Who is your favorite movie director?

[Road Runner]

From the poll I would have a hard time in choosing especially as I think too many obvious ones are missing. I know you can only have 10 choices!

Peckinpah - grand masterpieces with violence played like a ballet.
Steven Spielberg - the Brothers Grimm with a film camera.
George Lucas - 'Industrial Light and Magic'..... says it all really.
Hitchcock - what you can't see (or don't know) is more scary than what you can see (or do know).

Not listed:-
Ridley Scott - glossy advertisements on a grand scale.
David Lynch - thoughtful and thought provoking.

As Jimslim indicated there are all the ones from earlier period
Hal Roach - Buster Keaton - Harold Lloyd - Chaplin to name a very few


My two favourite films are Alien and Blade Runner - so I guess that I have to go for Ridley Scott.

Not that I think he's a particularly good director - Hitchcock, Peckinpah, Lucas, Spielberg, Clint Eastwood (sometimes) and several others are better directors.

RR.

[Naang Faa]

David Lean...
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr Zhivago
Brief encounter
Bridge on the river Kwai
Ryans daughter ect

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[Guest]

Brian De Palma

Mission: Impossible.
Carrie
Dressed To Kill
Scareface
The Untouchables
Carlito's Way
The Fury
Blow Out
Femme Fatale
The Black Dahalia
Wise Guys

[allstar88]

ridley scott

[Lefty]

Well, it was nice to read everyone else's input and names left off mentioned. If more options were allowed for polls, the next one for me to have added to the poll would have been Coen Brothers.

I voted for QT. It is close between he and Peckinpah for my favorite director though. Coppola directed perhaps my all time favorite movie though, with Apocalypse Now.
QT though is such a genius when it comes to his soundtracks and the way he works songs into his movies as well as his choice of songs for a particular scene. Forever after, songs used in his movies, for me, when heard later, will bring back the image of the place in his movies when they were played. I probably enjoy replaying his movies more than anyone these days, though I like to rewatch many of Peckinpah's movies too.

Another very good, IMO, director is Bruce Beresford. I also like Craig Hansen and Walter Hill.

[PigDogg]

I voted for FFC.

Scorcese would be my second choice.

Very difficult to compare Hitchcock with the others dues to technology leaps. Alfred always had a split second cameo role in his flicks, some thing Lefty has emulated in his work with his Hitchcock appearing all of a sudden.

[Guest]

Hitchcock, fellini, kubrick

[dmatta]

Guy Maddin
Lars von Trier
Wim Wenders

[Torurot]

Peter Jackson!.   I voted Quentin Tarantino

Joss Whedon Buffy The vampire Slayer & similar works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon

[Snick]

Voted for kubrik, also a fan of Kurisawa and Ridley Scott. Tarantino and Clint Eastwood too.
No Michael bay ?

[kliome]

(orgasmaddict @ Jul. 26 2009,01:27) Fellini

I'd forgotten about Fellini. 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita are works of art.

[seanbeag7]

I was going to include Tinto Bass and the other perv director Jesse "jesus" Franko


But if we go down that line of directors then the king of slease would be Russ Meyer.

[Dieter]

Ingmar Bergman,Rainer Werner Fassbinder,Claude Chabrol,Leni Riefenstahl, Werner Herzog and Luc Besson

[bigmick22]

Kurasawa and Kubrick

[sev7en]

(Dieter @ Jul. 26 2009,21:20) Ingmar Bergman,Rainer Werner Fassbinder

There you go!

Coppolla since he made the best movie ever made.
And is daughter Sofia for Lost in translation.

Alejandro González Iñárritu.