew everybody away while also becoming the second highest grossing picture in history.

Stanley Kubrick
Christaphor Nolan

Kevin Smith
David Lynch
David Cronenberg
Michael Haneke
Fran�ois Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Luc Godard (sometimes he sucks)

woody allen
sylvester stallone

Lately, Godard and Antonioni have been doin it for me

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Originally posted by shuni sylvester stallone

wut?

in no particular order, plus listing notable movies they directed i like

Darren Aronofsky(Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler)

David Fincher(Se7en, The Game, Fight Club, Zodiac, Panic Room, Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Charlie Kaufman(Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Synecdoche, New York) (yes like the above poster said, he's more known for his writing than producing skills, but hell I'm naming him, because he has a very tripped out mind. )

Christopher Nolan(Following, Memento, 2 Batmans, Inomnia, The Prestige)

Mel Brooks(Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Robin Hood : Men In Tights, The Producers)

Chris Columbus(yeah I named him. what are you going to do now? hah kidding. But yeah he was da man in the 80s and early 90s. Writing for 'The Goonies', 'Adventures in Babysitting', and 'Gremlins' and we all know him for directing those Home Alone movies. I say he did a decent job with the early Harry Potter films. Made it kiddish in a good way)

David Lynch (The Elephant Man, Mulhullond Drive, just to name a few. I can't think of any other movies on the top of my head ....)

Martin Scorcese(too many to list ....)

I really want to see Spike Jonze do something outside of Charlie Kaufman's writing backing him up. All the movies I have seen that were directed/produced by him were excellent. I also want to see more Tarsem Singh after the movie "The Fall".

Ethan and Joel Cohen.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Ethan and Joel Cohen.

good call. I like most of their movies (althouugh I hated O Brother Where Art Thou?)

I'll also second the Scorcese and Fincher votes. I really enjoy Michael Mann too, particularly Heat, Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Collateral, and as a producer with The Avaitor which Scorcese gets most of the credit for (as he should).

I like Terrance Malick's work a lot (The Thin Red Line, Badlands, Days of Heaven, The New World)... he's got one coming out this year called "The Tree of Life" starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn which sounds like it has a pretty heavy theme (like all his movies).

Ron Howard

Woody Allen.

How have Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro not been mentioned?

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov How have Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro not been mentioned?

i would have mentioned del Toro, but his earlier works scare me. his later works the past couple of years have been good though.

As for Cuaron, seen 2 of his movies. "Y Tu Mama Tambien" was good, but "Children of Men" was a movie I did not like.

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov How have Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro not been mentioned?

cuz some of us have a life

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